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Last update:20 March 2018

The game offers 11 types of resources.

for make your colony self-sufficient, you better extract them or craft them by yourself.

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Concrete - can be extracted from regolith deposits with aConcrete Extractor.

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It’s your basic building material needed to build pretty much every building (apart from few exceptions).

Power - comes from cheap renewable sources -Wind Turbines,Solar Panels, and fissionable sources -Stirling GeneratorsandFusion Reactors.

Produced energy is sent viacables,and can be stored inbatteries.

PC

Electronics - made fromrare metals in Electronics Factories.You will use them for servicing devices in your colony.

Factories can only be built inside of a dome.

Food - produced onfarms and hydroponic farmsinside a dome, or outside onfungal farms.

PC

Certain plants will also generate oxygen for your dome.

Machine Parts - made out of metals inMachine Parts Factories.

They are used to produce and maintain extractors.

PC

Metal - can be easily found on the surface of Mars or beneath the earth.

You will needMetals Extractorsto extract the material.

Metal is your basic building material, often used to maintain buildings.

PC

Oxygen -Crucialfor your colonists to survive on Mars.

It can be generated with the use ofMOXIESand certain plants.

Similarly to water, oxygen is transported via pipes.

PC

Polymers - can be found on the surface of the planet.

Colonists can also produce them inPolymer Factories.

The material is used to produce batteries, domes, spires, etc.

PlayStation

Rare metals - can only be found beneath the earth.

it’s possible for you to extract them withRare metals extractors, and use to produce Electronics.

you’ve got the option to also export them back to Earth to getadditional funding.

Xbox

Water - generated viaMoisture Vaporers and Water Extractors.

It is transported via pipes.

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