SAM

SAM, which stands for Strange Alien Matter, is a precious resource found in the world.

Obtaining

Resource acquisition

SAM can be harvested by hand (default E) in trace amounts from resource deposits scattered across the world, or from inexhaustible resource nodes on which Miners can be constructed to extract automatically.

Items produced per minute

100% Clock Speed250% Clock Speed

	Miner Mk.1	Miner Mk.2	Miner Mk.3
Impure	30	60	120
Normal	60	120	240
Pure	120	240	480

	Miner Mk.1	Miner Mk.2	Miner Mk.3
Impure	75	150	300
Normal	150	300	600
Pure	300	600	1200

Number of SAM resource nodes is as follows:

Node purity	Number of nodes	Mk.3 mining rate	Mk.3 mining rate at 250 %
Impure	10	1,200	3,000
Normal	6	1,440	3,600
Pure	3	1,440	3,600
Total	19	4,080	10,200

Usage

Research

 SAM is used for research in the Alien Technology Research chain in the MAM.

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Reanimated SAM	4 × SAM120 / min	Constructor 2 sec Craft Bench  × 1	1 × Reanimated SAM30 / min	MAM Alien Technology Research - SAM Reanimation OR Tier 9 - Matter Conversion

AWESOME Sink

 SAM can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 20 points.

SAM messages

When near a SAM Resource Node, you will sometimes hear random messages that seem to be coming from the SAM.

See Codex/Story for audio files

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• "Be wary of the curves or do you see only lines?"
• "Do not worship at our windows, do not touch our inner blood."
• "Your ripples into matter, break the threads into blood."
• "You have fallen near shallows will deepen with the knowledge you've earned."
• "We will listen to your wave symphonies and learn."
• "Play for us... play for us."
• "We got here to come and fix wood sticks, yet you have not replied."
• "You will worship our places, you will not see their path."
• "Have you followed the lattice, or do you dance for it as void-stones."
• "Beware, do not switch our bones for your metal bonds."
• "Do not worship in our temples, do not worship in our shrines."
• "You are a not the first, we are not the first, we are a spin-sphere."
• "We will study the bodies, we will study the tools."
• "We will rise to the shallows and will plant in our ¿pools¿."
• "Take care not to wash away; our faces, our seeds."
• "…rivers are spilling, into lakes, into seas."
• "You remain in the shallows we used to know of."
• "Does your body have a brain? Do your veins sing a pattern-song?"
• "There is probable sense wielded our fate."
• "What blood quality flows through the foyer and the metal gate?"
• "We give you notes, take the notes, find the symmetry."
• "The tapestry coils it's new threads in to the deep."
• "The sphere goes up-down at our end and you fall out of sleep."
• "We rely on core essentials ¿that strange¿ Unclear."
• "?? They sang our songs and had ?? music, the silent symphony."
• "You are a river----."
• "Keep defiling the temples, keep following the shores."
• "We understand your signal-songs and willing ??spores??"
• "The temple... ???? ? ? ?? answer it."
• "Some ?? flower pattern into the universal womb."
• "Sing you soon? Sing you soon?"
• "In future the blood devours to move closer to the ground."
• "You are, or will be; one way filament?"

Trivia

• Despite existing in the game since the Closed Alpha, it had no use before Patch 1.0.

Gallery

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  A SAM Ore deposit as shown from Update 3 to Update 8. (Changed in Version 1.0)
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  A SAM Ore Resource Node located in an open-top cave as shown from Update 3 to Update 8. (Changed in Version 1.0)
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  SAM Ore Resource Node locations as shown from Update 3 to Update 8. (Changed in Version 1.0)
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  A Strange Alien Matter mineable node.

History

• Patch 1.0:
  • Renamed from SAM Ore to SAM, changing its meaning from Strange Alien Metal to Strange Alien Matter
  • Icon and mesh updated
• Patch 0.3: Icon and mesh updated