Resources

Resources are items and blocks which may be collected from planets, asteroids and derelict stations, possibly processed in a Capsule Refinery or Micro Assembler.

Overview

In StarMade gathering resources is not only a means of production but also vital to survival. Exploiting the bountiful resources of the Frontier will allow you to build essential pieces of equipment in order to brave the depths of space. To begin the process of building your empire you must first gather resources in their rawest form.

Raw Materials

There are twenty-four types of raw materials spread out between 3 categories: Ore, Crystal, and Asteroid Minerals. Each of which must be processed in a Capsule Refinery to obtain production materials used in most kinds of construction.

Raw Materials
Color	Asteroid Minerals	Ore	Shard
	Tekt	Macet	Nocx
	Dolom	Sapsun	Parseen
	Cinnabar	Zercaner	Mattise
	Larimar	Hylat	Varat
	Lukrah	Threns	Hattel
	Varis	Fertikeen	Bastyn
	Sugil	Sertise	Rammet
	Chabaz	Jisper	Sintyr

Scrap

Scrap are the salvageable remains of abandoned Space Stations. When they spawn, Derelict Stations will be in a "Decayed" state. While in this state attempts to salvage its blocks will only yield special resources called Scrap Alloy and Scrap Composite. While useless on their own if you gather enough pieces of scrap then they can be used to form Alloyed Metal Mesh and Crystal Composite respectively.

Scrap Materials
Scrap Alloy	Scrap Composite

Production Materials

Production materials are obtained by processing raw materials as described above. These materials are widely used in most other factory recipes, though they can also be used decoratively.

There are two general purpose production materials:

General Materials
Alloyed Metal Mesh	Crystal Composite

There are 24 specialized production materials called capsules, each of which is also associated with a particular color and used in recipes which produce items of that color. See the table below for each material, asteroids it is commonly found on and also it's particular color.

Capsules
Color	Asteroid Minerals	Ore	Shard
	Tekt	Macet	Nocx
	Dolom	Sapsun	Parseen
	Cinnabar	Zercaner	Mattise
	Larimar	Hylat	Varat
	Lukrah	Threns	Hattel
	Varis	Fertikeen	Bastyn
	Sugil	Sertise	Rammet
	Chabaz	Jisper	Sintyr