Harvesting

HARVEST is the command used to gather resources from the planet surface. There are four general classes of resources (and four associated classes of tools to match). You need to WIELD the tool in your special weapon slot. You can then SCAN with the tool to see which resources are available. Optionally, CONFIGURE the tool to harvest the resource you'd like, if it's present, and finally you can HARVEST to gather that resource from the environment.

You start the game with the most basic of each of these harvesting tools, but better/faster tools can be crafted. If you lose your harvesting tools, you can always buy another set from central complex alpha.

Minerals and Metals

 * inert metal


 * solid-phase metal


 * responsive metal


 * transuranic metal


 * ceramic geode


 * magneto-mineral


 * nanite sheeting


 * sand


 * gems


 * exotic gems


 * monocrystals


 * stellar corundum


 * fullerene sheeting


 * red sand


 * black sand


 * pink sand

These can be harvested with the Ion-driven mineral collector or massed nanomachine mineral collector (faster).

Organic Matter

 * native fiber


 * native lumber


 * adaptive-phase fiber


 * obscure lumber


 * native fungus


 * native berries


 * neuro-aligned fiber


 * plastiform fiber


 * ocean fiber


 * hydrocarbon sludge


 * mineral acids


 * fuming mineral acids


 * solid lumber


 * native tubers


 * nutri-brand stalks              (only with slimfast or better)


 * protein tubers                   (only with slimfast or better)


 * biofuel grade stalks           (only with slimfast or better)


 * phantom spider silk           (only with slimfast or better)


 * silver spider silk                (only with slimfast or better)


 * exotic fiber                       (only with slimfast or better)

These can be harvested with the cheap orgo-reaper or slimfast organic collector (faster and collects wider variety). The landslide farming harvestor can harvest only nutri-brand stalks, protein tubers, biofuel grade stalks.

Energy

 * solar kretherson
 * thermal kretherson


 * purestrain solar kretherson


 * dense thermal kretherson


 * intrinsic field kretherson

These can be harvested with the hand-held energy absorption unit or the q-osmose energy collector.

Water

 * unpurified water

This can be harvested with the atmo-thrasher condenser.