Iron Ore

"The foundation of any factory and the source of all that is beautiful!"

- Caterina Parks's assistant Steve

Iron ore is a base crafting component used as a first ingredient for many recipes. Iron ore is produced by Miners built on top of an Iron Resource Node.

Obtaining
Iron ore can be located using the Resource Scanner shortly after the engineer leaves their drop-pod. It is currently the most common type of ore in the game. It can be mined by hand or by using any of the miners.

There are currently 96 Iron resource nodes in-game; 24 impure, 35 normal, and 37 pure, 2 of those being blocked by a large and currently irremovable rock. This means the upper limit of harvest rate is 59.700 Iron ore/min (Mk.3 miners, 250% overclock, Mk.6 belt). -- outdated, refer to above table.

Harvesting


With a Miner Mk.1, 30 impure iron ore, 60 iron ore or 120 pure iron ore is produced every minute using 5 MW of power.