Copper ore

Copper ore

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• 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

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.

• On Nauvis, it appears in patches that can be mined with drills, as in the base game.
• On space platforms, metallic asteroid chunks gathered with asteroid collectors can be processed into copper ore in crushers with the advanced metallic asteroid crushing recipe.
• On Gleba, copper ore can be obtained by allowing copper bacteria to spoil, which can be obtained sustainably in biochambers first from yumako mash and then by cultivating them with bioflux.
• On Vulcanus, copper ore can be found in rocks on the planet's surface. Most copper products, including low density structures, are produced in foundries from molten copper extracted from inexhaustible lava with calcite.
• Copper ore is not available on Fulgora, but copper plates can be obtained by recycling low density structure, copper cable and batteries, each of which can be obtained from recycling scrap. Demand is low since the highest volume items that require copper (low density structures, cables and circuits) can be obtained from scrap.
• Copper ore is not available on Aquilo; copper and copper products must be imported.