Techblock

**Techblocks** are construction blocks required for many structures to be built. It is a middle-tier item as well as Energy Blocks.

## Obtaining

### Refining

Unlike Infrablocks, Techblocks can't be obtained through basic Salvaging. This is mainly because Tech Scraps **do not** retrieve Techblocks decimals through the Recycler like Infra Scraps do for Infrablocks.

Thus, Players have to rely on other sources for Techblocks supply, the most reliable being the use of an Advanced Assembler.

The following recipe allow to produce Techblocks.

The following dashboard shows the complete needs to make one Techblock.

As shown above, the Techblock recipe require 1 Infrablock and 1 Optronics Component to be processed.

### Trading

The recipe can only be realised through the use of an Advanced Assembler, it may take a few in-game weeks for the Player to be able to settle an efficient Techblocks factory.

As an alternative, Techblocks can appear in NPCs trading tabs. However it is quite a rare trading product with prices average around 270 credits.

### Salvage

Though the Recycler can't produce them, Techblocks can sometimes be found in storages on derelict and destroyed ships, ready to be transferred.

## Tactics

Techblock is a primary resource that found its uses in every structures the Player need to progress through their journey, once the primal survival capabilities are reached.

Theses structures notably include Generators, all systems, all factories and all refineries of the game.

Despite its critical nature, Techblock is also a hard-to-product item. It requires a complete factory setup and a few of nearly all ores.

*The following scheme is based on several players experience and is not an allmighty strategy. Remember you still free to do your run the way you want to do it.*

Once primary survival steps are completed, meaning your ship is ready to hyperjump and enable its crew to feed, breathe and stay healthy, it is not advised to dash on making a Techblock production chain directly.

First of all it is advised to build a few useful structures first, regardless of having a separated room for them or not. With them, the Player can ensure to maintain their crew alive for long.

The next step is to find Techblocks through trading to build missing needed structures with them.

It often happen a Player last several in game days or even weeks without finding a single Techblock, but it's not critical if, above all, your crew can live and produce its energy consumables from Hyperium and Energium and its food so you can keep travelling, looking for Techblocks.

Since dismantle retrieve 100% of involved ingredients in a building. Finding a Claimable ship can be very useful.

Claim it and dismantle its Generators, Hull Stabilizers or Hyperdrives and bring back retrieved Techblocks to your ship. Assuming the Player is at an early part of their journey, the claimed ship is not needed and can be abandonned.

You can also dismantle unused facilities on your ship to build needed ones.

Later, it is recommanded to keep at least 5 Techblocks in storage to supply any quick needs of it for any kind of buildings.

## Recipes

The following list shows up every building recipes the Techblock is involved in :