Power

Description
Power is another essential resource that is vital to success!

Whereabouts
Energy, much like Oxygen, can be found on the surface of planets as well as inside caves, in the form of spires, or yellow ore deposits. Energy is also supplied from base modules and vehicles, as long as there is power available in surplus or it is being generated. To maximize this effect use tethers to have access to power while under ground, or far away.

Usage
Energy is used to power base modules, your terraforming tool, and can be stored in batteries. It is useful for nighttime, or when you are relying only on solar power.

Battery behavior
Batteries stores energy. They are composed of rows of columns (usually 4, 8 or 16 columns per row), each column being composed of 4 units. The exception being the backpack's battery which is a single column of 10 units. Energy production of the various energy-producing apparatus (solar panel, energy stack, ...) is usually expressed in column/seconds (or seconds/columns).

The backpack, modules and vehicles each have a main battery, which is only depleted for their main use (deform tool, production of something and movement, respectively). They never gives energy to connected systems that require some, in opposition to to the small and big batteries. They even have priority over those ones when energy flows in the network.

When an energy-producing apparatus is placed on a module or vehicle, the energy will be placed in the module or vehicle main battery first, before being given to other systems that needs it in the network.

In addition to the main batteries, you can craft small and big batteries, which can be printed in the backpack and 3D Printer module, respectively. These batteries will give away their energy to any main battery in the network that isn't full. They will only fill up when all main batteries in the network are full.

Energy stacks
When harvested from the environment by a player whose backpack battery is full, energy stack up in the deform tool then in the players backpack slots like any other resources. An energy stack can then be moved and put to any one slots anywhere in the backpack, modules, vehicles or storages. When needed by a main or secondary battery, energy will be drawn from the stack which will disappear over time.

A full stack will fill 8 columns of a battery in 8 seconds.