Resources

Astroneer includes many different kinds of resources to discover and use towards achieving goals you may set yourself.

Research
Research are large objects found in many different places and of many different types. They are used in Research to unlock additional content and obtain rare resources such as Lithium and Titanium.

Discoveries
The discovery category of resources include those things that can be found and used as decoration or practical purposes but cannot be manufactured or obtained other than by finding them while exploring. Examples include a Huge functional Solar Panel from a crashed spaceship, and Dynamite.

Materials
Many different kinds of material can be harvested during exploration to use as consumables or as ingredients in many different crafting procedures. These materials can be found in different forms such as regenerating spires or nodes, partially buried clusters and crystal fragments scattered on the ground or buried in mountain sides or underground in caves. Materials can also aparently be found in differing quantities on different planets.

Resources