Australium

Australium
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Other
Difficulty of Production	Hard
Exists in Reality	No
Atomic Number	Unknown

Australium is a fictional rare, special element which is visually very similar to gold. It is special in that it is a trans-schrabidic ultra-heavy element that not only naturally occurs, but is also fully stable and still undergoes fission.

Production

Mineral Deposits

It has a special ore deposit at X: -400, Z: -400 and an average quantity of ~490. Smelting the ore is extremely inefficient as it only returns single nuggets, however shredding provides 2 powders, increasing efficiency of smelting.

Cyclotron

Australium can be artificially produced in the cyclotron by bombarding tennessine with plutonium:

Cyclotron

Uses

Australium is used for crafting the Market Gardener shovel weapon, which deals critical hits to mobs when rocket jumping (or hitting them while falling from a great height).

Crafting Table

It can be processed through a SILEX into greater and lesser australium isotopes, used as RBMK fuel.

Laser Isotope Seperation Chamber
9.0x 83.3% 16.6%

Crafting the Mark III Life Extender armor modification.

Crafting Table

Trivia

It is a reference to the TF2 material of the same name.
For an ultra-heavy element that's also trans-schrabidic (elements coming after schrabidium, atomic number 126), it is miraculously fully stable.
- Its fission products are also apparently fully stable as well, except for xenon-135.
Its two isotopes have very different melting points, which is very unusual.
It is the only special element to retain its place and role after all the others got soft-removed.
According to the TF2 wiki, Australium has the same electron configuration as gold.
In the TF2 comics, Australium appears to be somewhat luminescent, whether this is due to it emitting photons as radioactive decay of some kind or it simply being artistic in choice to emphasize its presence is unknown.

Gallery

Ore.
Block.
Powder.
Billet.
Nugget.

External Links

Australium at the TF2 Wiki.