Research Items

Research Items are a collection of Medium objects. They come in a wide variety -- differing in shape, color, and locations where they can be found. They are used in Research to unlock several new schematics.

Learn more about the Research Mechanic.

Research Item
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Details
Tier	Medium
Group	Item
Type	Unknown

Artificial Research Items

All crashed pods resemble fabricated modules. They are white and/or blue with a darker finish on the lining of the container. This type of Research Items is commonly found near crashed parts of a satellite, but can also be rarely found anywhere on the ground. This type of research item provide the most amount of Byte but the longest amount of research time.

Research flat barbecue.jpg 4,198 Bytes Blue Canister.jpg 5,894 Bytes White Canister.jpg 7,400 Bytes Canister Tube.jpg 8,288 Bytes Research white lego.jpg 12,081 Bytes

Rocky Research Items

Most of these Research Itemss have a cuboid shape or have decorations of gems around a bumpy rock, and are commonly found on surfaces of a rocky patch. Barren provides most of this type of research items. This type of research item is all average in terms of Byte output and research time.

Blue-Red Spikes.jpg 299 Bytes 313 Research 2.jpg 350-360 Bytes Pink Rocks.jpg 398 Bytes Research yellow cubiod.jpg 450-456 Bytes Red Bismuth.jpg 501 Bytes Dirt With Gold Cubes.jpg 860-870 Bytes 313 Research 6.jpg 1,001-1,060 Bytes 313 Research 5.jpg 999-1,200 Bytes 313 Research 4.jpg 1,200-1,260 Bytes Stone Blocks.jpg 1,308-1,400 Bytes Rounded Blue Rock.jpg 2,900-2,970 Bytes Green Mineral Research.png 8,600 Bytes Research green orange crystal.jpg

Organic Research Items

Appear mostly ovoid or spherical, and most have plant-like protrusions on their surfaces which react to the wind like Flora. Found on or underneath most surface and underground Flora. Terran and Exotic provide most of these type of research item. This type of research item has low byte output, but fast research time.

Teal Blob.jpg 399 Bytes Pale Sliced Apple.jpg 599 Bytes Striped Black Seed.jpg 450 Bytes Pumpkin.jpg 450 Bytes Finned Black Orb.jpg 450 Bytes Pink Blob.jpg 500 Bytes Green Nodules.jpg 700 Bytes Turnip.jpg 898 Bytes Sliced Apple.jpg 998 Bytes Blue Pyramid.jpg 1,100 Bytes Yellow Base Spikes.jpg 1,248 Bytes Red Pyramid.jpg 2,766 Bytes Red Base Spikes.jpg 3,748 Bytes Research item yellow mushroom red bits.jpg 6,998-7,182 Bytes

Hostile Organic Research Items

Unlike most organic items, these two can only be found under Hazardous Flora

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Removed Research Items

These are Research Items that are no longer collectible in the most recent version.

Research Pod.png Research blue red bits.jpg Research round blue crystal.jpg Research dark purple round red crystal.jpg Research grey bumped sphere.jpg

Trivia

NOTE: Any artifacts that have been held/moved but not actually removed completely from a cave system will despawn if you leave the planet entirely via a shuttle. Take care to take your artifacts to the surface BEFORE leaving on your shuttle or they will be lost. Artifacts on the surface will remain unmoved (assuming that a storm has not moved them).

Research Items have had many different names, changing often between stages and patches throughout the development. This causes a lot of confusion to many players, which is further exacerbated when each developer refers to them with distinctly different names.

List of alternate names for research item

• Artifacts
• Nuts
• Chests
• Discoveries
• Researchable
• Treasure Pods
• Seeds
• Fruits
• Boxes
• Bulbs
• Research Cubes
• Avocados
• Yoda Dumplings
• Lemon Pals
• Research Chest
• Unknown Research
• Research
• Unknowns
• Grimbos