materials.Interface.Material

@elite-dangerous-almanac/core / materials / Material

Interface: Material

Defined in: src/materials/materials.ts:165

One engineering material and how it is classified.

Remarks

A Material is a plain, frozen value object. category is derived from the catalogue the record lives in. There is no separate rarity field — the grade is the rarity (its MaterialGrade member name is the rarity tier).

Properties

category

readonly category: MaterialCategory

Defined in: src/materials/materials.ts:167

Which category this material belongs to.

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elementSymbol

readonly elementSymbol: string | null

Defined in: src/materials/materials.ts:183

The chemical element symbol for a raw material, e.g. "Fe" for Iron.

Remarks

Only raw materials — which are chemical elements — have one. Manufactured and encoded materials are null.

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grade

readonly grade: MaterialGrade

Defined in: src/materials/materials.ts:185

The material grade, 1–5 (raw materials only reach 4) — this is its rarity.

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line

readonly line: MaterialLine

Defined in: src/materials/materials.ts:187

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

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name

readonly name: string

Defined in: src/materials/materials.ts:175

Display name, e.g. "Grid Resistors".

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symbol

readonly symbol: string

Defined in: src/materials/materials.ts:173

Frontier's internal symbol, e.g. "GridResistors" — the id the player journal reports (case-insensitively, so "gridresistors" matches). This is the same field, with the same meaning, as symbol on a ship or outfitting module.