Where to find Quartz on Planet Humble

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The procedural wreckage of Planet Humble

The Humble planet has several differences from the base planet Planet Crafter. Planet Humble is smaller for one and contains a large underground area that you don't get to until late in the game.

However, you can source all the resources you can on the base planet on the planet Humble, including rare types of quartz like solar, quasar, and magnetar. You won't find these quartzes in the early stages Planet Crafter DLC, but it turns out they are hidden in plain sight.

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How to get Cosmic Quartz

As you begin to explore Planet Humble, you may find unusual rock formations like the one pictured above. They look unnatural, but unlike the base planet, they have nothing to do with ancient aliens or human terraformers.

Instead, they are deposits of Space Quartz, an ore type exclusive to Planet Humble. While you can mine the other new ores instantly, you can't do anything with the space quartz, while the entire rock formation is the same shade of brown.

Instead, you have to wait until the planet's terraformation index reaches the GTi range. At some point around the Insect or Breathable Atmosphere stage, the stone around the ovoid at the top wears away, revealing the iridescent space quartz underneath. At this point you can mine space quartz like any other ore.

How to use Cosmic Quartz

Cosmic Quartz Rude Planet Crafter Crusher

Like the other Planet Humble ores, you use space quartz by placing it in the ore crusher and waiting for it to grind the ore into useful minerals. You can see a hint of this on the back of the T3 ore crusher: it has the same hints about the normal three ores on the right panel of the input box, while the left panel shows the cosmic quartz ore and the five special quartz that appear in the regular game.

However, there are a few important points to remember about this process.

Space Quartz doesn't just make quartz. While space quartz would be good to give you one of each special quartz, it can also give you rare ores like zeolite and osmium, or it can give you two of the same type of quartz.
Space quartz works in every type of ore crusher. The hint only appears on T3, but any ore crusher will destroy this quartz. Consider this a warning to store your Space Quartz carefully, as you should have unlocked the T3 long before Space Quartz became available.

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The procedural wreckage of Planet Humble

Just like in the base game, you can unlock the Portal Generator building once you reach 250 GTi. The price is the same and the function is the same: locate wrecks in other places on the planet and save them. Procedural wrecks give you an unlimited supply of otherwise limited resources such as plant seeds and most types of quartz.

Space quartz is rare and there is nowhere on the map where you can mine it with the ore extractor. It's useful for getting enough quartz to complete the recipes you can unlock before you reach 250 GTi, but you should rely on the portal generator to replenish your quartz supply once you get a chance to build one.