Talk:Resources

Resources and Materials
I might be alone, but I'm a little confused by this page. Across the wiki many people (myself included) are referring to things like Compound and Laterite as resources, and yet the Resource page refers to them as materials. Even the Materials page starts out calling them materials and ends up calling them resources halfway through.

Are the elements we dig out of the ground resources, materials, or both? And in either case, do Artifacts, space wreckage, etc. really qualify as "resources" as opposed to objects or items? --Infinimbal (talk) 16:17, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

I think we need to make this distinction still. Ultimately I think everything is a resource. And items mined/used are materials. Currently I think Resources is fine to include artifacts and discoveries so we have a central page. If you have another suggestion put it here. --Crychair (talk) 16:53, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

I'm not seeing the connection between Artifacts and Discoveries beyond "stuff you find while exploring." I agree that loosely speaking everything can be considered a "resource" for the player, but at that point the potential scope of this page encompasses more or less every other page in the wiki, doesn't it?

Here's how I would suggest categorizing things (a bit broader to give context to my logic): --Infinimbal (talk) 17:47, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Resources/Materials - Raw materials collected from the environment and their refined counterparts. e.g. Compound, Laterite, Aluminum, Power Crystals
 * Items - Things that can be interacted with and placed in the backpack. e.g. Tethers, Tanks, Wind Vanes, stacks of Material
 * Objects - Things that can be interacted with but not placed in the backpack. e.g. Artifacts, Wind Turbines, Storage Racks, small spaceship debris
 * Discoveries - Environmental occurrences that yield Materials, Items or Objects. e.g. Large spaceship debris, stone monoliths, supply pods

I think these changes would be good. Also Artifacts are now the unidentified research it seems. If you would like to make these changes go ahead. And if you would like help let me know. The other thing I noticed you working on is the Printer page. If we are going to mix the backpage printer with the large printer I think they should be separate pages. Which is why I originally left the backpack printer out and just had that info on the backpack page. I think having Small/Large items of the same name would benefit us as well. --Crychair (talk) 18:39, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm happy to make the changes, and I sure appreciate your input Cry (and anyone else who wants to chime in). As for the printer page, I put them together to make that page a single location from which you could see every printable item, but I certainly see the benefit in the Printer module having its own page (as other modules would). --Infinimbal (talk) 19:02, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

I think the backpack stuff needs to be moved to the items page or backpack pages. I'd rather not mix information like this. --Crychair (talk) 19:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC)