Dig Station 8 will have 4 materials. Large versions of their sprites are shown here. In game, unless in a material-specific menu, these will take their compressed forms, which are visible inside, to remove lag and clones. -Purple one is data. Data represents various technologies and is used for research. -Yellow one is energy, your main material in game. It is harvested by all tier stations, and is commonly known as "ore", but has a more energetic form. Essentially matter with additional energy in it, like plasma, but more powerful. That way one can store both energy and matter. -Red one is weapons core. An overdrived quantity of energy is used to power various weapon systems. -Green one is fuel, and the most powerful core in game. It is used as propulsion and for nuclear fuel. Very hard to obtain, as basic matter must be enriched all the way to radioisotopes.
All by me. Music from Space Engineers, "Wellcome to the Arena", the track that for some reason never plays. *Do NOT click the materials. Just dont. The "cores" also resemble lights on the ships that can use or produce it, meaning that you can easily know which ship is combat vessel and which one is a miner. I have recently released projects with the 2 ship classes, data and fuel refiners are coming soon.
