Iron ore

Iron ore

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• Space Age mod

Map color
Stack size	50
Rocket capacity	500 (10 stacks)
Mining time	1
Prototype type	resource
Internal name	iron-ore
Produced by
Consumed by

Map color
Stack size	50
Rocket capacity	500 (10 stacks)
Mining time	1
Prototype type	resource
Internal name	iron-ore
Produced by
Consumed by

Object description

Iron ore is a resource found on the map. It can be smelted into iron plates in a furnace, and is also a component in concrete.

In the Space Age expansion, each surface has its own way of obtaining iron 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 iron ore in crushers.
• On Gleba, iron ore can be obtained by allowing iron bacteria to spoil, which can be obtained sustainably in biochambers first from jelly and then by cultivating them with bioflux.
• On Vulcanus, iron ore can be found in rocks on the planet's surface. Most iron products, including concrete, are produced in foundries from molten iron extracted from inexhaustible lava with calcite.
• On Fulgora, it can be obtained by recycling concrete, itself obtained from recycling scrap. It has little use as iron plate, steel plates and concrete can also all be recycled from scrap.
• Iron ore is not available on Aquilo; iron and iron products must be imported.

Alternative recipes

Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

Process	Input	Output	Made in	Required technology
Metallic asteroid crushing	2 + 1	20 + 0.3		Space platform (research)
Advanced metallic asteroid crushing	5 + 1	10 + 4 + 0.1		Advanced asteroid processing (research)