{
  "edition": "selected-completion-06",
  "schema_purpose": "Material directions and applications; not a complete numeric recipe database",
  "game_evidence_commit": "a0a702c2b5788d099645ab55ad23d8a5bf45c137",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "MAT01",
      "name": "Tin",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT01",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A dull host-stone block with a few pale mineral pixels; a simple extruded pixel-item tin ingot, followed by a chunky bronze fitting.",
      "process_direction": "The current chart places tin in Deepwilds. A supported prepared tin route joins copper at IND-M07, then IND-M05 shapes valves and couplings. Initial part recipes retain proposed common-material alternatives where the earliest service must precede that charted source.",
      "application_and_limits": "A repairable pump fitting or workbench mechanism makes the alloy memorable. The creative shallow-seam proposal cannot move an implemented deposit by documentation alone.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT01",
        "Tin in shallow worked stone and sedimentary seams",
        "Bronze fittings and approachable early machinery",
        "Small pale metallic flecks in a dull brown matrix; recognizable without bright emission."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT02",
      "name": "Nickel",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT02",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Muted warm-silver patches in dense host stone; stock and an inset reinforcement strip remain distinct game items.",
      "process_direction": "Identify actual nickel-bearing feed, prepare it only through a compatible route, then combine selected stock at IND-M22 for a named higher-duty component. Earlier steel and ceramics build the first apparatus.",
      "application_and_limits": "Use a replaceable loaded frame or thermal fitting. Improved duty trades processing and service for a specific benefit; nickel never makes every earlier iron tool obsolete.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT02",
        "Nickel in deeper dense rock and certain planetary deposits",
        "Durable alloys, heat-resistant fittings, long-lived components",
        "Muted warm silver inclusions with a coarse irregular seam."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT03",
      "name": "Alumina clay",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT03",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Chalky cream and rust block bands, a prepared pale feed item and a simple light-metal plate.",
      "process_direction": "IND-M51 identifies the fictional precursor. A resolved prepared-alumina recipe supplies IND-M21, whose first frame, insulation, working parts and electrical source use earlier materials. Bauxite is charted but is not an approved alias for this clay.",
      "application_and_limits": "Light plates improve a chosen cargo or enclosure application. Recipe substitution and any new deposit remain explicit decisions; the first common-material Explorer does not require this plant.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT03",
        "Alumina clay in weathered stone pockets and layered deposits",
        "Lightweight metal processing and ceramic precursor",
        "Chalky cream and rust bands; soft-looking material clearly distinct from metal ore."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT04",
      "name": "Titaniferous ore",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT04",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Dark host stone with a few subdued flat streaks; prepared stock and a recognizably fabricated beam form.",
      "process_direction": "A protected earlier expedition surveys the proposed intrusive-rock source. A compatible preparation route and IND-M22 make selected high-duty stock; IND-M05 or an appropriate forming fixture finishes it.",
      "application_and_limits": "A specialist load-support part earns the process. The first source-access kit and first processing frame cannot require the exclusive titanium output; natural placement is still proposed.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT04",
        "Titaniferous ore in deep intrusive rock",
        "Advanced load-bearing frames and specialist tools",
        "Dark granular stone with subdued metallic streaks; exposed in broad veins rather than tiny glowing dots."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT05",
      "name": "Graphite",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT05",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Broad charcoal layers on a seam block, a flat dark item and a simple conductive or service insert.",
      "process_direction": "A studied dry source yields bounded actual feed. Material-specific preparation supports an IND-M05 electrical/service part or a selected advanced process. Ordinary charcoal remains a different supported starter carbon route.",
      "application_and_limits": "Conductive or low-friction game categories provide narrow uses. Graphite is not a silent rename of every fuel item and does not create a self-feeding energy loop.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT05",
        "Graphite in dry dark seams",
        "Conductive components, lubricated machinery, advanced processing",
        "Charcoal plates with a restrained sheen and visible layered fracture."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT06",
      "name": "Clear quartz",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT06",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A few simple milky or clear stepped crystal forms, a flat lens item and a square housed instrument.",
      "process_direction": "Reachable glass or accepted quartz supports early IND-M50 surveying. Sorting and shaping prepare a useful optical element; later IND-M29 can improve a defined property or consistency.",
      "application_and_limits": "The first instrument makes a route easier to read. Clear quartz, vanilla quartz and certus quartz have related context without becoming approved interchangeable material tags.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT06",
        "Clear quartz in ordinary and deeper crystal pockets",
        "Optical instruments, early electronics, surveying",
        "Transparent or milky block crystals; shape and clarity communicate quality."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT07",
      "name": "Sulfur",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT07",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Yellow crust represented by broad texture squares on host blocks; a flat powder item and a closed reagent cartridge.",
      "process_direction": "A bounded collection or the charted Deepwilds source provides actual stock. IND-M23 or a named supported processing recipe prepares its selected reagent; earlier protection and containers precede exposure.",
      "application_and_limits": "A service reagent or later composite has a declared recipient. No individual powder grains, uncontrolled vent harvesting or universal chemical ingredient is implied.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT07",
        "Sulfur around selected dry vents and mineral basins",
        "Processing reagents and specialist consumables",
        "Powdery yellow crusts clustered near a clearly signaled environmental feature."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT08",
      "name": "Rock salt",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT08",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Pale block layers and cubic inclusions, a flat salt item, then an ordinary supply or process container.",
      "process_direction": "Simple compatible collected stock supports initial use. IND-M24 can concentrate a specified saline feed later, with actual heat or site requirements and separate product receivers.",
      "application_and_limits": "Preserved supply, decorative masonry and selected chemistry give continuing value. This does not add an ordinary-survival food-spoilage chore or make an evaporation plant mandatory for every pinch of salt.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT08",
        "Rock salt in dry basins and evaporated passages",
        "Preserved supplies, chemical processing, decorative blocks",
        "Pale granular layers and cubic deposits, with variants kept visually related."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT09",
      "name": "Ceramic clay",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT09",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Warm-grey or red clay bank blocks, simple formed pieces and cream fired slabs with coarse edge pixels.",
      "process_direction": "Ordinary or accepted ceramic clay is shaped and fired at IND-M09 using an earlier reachable fuel/heat route. Reusable molds and cooling shelves remain available after completion.",
      "application_and_limits": "Begin with a vessel, insulating insert or household tile. Specialist additives change a named duty; a technical panel is manufactured rather than mined as a finished machine part.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT09",
        "Ceramic clay in quiet water deposits and protected shelves",
        "Kilns, insulating components, heat equipment, household blocks",
        "Smooth warm gray or reddish banks with fine horizontal layering."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT10",
      "name": "Root resin",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT10",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Amber square marks on a living root block, a contained resin item and a simple seal patch.",
      "process_direction": "Safe fringe collection preserves the host and a finite regrowth point. Studied managed growth can supply repeat stock; IND-M12 combines it with compatible cloth or fittings. Approved early alternatives may use the existing basic seal vocabulary.",
      "application_and_limits": "A waterproof fitting or repair patch makes the source useful at home. Essential first protection precedes a dangerous resin source, and extraction cannot silently strip a whole habitat.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT10",
        "Root resin in mature Deepwilds growth",
        "Seals, repairs, early waterproofing, flexible fittings",
        "Translucent amber beads on living roots; harvesting marks a limited regrowth point."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT11",
      "name": "Spore fiber",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT11",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Pale bands within fungal substrate, a flat fiber bundle item, a square spool and a plain cloth patch.",
      "process_direction": "A safe initial sample establishes a bounded IND-M13 plot where permitted. Prepared fiber reaches IND-M11 and IND-M12 for textiles, filters or insulation. Ordinary cloth remains an earlier supported alternative.",
      "application_and_limits": "Replace a worn service layer or furnish a room. Wild fungal spaces remain valuable; no individual thread rendering or mandatory rare-creature harvest belongs in the item chain.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT11",
        "Spore fiber in cultivated fungal mats",
        "Filters, cloth, soft insulation, decorative textiles",
        "Pale strands within a broad fungal substrate; never read as a metallic ore."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT12",
      "name": "Shellstone",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT12",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Pale simple shell-shaped marks inside dense block stone, cut masonry and a chunky composite panel.",
      "process_direction": "Surveyed old deposits provide inert source stock. Compatible cutting/forms supply decorative blocks; an IND-M10 recipe can combine prepared Shellstone with earlier binders for a particular composite.",
      "application_and_limits": "Build durable, recognizable walls or a selected panel. A dead deposit is distinct from living aquatic habitat; the material does not require farming or killing rare fauna.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT12",
        "Shellstone in old aquatic deposits",
        "Tough decorative masonry and certain composite products",
        "Pale shells and curved fragments inside dense stone."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT13",
      "name": "Lens crystal",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT13",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A simple clear center in an angular growth block, a distinct optical insert and an ordinary instrument housing.",
      "process_direction": "IND-M50/51 identifies a relevant property and preserves a specimen. A selected finishing recipe or later IND-M29 provides the advanced lens while ordinary glass instruments still perform the first survey.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve one observation or measurement task. Better optics do not reveal every resource through stone or erase the need to read terrain and establish a route.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT13",
        "Lens crystal in clear-water or dry crystalline pockets",
        "Improved instruments and precision surveying",
        "A compact clear center with a distinctive faceted surrounding growth."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT14",
      "name": "Resonant quartz",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT14",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Pale outer blocks around a smoky center with a few broad line pixels; a contained insert inside a plain housing.",
      "process_direction": "A prepared expedition studies its defined response and reserves an actual sample. IND-M50/51 turns relevant knowledge plus contributed material into a calibrated resonant component.",
      "application_and_limits": "Read a bounded device or trace family while retaining the ordinary return map. This is separate from charted certus quartz; an illustrative response does not make current quartz ore emissive.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT14",
        "Resonant quartz in restricted deep formations",
        "Reading ancient devices and locating specific buried features",
        "Pale outer growth around a smoky core with quiet internal lines; interaction gives a readable pulse."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT15",
      "name": "Heartglass",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT15",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Thick dark block-glass formations with restrained warm planes, solid fragment icons and a housed advanced element.",
      "process_direction": "An earlier protected route reaches the proposed Core source. Retain a specimen, identify it, then use compatible IND-M29/44/50 processing and earlier fittings for a selected optical or thermal assembly.",
      "application_and_limits": "The result improves subsequent advanced exploration. Heartglass is distinct from draconium and cannot become a hidden ingredient in the first equipment needed to obtain it.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT15",
        "Heartglass in rare Core formations",
        "Specialized optical and thermal components for advanced exploration",
        "Dark glass in thick formations, translucent at thin edges, with warm internal planes; carried as solid fragments."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT16",
      "name": "Thermal salt",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT16",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Rust-white clustered texture blocks, a contained flat material item and a simple installed thermal insert.",
      "process_direction": "An earlier ceramic/frame/thermal-service kit supports a short Mantle-margin collection proposal. A specified IND-M44-compatible route prepares a bounded heat-service product, with actual charging energy where required.",
      "application_and_limits": "A later insert can improve supported duration or compactness. Mantle currently has no chart minerals; placement remains creative direction. A charged device's effect is distinct from naturally glowing ore.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT16",
        "Thermal salt in selected Mantle margins",
        "Compact heat-storage products and advanced thermal preparation",
        "Rust-white clustered crystals beside mineral crusts; low flicker only when charged in a device."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT17",
      "name": "Mycelial loam",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT17",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Dark soil blocks with a restrained pale pixel network, a contained substrate sample and a marked managed bed.",
      "process_direction": "A small compatible sample enters a documented cultivation recipe with ordinary earlier tools and substrate support. IND-M13 maintains only the local declared plot and active-use conditions.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve a cultivated patch or restore a damaged plot through a bounded action. Carrying loam cannot infect arbitrary builds, create remote growth or erase a biome's ecological limits.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT17",
        "Mycelial loam in healthy underground ecosystems",
        "Cultivation, soil improvement, restoring damaged plots",
        "Dark organic soil with a restrained pale root network."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT18",
      "name": "Ironbark fiber",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT18",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Dark-brown broad strip patterns on an identified woody source, a flat bundle item and a thick rope or panel edge.",
      "process_direction": "Careful edge harvesting retains the established growth. Prepared strips reach IND-M11 or IND-M10 with earlier materials for a tough textile or composite, with studied cultivation only where supported.",
      "application_and_limits": "A repairable hoist rope, strap or panel benefits a route. Higher strength trades weight, handling or preparation; ordinary rope remains useful and one sample cannot supply endless stock.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT18",
        "Ironbark fiber in established underground woody growth",
        "Tough ropes, composite panels, strong textiles",
        "Deep brown strips with a long fibrous grain and a clear living source."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "MAT19",
      "name": "Biolume culture",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-MAT19",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A small protected colony in a square jar or growth block, with a restrained cool color area and simple housing.",
      "process_direction": "A known compatible sample and bounded conditions establish controlled cultivation. Its relevant lamp or route-marker product uses an actual housing and supported supplies; finished stock stays distinct from a living source.",
      "application_and_limits": "A maintained low-intensity display can help a home or route. New living-light behaviour remains future design and does not authorize current shader or emissive-ore changes.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "MAT19",
        "Biolume culture from identified underground organisms",
        "Cultivated lamps, route markers, low-intensity living displays",
        "A small protected colony in a jar or growth block, with controlled cool light."
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM01",
      "name": "Regolith Ceramic",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM01",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Regolith cube, coarse prepared feed item and pale ceramic panel with a few dusty edge pixels.",
      "process_direction": "IND-M51 identifies the sample and reserves a specimen; an imported or home IND-M09 configuration forms the supported ceramic product. Initial apparatus, liners and power come from earlier sources.",
      "application_and_limits": "A refuge insulation panel or thermal insert improves the next visit. The first arrival shelter and independent return were already packed on Earth.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM01",
        "Regolith Ceramic",
        "Feedstock, finished panel, habitat application",
        "Vacuum habitat panels and thermal management"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM02",
      "name": "Lunar Glass Filament",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM02",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A few dark impact-glass shard icons, a square spool and a housed light-guide element.",
      "process_direction": "IND-M50/51 identifies the glass and develops a supported filament/instrument recipe. A larger IND-M29 configuration can improve consistency later. Exact sample yield remains unresolved.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve a survey instrument or local light guide. A tiny illustrated sample cannot promise a completed observatory; repeat collection remains a real expedition.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM02",
        "Lunar Glass Filament",
        "Raw glass seam, fiber spool, illuminated instrument",
        "Sensors and compact light guides"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM03",
      "name": "Ferric Lattice",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM03",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Familiar rusty mineral stock, a clearly manufactured reddish lattice beam and a removable rover-rack corner.",
      "process_direction": "Mars iron-bearing feed and common structural ingredients pass through a selected forming/composite route, then IND-M58 fits the declared component. The first rover uses an earlier frame and imported spares.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve repair access or a rugged load member. A lattice is manufactured, not a naturally growing truss, and it is unnecessary for the first arrival that discovers its feedstock.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM03",
        "Ferric Lattice",
        "Composite sample, frame member, rover application",
        "Rugged repairable frames"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM04",
      "name": "Brine Catalyst",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM04",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A bounded brine-source context, closed sample and prepared processing cartridge with a simple distinct icon.",
      "process_direction": "Compatible contained samples reach IND-M51 and a specified IND-M23 preparation route using earlier apparatus. A reusable cartridge housing holds an actual finite active supply with a declared spent state.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve one compact processing or closed-loop service. It is separate from optional Mars life; no brine mat is required or selected, and a catalyst is not an infinite material generator.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM04",
        "Brine Catalyst",
        "Deposit context, sealed sample, processing cartridge",
        "Compact processing and closed-loop equipment"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM05",
      "name": "Dark-Ice Concentrate",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM05",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Dark volatile-bearing ice blocks, a closed extraction container and a compact storage module.",
      "process_direction": "A supplied Ceres expedition surveys actual ice pockets. Compatible separation/conditioning prepares the defined concentrate and its storage form using earlier thermal, power and containment capability.",
      "application_and_limits": "Offer a specific industrial feedstock or storage advantage. Any fuel use pays the complete preparation and consumption route; the first return is already supplied before local extraction.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM05",
        "Dark-Ice Concentrate",
        "Ice pocket, extraction container, storage module",
        "Alternative industrial feedstock and storage efficiency"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM06",
      "name": "Porous Nickel Matrix",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM06",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Familiar metal-bearing fragment, a prepared open matrix block and a light cargo-rack member.",
      "process_direction": "A Ceres sample is identified, prepared and formed through a compatible alloy/porous-structure game recipe. Earlier metal frames and apparatus construct the first process; the finished matrix is not simply a loose ore block.",
      "application_and_limits": "Reduce a chosen structural burden or isolate an instrument. Porosity brings a defined property and retained load limits, not an all-purpose superior material.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM06",
        "Porous Nickel Matrix",
        "Cross-section, lightweight frame, cargo rack",
        "Cargo structures and isolated instrument mounts"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM07",
      "name": "Cryoseal Gel",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM07",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A contained blue-grey sample or cartridge, a simple dark gasket and an installed cold-service connector.",
      "process_direction": "Only permitted limited colony secretion or a documented contained cultivated feedstock supplies the material. IND-M51 and an appropriate seal process prepare a finite replaceable stock; imported seals support initial Europa operation.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve an Ice Submersible or other supported cold-service seal after discovery. Observation can succeed without harvesting a colony, and collected material does not certify real pressure-vessel engineering.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM07",
        "Cryoseal Gel",
        "Safe sample, gel cartridge, flexible seal",
        "Cold-resistant sealing and repairs"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM08",
      "name": "Resonant Silica",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM08",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Broad porous ribbed laminae represented by block faces, a refined sensor element and a square acoustic housing.",
      "process_direction": "A mapped mineral/colony interface is surveyed without destroying its ecological structure. A compatible collected or approved supplied sample supports IND-M50/51 processing with earlier protected equipment.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve a defined acoustic observation task. It remains distinct from Earth resonant quartz; quiet sensing trades useful instrument space or duty, without detecting everything everywhere.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM08",
        "Resonant Silica",
        "Porous ribbed laminae at a garden interface, refined element, sensor assembly",
        "Acoustic sensing, distinct from Earth resonant quartz"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM09",
      "name": "Thermal Spine Crystal",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM09",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A few stepped native crystal forms, a protected solid sample and a simple exchanger insert.",
      "process_direction": "An earlier thermal kit reaches an identified Io formation. A bounded sample is prepared into a compatible IND-M44/36 service element using an independently powered earlier installation.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve selected heat transfer after initial access. The first collector cannot require this same crystal, and the process does not create energy by endlessly recovering its own waste heat.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM09",
        "Thermal Spine Crystal",
        "Native formation, protected sample, exchanger insert",
        "Bounded heat-transfer equipment"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM10",
      "name": "Sulfur Ceramic",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM10",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Sulfur-bearing feed item, prepared ceramic piece and a thick enclosure panel.",
      "process_direction": "Gathered compatible Io feed joins familiar binders and a resolved IND-M09 or composite firing route. First apparatus and protection arrive from previous materials and supplies.",
      "application_and_limits": "A chemical or thermal enclosure gains a stated duty. The ceramic is manufactured, not a finished panel mined from a seam, and every hot process keeps real input and receiver costs.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM10",
        "Sulfur Ceramic",
        "Processed sample, shielding panel, industrial application",
        "Chemical and thermal equipment enclosures"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM11",
      "name": "Amber Polymer",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM11",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A surveyed chemical source or bounded renewable sample, a flat amber sheet and a cold-service housing.",
      "process_direction": "An identified Titan feedstock passes through an appropriate preparation and IND-M30 forming/curing route. Earlier Earth products and imported service stock support the initial plant.",
      "application_and_limits": "A lightweight or cold-environment casing improves a selected craft/service module. Keep a few broad pixel colors; no photographic resin droplets or universal plastic requirement.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM11",
        "Amber Polymer",
        "Feedstock, flexible sheet, sealed housing",
        "Cold-environment housings and lightweight structures"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM12",
      "name": "Liftweave Membrane",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM12",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Simple broad raw membrane planes, flat patterned sheet and a clearly fabricated supported lift-envelope section.",
      "process_direction": "A permitted Titan source supports a finite preparation/textile/composite route, using earlier tools and a compatible enclosure. Only a declared local flight-support configuration accepts the finished envelope.",
      "application_and_limits": "Refit the Atmospheric Survey Skiff after an earlier viable craft reaches its operating site. No cloth fibers, unrestricted planetary flight or real lift calculation is established by the picture.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM12",
        "Liftweave Membrane",
        "Raw membrane, fabricated envelope, craft application",
        "Specialized supported atmospheric movement"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM13",
      "name": "Nightglass",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM13",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Dark reflective seam blocks, a housed low-light optical element and a simple navigation assembly.",
      "process_direction": "A prepared Pluto expedition identifies a suitable seam and retains a specimen. IND-M50/29 prepares a selected optical element with earlier housings; basic navigation and return already work.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve low-light observation or a bounded route-calibration method. It can be a pre-Afterlight specialist option, while ordinary earlier optics remain available where the recipe permits.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM13",
        "Nightglass",
        "Rifts formation, optical element, navigation array",
        "Low-light optics and route calibration"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM14",
      "name": "Memory Frost",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM14",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Layered frost in broad pale bands, an intact contained sample and a simple recorded analysis image.",
      "process_direction": "Collect a supported layered sample without treating every ice block as a copied archive. Earlier containment and IND-M51 preserve actual sample state, while analysis produces retained knowledge or a named intermediate.",
      "application_and_limits": "Research a preserved pattern. One sample cannot promise a whole transit installation, unlimited memory stock or reconstruction of arbitrary lost objects.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM14",
        "Memory Frost",
        "Layered sample, containment case, analysis image",
        "Preserved-pattern research medium"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM15",
      "name": "Palimpsest Plate",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM15",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A designated recoverable plate fragment with broad surface layers, a protected item and an archival interface panel.",
      "process_direction": "Cairn repeatable secondary sources provide approved fragments outside protected puzzle cores. Earlier instruments identify and fit them through a declared precision/archive project; ordinary route knowledge stays intact.",
      "application_and_limits": "Improve archival or precision work after reaching Cairn. Removing indispensable puzzle architecture is not the normal resource route, and the plate cannot gate the first voyage to its own source.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM15",
        "Palimpsest Plate",
        "Recoverable fragment, layered surface, archive interface",
        "Precision and archival equipment"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM16",
      "name": "Phase Tine",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM16",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A simple resonant component silhouette, a square protective housing and a small local sensing assembly.",
      "process_direction": "A repeatable Cairn secondary site supplies actual compatible stock. Earlier calibration and a bounded instrument recipe prepare its stated alignment role, with protected observations preserved.",
      "application_and_limits": "Support a narrow anomaly-sensing interaction. It does not erase conventional hazards, open every locked device or authorize general teleportation.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM16",
        "Phase Tine",
        "Resonant component, protective housing, local device",
        "Bounded anomaly sensing and alignment"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM17",
      "name": "Living Ceramic",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM17",
      "handled_form_and_art": "A contained angular pale growth, a separate inert finished cream panel and a coarse block-built habitat application.",
      "process_direction": "Studied Morrow growth is cultivated only in a declared managed enclosure. A finite harvest is prepared or rendered inert through its supported process, then fitted with earlier construction materials.",
      "application_and_limits": "Make a controlled ecological building product. Finished walls do not propagate a living colony through the home; first Morrow arrival and its return use pre-existing supplies.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM17",
        "Living Ceramic",
        "Cultivated growth, inert finished panel, habitat application",
        "Controlled ecological construction"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    },
    {
      "id": "PM18",
      "name": "Tidelace Fiber",
      "section_id": "C06-MAT-PM18",
      "handled_form_and_art": "Broad managed growth-edge forms, a squared teal-grey spool and a simple responsive screen block.",
      "process_direction": "Permitted renewable fiber collection preserves habitat structure and a retained specimen. Compatible textile/optical preparation produces a finite instrument or tool component with earlier supports.",
      "application_and_limits": "A lightweight tool or ecological display gains a particular response. It does not consume the only sample, grow without boundaries or turn ordinary cloth into a universal frontier material.",
      "original_catalogue_row": [
        "PM18",
        "Tidelace Fiber",
        "Growth source, filament spool, responsive screen",
        "Lightweight tools and ecological instruments"
      ],
      "numeric_yield": null,
      "implementation_status": "Current-chart relationship only where explicitly reconciled; creative processing not established"
    }
  ],
  "products": [
    {
      "id": "PR06-01",
      "name": "Bronze fittings",
      "process_direction": "Copper and tin; IND-M07 then IND-M05",
      "first_use": "Pump elbows, valves and serviceable couplings",
      "balance_and_access": "Plain earlier fittings or manual transfer can cover a small first job. Bronze provides a readable repairable mechanical family, not a new universal pickaxe tier."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-02",
      "name": "Structural steel",
      "process_direction": "Iron and supported carbon; IND-M08 then IND-M04",
      "first_use": "Lifts, project frames, replaceable structural parts",
      "balance_and_access": "The first furnace uses accessible refractory materials. Powered blowers and better handling improve repeated production later."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-03",
      "name": "Sealed cloth",
      "process_direction": "Ordinary or studied fiber plus approved seal stock; IND-M11/12",
      "first_use": "Bags, filters, patches and protective layers",
      "balance_and_access": "Safe-fringe inputs and surface substitutes precede the first need for protection. Replace a service part instead of recreating the complete item."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-04",
      "name": "Technical ceramics",
      "process_direction": "Accepted clay and selected additives; IND-M09",
      "first_use": "Vessels, insulation, hot-work parts and habitat inserts",
      "balance_and_access": "Household and simple technical recipes keep common clay valuable. Specialist panels improve a particular thermal or environmental duty."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-05",
      "name": "Lightweight plates",
      "process_direction": "A resolved prepared alumina route; IND-M21 then IND-M04",
      "first_use": "Tanks, cargo frames and selected equipment panels",
      "balance_and_access": "An earlier common-metal frame builds the first process cell. The common-material Explorer is not retroactively made dependent on this plant."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-06",
      "name": "Reinforced alloy",
      "process_direction": "Selected nickel-bearing stock; IND-M22",
      "first_use": "Higher-duty fittings and replaceable structural modules",
      "balance_and_access": "Use the property where a load or environment warrants it. Existing steel frames remain viable and repairable."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-07",
      "name": "Titanium frame stock",
      "process_direction": "Approved titaniferous precursor; IND-M22/05",
      "first_use": "Specialist load support and advanced craft structures",
      "balance_and_access": "First source access and high-temperature processing use earlier equipment. A new natural source is a later generation decision."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-08",
      "name": "Optical assemblies",
      "process_direction": "Glass/quartz or a supported specialist lens; IND-M50/29",
      "first_use": "Navigation, surveying and observation",
      "balance_and_access": "Basic instruments work before specialist growth. Better optics reveal a bounded extra method rather than all resources through walls."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-09",
      "name": "Resonant components",
      "process_direction": "Studied resonant quartz in an instrument housing; IND-M50/51",
      "first_use": "A defined family of unusual devices and traces",
      "balance_and_access": "Knowledge and physical components remain separate. Calibration never erases the ordinary return map or consumes a unique mission record."
    },
    {
      "id": "PR06-10",
      "name": "Heartglass assemblies",
      "process_direction": "Prepared Heartglass with established optical or thermal parts; IND-M29/44/50",
      "first_use": "Advanced protection and specialist research",
      "balance_and_access": "Preserve a specimen and a repeatable collection route. A deep product improves later work without becoming a hidden ingredient in its own first-access kit."
    }
  ],
  "chart_crosswalk": [
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT01",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Tin",
      "interpretation": "Same named material; proposed shallow first source differs from charted Deepwilds. Keep chart placement as current evidence; early recipe substitutes remain proposals."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT02",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Nickel",
      "interpretation": "Same named material in Underreach; new alloy processing is future direction."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT03",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Bauxite",
      "interpretation": "Related precursor role only. Alumina clay and bauxite are not approved aliases or identical generation."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT04",
      "current_chart_relationship": "No named counterpart",
      "interpretation": "Titaniferous source and processing remain creative proposals."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT05",
      "current_chart_relationship": "No named counterpart",
      "interpretation": "Graphite is distinct from ordinary carbon fuel; no chart addition is inferred."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT06",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Vanilla quartz / certus quartz context",
      "interpretation": "Clear quartz is a creative material role; accepted substitution and source tags require a recipe decision."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT07",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Sulfur",
      "interpretation": "Same named material in Deepwilds; vent collection remains a future placement proposal."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT08",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Salt",
      "interpretation": "Charted beside Underreach lakes; creative evaporite forms and processing are not all implemented."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT09",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Ordinary clay context",
      "interpretation": "Common clay can support an early recipe proposal; a new named deposit is not verified."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT10\u2013MAT12",
      "current_chart_relationship": "No named chart counterpart",
      "interpretation": "Root resin, spore fiber and Shellstone are proposed ecological/building material families."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT13\u2013MAT14",
      "current_chart_relationship": "No approved one-to-one counterpart",
      "interpretation": "Lens crystal and resonant quartz are not silent renamings of amethyst or certus quartz."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT15",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Draconium is distinct",
      "interpretation": "Core draconium does not become Heartglass; both names retain their separate source status."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT16",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Mantle has no chart minerals",
      "interpretation": "Thermal salt remains a proposed future source and product family."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "MAT17\u2013MAT19",
      "current_chart_relationship": "No named chart counterpart",
      "interpretation": "Mycelial loam, ironbark fiber and biolume culture remain creative living-material direction."
    },
    {
      "creative_identity": "PM01\u2013PM18",
      "current_chart_relationship": "Outside the implemented Earth chart",
      "interpretation": "All planetary families retain their fictional source and process direction without claiming registered deposits or recipes."
    }
  ],
  "advanced_recipe_proposals": "advanced_routes_06.json",
  "numeric_policy": "numeric_yield:null means unassigned, never zero or free"
}
