EliteDangerousAlmanac / Materials / Material

Defined in: dotnet/src/EliteDangerousAlmanac/Materials/Material.cs:23

One engineering material and how it is classified.

A material is an immutable value: two materials with the same fields compare equal. The category comes from the catalogue the record lives in. There is no separate rarity field — the grade is the rarity.

new Material(Category, Symbol, Name, ElementSymbol, Grade, Line)

MaterialCategory

Which category this material belongs to.

string

Frontier's internal symbol, such as GridResistors — the id the player journal reports, matched without regard to case. This is the same field, with the same meaning, as the symbol on a ship or outfitting module.

string

Display name, such as Grid Resistors.

string?

The chemical element symbol for a raw material, such as Fe for iron. Only raw materials, which are chemical elements, have one; a manufactured or encoded material has null.

MaterialGrade

The material grade, 1 to 5. Raw materials only reach 4.

MaterialLine

The in-game line (group) this material sits in.

Category: MaterialCategory

Which category this material belongs to.

ElementSymbol: string?

The chemical element symbol for a raw material, such as Fe for iron. Only raw materials, which are chemical elements, have one; a manufactured or encoded material has null.

Grade: MaterialGrade

The material grade, 1 to 5. Raw materials only reach 4.

Line: MaterialLine

The in-game line (group) this material sits in.

Name: string

Display name, such as Grid Resistors.

Symbol: string

Frontier's internal symbol, such as GridResistors — the id the player journal reports, matched without regard to case. This is the same field, with the same meaning, as the symbol on a ship or outfitting module.