Resources

This article is talking about resources, see this category for the list .

Resources are the main components of nearly every item in Waste of Space. They are mainly used as ingredients in recipes when crafting the items needed to play the game.

In the crafting menu (V), Resources, which is a button in the menu, is a category tab that lets you see the list of parts that are able to be obtained from ore deposits by clicking on them with a harvest tool.

Resources
This is a list of resources that are part of the category tab named "Resources" in the craft menu.

Natural Resources
The following resources are found naturally on Earth-like as the nodes (deposits), on mountains or in the ground:


 * Iron - An incredibly important part for building and crafting.
 * Copper - One of the most important parts, as it is needed for wires. Your base should be near a copper supply.
 * Coal - Used for burner generators and boilers to make power.
 * Water - Can be made into steam to generate power, obtained by using Pump.
 * Stick - Can be harvested from trees. It is used for a few crafting recipes.
 * Wood - A basic resource that can be harvested from trees, used in some crafting recipes and for basic structures.
 * Snow - Can be melted into Water.
 * Stone - A early game building material. It is used to make Templates.
 * Sand - can be turned to glass by using a Kiln or burning it.

The following resources that randomly appear from harvesting mountains (Stone Deposits): The only resource that is always dropped after harvesting is stone:


 * Quartz - Used for many electronics. can be mined from rocks.
 * Sulfur - Used for many weapons. It is also useful for making PowerCells
 * Ruby - Used for making night vision
 * Flint - Very useful for starting fires early in the game.
 * Silicon - Used for many electronic and wiring-related parts.
 * Helium -  Can be used as ammo for PlasmaCannons
 * Oil - Used for making Gasoline and Petroleum.
 * Ice - Used for physical machines.

These resource deposits are not found on Earth-like planets and require space travel to obtain, making them one of the game's only progressions:


 * Uranium
 * Aluminum
 * Diamond
 * Lead
 * Jade
 * Gold
 * Titanium
 * Neutronium
 * Beryllium

Other Resources

 * Glass - Can be obtained from burning it with a flints, an igniters and other ways.
 * Steam - Can be obtained from boilers or reactors
 * Petroleum and Gasoline - Can be obtained from a Refinery consuming Oil
 * ExoticMatter - Can be rarely obtained from alien fighters, which have bins and containers
 * DarkMatter - Can be obtained by using DarkReactor in the black hole regions
 * Hydrogen and Plasma - Can be obtained by using the SolarScoop facing stars
 * AlienCore - Can be obtained from defeating Aliens
 * NuclearWaste - Can be obtained from the Reactor disappearing after reaching over 1200 degrees Fahrenheit and its alarm, or it was triggered to drop NuclearWaste with a polysilicon with 'FlipFlop' mode and a Button. Note that the Reactor must reach half of the uranium bars, which are green bars for each bar.

Unobtainable Resources

 * Lava
 * Magnesium
 * NitrogenOxide

Randomly generated resources
Materials that are not in the list of help menu and craft menu are called "Randomly generated resources". These resources are exclusive to the planet they generated on. All planets except for Earthlikes will have these materials, and a planet can only have one random material. The resources will have random properties, ranging from non-malleable and brittle, to stretchier and harder than most resources, while others could be radioactive.

Known random resource effects:


 * Radioactivity
 * Cools/heats on contact with another resource
 * Emits light on contact with another resource
 * Generates power on contact with another resource (removed)
 * Explodes on contact with another resource
 * Random malleability
 * Random durability