Industrial Commodities
Industrial Commodities are a new mechanic added in the May 2016 reset, to allow players to make money from raw resources such as Metal or Nuclear Waste, replacing the old strategy of building station extensions and then selling them to a AI base.
There are 28 Industrial Commodities, arranged into a four-tier system. The first tier, tier 0, is constructed from basic materials, such as Metals, Silicon, and Nuclear Waste, among others. Tier 1-3 commodities are produced using several of the previous tier's commodities, as well as a rarer extractable or otherwise producable commodity such as Jelly Beans, Diamonds, or Enriched Nuclear Material.
Industrial Commodities will sell for slightly more than the value of their ingredients to certain AI bases. The only bases which will buy Industrial Commodities are AI bases in Wild Space. Additionally, each base will only buy a certain type of tier 1-3 commodities, as well as most or all tier 0 commodities.
Price-wise, Industrial Commodities function similarly to normal commodities. That is, a AI base will buy a commodity for less as more of that commodity is sold to them. AI bases will buy Industrial Commodities for 200% of it's base value when it has none of them stored, which eventually falls to 50% of the commodities' base value, beyond which the AI base will refuse to buy more. AI bases will consume industrial commodities over time, at a rate depending on the tier of the commodity. At tier 1, they will consume 100k-200k of each commodity per day, but only 1-5k of each tier 3 commodity per day.
Industrial commodities can only be produced by a number of specialized base-only factories, all of which are available in Capella. These factories scale in size with tier, starting at 1000 and increasing a factor of 2 per step. The same is true of the workers required to equip, starting at 100.
| Name | Tier | Weight | Factory | Required | Price | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Girders | 0 | 100,000 | Steel Foundry | 1000 Metals | 25,000 | Basic structural support. | - |
| Fusion Cells | 0 | 120,000 | Star Bottling Plant | 300 Nuclear Waste | 30,000 | Power your TV remote for millennia. | - |
| Sentient Chatbots | 0 | 80,000 | Sentient Machine Learning Institute | 500 Silicon | 20,000 | Three laws included. | - |
| Fine Space Whisky | 0 | 300 | Giant Space Still | 250 Space Oats | 18,000 | Smooth. | - |
| Paxian Figurines | 0 | 100,000 | Figurine Workshop | 1 Bronze, 250 Baobabs | 1,800,000 | Paxian figurines, paint them yourself! | - |
| Cyborg Brigade | 0 | 200,000 | Cybernetic Implant Clinic | 1000 Peasants, 1 Steel Girders, 1 Fusion Cells, 1 Sentient Chatbots | 420,000 | By your command. | - |
| Sub-Shield Buffer | 0 | 200,000 | Sub-Shield Buffer Factory | 25 Promethium, 1 Steel Girders, 1 Fusion Cells, 1 Sentient Chatbots | 1,500,000 | Buffering your construction projects. | - |
| Titanium Reinforced Girders | 1 | 2,000,000 | Titanium Foundry | 1 Titanium, 20 Steel Girders | 2,600,000 | Titanium-reinforced structural support. | - |
| Laconia Reinforced Girders | 2 | 20,000,000 | Laconia Foundry | 1 Laconia, 10 Titanium Reinforced Girders | 40,000,000 | Laconia-reinforced structural support. | - |
| Adamantium Reinforced Girders | 3 | 40,000,000 | Adamantium Foundry | 1 Adamantium, 5 Laconia Reinforced Girders | 300,000,000 | Adamantium-reinforced structural support. | - |
| Vitalized Fusion Cells | 1 | 2,400,000 | Vitalized Star Bottling Plant | 1 Vis, 5 Fusion Cells | 2,200,000 | Redefines what vitalized really means. | - |
| Quickened Fusion Cells | 2 | 24,000,000 | Quickened Star Bottling Plant | 1 Quantumum, 10 Vitalized Fusion Cells | 36,000,000 | Burns twice as fast. | - |
| Energized Fusion Cells | 3 | 48,000,000 | Energized Star Bottling Plant | 1 Energon, 5 Quickened Star Bottling Plant | 275,000,000 | Energized energy? | - |
| Supercooled Chatbots | 1 | 1,600,000 | Supercooled Machine Learning Institute | 30 Psion Icicles, 20 Sentient Chatbots | 2,800,000 | A chilly personality. | - |
| Overclocked Chatbots | 2 | 16,000,000 | Overclocked Machine Learning Institute | 5 Plasma Crystals, 10 Supercooled Chatbots | 36,000,000 | Hey, hey, hey, so this one time Bzzz and after that the microwave went bzzz. | - |
| Self-Censoring Chatbots | 3 | 32,000,000 | Celf-Censored Machine Learning Institute | 2 Ablution Crystals, 5 Overclocked Chatbots | 290,000,000 | Think of the children. | - |
| Jello Shots | 1 | 2,000,000 | Jello Destillery | 1 Jelly Beans, 20 Fine Space Whisky | 1,300,000 | Packed with the most elastic and powerful jelly, which sticks the buzz with you for days. | - |
| Space Algae Whisky | 2 | 20,000,000 | Space Algae Distillery | 5 Alien Bacteria, 10 Jello Shots | 28,000,000 | A vile shade of green, disgustingly delicious! | - |
| Doctor L's Cure-All Life Tonic | 3 | 40,000,000 | Doctor L's Distillery | 10 Bacta, 5 Space Algae Destillery | 230,000,000 | Healing properties of bacta prevent the hangover, if you can stomach it. | - |
| Silver Sporfs | 1 | 2,000,000 | Sporf Workshop | 1 Silver, 10 Paxian Figurines | 21,000,000 | What the hell is a sporf? | - |
| Gilded Privies | 2 | 110,000,000 | Privy Workshop | 1 Gold, 5 Silver Sporfs | 110,000,000 | Really improves the experience. | - |
| Precision Pantacosms | 3 | 20,000,000 | Pantacosm Workshop | 1 Platinum, Gilded Privies | 315,000,000 | They fly straight. | - |
| Lubricated Cyborgs | 1 | 4,000,000 | Lubricated Implant Clinic | 1 Petroleum, 20 Cyborg Brigade | 11,000,000 | Dancing without friction. | - |
| Frozen Cyborgs | 2 | 40,000,000 | Frozen Implant Clinic | 5 Frozen Blob, 10 Lubricated Cyborgs | 210,000,000 | Frozen, not frigid. | - |
| Mysterious Cyborgs | 3 | 80,000,000 | Mysterious Implant Clinic | 1 Dark Matter, 5 Frozen Cyborgs | 1,125,000,000 | Probably best not to know. | - |
| Sub-Shield Reactors | 1 | 4,000,000 | Sub-Shield Reactors Factory | 25 Enriched Nuclear Material, 10 Sub-Shield Buffers | 16,000,000 | Powering your construction projects. | - |
| Sub-Shield Matrices | 2 | 40,000,000 | Sub-Shield Matrix Factory | 1 Diamond, 5 Sub-Shield Reactors | 94,000,000 | Connecting your construction projects. | - |
| Sub-Shield Lattices | 3 | 80,000,000 | Sub-Shield Lattice Factory | 2 Rubicite, 2 Sub-Shield Matrices | 280,000,000 | Binding your construction projects. | - |
