Cobalt

Cobalt
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Mining; Byproduct extraction
Default Ore Veins per Chunk	2 (2 in nether)
Ore Vein Size	4 (6 in nether)
Minimum Ore Height	4 (100 in nether)
Maximum Ore Height	12 (126 in nether)
Difficulty of Production	Easy-Medium
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	27

For its highly radioactive isotope, see: Cobalt-60.

Cobalt is a rare blue metal. It has many applications, from alloys to tools, and is a key resource for its use in high-speed steel.

Production

Mineral Deposits

When mined, cobalt ore drops cobalt crystals, to obtain the ore a silk touch pickaxe is required.

Rare earth ore contains trace amounts of cobalt.

Processing

Cobalt Fragments

Cobalt fragments can be shredded to produce one tiny pile of cobalt powder, which can then be crafted into 1 cobalt powder

Alternatively, the fragments can be melted in a crucible.

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Cobalt Ore

Cobalt ore can be smelted into one ingot, however, considering its rarity, it is not recommended to do so.

The ore can be shredded to produce 2 cobalt powder.

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The ore can be centirfuged to produce some byproducts, though notably not any more efficient than shredding when it comes to cobalt extraction, it only provides byproducts

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Cobalt ore can also be melted in a crucible, yielding 1 molten cobalt and some stone byproduct. This also only increases efficiency of byproduct extraction, not cobalt itself.

The ore can be crystalized.

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After crystalization the crystals can be electrolyzed.

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This process is the most efficient, as it combines the increased cobalt yield from the shredder with iron, copper and lithium byproducts from the centrifuge. It is therefore not recommended to shred or centrifuge cobalt crystals at this stage.

Rare Earth

An alternative option to obtaining cobalt is by processing rare earth ore. This yields less cobalt, but produces other useful materials such as niobium, boron and zirconium. Paired with rare earth ore's relative commonness, this makes it a viable method for cobalt production.

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Other

Cobalt is also a byproduct of copper crystal and lapis lazuli ore & crystal centrifuging.

Cobalt can also be directly obtained from lapis lazuli, though this process is very inefficient.

Uses

Cobalt's primary use is in the production of high-speed steel:

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Cobalt powder is used for crafting lithium-ion batteries and energy storage blocks.

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It is also used to produce desh.

Cobalt can also be alloyed with metiorite to make a meteorite ingot.

Cobalt rods can be irradiated in the breeding reactor to produce the radioactive isotope cobalt-60.

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Trivia

Interestingly, it has no use in the custom nuke for a salted stage despite cobalt bombs (a type of salted bomb) theoretically being possible.
- This is perhaps due to it being either difficult to implement or perhaps simply too strong and/or too cheap for its capability.
- The custom nuke has a planned rework, so this may be updated.
Like boron and niobium, despite being found in rare earth ore in NTM, cobalt is not a rare earth element.

Gallery

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Nether ore
Block
Crystals
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Quad breeder rod
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