Crafting Items
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Crafting Items are items that have no use individually and are only used in crafting recipes. They add a layer of complexity to recipes.
Generic
Duct Tape
Duct tape is used to join or stick parts together.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used to craft armor mods, bombs, ammo, attachments, and more.
Safety Fuse
Safety fuse is a standard component used in grenades and certain bombs. It represents the fuse that is supposed to be ignited to trigger the bomb.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items & blocks:
Rope
It is a rope.
Recipe
 
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items & blocks:
- Wooden tracks
- Conveyor belts
- Saddle
- Lead
Machinery
Pistons
Pistons are a intermediate component used in many recipes, especially machine upgrades. It represents the press or a moving component in machines. It has 3 variants, Pneumatic, Hydraulic and Electric.
Pneumatic Piston
The pneumatic piston is used mainly for conveyor ejectors, and is used in other recipes such as the stack ejector upgrade.
Recipe
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Uses
Shaped Crafting:
- Stack Ejection Upgrade Mk.I
- Conveyor Ejector
- Conveyor Grabber
- Conveyor Sorter
- Inserter
- Conveyor Boxer
- Conveyer Splitter
- Pneumatic Rivet Gun
Hydraulic Piston
The hydraulic piston is a type of piston used in very few recipes.
Recipe
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Uses
Shaped Crafting:
- Stack Ejection Upgrade Mk.II
- Refueling Station
- Electric Press
Electric Piston
The electric piston is only used in one crafting recipe.
Recipe
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Use
- Stack Ejection Upgrade Mk.III
Centrifuge Element
The centrifuge element is a crafting item used in centrifuge-related recipes.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items & machines:
- Centrifuge
- Gas centrifuge
- Asteroid mining ship
- Centrifuge on a stick
- Centrifuge upgrade
Breeding Reactor Core
Breeding reactor core is a core component of the Breeding reactor. It is also used for making the Radiation-Powered engine. Due to the deprecation of the breeding reactor, this item has little use.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items & machines:
- Radiation-Powered Engine
- Breeding Reactor
- Neutron Flux Receiver
Magnetron
A magnetron is a high-power vacuum tube that generates microwaves.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items & blocks:
- Microwaves
- Particle accelerators
- Relays and radars for certain satellites
- The turret "Maxwell"
- Radars for missile defense
- EMP device
Photovoltaic Panel
The photovoltaic panel is a crafting item used as a solar generator for space satellites.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items & machines:
- Market Gardener
- Lunar mining ship
- Satellite base
- PEAF - Mk.I FOEQ Duna Probe with experimental Nuclear Propulsion
- Asteroid mining ship
Clay Catalyst
The clay catalyst is a crafting item used to craft some filter-related items.
Recipe
  
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items:
- Deuterium filter
- Catalytic Mask filter
- Gas Mask Combo filter
Deuterium Filter
The deuterium filter is a crafting item with only one use.
Recipe
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Uses
It is only used for crafting the deuterium extraction tower.
Polarized Lens
Polarized lenses are a crafting item used to create polarized glass or certain machines.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following block and machine:
- Polarized glass
- FEL
Nuclear
Thermoelectric Element
Thermoelectric materials produce electricity by a difference of temperatures. Thermoelectric element is required to craft RTG pellet using energy generators.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following items:
- RTG Unit
- Radio Isotope Cell
- Flare stack
- Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator and Radiolysis Chamber
RTG Unit
RTG Unit is an essential item for crafting RTG energy generators.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following machines:
Shapes
Titanium Drill
The titanium drill is a crafting item used in machines that drill into the ground.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following machines:
Titanium Steam Turbine
The titanium steam turbine is a crafting item that acts as the rotating turbine in most steam turbines.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following machines:
Reinforced Turbofan Blades
The reinforced turbofan blade is a crafting item used to craft the turbofan, CCGT, and leviathan steam turbine.
Recipe
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Uses
It is used for crafting the following machines:
Beryllium Flywheel
The beryllium flywheel is only used to craft the leviathan steam turbine.
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Steel Fins
Steel fins come in 3 different sizes: small steel grid fins, big steel grid fins and large steel grid fins.
Recipe
Small
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Big
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Large
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Uses
They are used to craft bomb frames.
Steel Sphere
The steel sphere is a crafting item with very few uses.
Recipe
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Uses
It is mostly used to craft bomb frames.
- Vacuum refinery
- Naval mine
Large Gear & Large Steel Gear
Large gears are required to craft steam and stirling engine, two early game generators.
Recipe
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Uses
They are used for crafting the following machines:
Large Gear
Large Steel Gear
Consumables
Empty Can
Used to craft drinks.
Recipe
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Uses
It's used for crafting canned drinks.
Weaponry
Napalm B
Napalm B, or just napalm, is a special crafting material added by the Nuclear Tech Mod. It is a very potent incendiary weapon, but it has limited uses. Despite it technically being a fluid, it only exists as an item in canister form.
Recipe
A canister of napalm B is produced in a chemical plant with gasoline and aromatic hydrocarbons:
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Uses
Napalm B can be packaged into a flamer fuel tank, which can be used as ammunition for the flamethrower, Mister Topaz, and the "Fritz" flamethrower turret:
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It also can be used in a Custom Nuke to boost the TNT stage by 2.5.
Miscellaneous
Energy Powder
Energy powder is an exotic yellow powder. It is produced in a similar fashion to nitanium, desh, or spark blend.
Recipe
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It can also be acquired from the asteroid mining ship.
Uses
It is used for crafting the following items & blocks:
- Superheated Resonating Singularity
- Artificial Xen Crystals
- Energy Crystals, which is its solid form essentially
- Energy cells for the EMP gun
- Electromagnetic Cartridges for the Defabricator
- Off-Brand Spark batteries for the Balefire Bomb
- Nightmare Revolver (Original)
- Laser Buckshot for the Nightmare Revolver (Dark)
- Spark blend
- Mk. 1 & 2 Overdrive Upgrades
- Combine Ball for the Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle's secondary fire
- The Entanglement Kit
Entanglement Kit
Entanglement kit is a core component of the teleporter, but can also be used to teleport to the end and back by having it in the inventory and right-clicking a beryllium block with a survey scanner.
Recipe
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Uses
It is only used to craft the teleporter.