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Finding resources is crucial to progressing in Starfield. While not strictly used for completing quests, they can be crafted and used for research on your ship, crafted into weapon mods, or used as raw materials to help replenish your outposts. Whatever they’re used for, you’ll want to spend quite a bit of time in the wilderness of each planet in Starfield to gather your resources. Keep in mind, however, that you have a limited amount of space available in your inventory and you need to plan according to the resource you want to mine on land. This is Vincent’s guide to everything you need to know to understand the different resources and their symbols in Starfield.
What resources can you mine in Starfield? – Symbol Guide
Materials can be harvested through Starfield’s mining processes – on the planet’s surface using the Cutter or inside your outposts via an extractor.. The scanner is incredibly useful both for surveying the planet you are on (100% completion of every POI and resource inside its biomes) and for harvesting resources that you know are on the planet. chosen planet. When you’re new to Starfield, it can be quite confusing to know what each resource does due to its in-game labeling, as shown on the periodic table. Since their elemental symbols are the only thing visible, you’ll want to refer to the list below for the meaning of each symbol. Keep in mind that some are rarer to collect, such as Titanium. These are much harder to find on foot and require a higher level skill such as geology to locate them.
These are all the resources and their material symbols shown in Starfield:
- Alkanes – HnCn
- Aluminum – AI
- Antimony – sb
- Argon– Ar
- Benzene – C6Hn
- Beryllium – Be
- Cesium – cs
- Carboxylic acids – R-COOH
- Chlorine – Cl
- Chlorosilanes – SiH3Cl
- Cobalt- Co
- Copper – Cu
- Dysprosium- Dy
- Euronium- EU
- Fluoride – F
- Gold – At
- Helium – Il-3
- Ionic liquids – HE
- Iridium- And
- Iron – Fe
- Lead – bp
- Lithium- Li
- Mercury- Hg
- Neodymium – sd
- Neon – Yes
- Nickel- In
- Palladium- DB
- Platinum – Point
- Plutonium – Could
- Money – Ag
- Tantalum – FOCUSED TOWARDS
- Tetrafluorides – xF4
- Titanium – Of
- Tungsten – W
- Uranium- U
- Vanadium- V
- Water – H20
- Xenon – Car
- Ytterbium- Yb
Starfield Materials Location Guides: Silver and Titanium.
How to check the resources a plant should harvest
If you are looking for specific resources (e.g. money for crafting), you will want to use the ship and head to any planet. Once you get close enough, you can see an overview of the planet, including resources available for study and harvesting via the Resources tab.. Here you will see all common resources that have a defined color that appears as a sublayer of each material symbol. This is transferable to the planet itself as it shows each biome and highlights what resource is available in that area, visible via the color that matches the symbol..
This system doesn’t work for rarer materials though, so you may need skills like geology to increase your chances of finding rare legendary resources on every planet in Starfield. Rare materials appear on the resource list in the planet overview, but include dots in the right corner of the symbol to indicate their rarity.
When you seek to exploit these resources, land on the planet and use the scanner to find the resources which will be highlighted in blue. If you have visited this planet before, anything previously scanned will appear green. Be sure to track your progress and each resource you find as they are ticked off on the resource meter. When you have found the resource you were specifically looking for, switch to the Cutter and use it to cut out the material to place in your inventory.
