Fenris Creations has overhauled manufacturing in EVE Frontier with Digital Chemistry, a system that makes the properties of raw materials you mine in the game determine the performance of the equipment produced from them.
Introduced in the space survival game’s mid-cycle update, the change makes the economy much more complex as manufacturers now have to compete on their knowledge of materials, sourcing and production choices, alongside their ability to gather resources.
Previously, crafting followed fixed recipes that produced identical items. Under the new system, different batches of the same material can have different properties, including density, conductivity and strength. Those differences carry through the manufacturing process into finished components and modules.
This is illustrated through mining equipment. The properties of extracted silicates influence the optics manufactured using them. Those optics then feed into a lens, whose characteristics ultimately affect mining output,
