Stores and resources

Stores can be found at designated beacons or in events. They offer goods and services in exchange for scrap.

The number of guaranteed stores is determined by the sector type.

Number of stores, by sectors
	Civilian (starting sector)	Civilian, Engi	Zoltan, Rock, Abandoned	Mantis, Pirate, Rebel	Slug Nebulas	Uncharted Nebula	Hidden Crystal Worlds	The Last Stand
Stores	1–2	2–3	2	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–3	1
Nebula stores	-	-	-	-	2	1*	-	-

* Due to issues with how sectors are generated, about 0.8% of Uncharted Nebulas have no stores at all.

Additional stores acquirable through events, by sectors
Event name	Civilian, Pirate	Engi	Zoltan	Mantis, Rebel	Rock	Abandoned	Slug Nebulas	Uncharted Nebula
Store opening opportunity events
Large trade station	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Lone Lanius ship						+
Store opening chance events
Escort civilians *	+	+			+
Escort civilians FTL haywire	+			+	+			+
Pirate briber	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Settlement mercenary work	+	+			+
Slug drink							+
Slug transport with military escort							+
Zoltan trade hub			+
*   Escort civilians can occur multiple times per sector. +  Large trade station can occur as an exit beacon event in any sector. Pirate briber can occur as a filler or as an exit beacon event in any sector. Hidden Crystal Worlds and The Last Stand sectors don't have sector-specific store opening opportunity/chance events. (also see the previous note)

Stores: assortment

Hull repairs (in stores) Sector 1 ― 3 4 ― 6 7 ― 8 Price 2 3 4

Resources (in stores) Stock 3 – 7 2 – 6 2 – 4 Price 3 6 8

Stores sell:

• Unlimited hull repairs
• Limited quantities of all resources (fuel, missiles, and drone parts)
• 2-4 slots of systems, weapons, drone schematics, augmentations, and crewmembers

Hull repairs prices vary depending on sector progression: the cost of repairing 1 hull point of damage is determined by the sector number.

Fuel, missiles, and drone parts stock varies, but the price for each type of resource is fixed.

Each slot contains three random items (or crewmembers) of that type (for example, three random weapons). A store will never sell duplicate weapons, drone schematics, augmentations.

Systems

Stores may sell three random systems. Systems are installed on your ship in a predetermined location. If you buy a teleporter, it will always have two slots, not four.

Filling all your system slots will not prevent stores from selling systems, even though you can't buy them (except for medical systems, which replace your current one). If your ship has less than 11 systems+subsystems, there is a 50% chance the first store slot will be forced to be systems. When a store is selling systems, the selection is mostly random, but is governed by a few special rules:

• Stores cannot sell a system you already own
• Shields are guaranteed if you don't have them
• A medical system is guaranteed if you don't have one
• A drone system is guaranteed if the store also sells drones

Purchasable systems
Shields	Medbay	Clone Bay	Crew Teleporter	Cloaking	Mind Control	Hacking	Drone Control	Sensors	Door System	Backup Battery
125	50	50	90	150	75	80	75/85	40	60	35

Items and crew rarity

Rarity is a hidden attribute of weapons, drone schematics, augmentations, and crew races. It is used to determine the likelihood of a specific item or a crew race to be found in stores and the possibility (without the likelihood tiers) for an item or a crew race to be received as an event reward in certain sector types.

Rarity normally goes from 1 to 5, 1 being common and 5 being rare.

If rarity is set to 0 on a specific item, then it cannot be randomly found in game. This usually happens in one of the following cases:

• An item only found with special requirements. (e.g. Damaged Stasis Pod)
• An item only comes equipped on a particular ship. (e.g. Shield Overcharger +)
• An item only used by the AI. (e.g. Boss Missile)
• An item only used for specific game mechanics. (e.g. crystal shard of Crystal Vengeance)

Every sector has a table of loot which then gets weighted by its rarity and selected accordingly, e.g.: Crystal Lockdown Bomb has different rarity values for certain sectors; other crystal weapons and crystal crewmembers cannot be acquired outside of Hidden Crystal Worlds (except for one particular event, regarding the crew); Lanius crewmembers are only encountered in Abandoned sectors.

Weapons

Weapon	Price	Rarity
Burst Laser I	50	1
Burst Laser II	80	4
Burst Laser III	95	4
Heavy Laser I	50	2
Heavy Laser II	65	4
Hull Laser I	55	2
Hull Laser II	75	3
Chain Laser	65	3
Chain Vulcan	95	5
Laser Charger	55	3
Laser Charger II	70	3

Weapon Price Rarity Pike Beam 55 2 Hull Beam 70 3 Halberd Beam 65 2 Glaive Beam 95 5 Fire Beam 50 3 Anti-Bio Beam 50 5

Weapon Price Rarity Flak Gun I 65 1 Flak Gun II 80 4

Weapon Price Rarity Hermes Missile 45 2 Breach Missiles 65 3 Hull Missile 65 3 Pegasus Missile 60 3 Swarm Missiles 65 4

Weapon Price Rarity Crystal Burst I 20 1 Crystal Burst II 20 4 Heavy Crystal I 20 2 Heavy Crystal II 20 5

Weapon	Price	Rarity
Ion Blast	30	3
Ion Blast II	70	4
Heavy Ion	45	3
Ion Stunner	35	4
Ion Charger	50	3
Chain Ion	55	4

Weapon	Price	Rarity
Small Bomb	45	1
Breach Bomb II	60	4
Fire Bomb	50	2
Ion Bomb	55	3
Stun Bomb	45	2
Healing Burst	40	3
Repair Burst	40	3
Crystal Lock Bomb	45	0*

Drones

Drone	Price	Rarity
Combat Drone Mark I	50	2
Combat Drone Mark II	75	5
Beam Drone I	50	3
Beam Drone II	60	5
Fire Drone	60	4

Drone	Price	Rarity
Defense Drone Mark I	50	1
Defense Drone Mark II	70	3
Anti-Combat Drone	35	1
Shield Overcharger	60	4

Drone	Price	Rarity
Anti-Personnel Drone	35	2
System Repair Drone	30	1
Hull Repair Drone	85	4

Drone	Price	Rarity
Boarding Drone	70	4
Ion Intruder	65	4

Augmentations

Augmentation	Price	Rarity
Automated Re-loader	40	2
Defense Scrambler	80	4
Explosive Replicator	60	3
Hacking Stun	60	3
Stealth Weapons	50	3
Weapon Pre-Igniter	120	4

Augmentation	Price	Rarity
Backup DNA Bank	40	2
Emergency Respirators	50	2
Fire Suppression	65	3
Repair Arm	50	3
Reverse Ion Field	45	2
Shield Charge Booster	45	2

Augmentation	Price	Rarity
Adv. FTL Navigation	50	3
Distraction Buoys	55	3
FTL Jammer	30	3
FTL Recharge Booster	50	2

Augmentation	Price	Rarity
Battery Charger	40	2
Drone Recovery Arm	50	2
Lifeform Scanner	40	3
Long-Ranged Scanners	30	1
Reconstructive Teleport	70	3
Scrap Recovery Arm	50	1
Zoltan Shield Bypass	55	3

Crewmembers

Stores may sell three random crew. Stores can sell duplicate crew (for example, a store could sell three Engi).

In later sectors, crew from stores can have random skills for no additional cost (same is true for crew acquirable in events). The possible crew races, and how common they are, depends on the sector. The values: 1 is common, 5 is rare.

Crew cost and rarity in stores, by sectors
Race / Sector	Humans	Engi	Mantis	Rockmen	Zoltans	Slugs	Lanius	Crystal
Civilian, Pirate, Rebel, The Last Stand	1	2	2	3	5
Engi	3	1			4
Zoltan	2	3	3	3	1	3
Mantis	2	3	1	4
Rock	2			1	3
Abandoned	2	3	3	3	4	4	2
Slug Nebulas	2	4	4	4	4	2
Uncharted Nebula	1	4	4	4	4	3
Cost	45	50	55	55	60	45	50	60

Resources

Besides stores, resources can be exchanged for scrap and other goods in different trading events, and are often awarded for defeating enemy ships, accepting surrenders or bribes. The amount of resources rewards does not vary by sector number or difficulty (see link).

• Events with Resources use
• Events with Resources rewards
• Events with Resources loss risk

Fuel

"Powers your FTL drive. One jump per fuel."

Fuel cells are required to make FTL Jumps. Each jump between beacons costs 1 fuel, including backtracking to previously visited ones.

All ships start with 16 fuel. Fuel costs 3 from stores, or 2 from refuelling station events.

No Fuel!

If the player attempts to perform an FTL Jump with no fuel remaining, the Sector Map will spell out "NO FUEL" and will instead offer the option to Wait for one turn, with the Rebels advancing the same distance as they would after a regular FTL Jump. The Rebel advance will be slowed if you are in a nebula (just like a normal nebula jump).

A distress beacon can be activated before waiting. The distress beacon increases the chances of being found by a ship, either hostile or friendly, and therefore increases the chance of obtaining fuel.

When you are out of fuel, all enemy ships will start the fight charging their FTL drives, and will usually jump away after 90 seconds if not interrupted or stopped. There is also an additional anti-stalemate mechanism: when the enemy ship is below a certain hull threshold (likely below 50%, closer to 30-40%) and doesn't receive any more hull damage for 1 minute, the fight ends by granting you 2 fuel; the enemy boarder can sometimes postpone this trigger, but the trigger will work in 60 seconds after the end of the enemy boarder dying animation; the enemy piloting system status doesn't affect the anti-stalemate trigger. (see screenshot)

• Out-of-Fuel Events (Distress ON)
• Out-of-Fuel Events (Distress OFF)
• Fuel use Events
• Fuel reward Events
• Fuel loss risk Events

Missiles

"Multipurpose ammo for any missile based weapon."

One missile ammunition is consumed when a missile or bomb is fired. You can reduce missile consumption with the Explosive Replicator augment, which provides a 50% chance of not consuming a missile.

• Missiles use Events
• Missiles reward Events
• Missiles loss risk Events

Drone parts

"Allows you to deploy drone schematics you've found. Each deployment costs one drone part."

Drone parts are consumed when deploying drones and by launching a hacking drone. Drone parts can be recovered from some external drone types after they have been deployed and weren't destroyed - with the Drone Recovery Arm augment.

• Drone Parts use Events
• Drone Parts reward Events
• Drone Parts loss risk Events

Store bugs

Reloading at an "event generated" store will make it vanish. If you have enemy boarders on your ship, leaving the store interface will also make the store disappear.

Reloading at any store will re-roll crew skills, and will force drone control to come with a Defence Drone Mark 1.

With Advanced Edition Content Off, there is a bug that very often causes item slots to be empty. It affects crew, augmentations, drones, systems, and weapons (e.g. a store might sell only two weapons or even one crew - instead of a regular three).

Also note that a store with Advanced Edition Content On can have some empty systems slots when most or all of the systems are purchased/installed (i.e. with all 8 main systems installed it is possible to not being able to find Sensors or Backup Battery or a different medical unit in a store that sells systems - some sub-slots will be plainly empty).

See game bugs for more information, including advice for avoiding these types of issue.

See also

• Reverse-engineered data on stores: store sections generation, filling out a store section, selecting systems