Where to find quartz on planet Humble

Planet Humble has several differences from the base planet Planet Crafter. Planet Humble, for example, is smaller and has a large underground area that you can't access until the end of the game.

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

How to get space quartz

When you start exploring the planet Humble, you can find unusual rock formations like the one in the image 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, a type of ore exclusive to Planet Humble. However, while you can mine other new ores at once, you can't do anything with space quartz if the entire rock is the same shade of brown.

Instead, you need to wait until the planet's terraformation index reaches the GTi range. At some point in the Insects or Breathing Atmosphere stage, the stone around the egg-shaped rock at the top wears away, revealing the iridescent space quartz below. At this point, you can mine Space Quartz just like any other ore.

How to use space quartz

Like 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 about this on the back of the T3 ore crusher: it has the same hints about the three normal ores on the right panel of the entrance locker, while the left panel shows the space quartz ore and the five special quartz that appear in the normal game.

However, there are some important points to keep in mind about this process.

• Space Quartz doesn't just make quartz. While space quartz would be handy 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 quartz of the same type.
• Space quartz works in every type of ore crusher. The hint only appears on the T3 model, but any ore crusher will destroy this quartz. Consider this a warning to be careful with your Space Quartz, because you should have unlocked the T3 model long before Space Quartz became available.

Planet Humble Procedural Wrecks

Just like in the base game, you can unlock the Portal Generator building when you reach 250 GTi. The price is the same, and the function is the same: to find and salvage shipwrecks elsewhere on the planet. Procedural debris gives you an unlimited supply of limited resources such as plant seeds and most types of quartz.

Space Quartz is rare and cannot be mined with an extractor anywhere on the map. This is useful for getting enough quartz to complete the recipes you can unlock before you reach 250 GTi, but you have to rely on the portal generator to replenish your quartz supply once you get a chance to create it.