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Special elements are one of the eight divisions of the resources in No Man's Sky.

Summary[]

Special elements are mainly used for refinement, most of them directly or indirectly can be refined into Nanite Cluster. Chromatic Metal and Pugneum can be used to craft various technologies and products. Some were introduced to play a special role in Community Research missions.

Sources[]

These elements can be obtained from various sources, some of them can purchased at the Galactic Trade Terminal.

Members[]

Anomalous Material[]
Decayed Spacetime Remnant[]
Disharmonic Metal[]
Highly Refined Stellar Metal[]
Junk[]
Recessive Creature Genes[]
Salvaged scrap[]
Technological Currency[]
Transmuted Metal[]
Unrefined Organic Element[]

Additional information[]

Junk items are all referenced with the same abbreviation, "Jn".