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Tier 5

Now that you have a basic grasp of Psionic powers, you can begin to experiment in new ways to focus that power. You're able to fabricate various types of attacks for your Psionic Focus.

Tier 6

You can harness the raw essence of mental energy and utilize it to accomplish impossible feats, power technology, and so much more. None can doubt your mastery of the mind. If only you could stop the voices from whispering to you when nobody is looking...

Tier 5.5

The searing hot petals of the Aenema plant are packed with useful Caliginous Gas just waiting to be extracted. Now that you can cultivate your own Aenema, you will have easy access to that resource.

Tier 5

Through much experimentation, you're gradually becoming a force to be reckoned with. Your plants can strengthen you to inhuman levels, sap your enemies' life and increase the damage you deal out.

Tier 3

You can make an hydroponics-powered Growing Tray that operates even faster when powered, and doesn't use extra water like the Heatlamp Tray does. You can find it at your Electronics Center.

Tier 1

You've learned to create some simple survival aids - namely portable light sources to help with exploration.

Tier 3

You can craft top of the line lights and survival tools.

Tier 3.5

Thornitox isn't good for eating, but it's a thick, tough vine that can create weapons perfect for killing.

Tier 1

You've learned to make chunks of pure carbon in your lab and a couple different compounds that will be useful in agriculture and medicine.

Tier 2

You can make even better fertilizer using more complex chemicals. Your plants will thank you with faster growth and more yields.

Tier 3

You've developed some weird gels that glow in the dark and can accelerate anything that touches them to a high speed.

Tier 2

You now know how to make a few more types of liquid, including some really hot or really cold ones.

With the engineered Spliced Cell, you have access to even greater genetic engineering.

Tier 3

So great is your artistry with fashionable clothing creation that you can make beautiful gowns that are sure to get you a discount when trading goods with space stations by virtue of your sheer magnificence.

Tier 5

You've mastered the art of sewing. So great is your skill that you can weave the atom-thick Graphene into your synthetic material, creating a nearly indestructible cloth for use in the highest-quality armors available.

Tier 1

You can shape furniture out of jelly and slime! Why would you want to do this? Unclear.

Most recipes require the Biochemist Table. Research it in the Geology tree.

Tier 4

You've turned Trianglium into some very triangular and pointy furniture.

Tier 2

You've put your knowledge of computer parts to use to produce handy laptops that will automatically research items for you.

Tier 4

Your defensive modules have gotten even better, allowing you to resist more exotic elements like Cosmic and Shadow and completely protect from hot, cold or radioactive planets.

Tier 5

Your talent has produced some of the highest-end mech parts around, letting you run, jump and fly your mech through the stars at record pace.

Tier 3

Using your knowledge of microengineering, you can now fabricate your own upgrade modules, manipulator modules and tech cards at your Auto Assembler.

Tier 5

You can now shape entire planets to your liking, altering their environment to new types. Note that this will not work for Ocean worlds, which is why no such terraformers exist.

Tier 4.5

Few metals can look as beautiful as Tritanium, one of the most potent known alloys. Beneath its surface, subtly moving striations of gold and opalescent blue fluctuate in random fractal patterns. The effect is magical in appearance.

Tier 1

The simplest of the metals for you to work with. It is soft, conductive and abundant. Copper remains useful in most industrial processes thanks to its requirement in wiring.

You'll find Copper on most worlds, as it is extremely abundant throughout the cosmos.

Tier 4

A dense metal with the uncanny ability to meld seamlessly against a vaccuum, Durasteel is a favorite among space engineers.

Durasteel can be found on nearly all Tier 4 worlds. Alien, Sulphuric, Mountainous are all good sources.

Tier 5

Learn to process Effigium.

You can find Effigium only on Lightless worlds, where it blends into the terrain around it as if it were insubstantial. This is a strange trick of physics that few can even begin to understand, but many have theorized that it is able to repel light photons.

Tier 4.5

Learn to process Irradium.

You can find Irradium primarily on Irradiated biomes. Easily the most radioactive of ores you can safely work with, it fills an interesting niche in geological terms: it both creates and nullifies radioactivity.

Tier 4

With AI technology, you've designed a centrifuge that is so efficient and capable that it can even process radioactive isotopes into exciting new forms.

Tier 2

You've learned to use electrically-generated heat to smelt materials automatically. The Electric Furnace can only process common and uncommon ores, but it's great for getting extra materials from ores and blocks.

Tier 6

Generating electricity from quantum mechanics is something very few people have done, but you can count yourself among them with your new Quantum Reactor. Capable of burning both traditional and esoteric fuels, it generates unfathomably large amounts of power.

Tier 4

You've put your wiring expertise to work, and can now create many autonomous turrets for defense or automation.

Tier 4

You've learned to upgrade your titanium pumps and quarries into Densinium versions, which work extremely quickly.

Tier 4

Advanced Alloy takes all the best parts of its components and combines them together into one metal. While its weapons and armor tend to be rather bulky, they are fantastic when put to test in combat.

Tier 6

As the heaviest and most generally indestructible metal found naturally, the only thing harder than finding veins of Densinium is forging it. Nonetheless, you've succeeded at this Herculean feat, creating nigh-indestructible and unbelievably powerful armor and weapons.

Tier 5

Effigium is strange and hard to forge because of its tendency to phase in and out of existence, but it is one of the few sources of the deadly Shadow element. With your skill, you can handle it with ease, putting it to use in some quite fearsome weaponry.

Tier 6

You've mastered the art of EPP creation and can make the best EPPs around.

Tier 4

It might seem pretty gross, but with some clever engineering you could form solid slime capable of being used as weapons or armor. Don't argue. Just accept.

These items are unlocked by default. They don't need to be researched via the Research Tree.

These items are unlocked by default. They don't need to be researched via the Research Tree.

These items are unlocked by default. They don't need to be researched via the Research Tree.

These items are unlocked by default. They don't need to be researched via the Research Tree.

These items are unlocked by default. They don't need to be researched via the Research Tree.

Tier 4

You've discovered how to see past our own dimension, and the limits of our own minds and bodies, and find a way to transcend into greater realms of existence. Unfortunately, the cost is rather high for this sort of research, but whats a few extra test subjects?

Tier 4

You're ready to move into new areas of research few even dare to attempt. Mostly because of law, ethics and morality...but those in the pursuit of science cannot waver in the face of adversity.

Tier 3

Well, you've gone and learned stuff about chemicals after all. Turns out it was actually pretty useful, because now you can make narcotics and stimulants that don't even make sense in this reality! You'll be the talk of the town. Or simply insane. Either way, awesome.

Tier 5.5

You've created Garp berries, an incredibly useful plant which can be used both eaten to protect yourself from radioactive burns, and processed in your extraction lab to create the rare and extremely useful Alien Compound.

Tier 4

You've mastered hunter-gatherer tactics and can make top-shelf hunting gear.

Tier 3

You are now able to engineer advanced cells and mutagenic samples in your lab that are especially useful in bioweapons and plant design as well as craft and utilize bizarre biological slimes.

Tier 5

Your knowledge of cells is vast. You can make even more strange cells and mutagenic samples.

Tier 1

Perhaps one of the most classic chemical reactions is something going boom. Now, you can make that happen on demand with some neat new explodables to help you mine.

Tier 3

You've mastered not just plant fertilization, but also the making of pesticides. Just make sure to wash it before you eat it.

Tier 1

You've taught yourself some basic medical knowledge and can make simple healing items.

Did you know? Healing items in Frackin' Universe impose a moderately long cooldown upon use during which no other healing items can be used. Don't expect to spam bandages to victory!

Tier 3

You're not satisfied with just 'edible' or 'tasty' food ingredients. You've made some home recipes for meals that could be charitably called experimental.

Tier 1

You've learned to make dyes which can recolor your worn clothing and armor.

Tier 2

You can make more advanced dyes out of metals and other more complex materials.

Tier 3

You've learned to make ornate Avian-styled blocks.

Tier 3

You've made furniture out of lunari crystals. They're very glowy and shiny.

Tier 7

You've used the mysterious PGIs to create furniture that is both perfectly generic and generically perfect.

Tier 3

You've learned to make space-efficient batteries at an Atomic Furnace which will be useful as surplus power sources in machinery and some weapons.

Tier 3

Access to quantum computing means you can make stronger computers that research more quickly and store more data.

Tier 4

With AI technology, you've designed a data tower which will generate huge amounts of research for your benefit, vastly outstripping all computers that came before it.

Tier 1

You've developed a number of useful tools. Their functionality can be improved by upgrading them with manipulator modules.

Tier 4

You can now make even stronger mech bodies using more complex materials.

Tier 3

You've improved on the movement systems of your mech and can now craft faster legs and boosters.

Tier 5

The way you see it, there's no reason to own a mech if you can't strap a BFG to it and go to town on someone (or something) that deserves it. Your newest death-dealing mech weapons are perfect for doing just that.

Tier 3

You've put the insane energy-transferring properties of Protocite to work in highly complex processors which work with quantum bits - no longer just 1 or 0, but sometimes both! Quantum Procesors have many uses in higher-end electronics.

Tier 2

You can make improved Techs that provide greater utility and function. They are accessed via your Personal Tricorder.

Tier 4

No longer do you need to pay a professional - you are that professional! You can make a variety of personal teleporters on your own.

Tier 5

Not inherently dangerous or unstable, Thorium is quite a beneficial material when used creatively in a lab.

Tier 6

Learn to process Solarium.

You can find Solarium on any world that is Tier 6.

Elemental Metals - Tier 5

Aegisalt, Ferozium and Violium are sought after resources of relatively high value, and are capable of being forged into very useful equipment.

Superior Metals - Tier 6

Solarium, Pyreite, Isogen and Densinium are all remarkable metals guaranteed to excel in their particular idiom. Through these metals you will be able to forge fantastic things.

Tier 3.5

Learn to process Zerchesium.

Zerchesium can be located on Mountainous biomes, but sometimes appears on Sulphuric worlds as well.

Tier 2

You've mastered the primitive-but-useful art of steam power. You can build a hydraulic piston that boils water using 'hot' fuels like lava or core fragments to generate early power.

Tier 3

Mixing liquids can have many beneficial effects, especially now that you designed a machine to do just that. The liquid mixer can not only produce liquid reactions quickly and cleanly, but also allows for some reactions that couldn't happen when mixing liquid manually.

Tier 7

Though you only recently discovered what you've dubbed 'Aetherium' alloy, you've already set about weaponizing it in the creation of the literal best weapons and armor known to man, Floran, and everything in between. You'd have to make a pact with an eldritch god to do better than this.

Tier 4

Your skill in weaving is matched by few. You can make the best non-metallic armors available and have also learned to work with monster plating to create powerful organic armor.

Tier 4

Quietus metal is a strange, highly poisonous substance that almost seems to be alive, somehow. Few metals hold a sharp edge like Quietus, making it great in melee weapons. It's also quite potent in armors and ballistic weapons.

Tier 2

You've learned how best to utilize Telebrium in the creation of lightweight, poison-themed weapons and armor.

Tier 5

You've learned to work with the potent crystal Violium to create fantastic weapons and armor.