Caterium Ingot is smelted from Caterium Ore and is primarily used to craft Quickwire. It can be also crafted into standard Wire using alternate recipes.
Obtaining[]
Unlocking[]
Crafting[]
| Recipe | Ingredients | Building | Products | Prerequisites | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 ×  Caterium Ore 45 / min | Smelter 4 sec  × 4 | 1 ×  Caterium Ingot 15 / min 16 MJ/item | Caterium Research - Caterium Ingots | |||||||||||||
2 × Caterium Ore 24 / min | 2 ×  Water 24 / min | Refinery 5 sec | 1 × Caterium Ingot 12 / min 150 MJ/item | Tier 3 - Coal Power Caterium Research - Caterium | ||||||||||||
Alternate recipes analysis[]
The following shows different ways to produce 1 Caterium Ingot / second, or 60 / min:
| Recipe | Caterium Ore /min (WP) |
Total Energy /item (MJ) |
Space (m2) |
Building counts |
Sink value input |
Sink value output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | 180 (163.04 ) |
41.46 | 237.91 | 4.26 | 1260 | 2520 |
| Pure | 120 (108.7 ) |
186.97 | 1404.61 | 6.17 | 840 | 2520 |
- Weighted Point is the weighted consumption rate which is calculated by:
(resource consumption rate / maximum extraction rate) * 10,000. The lower the better. - Energy per item can be used to measure how much power is consumed for the entire production chain. The lower the better.
- Building space and building count are summed for all buildings, excluding belts, pipes, power poles, power lines and other logistic infrastructures. The lower the better.
Usage[]
Research[]
Crafting[]
| Recipe | Ingredients | Building | Products | Prerequisites | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
15 × Caterium Ingot | 4 ×  Iron Rod | Equipment Workshop × 10 | 1 ×  Golden Factory Cart | AWESOME Shop - Golden FICSIT Factory Cart™ | ||||||||||||
2 ×  Rotor | ||||||||||||||||
1 × Caterium Ingot 12 / min | Constructor 5 sec × 5 | 5 ×  Quickwire 60 / min 4 MJ/item | Caterium Research - Quickwire | |||||||||||||
1 × Caterium Ingot 7.5 / min | 5 ×  Copper Ingot 37.5 / min | Assembler 8 sec | 12 × Quickwire 90 / min 10 MJ/item | Caterium Research - Caterium Ingots | ||||||||||||
4 × Copper Ingot 12 / min | 1 × Caterium Ingot 3 / min | Assembler 20 sec | 30 ×  Wire 90 / min 10 MJ/item | Caterium Research - Caterium | ||||||||||||
1 × Caterium Ingot 15 / min | Constructor 4 sec | 8 × Wire 120 / min 2 MJ/item | Caterium Research - Caterium | |||||||||||||
AWESOME Sink[]
Tips[]
- For storage and transportation on belts, Caterium Ingot is preferred over its ore due to its 1:3 compression.
- In addition, (other than the Golden Factory Cart,) Caterium Ingots are only used to produce Wire and Quickwire, both of which are produced in high quantities and thus have high throughput requirements relative to their ingot components. Consider transporting Caterium ingots rather than ore or either type of wire, whenever possible.
History[]
- Patch 0.3: Increased the Quickwire product from four to five.
- Patch 0.1.5: Reduced ore cost from four to three.
