Latex

Latex
Properties
Type	Polymer
Made With/By	Crafting / Pressing
Difficulty of Production	Very Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes

Latex is a cheap, natural, and organic polymer, notably used as an alternative to rubber in certain recipes. It can be obtained without an oil refinery, making it a useful early-game ingredient; it is often used in lieu of insulators.

Production

Crafting Table

• Alternatively, latex can be obtained from pressing jungle wood logs using a flat stamp; this recipe allows for its automation with tree farms and stamp production:

Burner Press

• The latex ball can then be smelted to produce the latex bar.
• Jungles and therefore jungle wood may be quite rare naturally, additionally, jungle tree saplings can be purchased from Bobmazon.

Uses

• Latex can be used as a cheaper alternative to rubber in many recipes, such as the conveyor belt.
• Additionally, latex can be "upgraded" to regular rubber. While rubber and latex are interchangeable in most recipes, certain recipes require rubber specifically.

Ore Acidizer

25mB

Trivia

• Latex can be made purely from dandelions, making it one of the first items craftable by the player.
• In real life, raw latex is a fluid usually made in specific trees and other plants as a defense mechanism. The most famous of these is the Pará rubber tree native to the Amazon rainforest, hence its abstraction as any jungle tree in the mod.

External Links

• Latex at Wikipedia.