Codex Rift Research Tree

The Research Tree

The research tree holds thirteen projects that make scans sharper, reach deeper phases and improve the extraction. They are computed in the Coordinate Computation Array, one at a time per complex. Open the tree with the Research tree button at the top of the Rift console.

How a project runs

1. A project can start when its prerequisites are researched and you have its data points and samples. The tree shows it in cyan.
2. Click it. The data points and samples are paid at once ("Research started.").
3. The array computes it for its time and draws its energy evenly. Without energy it waits (the progress line turns red).
4. When it is done, its effect applies to every complex of the owner.

The time of every project is multiplied by rift.research.timeScale (default 1.0, allowed 0.01–10.0). Research belongs to the owner: a project researched in one complex counts for all of them, and the same project cannot run in two of them at once.

The view

• At the top: "Research data: …", the precision tier at the right, and below "Samples:" with a coloured square and a number for each kind of world (hover a square for its name).
• While a project runs: "Computing: …" with a progress bar.
• The projects as boxes in four columns, with lines to their prerequisites. Colours: green done, yellow running, cyan ready, orange data or samples missing, grey locked.
• At the bottom a detail strip for the project under the mouse (or the running or next one): its name, why it cannot start or "Click to start.", what it does, "Data: …", "Samples: …" and "Energy: … FE over … min". Hover a box for the same as a tooltip, with "Requires: …".

The projects

Project	Requires	Data	Samples	Energy	Time	Effect
Interferometry		15		8M FE	1 min	Precision tier 1: blind-scan signals start a third sharper, triangulation narrows faster (÷2.5).
Spectral Analysis	Interferometry	30	1 any	12M FE	1.5 min	Unlocks the spectral search for one material family.
Quantum Phase Lock	Spectral Analysis	60	2 any	25M FE	2 min	Precision tier 2: signals start at a third of the blind uncertainty, triangulation ÷3.
Coordinate Synthesis	Quantum Phase Lock	120	1 Anomaly, 3 any	60M FE	3 min	Precision tier 3: a sixth of the uncertainty, triangulation ÷4, and the focused probe of any address.
Phase Anchors I	Interferometry	25	1 any	15M FE	1.5 min	The towers' reach +0.1 in distant and high phases.
Deep Survey	Spectral Analysis	35	1 Oceanic	15M FE	1.5 min	Surveys and analyses take 50 % of the time.
Phase Anchors II	Phase Anchors I, Quantum Phase Lock	80	1 Crystalline	40M FE	2.5 min	Another +0.1 reach.
Sector Sweep	Deep Survey	50	1 Volcanic, 1 any	25M FE	2 min	Unlocks the sector sweep around a known address.
Receiver Expansion		10		5M FE	45 s	Makes the receiver buffer for items, fluids and gases 2 times as large.
Harmonic Drills	Interferometry	20	1 Metallic	10M FE	75 s	Every extracted unit costs 20 % less energy.
Parallel Extraction	Receiver Expansion, Harmonic Drills	40	2 any	20M FE	2 min	2 more extraction jobs at the same time.
Precision Lance	Harmonic Drills	45	1 Crystalline, 1 Metallic	20M FE	2 min	New method for ore: takes only 80 % of the deposit per unit; slower and costlier.
Anomaly Harvest	Precision Lance, Phase Anchors I	90	2 Anomaly	50M FE	3 min	New method in anomalies: fast, costly, and condenses Rift Crystals.

"Any" samples are taken from your samples in this order: Metallic, Volcanic, Atmospheric, Oceanic, Crystalline, Anomaly. The fixed samples of a project are taken first.

Where data and samples come from

See Research and signals: scans, triangulations, locks, surveys and analyses earn data; analysing an address and extracting earn samples of its kind of world. The first two projects without prerequisites, Interferometry and Receiver Expansion, only need data.

Messages

Message	Meaning
Research started.	The project runs.
The Coordinate Computation Array is already computing a project.	Wait until it is done.
Already researched.	Nothing to do.
Prerequisites missing.	Research the projects it requires first.
Not enough research data.	Scan and survey more.
Material samples missing.	Analyse addresses or extract in dimensions of the needed kind.
This research is already running in another of your complexes.	Wait for the other complex.

Tip

Guard your rare samples "Any" samples are paid with Metallic samples first. If you save a Metallic sample for Harmonic Drills or the Precision Lance, research those before the projects that take "any".