User:Thrawcheld/Primary resources

All primary resources (obtainable directly in the world)

Resource	Nauvis	Space platform	Vulcanus	Fulgora	Gleba	Aquilo
Wood	From trees. Can be farmed after visiting Gleba. Mostly useless after the early game except to craft the combat shotgun.	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	From various plants, largely useless	N/A, useless
Iron ore	Mined	Crushing metallic asteroid chunks	Surface rocks, mostly useless (use molten iron from lava in foundry instead)	Recycling concrete (from scrap)	Iron bacteria	N/A
Copper ore	Mined	Crushing metallic asteroid chunks (advanced recipes)	Surface rocks, mostly useless (use molten copper from lava in foundry instead)	N/A (recycle plates and cables from scrap)	Copper bacteria	N/A
Coal	Mined, surface rocks	Synthesised from carbon and sulfur (from crushing carbonaceous chunks with advanced recipes)	Mined	N/A, useless except to make cliff explosives, which would also mean importing calcite	Synthesised from burnt spoilage and biosulfur	N/A
Stone	Mined, surface rocks	N/A, useless	Byproduct of lava processing, surface rocks	Recycled from scrap, surface rocks	Mined	N/A
Water	Offshore pump	Ice melting (from crushing oxide chunks)	Steam condensation via acid neutralisation (from mining and pumpjacks)	Ice melting (from recycling scrap)	Offshore pump	Ice melting (via ammoniacal solution separation and pumpjacks)
Crude oil	Pumpjacks	N/A (supply oil products from rockets)	N/A (use refined oils from coal liquefaction or the simplified recipe)	N/A (use or crack heavy oil instead)	N/A (use biochambers to produce oil products instead)	Pumpjacks
Uranium ore	Mined (with additional sulfuric acid)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sulfuric acid	Refined from sulfur (from crude oil via petroleum gas), iron plates and water	Refined from sulfur (from advanced asteroid crushing), iron and water (marginally useful)	Pumpjacks	Refined from sulfur (from heavy oil via petroleum gas), iron plates and water	Refined from sulfur (from jellynut and yumako via spoilage and bioflux), iron plates and water	Refined from sulfur (from crude oil via petroleum gas), iron plates and water
Lava	N/A	N/A	Offshore pump	N/A	N/A	N/A
Calcite	N/A	Crushing oxide asteroid chunks with the advanced recipe	Mined	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tungsten ore	N/A	N/A	Mined (requires big mining drills)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Scrap	N/A	N/A	N/A	Mined	N/A	N/A
Jellynut	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	Jellystem (industrially from agricultural towers)	N/A, useless
Yumako	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	Yumako tree (industrially from agricultural towers	N/A, useless
Spoilage	Fish spoiling	N/A	N/A	N/A	Mining various plants; many things spoiling, various plants	N/A
Iron bacteria	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Iron stromatolites, iron bacteria recipe	N/A
Copper bacteria	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Copper stromatolites, copper bacteria recipe	N/A
Ammoniacal solution	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Offshore pump
Lithium brine	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Pumpjacks
Fluorine	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Pumpjacks
Ice platform	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lithium ice formations (crafted from ice and ammonia)
Ice	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lithium ice formations (crafted from ammoniacal solution)
Lithium	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lithium ice formations (crafted from lithium brine with ammonia and holmium plates)
Metallic asteroid chunk	N/A, useless	Asteroid collectors	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless
Carbonic asteroid chunk	N/A, useless	Asteroid collectors	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless
Oxide asteroid chunk	N/A, useless	Asteroid collectors	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless	N/A, useless

"Raw" resources

What constitutes a "raw" resource can be construed differently between surfaces. The standard interpretation treats something as "raw" if its default recipe is made in a furnace, refinery, chemical plant, foundry or biochamber, or is a raw resource on Nauvis. Here we interpret it as anything that can be extracted automatically from a natural source on the same surface. The table below indicates raw resources (in this sense) needed for science packs. "N/A" indicates the pack cannot be made on that surface without imports. "?" for water denotes a variable quantity depending on how much cracking is done.

• Nauvis: iron ore, copper ore, stone, coal, crude oil, uranium ore, water.
  • "Crude oil" assumes maximum production from cracking; when heavier oils are consumed in other processes, more crude will be needed.
  • Water is not calculated since it depends on how much cracking is needed. It's inexhaustible anyway so it doesn't matter. The only constraint is the throughput of pumps, which is usually not a problem.
• Vulcanus: lava, calcite, sulfuric acid, coal, tungsten ore.
  • Were take the inherent productivity of foundries into account.
  • We additionally count stone as a raw resource since it's a byproduct of molten metal production, meaning it's available essentially for free; usually you have a lot of surplus that just gets thrown away.
  • The "Molten" column treats molten metals as raw resources.
• Fulgora: scrap products, heavy oil.
  • To calculate production of various products from scrap it is not valid to simply add the figures together. The proper figure is the maximum needed for any intermediate recycling product. We assume all batteries are from scrap.
  • Coal cannot be obtained on Fulgora even with synthesis, so there is no entry for military science, which requires coal to make grenades. Other coal products (i.e. plastic, red/blue circuits, LDS) can be obtained from scrap.
• Gleba: stone, jellynut, yumako, water.
  • We take the inherent productivity of biochambers into account. We assume metal products come from furnaces and assemblers, though it's more efficient to use foundries.
• Aquilo: No entry since every pack requires resources you can't get there. Even its own pack requires imports from Fulgora.

Type	Recipe	Raw
		Nauvis	Vulcanus		Fulgora		Gleba
			Molten	Raw	Intermediates	Scrap
Automation science pack	5 + 1 + 1 → 1	5.5 2 1	6.67 6.67	26.66 0.0533
Logistic science pack	6 + 1 + 1 → 1	8.75 5.5 1.5	33.3 5	51 0.102
Military science pack	10 + 1 + 1 + 2 → 2	23 14 5 10 10	40 16.67 5 10	75.2 0.1504 10
Chemical science pack	24 + 1 + 3 + 2 → 2	52.5 22 15 3 48.6 ?	40 50 16.43 154.1 0.154	120 16.43 154.1 0.39
Production science pack	21 + 30 + 1 + 1 → 3	153.5 201.5 97.5 10 216.2 35
Utility science pack	21 + 2 + 1 + 3 → 3	104.75 52 69.5 11.5 399.8