Starfield:Resources

Resources are natural or manufactured items collected from various sources that allow crafting and research. They are sometimes called materials when used as consumables for a recipe.

Categories and Sources
There are three major categories of resources:
 * Inorganic resources are typically bare chemical elements or simple compounds. They are found on planetary surfaces. (Some of these resources are organic in a technical sense.)
 * Organic resources are found on plants or animals.
 * Manufactured resources can be found in inhabited locations, or fabricated from mineral and organic resources.

All three categories can also be acquired from merchants. Each resource has a rarity: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Exotic, or Unique. In game, this is indicated by a number of diamonds (◆) next to the item formula during planet scanning and harvesting, or on the right side pane of the inventory.

Inorganic Resources
Inorganic resources are often referred to by their element symbol or chemical formula (some of them fictional).