Resources

A player gathering resources

Resources in Dual Universe are naturally occurring voxels obtained from a planet, moon, or asteroid. In Dual Universe, the term "resources" generally refers to any voxels that can be mined from a planetary body. Typically, resources must be refined into materials before they can be used in construction. Different resources have varying levels of rarity, which determines how difficult they are to find in the game world. Furthermore, some resources can only be found in certain places (such as in asteroids or on moons), or only in certain planetary biomes. Therefore, players wont be able to find every possible resource on a single planet.

The following table presents a rough description of how the resources rarity system works in the current state of development.

Scanning Difficulty

Difficulty Level	Repartition	Average Size of Chunks
Visible	They are visible from the ground without mining and relatively abundant in certain areas	small
Abundant	They are not deep underground (less then 2 or 3 meters) and relatively abundant almost everywhere	small to large
Normal	They can be between 5 and 150 meters deep and are relatively abundant, but still not everywhere (know your biomes)	medium to large
Uncommon	They are deep ( >150 meters) and not very abundant	medium to large
Rare	They are very deep ( >500 meters), rare and hard to find	small

Ores

Ore Characteristics

Ore Type	Weight	Volume
Aluminum	Unknown	Unknown
Coal	Unknown	Unknown
Copper	Unknown	Unknown
Iron	Unknown	Unknown
Gold	Unknown	Unknown
Tin	Unknown	Unknown
Zinc	Unknown	Unknown

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Refined Materials

Material Schematics

Material	Time	Components
Aluminium
Ceramic
Copper
Duralumin
Gold
Graphite
Iron
Steel	1s	Iron Ore (1.0m3) + Coal Ore (0.2m3)
Plastic
Platinium
Plexiglass
Resin
Silicon
Silumin
Tin
Trithorium
Wadding
Zinc