Elite: Dangerous/Material Trader

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Material Traders allow you to exchange materials in order to acquire materials that you lack, such as exchanging Iron for Zinc.

Material traders are one of three types: Raw, Manufactured, and Data.

Material Trade Costs

Materials can be traded to go up grades, down grades, and across categories:

  • Going up one grade costs 6 for each grade, multiplicatively
  • Doing down one grade gives 3 for each grade, multiplicatively
  • Changing category costs 6, no matter how many categories you jump

Shown below is a table of trade costs and results.

In:Out Down 4 Down 3 Down 2 Down 1 Same Grade Up 1 Up 2 Up 3 Up 4
Same Category 1:81 1:27 1:9 1:3 1:1 6:1 36:1 216:1 1296:1*
Different Category 2:27 2:9 2:3 2:1 6:1 36:1 216:1 1291:1* 7776:1*

Trades marked with an asterisk are normally not possible directly, since materials have a storage cap. You will need to use an intermediate material in order to do these trades.

In some cases, it may be possible to trade materials up grades despite this, since 2.4 has an overall material cap of 1000 for raw + manufactured and 500 for data.

Material Trader Types

Different material trader types offer different trading possibilities.

The tables below show what materials each type of trader works with.

Raw

Category 1
Grade 1 Carbon Grade 2 Vanadium Grade 3 Niobium Yttrium
Category 2
Grade 1 Phosphorus Grade 2 Chromium Molybdenum Grade 5 Technetium
Category 3
Grade 1 Sulphur Grade 2 Manganese Grade 4 Cadmium Ruthenium
Category 4
Grade 1 Iron Grade 2 Zinc Grade 4 Tin Grade 3 Selenium Antimony
Category 5
Grade 1 Nickel Grade 2 Germanium Grade 3 Tungsten Grade 5 Tellurium Grade 5 Polonium
Category 6
Grade 1 Rhenium Grade 3 Arsenic Mercury Grade 3 Zirconium

Manufactured

Chemical
Chemical Storage Units Chemical Processors Chemical Distillery Chemical Manipulators Pharmaceutical
Isolators
Thermic
Tempered Alloys Heat Resistant
Ceramics
Precipitated Alloys Thermic Alloys Military Grade Alloys
Heat
Heat Conduction Wiring Heat Dispersion Plate Heat Exchangers Heat Vanes Proto Heat 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
Supercapacitors
Shielding
Worn Shield Emitters Shield Emitters Shielding Sensors Compound Shielding Imperial 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 Phase Alloys Proto Light Alloys Proto Radiolic Alloys

Data

Emission Data
Exceptional Scrambled
Emission Data
Irregular Emission Data Unexpected Emission
Data
Decoded Emission Data Abnormal Compact
Emissions Data
Wake Scans
Atypical Disrupted
Wake Echoes
Anomalous FSD
Telemetry
Strange Wake
Solutions
Eccentric Hyperspace
Trajectories
Datamined Wake
Exceptions
Shield Data
Distorted Shield Cycle
Recordings
Inconsistent Shield
Soak Analysis
Untypical Shield Scans Aberrant Shield
Pattern Analysis
Peculiar Shield
Frequency Data
Encryption Files
Unusual Encrypted
Files
Tagged Encryption
Codes
Open Symmetric Keys Atypical Encryption
Archives
Adaptive Encryptors
Capture
Data Archives
Anomalous Bulk Scan
Data
Unidentified Scan
Archives
Classified Scan
Databanks
Divergent Scan Data Classified Scan
Fragment
Encoded Firmware
Specialised Legacy
Firmware
Modified Consumer
Firmware
Cracked Industrial
Firmware
Security Firmware
Patch
Modified Embedded
Firmware