Materials

Summary

All objects consist of certain material or materials.
Based on the material composition of the object, materials give them special properties.
These properties are important in different situations:

• Structural durability: Has a high impact on spaceship design. Specifically on the frame and spots that are under heavy stress.
  • Structural durability can be monitored by using the durability tool.
• Armor value, Density, and Transformability are important when choosing the material for armor.
  • The outer plating of a spaceship or station is considered as armor.
• Weight is a factor when using dense, heavy, or just a lot of materials for a large ship (such as a capital ship).
  • Ships with large weight value need more thrust power to move.

Materials can break or withstand damage in different ways:

• Materials can break.
  • Shape and depth of the breakage varies based on the material properties, and impact energy.
• Materials can fracture.
  • The more durable materials don't immediately get destroyed or break off parts, but rather fracture. Some materials fracture faster than others.

Manufacturing cycle

Materials can be both created and used to make other devices and parts in the world.
Here's a generic description of how the manufacturing cycle works:

1. Mining raw materials. Either by using pickaxe or Urchin.
2. Smelting raw materials into something useful.
3. Refining materials to specific use.
4. Printing devices and parts from different processed materials.

Material statistics

• Armor Value - How much Projectile Energy from weapons the material can resist.

• Heat - Threshold and reflect value for heat status.

• Corrosion - Threshold and reduction value for corrosion.

• Electricity - How well material nullifies electricity status. Low Electricity property makes the object higher on priority list for electric currents.

• Transformability - Represents the material's ability to sustain it's form over stressful events such as heat, melting and structural stress. Also represents Allotropic properties.

• Structural durability - How much structural strain object can handle from other objects.

• Density - How dense atomic structure the object has. Higher density improves resistance against radiation and impact damage. Density also improves material's ability to withstand corrosion. Higher Density also affects the object's weight.

• Endurance - Material's Ability to resist overall durability from damage. Higher endurance score reduces threshold against object destruction when missing pieces of the material.

Raw materials

Each material in the universe has base credit value based on their mass, which represents average buying price.
Credit value of single 26,971 KG asteroid (average small size) is also calculated with 80% Ore to ingot conversion (as materials are in raw state).
These materials are sold in 30% of their original price.