List of EVE Online manufacturing terms


A

Activity 
Any of the six types of manufacturing or research. Manufacturing, Material Research, Time Efficiency Research, Copying, Invention, Reverse Engineering
Advanced Capital Ship Components 
An advanced component manufactured from moon materials and also utilized in the construction of tech II capital ships.
Advanced Commodities 
Highly advanced planetary interaction materials obtained through the further refinement of specialized commodities and utilized in the construction of starbase and sovereignty structures.
Advanced Materials 
An advanced moon material generally obtained from refining processed materials and utilized in the manufacturing of advanced components, advanced capital ship components and tech II items.
Alliance Slot 
An activity slot available at an alliance starbase structure or outpost.
Assembly Array 
Any of the starbase structures called Assembly Arrays that provide slots to do manufacturing activities.

B

Blueprint 
An item that facilitates the manufacturing of an item as well as lists the required materials and skills necessary to complete the activity.
Booster Material 
An intermediate material created from gas clouds utilized to manufacture combat boosters.
BP
(initial) Blueprint

C

Capital Ship Components 
Any of the nineteen components utilized in the construction of capital and super-capital ships.
Component 
Created from commonly accessible materials, these are intermediate materials utilized in the manufacturing of advanced or large scale items.
Construction Component 
An advanced component utilized in the construction of tech II ships.
Copy 
Blueprint copy consumed in the invention attempt.
Copy Slot 
An activity slot that may only be used for the copying activity.
Corporation Slot 
An activity slot provided by a corporation owned startbase structure or outpost.

F

Fullerenes 
A highly advanced material collected from gas clouds in wormhole space and utilized in the construction of polymers.

G

Gas Cloud
1. An interstellar object that allows the harvesting of gas clouds.
2. A material harvested from a gas cloud of the same name utilized in the manufacturing of booster materials.

I

Installation
1. A station service that allows for the creation of an activity job.
2. A starbase array that allows for the creation of an activity job.
3. The act of creating an activity job using a slot.

J

Job 
A single purchased and installed activity. ex. I have one invention job currently running.

M

Manufacturing Slot 
An activity slot that may only be used for the manufacturing activity.
Material
Any item that is a consumed, damaged or simply required to complete a industry activity.
Mats 
(abbr.) Materials
Max Run Copy 
A blueprint copy with the maximum number of production runs still available. Usually 1500.
Max Skills 
The condition of having all material and time efficiency affecting skills to level 5.
Minerals
Any of the eight materials gained from refining ore.
Moon Material
Any material that results from the activity of moon harvesting or as a direct result of the refining of those materials.

N

New Blueprint 
A blueprint original with the same statistics as those sold by on the market: no material or time efficiency research.

O

Original 
(abbr.) Original blueprint.

P

Personal Slot 
An activity slot provided by the current ship.
Polymers 
A highly advanced material manufactured from fullerenes and utilized in the manufacturing of subsystem components.
Processed Materials
1. An intermediate moon material obtained through the refining of raw materials and utilized in the manufacturing of advanced materials.
2. An intermediate planetary interaction material obtained through the refining of raw materials and utilized in the manufacturing of refined commodities.
Public Slot 
An activity slot provided by a station or outpost that is available to the public.

R

Raw Materials
1. Basic moon materials obtained through a moon harvesting array utilized in the manufacturing of processed materials.
2. Basic planetary interaction materials obtained through an extractor unit and utilized in the manufacturing of processed materials.
Refined Commodities 
An intermediate planetary interaction material obtained through the refining of processed materials and utilized in the construction of specialized commodities.
Remote Installation 
The act of installing an activity job into a starbase, station, or outpost slot using a blueprint located elsewhere within the solar system.
Run
The unit that represents one manufacturing activity. Blueprint copies have a finite number of manufacturing activities that when depleted result in the destruction of the copy.

S

Seeded 
(slang) Available in near unlimited quantities and sold by NPCs at a fixed price.
Slot 
A single unit of location provided by a starbase array, station, or outpost service that an activity occupies. ex. This assembly array has eight slots available.
Specialized Commodities 
An advanced planetary interaction material obtained through the refining of refined commodities and utilized in the manufacturing of advanced commodities.
Station Component 
A component utilized in the construction of an outpost.
Subsystem Components 
A highly advanced component utilized in the construction of tech III ships and sub-systems.