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Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Basic Products for Dummies
Ice is typically gathered from under the Martian surface, as the only place that surface ice exists on Mars is on the north polar cap. It is typically refined into water by large industrial water filters. Pioneers have stated that the water always tasted a bit "clay-ish". However, tests revealed that the water is completely sterile. Under our testing, it appears that this is a symptom of mild Mars Madness and strong nocebo effect.
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Christmas Gifts (Deactivated)
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Protein Shake (Deactivated)
Transport Ice (Cantina Job)
Regolith is the surface dust and perchlorates-rich dirt covering the surface of Mars. Due to the high quantity of extremely fine micro-dust present on the surface. Which, if it were to be dragged inside habitat modules would produce similar health hazards that are found in quartz miners. Habitation modules employ extreme cleaning procedures for settlers entering and leaving their modules so that none of the dust enters. This regolith can also contain trace amounts of ore like iron and titanium and is usually processed inside massive smelters. Processed regolith can also be used as a base for manufactured soil.
Additional note added by Katherine Collins: The regolith on Mars has consistently proven itself to be one, if not the most valuable resource of the Red Planet. Even if we were to find microbes within the ice caps, the regolith that surround us show us such an optimistic vision of the future. The ability for humanity to construct homes on other planets out of the dirt once was science fiction.
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Water, typically refined from the ice acquired through scavenging swallow underground caves or mined by massive ice miners is needed by every colony on the surface. This makes the resource very valuable for every settler on the planet and as such has become a very large industry.
The AADZ has lifted all restrictions on the sale and storage of water for the time following the localized failure of water filter plants inside the AADZ. Water filters modules have since then been replaced with superior filtration plants.
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Filling Building's Water Storage (Building Action)
Waste is more than fancily packed expelled matter from human colonists, they can be used to create in-situ fertilizer in order to grow crops within the massive greenhouses and such are very important and never wasted with all of the lavatories on Mars being connected to waste gathering plants which package the waste.
Additional Note by Katherine Collins: There has been a recent upturn in water requirements and worries about if Mars could sustain all of our water needs. The ice caps and underground reserves however, show us that by the time we've exhausted those sources, our asteroid mining technology would be able to source water from even the Oort Cloud.
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Food is typically created out of vegetable matter grown on Mars, although it doesn't always take the form of sprouts on a dinner tray. They can be processed into faux-meat patties from Soy by kitchen machinery typically found within every habitation module on Mars. The reusable dinner trays remain the same however.
Within the AADZ and wealthier areas of the Duskworks area, food can be seen in many forms alternative to the typical food trays found in working settler homes. From cheap synth-snacks made from soy to luxuriously imported meat from Earth's finest wining and dines.
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Complimentary rations are given out daily to settlers of the Duskworks Landing, if a settler saves up a month of rations and gives enough Dusk, they are given an accommodation as proof of their self sustainability.
These rations are produced by the AADZ in order to supplement
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Daily Login
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A form of clay that is high in water concentration, this clay is typically dried out in order to gather the water within the clay. These are typically found near water pockets and the northern pole.
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Waste Disposal (Cantina Job)
A not-so high quality collection of metal scrap found from abandoned machinery or other debris found on the Martian Surface.
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Transport Ice (Cantina Job)
A collection of used batteries, transistors, resistors and other electrical bits found from scrounging abandoned machinery and other debris on the Martian Surface.
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Baijiu Blitz (Cantina Job)
A series of well-used rover wires found from broken rovers that are dotted across the Martian Surface. Typically given to scrap collection jobs in the Cantinas.
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Scrap Collection (Cantina Job)
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Chemicals and How to Use Them
Methane is an incredibly useful (and smelly) element, being used as fuel for the many hopper rockets that fly short flights across Mars. It is also used in the creation of PVC, a type of polymer plastic. It is made from the Sabatier Reaction from a Sabatier Reactor.
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Oxygen on Mars is harder to gather than on Earth, with the atmosphere only having 0.13% oxygen. Instead of gathering it from the atmosphere, oxygen on Mars is gathered through electrolysis of water, which is where an electric current is passed through water to separate the Oxygen and Hydrogen.
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Coming Soon!
Unlike Oxygen, Co2 is very abundant in the Martian Atmosphere, making up 96% of the atmosphere. C.A.D.'s grab the Co2 from the atmosphere and cryogenically freeze it so it can be packaged into containers to ship and use in manufacturing easily. Typically, Co2 is used in the smelting process through a complex process to seperate the carbon from the carbon dioxide.
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Hydrogen is the lightest element and is created from the split water process. For Mars usage, it is used in the creation of Methane though the Sabatier process in the Sabatier reactor and the creation of PVC.
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Nitrogen is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that comprises 78% of the air on Earth. Nitrogen can also be gathered from the atmosphere but in much lower amounts due to the lower concentration of Nitrogen on Mars. It is used in habitation modules to keep the air the same as on Earth.
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Coming Soon!
Argon is colorless, odorless gas that is totally inert to other substances. Argon is often used when an inert atmosphere is needed. It is typically used in the production of substances where a reactive element would be dangerous or inneffective.
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Coming Soon!
A perchlorate is a chemical compound containing the perchlorate ion, ClO⁻ ₄. The majority of perchlorates are commercially produced salts. These were used in the creation of fireworks during the Lunar New Year festival and have several more uses soon to come to Mars.
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Fireworks (Disabled)
Coming Soon!
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Intermediate Products and You
Soil is processed regolith, sifted to remove the dangerous extremely-small micro-particles and waste for fertilizer. It takes on a deeper brown color and smells nearly identical to volcanic soil. They're manufactured within Cryo Atmosphere Distillers due to the distillation processes needed to manufacture Soil.
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Scrap Collection (Cantina Job)
The starting framework of a rover, being able to be melded into either a hauling rover's chassis or an explorer rover's chassis. These rovers are able to handle nearly any weather threat, although some severe ones can still send your rovers home in wrecks. This design was based on the original chassis designs of the Ad Astra Landings.
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Rover wheels are specifically sculpted to drive on the micro-fine dust of the Martian surface. Molded out of Aluminium and Titanium plates, they're highly durable. Eight wheels are required for hauling rovers and four for explorer rovers.
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A collection of extremely well machined bolts, nuts, tiny gears and other mechanical parts. These are normally used in the creation of mars-rated buildings and rovers. They are extremely resistant against oxidization due to the near lack of oxygen on the Martian surface. Typically created out of aluminum and steel.
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A bundle of structural beams used to reinforce the chassis and exteriors of rovers and buildings. They're created with massive 3D-printers using steel, titanium and aluminum. This alloy is incredibly strong and is used by both the Ad Astra Development Zone and Duskworks.
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Depending on the intended usage of these circuit boards, they can be used as the electrical systems for rovers or industrial habitations. They are also used as the autonomous brain of the rovers and are constructed from processed regolith turned into silicon, copper, and raw PVC.
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PVC or Polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most useful synthetic polymer of plastic. It's created through a chemical process in the Chem Lab by a mixture of Methane, Hydrogen and Water. This raw PVC can be molded into all kinds of shapes and one of the more common uses is extruding it into a pipe shape.
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PLA or Polylactic acid is a thermoplastic polymer and is commonly used in 3D printing proceesses and made from fermented sorghum and Co2.
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Making Fireworks (Disabled)
Coming Soon!
PVC Pipe is one of the most common uses of PVC, typically found anywhere within the scrapyards on Earth, these pipes can be used to create empty power cells that can be slotted into any solar panel in order to charge them up.
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Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Ground Exploiter
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For ores and other unrefined metals:
For minerals and other salts:
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Constructive Criticism
Steel is an alloy made up of iron and typically a few tenths of a percent of Carbon to improve its strength. While the most commonly form of carbon used in steel making on Earth is coal, due to Mars's apparent lack of coal, a different process is used. The splitting of Co2 into carbon and oxygen to use in the smelting recipe is the preferred method.
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A more processed form of aluminum, molded into a sheet or plate. It is used in the construction of structural parts, machined parts, and rover wheels. Can also be exchanged to Cantinas for Cantina Coins.
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A more processed form of titanium, molded into a sheet or plate. It is used in the construction of structural parts, machined parts, and rover wheels. Can also be exchanged to Cantinas for Cantina Coins.
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Metis is a metallic material that was only found on Asteroid Number 9, Metis. It takes on a pearlescent shade and is commonly found as crystalized small chunks, similar to a geode only metal in nature. This material is what Ms. Patel's MaMaFi ring is constructed out of, allowing for the enhanced process of terraforming Mars. However, in 2048, the asteroid crash-landed onto the surface of Mars, causing a massive earthquake echoing throughout the planet even reaching so far as to reach Waterloo city from the Cerebus region. This material is now scattered across the surface as ejecta while the main deposit is being placed under watch by the US Government.
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Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Green Thumb
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Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Finished Products for Success
These empty power cells have quickly become the standards for powering buildings not directly connected to the mega-substation net of the Ad Astra Development Zone, it matches the slot in every Solar Panel currently being constructed on Mars. This allows it to be charged and used in buildings with a very high capacity.
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Scrap Collection (Cantina Job)
While power cell technology has considerably increased in terms of energy storage, due to the harsh climate of Mars, unexpected usage cases, and oddities due to the gravity being a third of Earth's, power cells are still prone to malfunction. Those that were scattered across Mars from lost rocketry shipments are slowly decaying into broken power cells such as these ones. They can be repaired through the combining of multiple power cells into a fully functioning one within a Chem Lab.
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Recharging Buildings
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Damaged power cells may be repaired in the Chem Lab after the player learns the recipe from performing Chemical research in the Library!
The full power cell has become a form of currency alongside the Dusk coin, as every building requires power to function including those vital to settler survival. Those buying power cells and then selling full power cells are almost always able to make a profit off of charging them in Solar Panels. Fits in any building slot and charges a high amount for its size.
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Charging Buildings
Martian coffee was a fairly late introduction to the planet, but was instantly incredibly popular. Prior to its creation from scratch on the surface, coffee beans or instant coffee packs had to be shipped via rockets to Mars which was incredibly expensive. Now all settlers are able to afford coffee within the Ad Astra Development Zone.
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Baijiu, also known as shaojiu, is a colourless liquor typically coming in between 35% and 60% alcohol by volume. It is typically created out of fermented sorghum and has been used in Lunar New Year celebrations extremely often.
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Baijiu Blitz (Cantina Job)
Wrecks of broken rovers on the martian surface aren't entirely uncommon. Ever since the massive RoverWorks of the Ad Astra Development Zone started mass producing autonomous rovers to go out and explore the surface, many have befallen a broken fate via weather and terrain. These are typically scrapped within massive machine shops in order to reclaim the lost material.
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Exploring Rovers were the first rovers of the Ad Astra Landing to arrive within the Development Zone. Originally based off of a modified version of the Curiosity Rover, this rover is able to use its hands to manipulate its environment around it and return resources back to colonies after long expedition missions. This rover is powered off of power cells.
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Hauling Rovers were the second rovers of the Ad Astra Landing to arrive within the Development Zone. This rover is able to use its massive claws to mine its environment around it and store massive amounts of resources to send back to colonies after long expedition missions. This rover is powered off of power cells.
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Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: The Salty Side of Colonization
Barite is the primary, naturally occurring, barium-based mineral. It is typically used for its coloration to make colorful fireworks and in advanced regolith mining techniques. It can gathered from scavenging the surface, as a byproduct from mining ice and regolith.
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Fireworks (Disabled)
Halite or rock salt is a type of salt and is the naturally occurring form of sodium chloride. It is used in the creation of perchlorate, fireworks and empty power cells.
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Fireworks (Disabled)
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Plant Beginnings
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Sprout variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Sprouts (Greenhouse)
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Sprout Some Mischief (Cantina Job)
Growing Food (Greenhouse)
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Carrot variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Carrots (Greenhouse)
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Carrot Out More Seeds (Cantina Job)
Growing Food (Greenhouse)
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Lettuce variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Lettuce (Greenhouse)
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Shred Some Seeds (Cantina Job)
Growing Food (Greenhouse)
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Sweet Potato variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Sweet Potato (Greenhouse)
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Growing Food (Greenhouse)
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Soy variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Soy (Greenhouse)
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Growing Food (Greenhouse)
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Coffee variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Coffee (Greenhouse)
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Growing Coffee (Greenhouse)
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Sorghum variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Sorghum (Greenhouse)
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Growing Sorghum (Greenhouse)
These seeds can be gathered from abandoned seed crates left on the surface of Mars due to incidents with autonomous hopper rockets or purchased and shipped from Earth, they can only be grown within vast Greenhouses. Bamboo variety.
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Scavenging
Seed Packs
Growing Bamboo (Greenhouse)
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Growing Bamboo (Greenhouse)
Mushroom spores are a fairly new species of fungi that has been brought to Mars because of its ability to grow on Mars. It is often developed into Mushroom Cakes made from a combination of the Mushroom and Soy or Mushroom Tea, brewed within the Tea Shop.
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Growing Mushrooms (Greenhouse)
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Diamonds in the Rough
Titanium is a metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength. It is used in all sorts of manners where a high strength yet light material is needed such as habitation modules, rovers and any other construction where structural parts are needed. Titanium Ore is typically gathered from clumps of regolith smelted down to reclaim the trace amounts of titanium.
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Aluminum is a light metal, while not overly strong is incredibly abundant. It is about the third the density of steel letting it be used in a variety of applications. It is created from the smelting process of regolith in order to reclaim the trace amounts of aluminum. It is usually refined into a plate before usage.
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Iron is a very common metal, and is very abundant in the martian regolith. With up to 5-14% of the martian regolith being iron-oxide giving the Red Planet its red coloring. Much less regolith is needed to make an equivalent amount of ore compared to other metals. It can be used to smelt steel and in the making of empty power cells.
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Copper is a very soft and malleable material, typically not used for any structural work and is instead used in electronics due to its high thermal and electric conductivity. Copper can be commonly found in underground chambers where magma sat and pooled heavier metals on Mars.
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Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: What's the Matter?
Coffee cherries, or coffee berries are used in the process of creating Coffee, these are fermented inside of water filtration units and turned into green coffee beans. The importance of coffee can't be understated on Mars, whether to stave off exhaustion or getting used to the ever-so slightly longer days of Mars.
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Green coffee beans usually refer to un-roasted mature coffee beans, which have been fermented in the water filter. The typical next step for these berries is to be roasted within the C.A.D with one of the heating modules inside. The complicated process for the creation of coffee has kept it a valuable resource on Mars.
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Roasted beans are shipped to industrial coffee modules known colloquially as Grind n' Brew buildings. These buildings work as martian coffee shops, grinding and brewing coffee by itself and serving it to the settlers of Duskworks.
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Ground brown powder, with a familiar flavorful scent. This is the semi-final step to the coffee brewing process. The next step involves being mixed with water and brought to boil in order to fully dissolve the brown powder into the liquid, creating a highly caffeinated drink.
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The largest member of the grass family, bamboo is an incredibly fast growing fibrous plant. It is used commonly in creating paper and other normally wood products due to its fast growth and strength.
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Sorghum is a type of flowering plant, some of these species are grown as cereals for human consumption and some in pastures for animals. The sorghum on Mars is used in the creation of drinks and food as well as creating PLA, a form of plastic.
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Fermented Sorghum is a form of processed Sorghum after being processed inside a Water Filtration plant, it is used in creating PLA or turned into an alcoholic drink such as Baijiu
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Paper is a very common material and is used in all sorts of applications where information needs to be written down or a very light, fragile, flexible material is required. On Mars, it is created out of greenhouse-grown bamboo.
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Teashop Recipes (Deactivated)
Mushrooms, an edible variant is useful in creating Mushroom Teas and Mushroom Cakes from a combination of mushroom and soy materia.
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Grow Mushrooms (Greenhouse)
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Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: What Even Is A Fiat?
The Dusk coin is the main form of currency being used to trade between settlements of the Duskworks. It is acquired through the markets, actions and countless other methods. It can be spent on resources or withdrawn and converted into other currencies.
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Selling Resources (Marketplace)
Depositing Dusk (DEX)
Certain Actions (Action)
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Buying Resources (Marketplace)
Buying Buildings/Items/Etc (Shop)
Withdrawing Dusk (DEX)
Cantina coins are gained by trading in titanium or aluminum plates into the shop, these are then used to preform Cantina Jobs. The origination of Cantina Coins came from a need for a new form of currency for shadier buisiness deals.
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Buy Cantina Coins (Shop)
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Cantina Missions (Cantina)
Trading Bazaar coins can be acquired through trading in building shards and can then be further exchanged for other shards within the Trading Bazaar. A form of intellectual trade as researchers and engineers share their designs for better and more efficient buildings.
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Buy Trading Bazaar Coins (Shop)
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Shard Exchange (Trading Bazaar)
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Table Of Contents
The Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia holds a field guide of all resources cataloged and normally used on the Martian surface, this manual is issued to all aspiring pioneers on the Martian Surface. This manual was written by researchers and scientists within the Ad Astra Research Institute and is used by many of the corporate conglomerates that have set up on Mars.
Descriptions provided by Duskworks' Chief Researcher Katherine Collins.
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Coins and Ghosts
For currencies:
For intangible resources:
For containers/lootboxes:
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: What's in the Box??
Copper lockboxes are mysterious containers that popped up along nooks and crannies of Mars, only being found by the most savvy of scavengers. No one really knows who placed them there and they're suspected of being lost cargo of a very valuable cargo rocket. They're always locked and require a keycard or a jammer to open.
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Scavenging
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Open Copper Lockbox (Action)
Copper jammers are able to open the copper lockboxes found by savvy scavengers an indeterminate amount of times. It is currently unclear on how one acquires a copper jammer as it is made out of a very complex series of electronics.
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Open Copper Lockbox (Action)
Copper Keycards are single use keycards used to open the mysterious copper lockboxes that pop-up across the surface of Mars. These keycards have been found to be tips from Cantina jobs from shady figures.
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Cantina Jobs
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Open Copper Lockbox (Action)
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: A Shard Of Knowledge
Shards is a blanket term, and can come in many forms but are generally a piece of information, or important component that allows settlers to further increase the effectiveness of their buildings. Due to lost knowledge and patenting, the information isn't publicly available, leading to settlers having to exchange shards in trading bazaars or dismantle their own Duskwork's buildings in order to create their own more efficient designs. Shards can also be purchased off of the marketplace, in exchange for Dusk.
Some other types of shards, include the original blueprint plans for extremely well built "artifact" buildings that have been lost, using these original pieces of the blueprint they can rebuild the artifact.
For the trading bazaars, cantinas and other special buildings, they're simpler to upgrade, requiring only one type of information shard that will allow you to further the reach of these buildings through better communication equipment and other logistical systems.
Shards come in three types:
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Sharing is Caring and Profitable
Normal Shards come in six rarities:
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Epic
Legendary
Mythic
Shards are used in the process of upgrading your buildings into a higher level. They have to match the same rarity of the building that is being upgraded and match the building type.
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A Rare Solar Panel Shard can only be used on a Rare Solar Panel.
More about upgrading buildings:
Made by Stef!
Today, Ammonia becomes a permanent fixture in the Chemistry scene, and the full design release comes with it.
Synthesizing Ammonia can be a long and challenging process and these recipes reflect that with long crafting times and success and failure loot tables.
All Ammonia recipes will require recipe knowledge!
All players that have acquired the original Ammonia recipe by supporting the team and participating in previous events will find that they have access to the Synthesize Ammonia I recipe task found in the Sabatier Reactor.
A limited quantity of recipes for all 3 Ammonia recipes has been added to the research credit shop:
Only true Chemists need apply! ~ all Ammonia shop purchases are Knowledge only!
Limited quantities of the Knowledge: Ammonia I - III in the shop will receive an initial stock of 300/200/100 quantity and pricing will be 100/200/300 Chemistry Research Credits respectively.
Act fast! While the shop may be restocked in time, the intention at first will be to allow some first-mover advantages while more recipes circulate into the game from other sources. Be on the lookout for additional ways to obtain these recipes through loot tables of other Chemistry tasks and more!
Recipes for Synthesize Ammonia I have been added as a rare drop chance from running the following tasks, with a few more planned soon!
Produce Methane I - Sabatier Reactor
Make Perchlorate I - Chem Lab
Make PLA I - Chem Lab
Recipes for Synthesize Ammonia II and III can be found as a rare drop from running Synthesize Ammonia I and Synthesize Ammonia II.
Fun Fact! Back on Earth, Ammonia production consumes nearly 2% of the world’s entire available energy supply every year! New Daily Task!
Chem Trails: will require Ammonia and mission tokens in exchange for Dusk! Look for this task to evolve as more content comes online!
Be on the lookout for more of this chain to be released over the coming days and weeks!
Teaser for the next installment? Acid Drop!!
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: Intangible Items and the Not-So-Supernatural
Vibes are a measurement of the collective musical happiness of colonists on Mars, typically gathered through census data. It is currently being tracked in anticipation for the unlocking of a soundtrack that will be available to all colonists.
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Depositing Soundtracks (NFT)
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Astronauts roamed the Martian surface on non-autonomous transport vehicles. Their eyes were well trained, but their electronic sensors were better, capable of detecting valuable loose chunks of Regolith, shallow underground Ice pits and debris from malfunctioned automatic hopper rocket missions. Much like maritime law, the pillaged valuables outside of the AADZ is up for any endearing settler to grab. Specialized scavenging tools were created and sold to those who ventured out into the wilderness of Mars.
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Actions Menu (Charge Scavenging Tools)
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Scavenging (1 Power)
Advanced Scavenging (1 Power)
Settlers who ventured outside of the AADZ for long enough started to grow a bit of fame to themselves, and mastery of the scavenging craft. They'd develop and create their own far superior tools and acquire a keener eye for the specifics and what seems to be out of place out in the Martian landscape. This is a token of their experience, the physical manifestation of their work.
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Advanced Scavenging
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Coming soon!
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: A Shard of a One-Of-a-Kind
Artifact Shards are a special type of shard, instead of being used to upgrade an already placed building, they're used to claim an Artifact.
You need 100 of an Artifact Shard in order to claim that Artifact. More information on Artifacts can be found at:
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Crafting and Actions (Any)
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Claiming Artifacts
Ad Astra Unlimited Resource Encyclopedia: S Marks the Spot
Special shards differ from normal shards in that they do not have a rarity. All special shards are of the same quality Special. So a shard of a Trading Bazaar can be used on any Trading Bazaar.
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Dismantling Special Buildings
Trading Bazaar
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Upgrading Special Buildings
More about upgrading buildings:
