Resources

Resources are the main components in nearly every item in Astroneer. The Player can obtain resources by gathering them, crafting them, or via trade at the Trade Platform. Resources are mainly used as ingredients when crafting the Items needed to play the game. Apart from that, some resources may be converted into Power using generators or into Bytes using the Research Chamber.

There are four main types of resources: natural, atmospheric, refined, and composite resources. Natural resources vary in rarity, with some occurring more commonly around the various planets and others only appearing on a couple. Likewise, atmospheric resources are only available on planets with an atmosphere, and on each of these planets only two types of atmospheric resources are available. Most natural and atmospheric resources are used to create refined and composite resources at Smelting Furnaces or Chemistry Lab s. These artificial resources are used to create mid- and end-game items.

Some resources, such as, , and do not fit into any of these categories. This article, mostly deals with the resources that belong to the four main types. For these "other resources", please see the respective article.

Mining and Harvesting
Naturally occurring resources, found in deposits on or below a planet's surface, can be excavated with tools like the Terrain Tool or Drill Head. This will break the deposits apart and collect the resource into portable Tier 1items, often called "stacks." Some of these resources are harvested in an unrefined form and need to be smelted using the Smelting Furnace before they can be used, such as Laterite (which smelts into Aluminum) and Malachite (which smelts into Copper).

Among natural resources, Organic and Soil are somewhat special: Organic can be harvested from plants and mushrooms by excavating the area holding them in place. Soil, although ubiquitous, cannot be obtained directly. In fact, no item "soil" exists. Instead, whenever the Terrain Tool is used to dig out terrain, the terrain simply disappears unless an (at least partially empty) Small Canister is attached to the Terrain Tool. If such a canister is attached, digging out terrain will fill gradually the canister with soil.

Discoveries
Discoveries such as space debris and supply drops will often yield resources and consumables, as well as lots of valuable salvageable parts.

Extracting from Stored Soil
A Small Canisters filled with can be inserted into the, filling up the centrifuge's internal tank. It is then possible to extract the following resources from the soil:, ,, , ,, or.

Extracting from the Atmosphere
Atmospheric resources cannot be collected in any of the above-mentioned ways. Instead, the player has to use an Atmospheric Condenser to extract them from the atmosphere.

Trading
Once researched and built, the is an excellent way to procure specific resources by trading  for what you need. The rarer the resource, the more scrap it costs at the Trade Platform. Scrap is a good way to obtain resources due to the abundance of salvageable items that can be put into the Medium or Large Shredders.

Refinement
Several natural resources, can be smelted in a Smelting Furnace, which transforms the resource into a its refined version, e.g. Laterite into Aluminum. Most naturally occuring metallic ores and actually have to be refined in order to be of any value other than for research. and can also be refined, but they also have uses in their unrefined form. ,, , ,, cannot be refined at all.

Crafting
With the exception of, as well as unrefined metallic ores; all natural, refined, or composite resources can be used to craft items using a Printer according to the various recipes shown in the printers' interface.

Creating Composite Resources
Using the Chemistry Lab, two or three different natural, refined, or atmospheric resources can be combined into a composite according to the recipes found below. Composite resources are especially useful in the late-game.

Storage
Resource items or canisters appear as Tier 1 items and thus can be attached to any free attachment slot. However, different than Tier 1 modules or crates, not only can resources be stored in ordinary storages, but in the appropriate type of canister.

Research
Most resources can be researched in a Research Chamber for bytes. They can provide an early stream of bytes before the player finds research items that provide more bytes per second.

Other uses
is special in that it cannot be used to craft anything. However, using the Terrain Tool, it can also be deposited.

and can be slowly converted into energy using generators, destroying the physical resource item in the process.

can be used as fuel for Hydrazine Thrusters or Hydrazine Jet Packs.

Natural Resources
The following resources are found naturally on all planets:

The following natural resources are found on specific planets:

Refined Resources
The items listed in the table below are refined using the Smelting Furnace.

Atmospheric Resources
This table lists the part per unit (PPU) the player may get on a planet of each atmospheric resource. A higher PPU will result in a shorter harvesting time.

Composite Resources
The items in the table below are composite resources created in the Chemistry Lab, with some requiring an Atmospheric Resource.

Trivia

 * Atrox only contains universal and some atmospheric resources and has no primary or secondary resource.
 * Desolo does not have any gas to collect with an Atmospheric Condenser.
 * Oxygen nuggets, Power nuggets, Resin, and Compound used to be found in spires, which were removed in 0.4.10221.0. Oxygen nuggets and Power nuggets were also found in small deposits across cave walls, before they were removed entirely in version 0.10.1.0.

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