Star Trek: Outposts Unknown resources and logistics
Star Trek: Outposts Unknown has more than 55 unique resources, from Polyalloy and Duranium to Dutronic Chips and Memory Banks. They must be researched, harvested, refined, combined and transported to where your outposts need them. Buildings also need water, power and compute, and the pipes and conduits take up space.
The production chain
- Research the resource and the buildings that handle it.
- Harvest raw material from the planet.
- Refine and combine it into advanced goods.
- Transport it to the outpost or mission that needs it.
Examples from the devlogs: food synthesizers still need organic input, fusion generators need deuterium, and some advanced processes need water.
Points from the developer
- Hover tooltips show where any resource is found or produced.
- Network infrastructure was made mostly free and instant to build before launch.
- Harvest times were reduced and storage organization controls added.
- Specimens contain seeds to replant, so harvesting can be reversed.
- Logistics difficulty is being tuned for both genre veterans and newcomers.
