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Quartz
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Quartz

Silicon dioxide (SiO4). For silica glass and optical memory. Often makes up most of a planet's crust.

Health (Mineral Nibbler) +45

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Quartz

Quartz (SiO2).

A silicate crystal named by the Polish. Quartz and feldspar make up most of Earth’s continental crust.

Used in the creation of fabricator-aligned glass and ultra-long-term computer memory storage lasting billions of years.

Typically found as phenocrysts formed from cooling lava — but some local deposits have a telltale bioplastic matrix.

Hypothesis: a local coral gathers dissolved silica to grow quartz deposits.

How to get

Harvest

Break Quartz NodeResonate Quartz Deposit

Region loot

Coral Crab · Coral Gardens › North Raceway15%Coral Crab · Coral Gardens › South Raceway15%

Drop chance.

Crafted from

Not craftable.

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