Materials

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Materials are small resources that are primarily used for Engineering, Synthesis, and unlocking specialised items via a Technology Broker. Material Traders at certain stations can exchange 1 Material type for a quantity of another Material.

Materials do not require space in Cargo Racks.^[1] Instead, Materials have a separate inventory and are stored in smaller quantities that do not affect a ship's overall mass. Materials remain accessible when switching between a ship, SRV or SLF. If a commander loses their vehicle or is critically injured, none of their Materials are lost.

Grades

All Materials are sorted into different grades representing their rarity, with rarer materials providing greater effects when used. Manufactured and Encoded Materials use five grades, from Very Common to Very Rare, while Raw Materials only use four, from Very Common to Rare. A Material's grade determines how much of it can be stored at once.

Grade	Rarity	Storage Capacity per Material
1	Very Common	300
2	Common	250
3	Standard	200
4	Rare	150
5	Very Rare	100

Types

Materials are classified into one of three types determined by their origin and composition:

Raw Materials - Naturally-occurring chemical elements; usually obtained by mining and SRV prospecting.
Manufactured Materials - Artificial components from ships and structures; usually obtained by salvaging.
Encoded Materials - Pieces of data, such as files, chunks of code, and scans; usually obtained by scanning objects.

List of materials

Materials are further classified in categories. These are taken into account by Material Traders when exchanging materials.

The category page has a list of all materials.

Raw Materials

Section	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4
Raw Material Category 1	Carbon	Vanadium	Niobium	Yttrium
Raw Material Category 2	Phosphorus	Chromium	Molybdenum	Technetium
Raw Material Category 3	Sulphur	Manganese	Cadmium	Ruthenium
Raw Material Category 4	Iron	Zinc	Tin	Selenium
Raw Material Category 5	Nickel	Germanium	Tungsten	Tellurium
Raw Material Category 6	Rhenium	Arsenic	Mercury	Polonium
Raw Material Category 7	Lead	Zirconium	Boron	Antimony

Encoded Materials

Section	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5
Emission Data	Exceptional Scrambled Emission Data	Irregular Emission Data	Unexpected Emission Data	Decoded Emission Data	Abnormal Compact Emissions Data
Wake Scans	Atypical Disrupted Wake Echoes	Anomalous FSD Telemetry	Strange Wake Solutions	Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories	Datamined Wake Exceptions
Shield Data	Distorted Shield Cycle Recordings	Inconsistent Shield Soak Analysis	Untypical Shield Scans	Aberrant Shield Pattern Analysis	Peculiar Shield Frequency Data
Encryption Files	Unusual Encrypted Files	Tagged Encryption Codes	Open Symmetric Keys	Atypical Encryption Archives	Adaptive Encryptors Capture
Data Archives	Anomalous Bulk Scan Data	Unidentified Scan Archives	Classified Scan Databanks	Divergent Scan Data	Classified Scan Fragment
Encoded Firmware	Specialised Legacy Firmware	Modified Consumer Firmware	Cracked Industrial Firmware	Security Firmware Patch	Modified Embedded Firmware

Manufactured Materials

Section	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5
Chemical	Chemical Storage Units	Chemical Processors	Chemical Distillery	Chemical Manipulators	Pharmaceutical Isolators
Thermic	Tempered Alloys	Heat Resistant Ceramics	Precipitated Alloys	Thermic Alloys	Military Grade Alloys
Heat	Heat Conduction Wiring	Heat Dispersion Plate	Heat Exchangers	Heat Vanes	Proto Heat Radiators
Conductive	Basic Conductors	Conductive Components	Conductive Ceramics	Conductive Polymers	Biotech Conductors
Mechanical Components	Mechanical Scrap	Mechanical Equipment	Mechanical Components	Configurable Components	Improvised Components
Capacitors	Grid Resistors	Hybrid Capacitors	Electrochemical Arrays	Polymer Capacitors	Military Supercapacitors
Shielding	Worn Shield Emitters	Shield Emitters	Shielding Sensors	Compound Shielding	Imperial Shielding
Composite	Compact Composites	Filament Composites	High Density Composites	Proprietary Composites	Core Dynamics Composites
Crystals	Crystal Shards	Flawed Focus Crystals	Focus Crystals	Refined Focus Crystals	Exquisite Focus Crystals
Alloys	Salvaged Alloys	Galvanising Alloys	Phase Alloys	Proto Light Alloys	Proto Radiolic Alloys

Videos

HOW TO FIND RARE ENGINEERING MATERIALS ELITE DANGEROUS

References

↑ Community/node: Dev Update (12/11/2015)

[1] Community/node: Dev Update (12/11/2015)

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