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The Material Trader is a contact found at certain stations that offers to substitution ane Material for a different quantity of another Textile. There are three types of Material Trader, each dealing exclusively in one category of Materials: Raw Materials, Manufactured Materials, or Encoded Materials.

i Location factors
two Exchange tables
- 2.ane Raw Materials Trader
- 2.ii Manufactured Materials Trader
- 2.3 Encoded Materials Trader
3 Exchange rates
- 3.1 Materials in the same subcategory
- iii.ii Materials in dissimilar subcategories
4 Notes
5 Videos
6 External links

Location factors

Each Material Trader type only trades in their specific category of Materials. A station'due south economy type determines which Material Trader may exist present:

Raw Materials Trader: Operate in Refinery and Extraction economies, but trade in Raw Materials.
Manufactured Materials Trader: Operate in Extraction and Industrial economies, just trade in Manufactured Materials.
Encoded Materials Trader: Operate in High Tech and Military economies, only trade in Encoded Materials.

Other variables can also restrict the presence of Fabric Traders:

Material Traders are by and large only found in systems with medium or high security, and with populations betwixt 1,000,000 and 22,000,000.
Materials Traders are unavailable in systems controlled by an chaos small faction.
Materials Traders are unavailable at stations that are currently damaged, repairing, under lockdown, or controlled by an anarchy minor faction.

Exchange tables

Depending on the grade and subcategory of a Cloth, the amount of other Materials that can exist traded for one unit of it varies. The interface that Textile Traders employ to present this information and bear trades is a table. Materials of the same grade are displayed in the same vertical column, while Materials of the same subcategory are displayed in the same horizontal row. These exchange tables are reproduced below.

Raw Materials Trader

Section	Form i	Grade two	Grade 3	Grade 4
Raw Material Category 1	Carbon	Vanadium	Niobium	Yttrium
Raw Fabric Category 2	Phosphorus	Chromium	Molybdenum	Technetium
Raw Cloth Category 3	Sulphur	Manganese	Cadmium	Ruthenium
Raw Material Category 4	Fe	Zinc	Tin	Selenium
Raw Material Category 5	Nickel	Germanium	Tungsten	Tellurium
Raw Material Category 6	Rhenium	Arsenic	Mercury	Polonium
Raw Material Category seven	Lead	Zirconium	Boron	Antimony

Manufactured Materials Trader

Section	Course one	Grade ii	Course 3	Grade 4	Grade 5
Chemical	Chemical Storage Units	Chemic Processors	Chemical Distillery	Chemical Manipulators	Pharmaceutical Isolators
Thermic	Tempered Alloys	Heat Resistant Ceramics	Precipitated Alloys	Thermic Alloys	Armed forces Grade Alloys
Rut	Heat Conduction Wiring	Heat Dispersion Plate	Oestrus Exchangers	Heat Vanes	Proto Oestrus Radiators
Conductive	Basic Conductors	Conductive Components	Conductive Ceramics	Conductive Polymers	Biotech Conductors
Mechanical Components	Mechanical Scrap	Mechanical Equipment	Mechanical Components	Configurable Components	Improvised Components
Capacitors	Grid Resistors	Hybrid Capacitors	Electrochemical Arrays	Polymer Capacitors	Military machine Supercapacitors
Shielding	Worn Shield Emitters	Shield Emitters	Shielding Sensors	Compound Shielding	Majestic Shielding
Composite	Compact Composites	Filament Composites	High Density Composites	Proprietary Composites	Core Dynamics Composites
Crystals	Crystal Shards	Flawed Focus Crystals	Focus Crystals	Refined Focus Crystals	Exquisite Focus Crystals
Alloys	Salvaged Alloys	Galvanising Alloys	Stage Alloys	Proto Light Alloys	Proto Radiolic Alloys

Encoded Materials Trader

Section	Course 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Form 4	Grade 5
Emission Data	Exceptional Scrambled Emission Data	Irregular Emission Data	Unexpected Emission Data	Decoded Emission Information	Abnormal Compact Emissions Data
Wake Scans	Atypical Disrupted Wake Echoes	Anomalous FSD Telemetry	Foreign Wake Solutions	Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories	Datamined Wake Exceptions
Shield Data	Distorted Shield Cycle Recordings	Inconsistent Shield Soak Analysis	Untypical Shield Scans	Aberrant Shield Pattern Assay	Peculiar Shield Frequency Data
Encryption Files	Unusual Encrypted Files	Tagged Encryption Codes	Open up Symmetric Keys	Atypical Encryption Archives	Adaptive Encryptors Capture
Data Athenaeum	Dissonant Majority Scan Data	Unidentified Browse Archives	Classified Browse Databanks	Divergent Scan Data	Classified Scan Fragment
Encoded Firmware	Specialised Legacy Firmware	Modified Consumer Firmware	Cracked Industrial Firmware	Security Firmware Patch	Modified Embedded Firmware

Exchange rates

The exhange rate of a Material depends on its position in the above exchange tables. In summary:

Trading for a Material that is one grade lower gives a iii:1 return.
Trading for a Material that is 1 form higher gives a ane:6 return.
Trading one subcategory for another gives a 1:six return.
Changing both grade and subcategory, and/or irresolute by more than one grade, multiplies all the relevant factors together.

Materials in the same subcategory

This table lists the commutation rates used when converting between items of the aforementioned subcategory.

Example: trading Open Symmetric Keys (Grade 3 Encryption Files) for Adaptive Encryptors Capture (Course 5 Encryption Files), 36 units of input data are consumed to yield one unit of output data.

Conversion of a material to ane of the *aforementioned* subcategory
		Input Grade
		ane	2	3	4	v
Output Grade	1	-	1 → 3	i → 9	one → 27	ane → 81
	two	6 → 1	-	one → iii	1 → ix	1 → 27
	3	36 → 1	half-dozen → one	-	one → 3	ane → 9
	4	216 → 1	36 → one	half dozen → i	-	1 → iii
	v	1296 → 1*	216 → one	36 → 1	half dozen → 1	-

Materials in different subcategories

This table lists the exchange rates used when converting between items of a different subcategory. Converting between different subcategories of fabric is more expensive.

Example 1: trading Adaptive Encryptors Capture (Grade five Encryption Files) for Peculiar Shield Frequency Data (Course v Shield Data), 6 units of input data are consumed to yield 1 unit of measurement of output data.

Example two: trading Open Symmetric Keys (Grade three Encryption Files) for Datamined Wake Exceptions (Grade 5 Wake Data), 216 units of input data are consumed to yield one unit of measurement of output data.

Conversion of a fabric to one of *some other* subcategory
		Input Course
		ane	two	3	4	5
Output Grade	1	6 → 1	ii → one	ii → 3	two → 9	two → 27
	two	36 → 1	6 → 1	ii → 1	two → 3	two → 9
	3	216 → i	36 → i	6 → 1	two → 1	two → 3
	iv	1296 → one *	216 → 1	36 → 1	vi → 1	2 → ane
	5	7776 → i *	1296 → 1 *	216 → 1	36 → 1	6 → i

Note that the conversions marked with an asterisk (*) in the table higher up are non possible to achieve due to the limitations on material/data storage.

Notes

Material Traders were added with Elite Dangerous: Beyond Affiliate One (3.0) on February 27, 2018. Their services are only available to owners of Aristocracy Dangerous: Horizons.