Power (resource)

This page is about the resource. For general concepts about power in the game, see this page.

Power is a resource that is consumed by almost all systems in the game, and can be produced by several items as well as stored in batteries, but can also be found naturally and be stored in stacks as any other resource.

Power, much like Oxygen, can be found rather frequently on the surface of planets, as well as inside caves, in the form of yellow deposits (outcropping from the ground) or small fountains.

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

Stacks give their power at the high rate of 4 units/sec, or 1 bar/sec (twice faster than the solar panel). A full stack is enough to fill 8 bars of a battery in 8 seconds.

Note that while mining natural powder, the first stack that reaches your backpack is actually consumed to replenish the battery while mining more. So be aware that this first stack will not be actually full when you have finished mining.

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Power material can be found while exploring in two forms including patches of crystals scattered on the ground or embedded in a cave wall and from a reusable 'Spire' of crystals.