Energy crystal
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Energy Crystals are a valuable natural mineral introduced in the LEGO Rock Raiders theme, where they are the main focus of the Rock Raiders' mission on Planet U. They also have gone by the more technical name Brickonium in American advertisements, as well as several variants of "Power" Crystal in various other media and countries. The collection of Energy Crystals to power the LMS Explorer and return home is the most important part of the franchise, and they appear in most of the sets and virtually all media related to the franchise in one form or another.
Description
Energy Crystals are a luminescent green or yellowish-green in color. They are usually shaped like five four-sided crystals jutting upwards out of an octagonal base, though since the 2007 Mars Mission theme there have been smaller Energy Crystals with a brilliant-esque gemstone shape as well. They seem to be very lightweight, and make resonating sounds when grabbed, thrown or dropped, but they are very hard to break. They also appear to have a distinctive smell, which many of the Rock Raiders creatures, as well as Docs, can sense. Their glowing radiation appears to be harmless to minifigures, but it attracts many of the creatures of Planet U. These creatures feed off of the power in these crystals, leading to the Rock Raiders often having to fight with them over the Energy Crystals. Monsters in particular are attracted to Energy Crystals, swallowing them whole and destroying anything that gets in their way of feeding on them.
Since the release of the Rock Raiders theme, Energy Crystals have been seen all over the LEGO universe. There are many caches on Earth (such as in the video games LEGOLAND), being the food for the Rock Monsters that also live there. Both smaller gem-like Energy Crystals and the normal five-pointed ones appear on Mars as well, in the Mars Mission theme and the video game LEGO Battles.
In LEGO Rock Raiders for PC=
In the Windows version of LEGO Rock Raiders, the majority of levels require collecting a certain amount of Energy Crystals to complete. Many of the earliest levels require five, while starting after Frozen Frenzy all levels with a collection objective in each row require an additional five from the levels in the previous row, beginning with an objective of fifteen in Erode Works and Water Lot Of Fun and culminating with an objective of fifty in Rocky Horror.
Energy Crystals can typically be found inside certain walls that can be drilled, and are far more rare than LEGO Ore. Occasionally there may be Energy Crystals laying exposed on a cavern floor - Frozen Frenzy, Lava Laughter, Back To Basics, and Rocky Horror all have caches like that. Energy Crystal Seams will also contain four extra Energy Crystals, which will spawn in from of the wall as it is being drilled.
Rock Raiders will collect automatically collect Energy Crystals and feed them into a Power Station to provide power, which is sent to other buildings through Power Paths. Any Energy Crystals being used to power a building will display as silver in the material counter on the right side of the screen. If a Power Station is inaccessible or no Power Station exists, they will be deposited into a Tool Store instead, though any existing Power Station can still use those crystals to power buildings. Certain buildings may also require between one and three Energy Crystals in their construction.
