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Copper ore

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Copper ore

  • Base game
  •  
  • Space Age mod

Map color

Stack size

50

Rocket capacity

500 (10 stacks)

Mining time

1

Prototype type

resource

Internal name

copper-ore

Produced by

Consumed by

Copper ore is a basic resource found in resource patches throughout the world. It can be smelted into copper plates in a furnace.

Copper ore is the main source of copper plates, which are one of the two principal raw materials (along with iron plates, made from iron ore) for crafting the vast majority of items in the game. In the early game, copper is needed in smaller quantities than iron, with some early-game products not requiring it at all. Demand for copper increases considerably in the mid- and late-game, where it (mostly in the form of copper cables) is required mainly for the assembly of electronic circuits and the myriad products those are required in, and for low density structures.

The size, density, and richness of copper patches can, as for all other resources, be adjusted upon map generation at the start of a new game. Like all resource patches, copper patches increase in richness with increasing distance from the starting area. Volcanic rock from Vulcanus provides starting copper before crafting foundries which can directly produce copper plates.

Alternative gathering

In the Space Age expansion, each surface has its own way of obtaining copper ore.