Used for
Unlocking Guardian modules at a Technology Broker.
Guides // Materials
Material Codex
Learn the three material inventories and the Guardian and Thargoid piles beside them, their grade ladders, and how to turn what you have into what your engineering needs.
Most materials sit in one of three inventories — raw, manufactured, or encoded — each with its own gathering loop, storage, and trader. Guardian and Thargoid pieces use those same inventories, but traders will not convert them.
Grade ladder
Every material carries a grade and a rarity, and each grade has a hard storage cap. Caps shrink as grade climbs, so high grades are the scarce currency — the catalogue below flags which grade to gather and which to trade for.
| Grade | Rarity | Cap | Inventories |
|---|---|---|---|
| G1 | Very Common | 300 | Raw · Manufactured · Encoded |
| G2 | Common | 250 | Raw · Manufactured · Encoded |
| G3 | Standard | 200 | Raw · Manufactured · Encoded |
| G4 | Rare | 150 | Raw · Manufactured · Encoded |
| G5 | Very Rare | 100 | Manufactured · Encoded |
Pick an inventory to see its trader lines, grade columns, and the fastest gathering loop.
Ancient components and data — power cells, sentinel wreckage, obelisk patterns, blueprint segments.
Found at
Ruins and structures. Material traders will not convert these.
No trader converts Guardian pieces, so every recipe is gathered by hand. The Anti-Xeno Initiative (Anti-Xeno Initiative: The community group that documents Thargoid combat and material gathering.) sorts them into three: Materials from panels and Sentinels, Data from obelisks, and one-off Blueprint segments — one per unlock.
| Group | Store | Drops (grade) |
|---|---|---|
| Materials | Manufactured | Guardian Power Cell (G1), Guardian Sentinel Wreckage Components (G1), Guardian Power Conduit (G2), Guardian Sentinel Weapon Parts (G3), Guardian Technology Component (G3) |
| Data | Encoded | Pattern Alpha Obelisk Data (G4), Pattern Beta Obelisk Data (G4), Pattern Delta Obelisk Data (G4), Pattern Epsilon Obelisk Data (G4), Pattern Gamma Obelisk Data (G4) |
| Blueprints | Encoded | Guardian Module Blueprint Segment (G4), Guardian Weapon Blueprint Segment (G4), Guardian Vessel Blueprint Segment (G5) |
13 Guardian materials in FDev IDs. Multiple items can share a grade because there is no conversion chain.
Broker unlocks, not a ladder. A material trader will not fill the gaps — the Guardian gathering guide has the sites, the SRV (Surface Recon Vehicle: The wheeled buggy you drive on planet surfaces. Needs a Planetary Vehicle Hangar.) loop, and which site drops each blueprint.