List of recommended ores, gemstones, rocks and minerals.

I'm hoping for a use for dirt..

Stuff with easy-to-remember names are nice, but the odd non-normal name wouldn't be too bad (especially if it sounds awesome).

 

I am a little concerned about some of this. While I like accuracy, and I like expansive lists, I would like this game to also avoid being Dwarf Fortress. I don't want to worry about making Marble Mugs, cause my Space Penguin likes them best x(

 

It would be cool to have electrical wiring, but this list could definitely be shortened, having that many types of materials seems pointless, but most of them could easily be incorporated.

 

with the Plutonium, and other man-made elements (non fiction and fiction, i'm thinking similar to the one iron man made for his triangle suit) you would't be able to make them on your station, you instead would have to build a large particle accelerator on the surface of a world and power it.

 

I love that idea, it could add a lot of depth, I wonder if you can nuke other planets, they said you can call down aerial strikes from satellites, but they haven't established what that means.

 

i would have thought that it would mean that you have to collect the materials necessary to build the satelites, build them, build bombs, fire them (but the 'cost' for these would have to be high, or else it would be overpowered) a nuked area would have high levels of radiation, creating strange creatures which were caught in the blast (i'm thinking godzilla-esque)

 

Yeah, it would be OP if you could just build a satellite 5 minutes, or even 5 hours into the game

 

complex satellites would definitely need to be near-end game stuff, but little monitoring ones or teleport relays or storage ones (which would have to be unable to fall into the atmosphere or else it defeats the purpose of building bombing ones) might be ok...?

 

Those would probably be mid game, but I don't see how them falling to the earth would defeat the purpose of bombing Satellites, bombing ones would still bomb when you told them to, and wouldn't be destroyed.

 

Man this is overcomplicating everything.
I mean we could just straight out include the wole periodic table of elements, but what good would that do?

What I am saying is, you are being too specific in my opinion. Try to generalise what each block does (e.g. Magnesium not only explodes, but is magnetic) and cut down on the amount you are trying to include because at the moment that is just ridiculous.

P.S. If you added all of those and gave them all individual appearances chances are quite a few will look tacky and stupid (e.g. rainbow ore).

 

meh i guess. They might end up doing that, or doing ore the same way as they are doing gear and clothing (thousands of different combinations) or something completely different. They haven't released enough info for us to speculate properly

 

Also I thought the game was more orientated on combat/exploration over mining anyway

 

well you can do everything can't you? what about the people who like mining?

 

Reversium:When electrically charged,will reverse gravity in the area around it. when charged again will stop reversing gravity. Could be used to make belts that work like gravity changing in VVVVVV,taking up a little battery power each time it's used.

 

Unicornium. Nuf said.

 

I hate all MLP fandom, in my opinion it is just plain stupid, if this is a reference to that then I am disappoint...

 

I was reffranceing to stuff you should know. They where making a joke, saying diomands must be made of kryptonite and unicornium. They must've reffranceing to that thing you mentioned, but I've never heard of it. Plus it was just a joke

 

Jus pointing bout that uranium/plutonium/antimatter could power spacecraft respectivally better that the last.. also let's not forget bombs AND some tank shells are mini abombs.... so maybe in some ammo. So I vote yes at uanium and plutonium (antimatter is in a different topic)

 

IDK about how the devs will go about minerals, but knowing that the game'll be infinite and have randomly generated planets, I'd guess there would be lots of minerals as it would be somewhat stupid to run into the exact same minerals on the other side of a galaxy, just sayin.

 

Well maybe, or maybe it could be a coincidence. Also, I'd think that think that the derbies left over form other stars would fuel the planets.

 

Aragonite. It's a crystal like mineral, similar looking to Calcite. And yes, I used google. I liked the name ha ha.