A question about prospecting

[Paislee]

Will I ever get a message about a percent chance that X mineral is below me? Do I keep going until that's what I get? I'm still a newbie and it takes awhile to gather the materials for a minehole, I don't want to waste them.

[TeckXKnight]

There is no percent chance, it's either you have minerals or you don't.

[onnings]

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[00:16] <loftar> What is the problem, to begin with?
[00:16] <Tonky> just a circle and nothing else
[00:16] <Tonky> and prospect again to find nothing
[00:17] <loftar> Ah, that. That's just a bug in the blip effect, actually.Whenever it shows just a circle with no dart, you should interpret it as east.

actually more about that topic later on

12:20 loftar > If anything, it might be susceptible to aliasing effects at certain points. I was planning a minor fix to stabilize it, but I forgot about it.
12:20 Tonky > yeah, that minor fix, i was asking about glad you remember it now
12:21 loftar > Or no, actually, it seems I hadn't forgot about it. It seems to be in the code.
12:21 Tonky > oh?
12:21 Tonky > so is it fixed?
12:21 loftar > To the best of my knowledge, at least.

i havent got time to try prospecting again after this conversation yet, though.

Mine seem to point consistently towards the west whenever the pie is missing the pointer. So either loftar wrote wrong, the world is upside down (with north being south), or the cave layers are opposite than normal. Or my character's prospecting is EXTRA buggy. Also, this is still happening today, so nothing's fixed.

[Pictor]

Prospecting is.. well, it's broken. I'll sometimes get it saying there are no minerals even when I know for a fact that there are in fact minerals below me within the search radius. Then sometimes I'll search again and it'll find something. Or sometimes it won't. Or sometimes it gives me the empty red circle. It is almost impossible to prospect in any reliable manner. You basically just stumble around and hope you get lucky.