Resources

A player gathering resources

Resources in Dual Universe are naturally occurring voxels obtained from planets, moons, and asteroids. In Dual Universe, the term "resources" generally refers to any voxels that can be mined from a planetary body. In most cases resources must be refined into materials, alloys, or elements 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 on asteroids or moons), or only in certain planetary biomes. As a result, 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	Nodes are visible on the surface and relatively abundant	Small
Abundant	Nodes are shallowly buried (less than 2 or 3 meters) and relatively common	Small to Large
Normal	Nodes are commonly found between 5 and 150 meters deep and are relatively large, but only found in certain biomes	Medium to Large
Uncommon	Nodes are deep ( >150 meters), infrequent, and hard to find	Medium to Large
Rare	Nodes are very deep ( >500 meters), small, quite rare, and hard to find	Small

Ores

Ore Characteristics

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

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