Power Slug
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Power Slugs are collectibles which are used to craft 
Power Shards, which enable overclocking of buildings. They appear as glowing immobile slugs and can found around the world. They do not respawn and there is a limited number in the world, but a small number of renewable Power Slugs can be found with the aid of tamed Lizard Doggos. They can be researched at the MAM to unlock overclocking of buildings, along with recipes to craft slugs into Power Shards at a Craft Bench or Constructor.
Variants
There are blue, yellow, and purple slugs scattered around the map, which can be crafted into one, two and five Power Shards respectively, with increasing rarity.
Blue
There are 596 Blue Power Slugs in the world. They are often found in plain sight on small stone spires, on the trees or hills that rarely require a ladder or a 
Jetpack to reach. You may find a few of them hidden inside crackable boulders which can be detonated with a 
Nobelisk Detonator.
Blue Power Slugs have replaced Green Power Slugs. They are functionally identical and only differ in name and color.
Produces: One Power Shard
Yellow
There are 389 Yellow Power Slugs in the world. They are often found in and around the Gas Pillar, on trees, near/on cliff faces, and other difficult-to-traverse places. Most of them are guarded by a strong creature, or surrounded by Poison Gas. (You can use a 
Gas Mask to get through the poison gas easily.) You will often need to construct a tall ladder to reach them.
Produces: Two Power Shards
Purple
There are 257 Purple Power Slugs in the world. They are usually found high up on cave walls, on top of mountains, inside ravines, on cliff faces and other hard to notice/reach places. You will usually need to construct a long ramp or walkway or have access to use the Jetpack to reach them. Some Purple Power Slugs are heavily guarded by strong creatures or surrounded by several radioactive deposits.
Produces: Five Power Shards
Obtaining
Power Slugs can be searched for using the 
Object Scanner, with one setting searching for slugs of any color. They are luminescent and can be easily spotted at night. Picking up a Power Slug requires the player to hold down the interact button (default E) for three seconds while facing it. Using the photo mode P and zoom in 
can act like a binocular which helps the search.
Some slugs are in difficult-to-reach locations, with the difficulty caused through such aspects of gameplay as traversing the geography, dealing with hostile faunae, or traversing environmental hazard (e.g. two Purple Power Slugs in the Red Jungle, require the player to enter a 'cave entrance' that leads to an underground void scattered with several Uranium deposits. Foundations can be built to retrieve them safely. Hazmat Suit is required.)
| Slug Color | Blue | Yellow | Purple | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slug Number | 596 | 389 | 257 | 1242 |
| Power Shards | 594 | 776 | 1280 | 2650 |
There are currently 1242 Power Slugs known in-game; 596 blue, 389 yellow, and 257 purple. 1 slug of each type is consumed as part of research in the MAM. In addition, 1 Power Shard is consumed to unlock the overclocking function. The upper limit of obtainable Power Shards is infinite, as they can be synthesized in a Quantum Encoder and Lizard Doggos can generate an infinite amount of slugs over time. The upper limit of non-renewable, usable Power Shards is 2650.
Unlocking
Additional researches unlock recipes for each kind of slug, overclocking and scanning using the Object Scanner.
Usage
Research
Crafting
| Recipe | Ingredients | Produced in | Products | Unlocked by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Shard (1) | 1 ×  Blue Power Slug7.5 / min |
Constructor 8 sec |
1 ×  Power Shard7.5 / min |
MAM Power Slugs Research - Blue Power Slugs |
| Power Shard (2) | 1 ×  Yellow Power Slug5 / min |
Constructor 12 sec |
2 × Power Shard10 / min |
MAM Power Slugs Research - Yellow Power Slugs |
| Power Shard (5) | 1 ×  Purple Power Slug2.5 / min |
Constructor 24 sec |
5 × Power Shard12.5 / min |
MAM Power Slugs Research - Purple Power Slugs |
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Achievements
Yoink! • "Gather a Power Slug."
Caught them all • "Gather all three Power Slug types."Trivia
- It appears that these are amphibian slugs, as they can also be found in shallow lakes.
- Power Slugs have two small, beady black eyes on their front, most easily observed when below them.
- Power Slugs were originally gemstones, but were changed to slugs shortly before release.[1]
Current issues
The coordinates below are measured in centimeters. (A foundation size = 800 x 800)
- There is a Blue Power Slug buried below ground that is impossible to collect without clipping, at Rocky Desert. (-169150, 86, 400)
- Two impossible Yellow Power Slugs are buried within a Gas Pillar at Lake Forest and Desert Canyons, at (65494, -2077, 13600) and (-11592, -149477, 12200) respectively. Unlike the above cases, clipping will not work as the slugs are embedded inside a solid structure, making all sorts of interaction impossible.
Gallery
A Power Slug after being placed on the ground
History
- Patch 0.6.0.0: Added sound effect when collecting Power Slugs
- Patch 0.5.0.0: Color and textures of the Power Slugs have been updated to be more easily distinguishable
- Green Power Slugs are now Blue Power Slugs
- Undocumented change: Inventory icon and name updated
- Patch 0.3.6: Can no longer be trashed with the inventory trash slot.
- Patch 0.3?: Made Power Slugs more distinguishable in colors. Made them easier to spot by adding misty clouds around them and a beam effect that shoots out from its back
- Patch 0.2.1.8: Ensured that Power Slugs don’t lose their color on distance
- Patch 0.2.1.5: Added LODs
- Patch 0.1:
- Added a special pick-up sound
- Made the Yellow Power Slug more yellow
Early game development
Prior to Closed Alpha, in the early game development there were no power slugs, but instead there were Quartz Crystals which were used in production of items. Quartz Crystals eventually became power slugs.
- See also: Game Development - Power Slug
Upcoming
Based on information shown on the Satisfactory-Calculator Interactive Map - Stable Branch (Version 1.0) there may be increases to Power Slug Counts, but these have not been validated as of yet and might change.
