ISRU: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:38, 19 April 2025

This feature aims at introducing resource management in KSP2:

a large collection of resources is available to the player to mine or harvest,
new parts are added to store those resources, to scan for resources, or to convert them into fuel.

Players are incited to harvest so they can have resources unavailable at the KSC.
Each world offers a unique resource.
It's not possible to produce methalox on worlds with very valuable resources.
Non-colony ISRU parts are very limited and simple, and need a lot of power and generate a lot of heat, and are only able to make methalox and monoprop.
As technologies unlock, the processes get simpler. Eary processes (with ship parts) are complex, later processes (with colony parts) are simple (but at a greater power cost).

Three collections of tanks are planned: for solids, liquids and gases.


ID	Size	Category	Note
isru_tank_inline_1v_regolith	S	Tank	Regolith
isru_tank_inline_2v_regolith	M	Tank	Regolith
isru_tank_radial_1v_regolith	S	Tank	Regolith

Everything requires electric charge.


Input	Output	Device	Type
-	Water	Drill	Mining
-	Regolith	Drill	Mining
-	Nickel	Drill	Mining
Regolith	Iron Aluminium Titanium	Refinery	Ship Processing Colony Processing
Water	Liquid Hydrogen Liquid Oxygen	Electrolizer	Colony Processing

This table lists all elements mentionned in the KSP2 Surface Survey flavor texts.

	Mun	Minmus	Duna	Ike	Eve	Gilly	Moho	Dres	Laythe	Vall	Tylo	Bop	Pol	Eeloo	Total
Chemical elements
Boron (B)									x (ocean)						1
Calcium (Ca)									x						1
Carbon (C)			x			x	x	x	x		x	x	x	x	9
Iode / Iodine (I)					x (atmo)				x (ocean)						2
Iron (Fe)	x	x		x	x	x	x	x		x		x	x		10
Hydrogen (H)					x	x									2
Lithium (Li)								x							1
Magnesium (Mg)			x			x			x						3
Niobium (Ni)													x		1
Nickel (Ni)	x	x		x	x	x		x		x		x			8
Nitrogen (N)														x	1
Oxygen (O)	x		x			x		x	x	x		x	x	x	9
Potassium (K)			x						x						2
Protactinium 234 (234 Pa)									x						1
Sodium (Na)			x						x						2
Thorium 234 (234 Th)									x				x		2
Uranium 238 (238 U)									x				x		2
Chemical compounds
Ammonia (NH3)						x						x	x
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3)								x
Carbon dioxide (CO2)			x			x			x			x	x	x
Carbon monoxide (CO)						x								x
Hydrogen iodide (HI)					x
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)					x
Magnetite (Fe3O4)	x
Methane (CH4)						x
Sodium chloride / Salt (NaCl)			x						x				x
Silicon dioxide / Sand / Silicates (SiO2)			x		x	x	x		x			x	x
Silicon (SiO)		x							x			x
Sulfur (S8)					x		x
Sulfur dioxide (SO2)													x
Water (H2O)			x						x	x		x	x	x
Minerals
Amphibole						x
Basalt / Volcanic rock	x		x	x	x		x						x	x
Carbonaceous chondrites/mudstone/rock/shale											x	x	x	x
Feldspar	x						x
Ferrous ore	x	x		x	x	x	x	x		x		x	x
Granite					x	x								x
Ilmenite	x
Niobium ore													x
Olivine	x					x	x
Pyroxene	x					x	x						x
Quartz		x					x
Sandstone									x
Serpentine						x
Others
Organic chemicals									x				x	x

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 * As technologies unlock, the processes get simpler. Eary processes (with ship parts) are complex, later processes (with colony parts) are simple (but at a greater power cost).
-== Proposed resource distribution and processing (WIP) ==
+== Resource distribution (WIP) ==
-=== Resource distribution ===
-==== Mun ====
+=== Mun ===
 * Regolith (Aluminium/Titanium/Iron)
 * Water (ice)
 [[File:Image.png|none|thumb]]
-=== List of ISRU parts and their recipies ===
+== Parts and processing ==
+=== List of parts ===
+Three collections of tanks are planned: for solids, liquids and gases.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!ID
+!Size
+!Category
+!Note
+|-
+|isru_tank_inline_1v_regolith
+|S
+|Tank
+|Regolith
+|-
+|isru_tank_inline_2v_regolith
+|M
+|Tank
+|Regolith
+|-
+|isru_tank_radial_1v_regolith
+|S
+|Tank
+|Regolith
+|}
+=== Processing ===
 Everything requires electric charge.
 {| class="wikitable"
@@ Line 49: / Line 73: @@
 |Iron
 Aluminium
 Titanium
 |Refinery