Matter

Description
Matter is a resource in Nom Nom Galaxy used primarily for building structures. It can be collected from various sources but is mainly found in veins or other patterns in soft earth. The player's current stockpile of Matter is displayed in the top-left of the screen, denoted by a light blue rounded square.

Obtaining Matter
The vast majority of Matter obtained by the player will be through digging. Soft earth with faint rounded square patterns will yield sizeable amounts of Matter when destroyed with the Buzzsaw (or any other weapon). These blocks are typically found in veins at any depth underground, or sometimes in pre-existing "artificial" structures above ground. Digging out just a few of these deposits will provide several thousand units of Matter, which is sufficient for many factories.

Matter can also be obtained from defeated invaders sent by opposing companies. Additionally, when a structure costing matter is demolished, some of the matter spent (50%?) will drop as a partial refund.

Spending Matter
Matter is mostly used to build structures to expand the player's Soup factory. In the Structures menu, all buildings under the Soup and Infrastructure tabs cost Matter to create, including core components such as Soup Machines and Rockets, Corridors, and even the critical Office.

Damaged structures can be repaired using Matter; doing so is typically cheaper than building them anew.

Warpgates are also operated using Matter. Throwing Ingredients or other items through a Warpgate is free, but warping the player costs an amount of Matter proportional to the distance to the destination Warpgate.