SAINTS FORGE

🥚 Before you leave the Crèche

⚠️ The Crèche is one-way. Once you warp out it is gone; the only way back is warping to a fleet member still inside.

• Mine its Ingot / Flint rocks first. Layers: Crustal Anorthosite Crystals → Hydrated Gossan Matrix → Massive Ataxite Matrix core.
• Take at least 50x Massive Ataxite Matrix for your Refuge. Riders wake up in different systems, and in some of them it is hard to find outside the Crèche.
• Overloaded = no warp, no Leap. Get under max cargo before you go.
• Most structures cannot be built near the Crèche.

🚀 Your starter ship

2,100 HP hull, 6x Cargo Container (216 m³), 4x Fuel Bay (2,000 fuel), 2x Capacitor (200 GJ), one Cutting Laser on a Weapon Receiver, a Gravity Sensor with a Directional Scanner, a Docking Clamp, a Leap, a Thrust Overdrive, an Emergency Printer and a Material Processor. It mines, refines and prints the basics on its own. Leave at about 1,000 damage taken. Load it in the Forge to see every module.

🏠 Your first home (no Network Node needed)

• Refuge = 50x Massive Ataxite Matrix. Your respawn point; docked ships cannot be attacked while it stands.
• Field Storage = 50x Crustal Anorthosite Crystals (30,000 m³).
• Build both at a safe spot 👇

🕵️ Making a safe spot

You can only warp to known things: planets, sites, gates, fleet members and your own structures ([H]). A spot nobody can warp to is a safe spot. Two ways to get one: Method 1, two pilots. Fleet up. Pilot A warps between two planets that are far apart; while A is mid-warp, pilot B warps to A and lands in deep space. B builds right there: it shows under [H], B's private warp point. Method 2, a catapult. A catapult drops you at a random spot in the other system, so it is safe by default. Jump a catapult to the next system, build there, or take the catapult back and build where it drops you in your own system.

⛽ Fuel

• Free Unstable Fuel at the Fueling Quays of a Dustline Waystation site: a powered Docking Clamp, within 80 m. Not every system has one.
• Unstable Fuel is the weakest grade: EU-40 Fuel goes about 3x as far on the same tank.
• D1 Fuel: 208x Water Ice → 75x D1 Fuel, or 21x Hydrocarbon Residue → 75x D1 Fuel.
• EU-40 Fuel: 10x Eupraxite → 600x EU-40 Fuel (Eupraxite comes from rift crude).
• 🚀 Burn depends on the fuel, not the engine: EU-40 Fuel goes 2.35x as far as D1 Fuel. The R10 engine is fine for it.
• 🔌 Before logoff: dock and switch off every module that shows a MW reading in the fitting window (most show 0.1 MW, the Transponder 1.0 MW): those burn fuel. Leave the Power Generator and the Capacitors on: they cost nothing, and a Capacitor switched off recharges from empty when it comes back, which burns far more fuel than it saved.

🪨 Mining

• Rocks are layered: keep cutting the same spot. Which rock gives what: the rock families below.
• 💡 F2 hides the asteroid so you can grab chunks stuck inside. Scoop range 2,500 m.

🪨 Rock families: what's inside

The rock family (Mire, Pitch, Char, ...) decides the ores.

• 🟫 Crustal Anorthosite Crystals (→ Hydrocarbon Residue → Carbon Weave, Thermal Composites): most of Rind, Glaze, Marrow; under the crust of Bone, Flint, Spall, Char.
• ⚙️ Massive Ataxite Matrix (→ Palladium): cores of Ingot, Spar, Slag; less under Flint & Spall crust.
• 💧 Hydrated Gossan Matrix (→ Water Ice): rich under Murk's crust; Comet cores; less in Grist, Scale, Spar.
• ❄️ Primitive Rime Shards (→ Tholin Aggregates + Water Ice): deep in Pitch; outside of Ember, Soot, Glint, Dewdrop; under Mire & Char crust.
• 🛢️ Primordial Anthraxolite Sludge (→ Kerogen Tar, best source): Ember cores; under the crust of Scale & Char; also Mire & Pitch.
• ☢️ Irradiated Anthraxolite Veins (→ Kerogen Tar + Aromatic Carbon Weave): richest under Soot; Glint cores; big veins in Pitch.
• 🌑 Irradiated Cryoconite Nodules (→ Aromatic Carbon Weave): Soot cores; Pitch, Char, Ember, Mire.
• 🪸 Native Reef Nodules: Ingot.
• ♻️ Salvage is minable: wrecks and debris fields give Debris (→ Salvaged Materials).

🔫 Ammo (Mini Printer, 100 rounds)

• 100x Pyro Round = 1,303x Nickel-Iron Veins · 100x Slug Round = 132x Iron-Rich Nodules. Pyro Round needs half the ore.
• Lasers take lenses instead: the Recycled Mining Lens and the Synthetic Mining Lens are the everyday ones; the Needle Lens works but is expensive. Other ammo types exist in the game files but are not confirmed in play yet.

🧪 Refining (Refinery structure)

• 40x Crustal Anorthosite Crystals → 20x Hydrocarbon Residue + 18x Silica Grains + 2x Iron-Rich Nodules. The only Hydrocarbon Residue source.
• 10x Iron-Rich Nodules → 198x Nickel-Iron Veins + 20x Platinum-Group Veins
• 40x Hydrated Gossan Matrix → 400x Water Ice
• 20x Silica Grains → 150x Silicon Dust + 50x Feldspar Crystal Shards
• 10x Debris → 6x Salvaged Materials + 2x Aromatic Carbon Weave + 2x Nickel-Iron Veins + 6x Silicon Dust (Cargo Debris doesn't refine)
• 20x Salvaged Materials → 6x Reinforced Alloys + 2x Thermal Composites + 1x Carbon Weave
• 20x Hydrocarbon Residue → 193x Tholin Aggregates + 10x Troilite Sulfide Grains
• 40x Massive Ataxite Matrix → 8x Palladium
• 5x Industrial Waste → 3x Salvaged Materials + 2x Palladium
• 5x Mummified Corpse → 1x Aromatic Carbon Weave + 1x Kerogen Tar + 50x Water Ice

🛠️ Key parts (Emergency Printer)

• 1x Printed Circuits = 2x Silicon Dust + 1x Nickel-Iron Veins
• 1x Carbon Weave = 17x Hydrocarbon Residue
• 1x Thermal Composites = 7x Hydrocarbon Residue + 5x Silica Grains
• 💡 Cheaper (Mini Printer): 14x Carbon Weave = 2,100x Tholin Aggregates · 14x Thermal Composites = 456x Silicon Dust + 794x Tholin Aggregates + 135x Feldspar Crystal Shards
• 1x Reinforced Alloys = 13x Silica Grains + 9x Iron-Rich Nodules + 4x Palladium
• 1x Brace Weld = 2x Nickel-Iron Veins + 1x Water Ice
• 1x Coolant Reservoir = 2x Water Ice + 1x Nickel-Iron Veins + 4x Silica Grains
• 1x Transponder (Mini Printer / Printer) = 20x Printed Circuits + 1x Coolant Reservoir + 20x Palladium. 4 cells. It lets you see and use a tribe's catapults.
• Palladium: debris fields (one gave 29x), 40x Massive Ataxite Matrix → 8x Palladium, 5x Industrial Waste → 2x Palladium.

🏗️ Building your base

1️⃣ Network Node: 8x Printed Circuits, 8x Carbon Weave, 8x Thermal Composites

• Build it at your safe spot on an unclaimed anchor. Parts must be in your ship cargo.
• Fuel per hour: 12x D1 Fuel or 3x EU-40 Fuel (Unstable Fuel is rejected).
• 🔌 Node offline = nothing prints, and you can't take items out.
• 🕵️ Nodes show on scans (high EM). Dismantling gives the parts back: move it if it's exposed.

2️⃣ Refinery (15x Reinforced Alloys, 15x Thermal Composites, Build Mode): the structure is better than the ship module.

3️⃣ Mini Printer (15x Printed Circuits, 15x Reinforced Alloys): Building Foam, Cargo Containers, weapons, engines, Hull Repairer, ammo.

• 10x Building Foam = 65x Reinforced Alloys + 65x Carbon Weave + 65x Thermal Composites

4️⃣ Relay (6x Printed Circuits, 6x Carbon Weave, 6x Thermal Composites): a trading post, for later: you don't need to sell Feral Data on day one. Sells the Lens 60X for 1,000 EVE, buys Feral Data for 25,000 LUX (100 LUX = 1 EVE). Feral Data comes from containers in wreck cargo.

🏭 Bigger factories, once the small ones can't keep up: same recipes and costs, just bigger jobs. Heavy Refinery: Eupraxite → EU-40 Fuel · Heavy Printer: EU-90 & SOF-80 Fuel · Field Printer: sensors, Directional Scanner, Leap, Hull Repairer · Nursery: clone shells · Berths: ships.

📦 Storage: Field Storage = 50x Crustal Anorthosite Crystals (anywhere) · Mini Storage = 250x Crustal Anorthosite Crystals + 250x Massive Ataxite Matrix (at a Node) · Storage = 20x Building Foam

🚚 Moving to a new system

Parts are bulky (each): Carbon Weave 15 m³, Reinforced Alloys & Thermal Composites 10 m³, Printed Circuits 4 m³, Building Foam 47 m³.

• Trip 1: 50x Massive Ataxite Matrix (Refuge first: you respawn there) + Node parts + D1 Fuel for the Node
• Trip 2: Refinery parts · Trip 3: Mini Printer parts
• Bring light materials (Nickel-Iron Veins, Silicon Dust, Water Ice: 0.1 m³ each) and print parts on site.

🚪 Stargates & catapults

• Public gates run only on crude fuel: 50x EU-40 Fuel or 50x SOF-40 Fuel per jump. Player-built gates and catapults draw power from their Network Node instead.
• ⚠️ Read the popup before jumping. "Destination gate unfueled… jump anyway?" means no way back until someone fuels the far side. Never tick "don't ask again".
• Player catapults and gates need a Transponder online to show on your map.
• ⛽ Big systems cost more fuel. Fill up before you go; there may be no fuel on the route.

🔍 The blockchain sees your stuff

• Storage contents are public. Locations are hidden, so never press "Publish Location" on stuff with loot.

⚔️ Staying alive

• Leave at ~1,000 damage taken, unless a Hull Repairer is holding.
• Shoot back right away: waiting is how new players die.
• Gankers camp docks and spawning rocks; don't idle there.
• Player bases defend themselves: see turrets and sentries below.
• 🔋 Warping needs capacitor charge. Run it empty and you can't warp out.

🧩 Fitting

• Command Pod, Power Generator, one Capacitor and one Cargo Container can be moved but never removed. Most modules draw 0.1 MW of 15.
• Hard limits per ship, the only ones found so far: one Command Pod, one Power Generator, one engine (R10, R25 or R50), one Leap, one Autohelm, one Attitude Controller and no more than two Weapon Receivers; the game refuses more.
• Hull Repairer: ~25 HP/s. Your best survival module. Structural Brace: +375 HP.
• Capacitor / Blackstart Cell: +100 GJ and +1.2 GJ/s each. They stack.
• Fuel Bay +500 fuel (10 cells) · Fuel Blister +250 fuel (5 cells): same fuel per cell, keep both.
• Cargo Container: 36 m³ each.
• Two Weapon Receivers fit = two lasers. Mining nonstop with both needs 8x Capacitor + 1x Blackstart Cell.
• Directional Scanner needs a Gravity Sensor. The Gravity Sensor scan (M1) names rocks 300+ km away.
• ⚠️ R25 engine: on D1 Fuel or Unstable Fuel it loses a third of its thrust. Only build it once you have D2 Fuel or EU-40 Fuel.
• Try all of it in the Forge tab: it shows hold, fuel hours, whether the capacitor holds up, and power before you build.

🔫 Weapons

• Cutting Laser: 12 km, ramps 2.3x over 16 s, resets on a target switch. Mines too.
• Stuttergun: 35 km, full damage from shot one, can't mine. Ammo: Pyro Round or Slug Round (314 damage) ❓
• Needle: 25 km laser, ramps 2.5x over 20 s, mines worse.

🐺 Ferals

• Starter ferals: Ostler hits hardest → Luthier → Caird. A pack does ~14 HP/s: a repairer holds.
• 🎯 Keep range on fast orbiters (Luthier): up close your laser misses almost every shot.
• Grave ferals (threat 4 systems): Grave Wright hits hardest (~65 every 5 s); Grave Shambler hits ~200 but misses a lot. The full pack does ~28 HP/s, more than a repairer: kill the Wright first or leave.

🔋 Capacitor

• 4x Capacitor + 1x Blackstart Cell: one laser + repairer lasts ~5 min of nonstop fighting.
• 8x Capacitor + 1x Blackstart Cell: one laser + repairer never runs dry; two lasers + repairer ~8 min.

🗼 Player turrets

• Mini Turret 30,000 HP, 120 km · Turret 45,000 HP, 140 km · Heavy Turret 75,000 HP, 160 km (HP split evenly across shield/armor/hull)
• Every turret locks only 2 ships. Bring 4+ and half the fleet shoots free.
• Shields take 2 days to recharge: damage sticks, hit-and-run works.
• A Mini Turret hits for 400–600 per shot.
• To build: Mini Turret = 20x Reinforced Alloys + 20x Carbon Weave + 20x Thermal Composites · Turret = 10x Building Foam · Heavy Turret = 20x Building Foam

🛡️ Field Sentry

• 4,800 HP, 25% resists, shields back in ~1 min.
• ~100 DPS each (162 per 1.6 s), targets within 25 km, shoots to 50 km, one target at a time. Lasts 1 day.
• Several together can kill a full-HP ship in 18 seconds. Out-range them: the Stuttergun reaches 35 km.
• To build (Mini Printer): 4x Reinforced Alloys + 4x Printed Circuits + 300x Feldspar Crystal Shards.

⚔️ How to fight a base

• 🏢 Fight from behind cover. Behind a building, a Mini Turret missed 91 of 99 shots and the sentries 142 of 147.
• 🔫 Lasers work on player structures (215–260 per shot). Watchers are the exception: a laser barely scratches them, and they drop nothing.
• Never go back alone to finish a base.
• Structure kills may not show up as killmails on chain ❓

📡 How scanning works

• Strength = range. Range grows with the square root of strength: 4x strength = 2x range.
• Resolution = blur. The error grows with distance: 1 mrad = 1 km off per 1,000 km away.
• 🧲 Passive markers (Gravity Sensor) are fuzzy: about 8% of the distance. That's why it moves or vanishes as you fly in.
• 🎯 The Directional Scanner is ~27x sharper: 180 m off at 60 km. Sensors add range, not sharpness.
• Ion Sensor = the EM channel: without it, EM range drops to a third.

🔦 Use the smallest cone

• A smaller cone uses less capacitor: narrow 10 GJ, wide 50 GJ, omni 90 GJ.
• A smaller cone also blooms less EM signature, so others are less likely to find you. Omni blooms ~80x more than narrow.

📦 Finding containers

• Containers are faint: 10 t (a ship is 10,000 t) and EM 25 (a ship ~300). They only resolve up close.
• ✅ Fly to ~60 km of the marker, then scan with a narrow cone. Nothing? Move 20 km closer, scan again.

♻️ Empty container = looted, not a dud

• Containers never despawn and refill on a timer. A scan can't tell empty from full.
• ⏱️ 20 min: Reinforced Transport Container, Jackpot Cache, wrecks, Storage Silos, Derelict Freighter.
• ⏱️ ~40 s: Drifting Cache, Damaged Drifting Cache, Cache ❓
• Found it empty? Screenshot it and come back 20 min later.

🗺️ Which sites

• Most loot spots: Ossuary Mill (also lots of Debris), Derelict Quarry, Respite Anchorage, Fringe Latticeway.
• No ferals placed: Graven Works, Dustline Waystation. Most guarded: Longwatch Redoubt.
• Natural sites (Stone/Ancient Cluster, Shale, Grove, Garden, Crossing) are rocks only.

Last reviewed: patch 0.7.2.0 · ❓ = reported, not confirmed