Empyrion Buddy is a companion application to Empyrion: Galactic Survival, a space survival game developed by Eleon Studios. Its purpose is to aid the players of the game into getting detailed information about the items of the game, along with their crafting recipes, which vendors to buy them from and where to find them. You can also find a complete web version of the game's Empyriopedia for easy off-game reading.

It also adds a few features not included in the game, such as being able to see all the items that a particular item is used as part of their recipes, breaks down items into their base components, and compares prices of their components to the item's average price. Although the core information is now completed and implemented, Empyrion Buddy will still be under development, and new features will be added as development continues.

Empyrion Buddy has support for Workshop scenarios. Currently it provides information for Vanilla, Dark Faction DLC and Reforged Eden 2.

You simply type in the search field the item, status effect or trader that you are looking for, and select it from the drop down list.

You can also browse the Items, Effects and Traders pages!

Empyrion Buddy parses the game's ecf and csv files and extracts the information out of them into a usable and user friendly form. This means that when new versions of the game and the scenarios are released, support for those will be included almost instantly and effortlessly.

There is a lot of information about the game and its items hidden deep within its configuration files and which is not visible as straight data inside the game. You can use EB to get more insights about how items work and how effective they are into specific aspects so you can plan ahead your building, expeditions etc.

You can run it as an aid while you're playing the game, or access its info on your phone, when you're not playing the game.

Disclaimer: Even though the information in EB has been curated so that it doesn't act as a spoiler for the game, some items, could provide early information that might reduce your trial and error experience.

I go by the nickname aMUSiC and I'm from Greece. I'm a Frontend Engineer and also a game developer and owner of Split Infinity Games, a small game development studio in Athens, Greece. I love space and space survival games. Back in 2018 I was infatuated with Hellion, an early access Space Survival game. So much in fact, that I created Hellion Buddy, a very similar application to this one which was embraced by the community and to date is one of the most used and lauded tools, even if Hellion's devs pulled the plug to the game in 2019.

I discovered Empyrion pretty late (Summer 2024) and have since jotted more than 350 hours in it (at the time these words are written). I started directly with Reforged Eden 2 and haven't tackled Vanilla at all, but I've once again fell in love with a space survival game, and that led me to repeat the process of creating another *Buddy tool.

You can reach me for comments, bug reports and feature requests at amusic@splitinfinity.games, or message me in Empyrion's Discord server.

There are no dedicated privacy policies and terms of use pertaining to Empyrion Buddy, but the following need to be said:

While Empyrion Buddy is entirely my creation from scratch, all content (data and images) are property of Eleon, and for Reforged Eden 2, Ravien and Vermillion (used with their kind permission).

Some of the icons used in RE2 are from the Icon Super Pack by Monroe and dougmhz.

Empyrion Buddy is provided as is, and I'm no way accountable if your character suffers a gruesome death in space by the use of the information found in this app. I've done my best to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, but I'm only human and since the game's ecf files are humongous and not easily decipherable there is always the off chance that something might have slipped through the cracks. If you spot something that is off, please report it.

Empyrion Buddy does not collect ANY information about you, or how you use it. It has no trackers, no ads, and no cookies.

The only information that Empyrion Buddy stores in your browser's local storage, is your language and scenario preferences, so that you don't have to keep changing them every time you use the app.

Empyrion Buddy is a non-profit project, and I'm doing it because I love the game and want to give back to the community. I might add a donation button in the future for those who REALLY insist though. What I am looking for however in terms of support, is help with localization. Empyrion Buddy supports all the languages that Empyrion also supports, but I only know English and Greek so all other languages are machine translated and most probably have tons of translation errors. If you are fluent in English AND one of the other game languages (German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese) and feel like localizing Empyrion Buddy to your language, then get in touch.

On Empyrion Buddy's Discord Server you can use the discord bot to fetch information from Empyrion Buddy directly into any channel you want. Type /eb to bring up the command, and follow the instructions on screen.

You can also add the Empyrion Buddy bot on your own server. The bot does not require any permission (other than being able to post embeds) or any special role (other than any possible role you want to give it to access specific channels), and has a 60 second cooldown usage per user. Server administrators are exempt from usage cooldowns. Keep in mind that some embeds (especially for items or Empyriopedia articles) might be quite lengthy!

As with the whole Empyrion Buddy philosophy, the Discord Bot does not collect any data, or usage statistics at all!

Items, Traders, Status Effects and Empyriopedia Articles have a share button which you can used to share a link to that particular entry with others. In discord servers, the link will also include a preview with a bit of useful information about that entity. Always use the share link to share and avoid copying and sharing the URL of a page directly, as the share button will also include information about the scenario and language in the link.

In the official Empyrion Discord Server you can use the /empyrion_buddy command to display content from Empyrion Buddy on any channel. (Thanks to Taelyn for incorporating the Empyrion Buddy API to his bot)

If you want to use Empyrion Buddy's information in your own app/project, there is a REST API exposed. Get in touch with me for more information.

Huge thanks and gratitude fly out to:

Taelyn/ELEON for his help with data association and porting the Empyrion Buddy API to the Empyrion Discord
Vermillion & Ravien/Reforged Eden for the awesomest of scenarios and omission/bug hunting in EB
Spirit/Split Infinity for continuous moral/idea support and working on the Item Tooltips
suntrip for pointing me in the right direction in some specific data acquisition, as well as spotting and reporting bugs
CrazyGamer919 for the RE2 Modifications to Weapons idea