The Glory That Is TetraCobalt (and its kin)

[Zeno]

I'm just now realizing the genius at work in the rebalanced resource and crafting scheme. With the refiner, the developers have saved us hours and hours of grinding for some of the most essential resources.

Cobalt is hard to gather in any quantities with the mining laser, but scoop up a bunch of TetraCobalt that comes with vortex cubes or in floating crystals, pop it in the old refiner, and there you have it: hundreds of units of ionized cobalt, ready for crafting into useful things like advanced ion batteries.

The same goes for the oxygen, carbon and chlorine equivalents.

As for chromatic metal, have you heard of the glory that is Activiated Emeril?

[Zeno]

P.S. It also works in reverse: if you have the blueprints, you can store an awful lot of ionized cobalt, condensed carbon, chlorine and oxygen in their ultra-compressed forms. It's pretty sweet, really.