Research Items

s are a variety of Tier-2 objects. There are many variations of them -- ranging from shapes, colors, and locations where they can be found. They are used in Research to unlock several new schematics.

Artificial Research Item
All crashed pods resemble fabricated objects in Astroneer. They are white and/or blue with a darker finish on the lining of the container.

Rocky Research Item
Mineral Cubes are commonly found on cavernous area or on top of a rocky pillars and formation

Common Organic Research Item
Commonly found on tall terran trees and underground floras, exotic plants might still have a small chance to spawn one of these instead.

Hostile Organic Research Item
Commonly found buried under a hostile flora such as Pumpkin, and Exploder.

Exotic Organic Research Item
Commonly found on an exotic plants, also has a small chance to be found partially buried on the underground layer.

Unimplemented Research Items
These are Research Items that's no longer collectible on the most recent version

Satellite wrecks
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