Component

Component

Miscellaneous gears, capacitors, circuit boards, tubes, wheels, sensors, wires, chips, processors, and other electronic and industrial parts. Necessary for assembling complex machines or electronics.

Base Stats

Type

Crafted resources

Market Value

32 

Stack Limit

50

Mass

0.6 kg

HP

70

Deterioration Rate

2

Flammability

60%

Creation

Crafted At

Skill Required

Crafting 8

Work To Make

5,000 ticks (1.39 mins)

Work Speed Stat

General Labor Speed

Resources to make

12

Technical

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ComponentIndustrial

thingCategories

Manufactured

Components are materials required to build and repair electrical devices, as well as produce firearms, armor, and ship parts.

Acquisition

Components can be crafted at a fabrication bench, each requiring  12 Steel, 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 8.
Components can be bought from the following traders: Neolithic base trader, Orbital bulk goods trader, Orbital combat supplier, Orbital exotic goods trader, Outlander base trader, Outlander bulk goods trader, Outlander exotic goods trader, Outlander visitor, Slave ship, Empire base trader, Imperial trader caravan, Orbital imperial trader.

They can also be obtained by:

• Mining from compacted machinery:
  • Distant lumps using the long-range mineral scanner; each lump yields 100+.
  • Establishing additional "quarry" colonies to support your primary colony.
• Deconstructing ship chunks, crashed shuttles, mech nodes, and buildings that require components.
• Destroying crashed ship parts.
• Defeating mechanoid and outlander raiders, who sometimes carry components as loot.
• Purchasing them from traders.
• Obtaining them from component work sites.

Ore

Compacted machinery tiles have 2,000 health each, making them slower to mine than stone or many ores, but still significantly faster than uranium and plasteel ore. They can be found in small veins, ranging from 3 to 6 tiles in size. Each mined block has a base yield of 2 components, however this is modified by factors such as the Difficulty setting and the mining yield of the pawn.

Usage

Components are used in the following crafting recipes:

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Components are also used for repairing component breakdowns. Every so often, electrical devices may become dysfunctional, until they are replaced with a new component. See List of affected buildings for the full list.

Components will deteriorate when left outside.

Analysis

For large portions of the game, before fabrication benches are researched, components will be limited. The main sources of components in the early game are ship chunks and compacted machinery, which can run out, and trade, which is reliable but requires a way to generate money and someone to trade with. Almost every electrical device in the game uses components, so they present a very real bottleneck to most colonies. In the late game, components remain in high demand because they are used to create advanced components. With Fabrication, a colony can still be limited by the steel required to make components.

It is recommended to always keep a couple components (3-5) in reserve, in case devices breakdown. If a geothermal generator breaks down, for instance, the colony will be out of power until a new component is found.

Acquisition analysis

• Conserve your components. Often, the simplest way to have components is to not use them. Don't build unnecessary power generators. Hydroponics are unnecessary if you can just use sun lamps and soil. "Rerolling" weapons for quality consumes a lot of components.

• ABC - (Always) Buy Components. Traders are, for a significant part of the game, the only renewable source of components. Excess food, leathers, drugs, and other resources can be used to buy components. Even if a large stash is available right now, a component supply can run out surprisingly quickly. Even when Fabrication is researched, trade can convert excess and otherwise useless resources into useful components.

• Research Fabrication quickly. Fabrication is an important and useful technology, but requires Microelectronics and Multi-analyzer before it is available. It is also necessary to buy or obtain 2 advanced components before the actual fabrication bench can be constructed, and steel is needed to craft components. While Fabrication may not be an immediate priority - defensive research like Gas Operation or Mortars may be even more important - it is still worth researching.

The preferred way to get steel is using a ground-penetrating scanner and deep drills. Once a ground scanner is available, deep drills, and a fabrication bench, obtaining components should be much less of an issue. Note that the process of crafting components takes a chunk of time on its own.

• Long-range mineral scanner. Unlike the ground-penetrating scanner, the long-range mineral scanner can find components directly. Every scan brings 100 - 140 components (before Mining Yield and difficulty), ready to be used. Note that the long-range scanner requires its own research and 2 advanced components to make. In addition, colonists must travel to and from this deposit; the weight of components can be an issue.

• Raiding. Raiding a faction base or bandit camp can net a few components by deconstructing the solar generators, batteries, and turrets in the area, although raiding these places just for components is not particularly worthwhile. Component work sites are a good source if they show up.

• New Settlement. Settling on a new tile, either by enabling multiple colonies in the settings or using a gravship, will generate fresh ores, although at a 50% rate.

Trivia

• In the code, components are called "ComponentIndustrial"

Version history

• 0.13.1135 - Added.