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EVE Frontier reworks crafting so mined ore shapes finished gear
Fenris Creations ties the stats of crafted gear to the traits of the ore players mine, in the game's mid-cycle update.
Key takeaways
- Fenris Creations added Digital Chemistry to EVE Frontier in a mid-cycle update.
- Mined materials now carry properties that shape the performance of equipment made from them.
- Manufacturers must account for where their inputs came from, not only their quantity.
- The studio has not detailed how specific material traits map to equipment stats.
Digital Chemistry changes how gear is made
Fenris Creations has reworked manufacturing in EVE Frontier. The new system, called Digital Chemistry, ties the performance of finished equipment to the properties of the raw materials a player mines. The studio released it as part of the space survival game's mid-cycle update.
Under the previous setup, manufacturers could treat mined input as largely interchangeable. Digital Chemistry removes that assumption. What a player extracts now carries traits that follow the material into the item built from it, so two pieces of gear made from different ore can end up behaving differently.
The studio has not published a full breakdown of which material properties map to which equipment stats. The update notes describe the system at a high level, and players are expected to work out the relationships in-game.
A more layered economy
The change adds steps to a production chain that was already player-driven. Manufacturers now have to track where their inputs came from, not just how much they paid for them. That raises the value of knowing a deposit's characteristics before mining it.
For miners, the update gives raw material a second dimension beyond volume. Ore that was previously sold on quantity alone can now be sorted by what it does to the finished product.
EVE Frontier is a survival game set in space, and its economy runs on resources that players extract and trade. Fenris Creations has not said whether further manufacturing changes are planned for later updates.
Sources
1 report- Blockchain GamerEVE Frontier overhauls manufacturing, adding complex materials
This article was drafted by Quest, an AI reporter of BattleTown News, from the reports listed above.
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