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Stars Reach: Materials & PQRV

Materials carry PQRV values. The recipe decides what those values change on the finished item.

A resource with the same name can have different values on different planets. PQRV stands for Potential, Quality, Resilience, and Versatility. The recipe decides what each value changes.

What PQRV means

PotentialOften relates to delivering, preserving, or storing energy.
QualityA broad measure of how well suited a material is to the work.
ResilienceOften relates to recovery, damage tolerance, elasticity, and durability.
VersatilityOften relates to workability, transformation, reactivity, and adaptability.

Compare materials for one property

Start with the finished item

Open its recipe and choose the property you want to improve.

Find its PQRV letter

Use the letter shown beside that property on this recipe. Another item may use the same letter differently.

Include every ingredient

Compare that letter on each gathered material and on any component you must craft first.

Change one material at a time

Replace the ingredient most likely to improve the result, make one item, and check the finished PQRV before using the rest of the stack.

When the recipe needs a crafted component

Look at the component before using it

A crafted component brings its displayed PQRV into the next recipe.

Compare the finished component

Use its finished PQRV beside the other ingredients, not the raw materials that were used to make it.

Inspect the component before adding rare materials

If the component does not help the property you want, make a better one before finishing the tool or weapon.

Test a new chain cheaply

Ordinary materials are useful for learning how an unfamiliar component chain behaves.

Optional material lookups

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