Materials

Summary

Image of all currently known materials and refined ores.

All objects consist of certain material or materials.
Based on the material composition of the object, materials give them special properties.
These properties include:

• Structural durability: Has a high relevance in e.g. spaceship design.
  • Structural durability of a spaceship 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 spaceships and stations are categorized as armor as well.
• Weight is a factor when using dense, heavy, or just a lot of materials clumped together for a large ship (such as a capital ship).
  • Ships with a 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 Ores. Either by using a Pickaxe, a Mining laser or by transporting asteroids whole.
2. Refining materials to specific use.
3. 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.

• Transformability - Represents the material's ability to sustain its 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 (fracturing).

Materials

Please note that the values listed below are for refined materials, not ore materials, ore materials have worse properties and are less dense.

Rocks

Surface material of many asteroids. Plentiful, cheap, and constantly in demand due to their wide use in base level manufacturing processes.

Rock materials

Name	Description	Armor	Corrosion Resistance	Transformability	Structural Durability	Density (Kg per Kv)
Valkite	Carbonate mineral that is used in station construction.	300	400	20	40	9,95
Ajatite	Abundantly found material used in making glass, basic electronic components and composite materials.	200	500	40	30	8,60

Industrial metal ores

Industrial materials

Name	Description	Armor	Corrosion Resistance	Transformability	Structural Durability	Density (Kg per Kv)
Bastium	Sturdy metal that is common in low-G planetoids and asteroids. Widely used in many applications.	500	400	40	80	9,95
Aegisium	Corrosion resistant metal that is used in applications that require resistance against corrosive substances or highly allotropic properties.	1000	800	150	60	9,67
Oninum	Metal with high density that is rarely found in large quantities outside gravity wells of planets or large moons.	5000	500	40	50	22,50
Charodium	Heavy metal with high melting point. Used widely as heat shielding material in machinery and as armor.	2700	200	70	60	15,00
Merkerium	Lightweight fibrous material that has excellent electric resistance.	700	200	20	60	9,36
Lukium	Dense metal that is used as radiation shielding material.	3500	600	60	40	25,00

Minor noble metal ores

Minor noble metal ores, listed in rarity order

Name	Description	Armor	Corrosion Resistance	Transformability	Structural Durability	Density (Kg per Kv)
Tengium	Lightweight metal that is a prevalently used material in tools, electronics and machinery.	400	600	50	50	8,60
Ilmatrium	Reactive alkali metal that is used in optics, energy storage and as heat transfer material.	300	500	70	40	9,95
Ukonium	Highly reactive metal. Used as heat transfer material and in some applications in electronics.	200	100	100	20	8,60
Vokarium	Ductile and light metal that is commonly used in electronics as a power transfer medium.	200	200	80	60	9,01
Exorium	Radioactive metal that is used in fission generators as fuel. Exorium also has uses in some sensors and in kinetic ammunition as penetrator.	2000	600	20	30	23,00

Noble metal ores

Noble metal ores, listed in rarity order

Name	Description	Armor	Corrosion Resistance	Transformability	Structural Durability	Density (Kg per Kv)
Kutonium	Strong and lightweight metal, commonly used in tools and weapons.	1800	200	40	60	9,36
Arkanium	Rare transition metal that has wide use in electronics, alloys and weapons.	500	700	80	20	6,99
Corazium	Dense transition metal that is used in advanced electronics.	300	500	50	20	12,50
Xhalium	Very rare transition metal. Used in advanced energy weapons and high end electronics.	200	750	90	30	7,36

Frozen materials

Frozen materials, listed in rarity order

Name	Description
Ice	Compound of hydrogen and oxygen.
Surtrite	Often manifests in gas or crystalline form. Highly reactive material and when oxidized, Surtrite becomes highly corrosive to many materials.
Nhurgite	Corrosive gas which is used in explosives and as reaction propellant.
Haderite	Inert gas manifested from supernovae of dying stars.
Karnite	Radioactive gas which is often used in energy weapons and lights.

Alloy materials

Materials made from two or more other materials

Name	Description	Requires	Armor	Corrosion Resistance	Transformability	Structural Durability	Density (Kg per Kv)
Velidenum	Transparent glass-like material.	Ajatite, Bastium, Tengium	1000	500	10	40	9,95