Collecting

Collections are a big part of life on Umbra. It helps bring variety and focus to those sunless days! There are three types: curios, gemstones, and trading cards.

On your HUD, click the book icon to bring up your collections. There, you can keep track of what you do and don't have. Luckily, this is a very smart book, and will tell you if the item in your inventory has already been added to your collection. If it hasn't, double-click to add it. If it has, you can sell it to a vendor, trash it, or--most popular by far--trade or give it away to other players, hopefully in exchange for something you don't have yet.

Some collectibles will show up ready to add, but others will need to be refined or identified first. Raw gemstones can be refined by the smaller bots behind the Brokers, and unidentified objects (they look like atoms) can be taken to the curios identification area near the Med Bay. Both refinement and identification cost credits.

If you find or process a gemstone you already have, you can trade it, sell it, trash it, or save it for later. Identical gemstones can be fused together (again, by a bot at the Broker's, for a fee) to make larger gemstones, which in turn can also be fused together. This is how you are most likely to gain the largest, most rare collectible gemstones, but it can take up a lot of bank space in the meantime. Some will choose to focus on just one stone (ex: Lapidi, Rubinus) until that collection is complete, and then move on to another.

Understandably, there is a lively trade for both curios and gemstones on Umbra.

Trading cards are rarely to never found in the caverns, but can be purchased from select vendors in Boomtown, for Research Credits. There is a steady trade in these as well.