Components

**Components** are special resource chunks vital for almost all types of crafting. Components are exclusively made from refined resources/other components, found from scrapped blocks or generating by destroying respawning scrap piles in the wasteland biome.

They come in four different tiers; **Basic, Advanced, Complex, and Exotic.**

Higher-tiered components are worth more Block Bucks and have more complex crafting trees than lower-tiered components, not to mention that they are a requirement for crafting certain blocks. **ALL** components have a higher sell value than their constituents, making it a lucrative approach for profiteering.

In order to craft a component from any given tier, the corresponding Component Dongle must be physically connected to the Component Factory in use. For every tier, there must be a dongle. Attaching an Exotic Dongle will only grant access to the Exotic tier, for example, but not for the others. Basic Components do not require any dongle.

In terms of speed, it more intuitive to get whole blocks by salvaging them from enemy techs, purchasing them or collect them from crates, which denies the relevance of components. Crafting effectiveness instead relies on the secured possibility of obtaining blocks, which can be done even without an appropriate license level or risk of combat as an alternative to discovering them at random, and its cost effectiveness, as all blocks are purchased for triple the value of their constituents, not to mention scrappers making recycling possible.

The following image covers (perhaps) every component that one can ever encounter.

## Advanced Components

Requires the GSO Advanced Component Dongle

## Complex Components

Requires the GSO Complex Component Dongle

## Trivia

* Components are similar to the now-removed Alloys, as both are made from multiple types of resources and sell for more than the combined value of whatever that's used to craft them. However, Components are able to be used in crafting and come in much more flavors, whereas Alloys were only used for simple profiteering.

* Components cannot be broken down once crafted.

* Certain components contain quite a few interesting details, either as references to other things, or just being a component in a block that they are seemly not associated with:
	+ The Gluon Beam is a reference to the Gluon Gun in Half-Life, both capable imploding matter, although the Gluon Gun does launch a beam and the Plasma Emitter, a beam-launching component, is used to craft it. The Gluon Beam is also ironically a requirement of crafting certain Beam-Firing weapons, introduced after the Gluon Beam's existence, as well as for items that are mostly or completely irrelevant, such as Payload Terminals and the Big Bertha.
	+ The Zero Point Splitter, being included in a couple of SCU recipes, is a reference to the Gravity Gun in Half-Life 2, its expansions, and the Portal Gun, all products of Valve. The Gravity Gun and the Portal Gun are equipped with a Zero-Point Field Manipulator, and the Portal Gun is able to create two portals linking to each other.
	+ Z4 Explosives is a reference to C4 Explosives, a plastic explosive commonly used for demolition purposes and portable munitions, but never as launched munitions.
	+ The Thermo Jet is used in many wheel blocks, and not just jet engines or rocket-based weapons, suggesting that it has a much wider range of applications than the description states.
	+ The Seed AI is used for most Rocket-based homing weapons, suggesting that the AI possess fast code generation in order to compensate the changes that the rockets might encounter.
	+ The Mother Brain is, simply by the name used, a reference to the Metroid series of games, as Mother Brain is both "a powerful synthetic brain" and a recurring boss.
	+ The Proxima Dark is not used for warp engines, as anything similar to that was absent from TerraTech. Instead, it was used in a few select blocks with varying functions, ranging from the Hawkeye Havoc Shield to the GSO Megaton Cannon.
	+ The Titanic Alloy's description mentions that they were used for Nuclear Grade Blast Shields, hinting that Nuclear weapons and defenses exist in the world of TerraTech, but are not introduced or used elsewhere.