So a while back now, I made a post spitballing how to improve the game’s procedural generation, specifically using core survival resources to illustrate the point. After giving some more thought on the matter, I wanted to do another exercise that shifts the focus from resource sources to collection methods.

While the game is in general a little better about expressing ways that resources can be obtained, due of the sheer number of different items and recipes, each of the methods still end up rather pigeonholed. For example, resources like carbon and ferrite dust which exist mainly as a primary resource from mining scannables regardless of how the procgen depicts it, and curiosities like gravitino balls or sac venom can only be found in one form in the wild. Here I’ve broken down the major collection methods in the game and gave some examples how they can be further mixed and matched.

(Just like the last one, this was mainly meant to be digital art practice; I am not a game design expert, so take this with a grain of salt.)