FOUNDRY calculator, factory planner, and item guides

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Item guides

Every catalog item has a public guide built from game recipes and official research unlocks, plus player-facing tips. Open a page for the recipe card, Used in list, and Unlock requirements when the research dump names a skill. Full item catalog.

• Advanced Machinery Parts Unlock: Basic Steelmaking. Advanced Machinery Parts (AMP) serve as a crucial mid-tier component, bridging the gap between basic Machinery Parts and more specialized, high-tech counterparts. They are produced in assemblers by combining basic Machinery Parts with Steel Beams, representing a significant step up in both material requirements and production complexity.
• Advanced Smelter Unlock: Advanced Steelmaking. The Advanced Smelter is a factory building crafted in the assembler, designed specifically to process recipes that basic smelters cannot handle. While it may appear to be just a larger or faster version of the basic smelter, its real value lies in unlocking advanced production options.
• Advanced Xenoferrite-Ignium Ore Blend Unlock: Advanced Steelmaking. Advanced Xenoferrite-Ignium Ore Blend serves as a key intermediate material, produced by combining Xenoferrite Ore and Ignium Ore in a crusher. Its introduction marks a shift from using raw ores directly, requiring players to process both resources before advancing to higher-tier manufacturing.
• Air Air is a basic world fluid resource generated exclusively by the Air Intake building. Unlike most resources, Air is not crafted and does not have a recipe - it is produced directly from the environment by Air Intake and is essential for certain factory processes.
• Aquatic Hauling Bot Unlock: Aquatic Hauling Bot Assembly. The Aquatic Hauling Bot is a specialized logistics unit crafted in an assembler, designed for transporting goods across water within your factory network. Its unique capability to traverse aquatic environments makes it essential for bridging production lines separated by rivers, lakes, or coastal layouts.
• Assault Robot Unlock: Assault Robot Assembly. The Assault Robot is a sales item, intended for production or acquisition to fulfill trade or internal factory demands. Its primary role centers on being a deliverable good rather than a direct component in most production chains.
• Assault Robot Arm Unlock: Assault Robot Assembly. The Assault Robot Arm is an advanced assembly line component designed for late-game manufacturing. Crafted in an assembler, it represents a significant step up in production complexity compared to earlier robotic parts.
• Assault Robot Head Unlock: Assault Robot Assembly. The Assault Robot Head is an advanced assembly line component designed for late-game manufacturing. As a subassembly, it plays a crucial role in constructing complex robotic units, demanding a higher level of factory organization.
• Assault Robot Leg Unlock: Assault Robot Assembly. The Assault Robot Leg serves as a mid-to-late game assembly component, critical for advancing production chains involving robotic units and complex machinery. Its role becomes more prominent as players scale up their factory and require more sophisticated automation solutions.
• Assault Robot Torso Unlock: Assault Robot Assembly. The Assault Robot Torso is an advanced assembly line component designed for late-game production. Its primary role is to serve as the central structure in constructing assault robots or similarly complex machinery.
• Assembler I Unlock: Assembler I. Assembler I serves as the backbone of early-game automation, transforming raw or intermediate materials into finished products with minimal setup friction. As one of the first factory buildings available, it enables players to automate crafting tasks that would otherwise require manual effort, significantly boosting production efficiency from the start.
• Assembler II Unlock: Assembler II. Assembler II is a mid-tier factory building that automates crafting recipes faster than Assembler I. It serves as a key upgrade in the assembly line, bridging the gap between the entry-level and higher-tier assemblers.
• Assembler III Unlock: Assembler III. Assembler III is a high-tier factory building designed for automating the most complex recipes in late-game production. It stands out for its greater speed and efficiency compared to earlier assembler versions, making it essential for scaling up advanced manufacturing lines.
• Assembly Line Logistics Container Unlock: Assembly Lines. The Assembly Line Logistics Container acts as a dedicated storage and transfer unit within assembly line setups. Its main role is to buffer and organize items for workstation supply, ensuring that production stages remain stocked and can operate without frequent manual intervention.
• Assembly Line Merger Unlock: Assembly Lines. The Assembly Line Merger is a key factory component designed to combine multiple conveyor lines into a single output. This makes it especially valuable in larger, more complex production setups where consolidating resources is essential for efficient material flow.
• Assembly Line Painter Unlock: Assembly Lines. The Assembly Line Painter is a specialized machine designed to apply paint to items as they move along the assembly line. Its primary role is to enable further processing and sorting by marking items with specific colors, which can be critical for downstream automation and organization within the factory.
• Assembly Line Producer Unlock: Assembly Lines. The Assembly Line Producer is a specialized automation building designed to handle the sequential assembly and welding of sub-parts. Its primary role is enabling the production of complex items, such as robot components, by organizing multiple steps into a streamlined process.
• Assembly Line Rail Unlock: Assembly Lines. Assembly Line Rail is a modular component essential for constructing and extending assembly lines, allowing automated item movement between machines in your factory. It is specifically designed to streamline logistics by providing a dedicated path for goods, which can help organize complex production layouts.
• Assembly Line Splitter Unlock: Assembly Lines. The Assembly Line Splitter is a modular component designed to divide items from an assembly line into multiple outputs. Its main function is to enable parallel item routing and distribute resources to different destinations within your factory setup.
• Assembly Line Start Unlock: Assembly Lines. The Assembly Line Start is the essential first component placed to initiate an assembly line in your factory. It acts as the entry point for assembling complex products, setting the foundation for automated production chains.
• Barrel (Empty) Unlock: Olumite Barreling. Barrel (Empty) serves as a foundational component in many factory chains, acting as both a crafting ingredient and a vessel for material processing. Its presence is essential for creating more advanced items and for managing resources within automated systems.
• Barrel Filler I Unlock: Olumite Barreling. Barrel Filler I is a factory building designed to automate the process of filling barrels with fluids, making it a key component for streamlining fluid transport and processing within your production chain. By mechanizing barrel filling, it helps reduce the manual steps required for moving fluids between different parts of your factory.
• Barrel (Olumite) Unlock: Olumite Barreling. Barrel (Olumite) is a specialized logistics item designed for efficient handling of Olumite resources within the factory. By filling empty barrels with Crude Olumite, players can package large quantities for easier movement and storage.
• Battery (Large) Unlock: Battery (Large). The Large Battery is a high-capacity energy storage solution crafted in assemblers, designed to buffer electrical supply for factory operations. Its primary role is to store excess power and release it when generation dips, particularly smoothing out fluctuations from solar energy sources.
• Battery (Small) Unlock: Battery (Small). The Battery (Small) serves as a crucial energy buffer within factory systems, crafted in an assembler. Its primary function is to store excess power and release it when demand spikes or generation dips, helping to stabilize the overall energy supply.
• Biomass Unlock: Biomass Farming. Biomass serves as a foundational resource in early factory development, acting both as a basic crafting material and a primary fuel source. It is produced from vegetation gathered in the world or grown in greenhouses, but both methods come with notable friction for new players.
• Biomass Burner The Biomass Burner serves as the first energy generator available to players, converting gathered biomass into electrical power for your early factory operations. Its role is critical at the start, powering essential machines before more advanced options become accessible.
• Blast Furnace Slag Blast Furnace Slag is a fluid byproduct generated when processing Technum Ore or Xenoferrite Ore in a blast furnace. As these ores are refined, slag accumulates rapidly and must be managed continuously to keep production lines moving.
• Boiler Unlock: High Voltage Energy Grid. The Boiler is a central machine for generating electricity in your factory, converting water and fuel into steam to power Steam Turbines. As a placeable component, it forms the backbone of early and mid-game power infrastructure.
• Burner Generator Unlock: Burner Generator. The Burner Generator is an early-game energy machine that converts solid fuel into electrical power for your factory. As one of the first power options available, it provides a straightforward way to get basic automation running.
• Cargo Shuttle Start Pad Unlock: Cargo Shuttles. The Cargo Shuttle Start Pad is a key logistics structure that enables automated cargo transport between distant locations within your factory network. By serving as the launch point for cargo shuttles, it allows for efficient movement of large quantities of resources across the map.
• Cargo Shuttle Start Pad (Liquids) Unlock: Cargo Shuttles (Liquids). The Cargo Shuttle Start Pad (Liquids) is a specialized logistics structure designed to move large quantities of liquid between different areas of your factory. It serves as the primary loading point for shuttles tasked with transporting liquids to distant destinations.
• Cargo Shuttle Target Pad Unlock: Cargo Shuttles. The Cargo Shuttle Target Pad serves as the delivery endpoint for cargo shuttles, making it a crucial component for inter-factory logistics. It is where shuttles offload their cargo, enabling the transfer of goods between distant factory locations.
• Cargo Shuttle Target Pad (Liquids) Unlock: Cargo Shuttles (Liquids). The Cargo Shuttle Target Pad (Liquids) serves as the designated offloading point for liquid cargo delivered by cargo shuttles in your factory's logistics network. Its primary function is to accept and distribute incoming liquids from shuttle deliveries to your connected infrastructure.
• Casting Machine Unlock: Concrete Production. The Casting Machine is a specialized factory building designed to process molten or liquid materials into solid products. It plays a crucial role in recipes that require fluid inputs, acting as an assembler for items such as concrete, polymer boards, metal plates, and wafers.
• Cement Unlock: Concrete Production. Cement serves as a foundational processed material in production chains, created either from mineral rocks and xenoferrite ore rubble using a crusher, or by reprocessing blast furnace slag in a chemical processor. Its primary function is to feed the concrete casting process, making it an essential link for construction-focused expansion.
• Charged Xeno-Crystal Unlock: Xeno Power Plant. Charged Xeno-Crystal is an advanced component produced by upgrading base Xeno-Crystals in a Crystal Refiner. This process is a key step for players advancing into late-game power and chemical manufacturing, as the charged variant is required for several high-tier recipes.
• Chemical Processor Unlock: Chemical Processing. The Chemical Processor serves as the central hub for crafting advanced fluids and materials in the mid-to-late game. It is especially critical for recipes that require complex fluid handling, such as Fracking Liquid and Olumic Acid, where proper Air plumbing becomes a major point of friction.
• Circuit Board Unlock: Circuit Board. Circuit Boards are a mid-tier electronic component crafted in assemblers, forming a crucial link in the electronics production chain. Their primary role is to serve as a key intermediate for building advanced machines, automation blocks, and various robot parts.
• Cleaning Bot Unlock: Cleaning Bot Assembly. Cleaning Bot is a mid-game assembler craft listed with the sales items. It is not an ingredient in further recipes, so its demand comes from selling and from assigning it as a station helper.
• Coked Ignium Unlock: Blast Furnace. Coked Ignium is a processed fuel and industrial input, created by smelting Ignium Ore in an Advanced Smelter. Its primary role is to serve as a high-energy fuel and a required feedstock for Blast Furnaces and advanced alloy production lines.
• Combat Drone Unlock: Combat Drone Assembly. Combat Drone is a mid-tier military bot crafted in an assembler, primarily serving as a sales item rather than a component in further manufacturing. Its production is straightforward, but it does not integrate into larger production chains, limiting its role to standalone output.
• Combat Robot Unlock: Combat Robot Assembly. Combat Robots serve as specialized units for factory defense and military automation. Unlike many other products, there is no direct Assembler recipe for this robot - each unit must be manually assembled by combining dedicated parts.
• Combat Robot Arm Unlock: Combat Robot Assembly. The Combat Robot Arm is a specialized assembly line component designed for use in factory automation, particularly in the construction or enhancement of combat robots. Crafted in an assembler, it fits into advanced production setups where robotic machinery with combat capabilities is required.
• Combat Robot Head Unlock: Combat Robot Assembly. The Combat Robot Head is an intermediate assembly line component designed for more advanced factory setups. Its primary role is to serve as a key part in the construction of combat robots or related machinery, making it a crucial link in military manufacturing chains.
• Combat Robot Leg Unlock: Combat Robot Assembly. The Combat Robot Leg is a key intermediate component required for assembling advanced robotic items on your production line. Assembling this part demands a combination of specialized subcomponents, making it a significant step up from basic manufacturing tasks.
• Combat Robot Torso Unlock: Combat Robot Assembly. The Combat Robot Torso serves as a mid-level assembly component essential for building combat robots. Its production marks a step up in complexity compared to basic parts, reflecting its role in more advanced automation and defense tasks.
• Concrete Unlock: Concrete Production. Concrete is a basic construction material produced in the casting machine from cement, gravel, and water. It serves as a foundation for a wide range of modular bases and infrastructure components throughout your factory.
• Construction Material Unlock: Construction Material. Construction Material is a high-tier product crafted in an assembler, combining both advanced and basic resources. It plays a central role in large-scale building and infrastructure upgrades, making it a critical supply for expanding any major factory operation.
• Construction Ship Port Unlock: Construction Industry. The Construction Ship Port is a key factory building that serves as the central hub for deploying and managing construction ships. Its primary function is to automate large-scale construction projects, significantly reducing manual effort and streamlining the expansion of your factory.
• Construction Warehouse Unlock: Construction Industry. The Construction Warehouse is a factory building crafted in an assembler, designed to streamline the storage and distribution of construction materials. It acts as a logistics buffer, playing a central role in managing the flow of resources needed for construction projects.
• Container Unlock: Container. The Container is a placeable storage chest designed to buffer and store items, acting as an intermediary between production and consumption steps in your factory. It is particularly useful for players who need to manage overflow or temporarily hold items before they are used elsewhere.
• Conveyor Balancer I Unlock: Conveyor Balancer I. Conveyor Balancer I is a logistics item designed to evenly distribute items across multiple conveyor belts. By managing item flow between belts, it plays a crucial role in preventing jams and ensuring smooth movement of resources throughout your factory.
• Conveyor Balancer II Unlock: Conveyor Balancer II. The Conveyor Balancer II is a logistics component used to evenly distribute items across multiple conveyor belts, making it a key tool for optimizing item flow in complex factory layouts. Its main role is to prevent bottlenecks and ensure that all connected belts receive a balanced share of materials, which is especially important as production scales up.
• Conveyor Balancer III Unlock: Conveyor Balancer III. Conveyor Balancer III is a logistics component designed to evenly distribute items across multiple conveyor belts, ensuring balanced throughput in complex factory layouts. Its advanced design makes it well-suited for high-capacity material handling where maintaining optimal flow is essential.
• Conveyor Balancer IV Unlock: Conveyor Balancer IV. Conveyor Balancer IV is an advanced logistics component designed for managing item flow in large-scale factory environments. It specializes in evenly distributing items across multiple conveyor belts, ensuring that each connected line receives a balanced share of throughput.
• Conveyor I Conveyor I is the foundational logistics item for transporting materials between machines and production lines in the early stages of factory development. Its introduction marks a shift from manual hauling to automated movement, allowing players to streamline their workflows.
• Conveyor II Unlock: Conveyor II. Conveyor II is an upgraded logistics belt designed to move items between machines and storage at a faster rate than its predecessor. It plays a crucial role in scaling up factory throughput and supporting more demanding production lines.
• Conveyor III Unlock: Conveyor III. Conveyor III serves as a mid-tier logistics solution for transporting goods at higher speeds across your factory. It is designed to handle increased material flow, making it ideal for supporting advanced automation and more complex layouts as your production scales up.
• Conveyor IV Unlock: Conveyor IV. Conveyor IV is a high-capacity logistics belt designed for rapid item transport across your factory. Its primary role is to move large volumes of items quickly between machines or sections that demand very high throughput.
• Conveyor Slope I Conveyor Slope I is a key logistics component that enables items to move vertically or along an incline within your factory. This allows for more flexible layouts, letting you route materials over obstacles or between different elevation levels.
• Conveyor Slope II Unlock: Conveyor II. Conveyor Slope II serves as a mid-tier upgrade for vertical item transport, bridging the gap between basic and advanced conveyor systems. Crafted from the previous tier and additional components, it enables more efficient movement of items between different elevations within a factory layout.
• Conveyor Slope III Unlock: Conveyor III. Conveyor Slope III is designed to move items vertically or diagonally between different elevations in your factory, making it a key component for managing complex layouts. As your production lines grow, this slope allows you to efficiently transfer resources between floors or over obstacles, helping to maximize available space.
• Conveyor Slope IV Unlock: Conveyor IV. Conveyor Slope IV is a high-tier logistics component designed for moving items vertically or at an incline within your factory. Its advanced capabilities make it a key upgrade for handling complex item flows, especially in dense or multi-level layouts.
• CPU Unlock: CPU Production. CPU is a mid-to-late game electronic component crafted in the Chemical Processor. It becomes essential as factories scale up, serving as a key input for advanced robot heads, torsos, various bots, and Science Pack V production.
• Crate The Crate serves as the most basic storage container in the early stages of your factory. Crafted from Xenoferrite Plates using an assembler, it provides a straightforward way to store items before more advanced logistics solutions are available.
• Crude Olumite Unlock: Olumite Barreling. Crude Olumite is a fluid resource extracted from Olumite Reservoirs using pumpjacks. It forms the backbone of several chemical and material processing chains, acting as a key input for producing polymers, gases, and advanced materials.
• Crusher I Unlock: Basic Steelmaking. Crusher I is an early-game factory building designed to process raw resources into usable ores, making it a critical component in the initial stages of material refinement. Its role is to break down basic materials, enabling further crafting and unlocking more advanced production lines.
• Crusher II Unlock: Advanced Steelmaking. Crusher II is an upgraded factory building designed to process raw materials more efficiently than its predecessor, Crusher I. Its main advantage lies in supporting higher throughput, making it a key component for scaling up production lines.
• Crystal Refiner The Crystal Refiner is a factory building crafted in an assembler, designed specifically to process Xeno Crystals into advanced materials. It plays a key role in enabling the production of items such as Charged Xeno-Crystal and Xeno Power Core, which are essential for progressing more complex manufacturing chains.
• Data Cable Unlock: Data Cable. Data Cables are crafted components designed to transmit signals between machines, storage units, and automation devices throughout your factory. Their main role is to serve as the backbone for logic-based control, linking various devices so they can communicate and respond to changing conditions.
• Data Evaluator Unlock: Data Manipulation. The Data Evaluator is a placeable device designed to process and translate signals between machines within your factory's data network. Its main role is to enable more advanced automation and logic setups by serving as an intermediary for signal conversion.
• Data Memory Cell Unlock: Data Manipulation. The Data Memory Cell is a crafted intermediate component essential for advancing your factory's automation capabilities. It is produced in an assembler and serves as a key building block for more complex data-related items.
• Data Processor Unlock: Data Manipulation. The Data Processor is a crafted component assembled from Xenoferrite Plates, Polymer Board, and Circuit Board. It plays a key role in managing data signals between machines, serving as an intermediary for logic and automation tasks within your factory's data network.
• Data Source Unlock: Data Sources. The Data Source is a crafted component within the data cable group, designed for use in a factory's automation network. It serves as the entry point for broadcasting data signals, allowing players to inject custom logic into their production lines.
• Data Source (Button) Unlock: Data Sources. The Data Source (Button) is a crafted component within the data cable group, serving a foundational role in automation and data transmission setups. It acts as a key interface for triggering or routing data signals between machines early in your factory's development.
• Data Source (Lever) Unlock: Data Sources. The Data Source (Lever) serves as a basic crafted component for providing manual or simple data input to automation systems. It's designed to let players directly interact with their factory's logic circuits, making it a practical entry point for experimenting with automated controls.
• Distillation Column Unlock: Basic Olumite Processing. The Distillation Column is a specialized factory building designed to process crude olumite and other raw liquids into a range of refined products. It plays a central role in resource refinement chains, acting as the main gateway for transforming basic fluids into more advanced materials.
• Drill Ship The Drill Ship is a deployable vehicle crafted in an assembler, designed specifically for automated large-scale excavation tasks within your factory. Its primary role is to clear space efficiently, making it ideal for projects that require deep shafts or wide open areas.
• Drone Miner I Drone Miner I is an early-game automated mining building designed to extract ore directly from resource patches. It introduces basic automation to your mining operations, reducing the need for manual gathering and allowing for a more consistent supply of raw materials.
• Drone Miner II Unlock: Drone Miner II. Drone Miner II is an upgraded automated mining building designed to expand your mining capacity within the production chain. It is crafted by combining a Drone Miner I with more advanced components, making it a direct upgrade path for players looking to scale up their resource extraction.
• Electric Arc Furnace Unlock: CPU Production. The Electric Arc Furnace is a placeable factory building specialized for advanced smelting processes. It is a key component for players looking to unlock production of molten superalloy, liquid telluxite, and liquid firmarlite, which are essential for progressing into higher-tier materials.
• Electronic Components Electronic Components are a core early-game intermediate crafted in an assembler from Technum Rods and Wire Coil. They form the backbone of many automation setups and are essential for progressing beyond basic infrastructure.
• Elevator Unlock: Elevator. The Elevator is a crafted structure designed for efficient vertical movement and logistics between different factory floors or terrain elevations. It plays a key role in connecting areas that would otherwise be difficult to access, especially in factories built across varied heights.
• Emergency Beacon Unlock: Emergency Beacon. The Emergency Beacon serves as a key component for building advanced logistics and shipping infrastructure in your factory. It is specifically required when constructing items such as Shipping Pads (Small and Medium) and Space Station Terminals.
• Energy Cell Unlock: Energy Cell. Energy Cell is a mid-game crafted component produced in a fluid assembler, serving as a critical input for batteries, Charged Xeno-Crystals, and a wide range of robot torsos. Its role makes it essential for expanding automation and progressing into advanced manufacturing.
• Escalator I Unlock: Escalators I. Escalator I serves as the earliest vertical movement tool available, enabling players to automate travel between factory levels. Its primary function is to streamline character navigation, reducing the need for manual jumping or detours around complex layouts.
• Escalator II Unlock: Escalators II. Escalator II serves as an upgraded conveyor system part designed for vertical character movement within your factory. By enhancing the way players move between different levels, it plays a key role in streamlining navigation and improving overall layout efficiency.
• Escalator III Unlock: Escalators III. Escalator III is an advanced movement infrastructure item designed for efficient vertical transport within large and complex factory layouts. It allows players to move quickly between different floors or levels, streamlining navigation in late-game builds where verticality becomes a significant factor.
• Excavation Drone Controller The Excavation Drone Controller is a handheld tool crafted in an assembler, designed specifically for marking areas that require automated excavation by drones. By allowing players to designate excavation zones, it significantly streamlines the process of clearing terrain and preparing ore rooms, reducing the need for manual digging.
• Explosive Charge Unlock: Explosives. The Explosive Charge is a throwable item designed for clearing terrain or obstacles. Crafted in an assembler, it is a key tool for players who need to reshape the environment or remove unwanted blocks quickly.
• Explosives Unlock: Explosives. Explosives are a key mid-chain component in factory production, serving as the foundation for crafting various charges and weapon-related items. Their role is specialized, and they are essential for progressing through certain mining and manufacturing tasks.
• Explosives Detonator Unlock: Explosives. The Explosives Detonator is a specialized handheld tool crafted in an assembler, designed to safely trigger or deploy explosives within your factory. Its primary function is to provide controlled activation of explosive devices, making it essential for tasks that require precise demolition or clearing obstacles.
• Farmer Robot Unlock: Farmer Robot Assembly. The Farmer Robot is a finished sales item designed for deployment in agricultural automation or for direct sale. Assembled from specific robot parts, it is intended to support automated farming operations, particularly in greenhouse setups, by handling repetitive agricultural tasks.
• Farmer Robot Arm Unlock: Farmer Robot Assembly. The Farmer Robot Arm is an assembly line component crafted in an assembler and plays a key role in automating factory operations. It is designed to handle or enhance specific tasks, likely related to agricultural or resource-gathering processes within your production setup.
• Farmer Robot Head Unlock: Farmer Robot Assembly. The Farmer Robot Head serves as an assembly line component crafted in an assembler. It is grouped with other parts used in automated production chains, indicating its likely role in constructing or upgrading farmer robots.
• Farmer Robot Leg Unlock: Farmer Robot Assembly. The Farmer Robot Leg is an assembly line component crafted in an assembler, serving as a key part in constructing or repairing robots within your factory. Its role is critical in enabling automation for agricultural or farming tasks, making it a foundational element in expanding your robotic workforce.
• Farmer Robot Torso Unlock: Farmer Robot Assembly. The Farmer Robot Torso is a key intermediate component in the automation process, specifically used for assembling farmer robots. As part of the assembly line, it serves as the central structure around which other robot parts are built.
• Filter Loader Unlock: Filter Loader. The Filter Loader is a logistics device crafted in an assembler that enables players to selectively transfer specific items from conveyor belts into machines or containers. Its main role is to provide filtered item flow, making it essential for managing mixed or 'sushi' belts where multiple item types share the same transport line.
• Firmarlite Bar Firmarlite Bar serves as a crucial mid-game resource, acting as a foundational material for several advanced production lines. Its importance grows as factories expand, since it is a key input for higher-tier materials and specialized machines.
• Firmarlite Sheet Unlock: Basic Firmarlite Smelting. Firmarlite Sheet is a late-game component crucial for building advanced machines, high-tier drones, and next-generation construction materials. Its role becomes especially prominent as factories scale up and demand for robust logistics and automation increases.
• Flare Stack Unlock: Basic Olumite Processing. The Flare Stack is a factory building designed to safely dispose of unwanted fluids and waste gases by burning them off. It serves as a critical sink for byproducts that cannot be further processed or stored, preventing these materials from clogging up your production lines.
• Fluid Assembler I Unlock: Chemical Processing. Fluid Assembler I is a factory building designed specifically for automating the assembly of items that require fluid handling. Its primary function is to enable production lines that involve recipes with fluid components, filling a critical gap where standard assemblers cannot be used.
• Forest Seed (Plants) Unlock: Greenhouse. Forest Seed (Plants) serves as a foundational resource for automating plant growth in your factory. It is essential for propagating forest plants, enabling continuous production cycles within greenhouse setups.
• Forest Seed (Trees) Unlock: Greenhouse. Forest Seed (Trees) acts as a renewable plant seed essential for establishing and maintaining tree farms in your production chain. Crafted in the greenhouse, it uniquely requires itself as an input alongside mineral rocks and water, creating a self-propagating loop that supports ongoing wood resource generation.
• Fracking Liquid Unlock: Fracking Tower. Fracking Liquid is a fluid made in a chemical processor from Air, Olumite Gas, and Water. A 5 second cycle turns 30 Air, 10 Olumite Gas, and 60 Water into 100 fluid, so the line lives or dies on those three feeds.
• Freight Elevator I Unlock: Freight Elevator I. Freight Elevator I is a logistics device designed for moving items vertically between different factory floors. This makes it a key component for any factory aiming to efficiently connect production lines across multiple levels.
• Freight Elevator II Unlock: Freight Elevator II. Freight Elevator II is a mid-tier logistics item designed for vertical transport within your factory. It serves as an essential upgrade for moving goods efficiently between different factory floors or across varying terrain levels.
• Freight Elevator III Unlock: Freight Elevator III. Freight Elevator III is a logistics upgrade designed for moving large quantities of items vertically between factory floors. As the next step up from Freight Elevator II, it fits into advanced production chains where efficient vertical transport becomes increasingly important.
• Freight Elevator IV Unlock: Freight Elevator IV. Freight Elevator IV is a high-tier logistics item designed for efficient vertical transport of goods within your factory. As the most advanced elevator in its series, it offers significant improvements in throughput and efficiency compared to earlier models.
• Fuel Rod Casing Unlock: Ignium Fuel Rods. Fuel Rod Casing is a crafted component required for assembling Ignium Fuel Rods, making it a key intermediate in advanced power production lines. Its main purpose is to serve as the structural shell for fuel rods used in high-tier generators.
• Geothermal Boiler Unlock: Geothermal Power. The Geothermal Boiler is a factory building designed to generate steam power by tapping into geothermal vents. This makes it a key component for players looking to expand their mid-game energy infrastructure with a renewable heat source.
• Glass Unlock: Glass Production. Glass is a basic processed material produced in a smelter from gravel. Its role is foundational in factory progression, acting as a bridge between raw resources and more advanced construction components.
• Gravel Unlock: Concrete Production. Gravel is one of the earliest processed materials in the factory chain, produced by crushing Mineral Rocks. This step marks the transition from raw terrain extraction to more advanced manufacturing processes.
• Greenhouse Unlock: Greenhouse. The Greenhouse is a factory building designed for automating the production of biomass and seeds. It processes basic resources in a controlled environment, offering a dedicated space for plant-based material generation.
• Hazard Robot Unlock: Hazard Robot Assembly. Hazard Robots are specialized automation items designed to enhance the efficiency of chemical and fluid processing buildings. Their primary function is to handle complex or hazardous materials that standard automation cannot manage as effectively.
• Hazard Robot Arm Unlock: Hazard Robot Assembly. The Hazard Robot Arm is an advanced assembly line component crafted in an assembler. Its primary role is to automate or enhance factory processes that involve hazardous materials or environments, making it essential for expanding into riskier production zones.
• Hazard Robot Head Unlock: Hazard Robot Assembly. The Hazard Robot Head is an advanced assembly line component, specifically crafted for use in high-end automation or robotics projects. Its construction relies on high-tier materials, reflecting its position as a late-game subassembly within your factory's production chain.
• Hazard Robot Leg Unlock: Hazard Robot Assembly. The Hazard Robot Leg is a specialized assembly line component crafted in an assembler. It serves as a critical part for advanced robotics and automation, likely forming the basis for high-tier robotic units.
• Hazard Robot Torso Unlock: Hazard Robot Assembly. The Hazard Robot Torso is an advanced assembly line component, crafted from high-tier materials and designed to serve as a critical subassembly for robotic units or automation upgrades. Its production requires access to late-game resources, reflecting its pivotal role in supporting sophisticated automation tasks.
• Heavy Duty Transport Bot Unlock: Heavy Duty Transport Bot Assembly. The Heavy Duty Transport Bot is a crafted logistics bot produced in assemblers and is primarily intended as a sales item for export or trade within your factory's economy. Its role is focused on generating value through external transactions rather than direct integration into internal production lines.
• Heavy Explosive Charge Unlock: Heavy Explosive Charges. The Heavy Explosive Charge is a crafted handheld item designed specifically for large-scale terrain modification and destruction. When faced with the challenge of clearing extensive areas, players often turn to this tool to speed up excavation and remove obstacles that would otherwise require significant time and effort.
• High Density Olumite Unlock: Rubber Production. High Density Olumite is produced by refining Impure High Density Olumite in a distillation column. This process is essential for players advancing toward rubber and other advanced materials, as High Density Olumite serves as a critical fluid input for these recipes.
• High-Tech Construction Material Unlock: High-Tech Construction Material. High-Tech Construction Material is a late-game construction resource crafted exclusively in the Assembler. Unlike regular Construction Material, it cannot be purchased from the market, requiring players to establish dedicated production lines to meet demand.
• High-Tech Machinery Parts Unlock: Superalloy Production. High-Tech Machinery Parts are a mid-to-late game component crafted in an assembler using Superalloy, Rubber, and Low Density Olumite. Their recipe stands out by omitting common materials like ferrite or technum, forcing players to rethink established supply lines.
• High-Tech Robot Parts Unlock: Superalloy Production. High-Tech Robot Parts are crafted in assemblers and serve as a crucial intermediate component for building advanced robots. They are required for assembling a variety of robot modules, including arms, heads, legs, and torsos for multiple robot types.
• Hover Engine Unlock: Hover Engine. Hover Engine is a crafted component made in an assembler, taking 6 seconds per unit. It is essential for drone and ship production lines, serving as the main propulsion part for a wide range of automation bots such as Mining Drone and several others.
• Hydraulic Piston Unlock: Robot Components. Hydraulic Pistons serve as a vital mid- to late-game mechanical component, crafted exclusively in a fluid assembler. Their role becomes increasingly central as factories expand, since they are a foundational part in the assembly of advanced machines and robotic parts.
• Hydro-Farming Bot Unlock: Hydro-Farming Bot Assembly. The Hydro-Farming Bot is an assembled automation unit designed for advanced hydroponic and biomass-related processes in your factory. It enables more efficient handling of agricultural production lines that require water-based or biomass cultivation systems.
• Hydro-Mining Bot Unlock: Hydro-Mining Bot Assembly. The Hydro-Mining Bot is a specialized automation unit crafted to handle aquatic resource extraction tasks. Assembled from advanced components, it extends mining capabilities into water-rich environments where traditional bots or manual collection methods are less effective.
• Ignium-Enriched Water Unlock: Geothermal Power. Ignium-Enriched Water is a chemical fluid produced in a chemical processor from Ignium Powder and Water. This intermediate is essential for several advanced production chains, serving as a critical input for generating steam, crafting charged xeno-crystals, and mixing reactor fuel.
• Ignium Fuel Rod Unlock: Ignium Fuel Rods. The Ignium Fuel Rod is a specialized fuel component crafted to power hydro and aquatic bots. Its role is central for players aiming to operate advanced bots such as Hydro-Farming, Hydro-Mining, Marine Exploration, and Aquatic Hauling units.
• Ignium Ore Unlock: Advanced Steelmaking. Ignium Ore serves as a processed resource that is produced exclusively by crushing Ignium Ore Rubble. This indirect acquisition means players must first extract and transport rubble before they can generate usable ore, introducing additional steps and logistical considerations into the production chain.
• Ignium Ore Rubble Ignium Ore Rubble is a foundational raw resource obtained directly from mining. It plays a crucial role in the early and mid-game stages, serving as a primary input for multiple key recipes.
• Ignium Powder Unlock: Chemical Processing. Ignium Powder is produced by crushing Ignium Ore Rubble in a crusher, making it a specialized step in your resource chain. Unlike other materials, you cannot obtain this powder from processed ore, so your supply is directly tied to how much rubble you can deliver and process.
• Impure High Density Olumite Unlock: Rubber Production. Impure High Density Olumite is an intermediate resource essential for progressing material refinement in your factory. It plays a key role as a processed step between raw extraction and advanced material outputs.
• Incinerator Unlock: Incinerator. The Incinerator is a specialized factory building designed to dispose of unwanted items and manage excess inventory. It serves as a crucial solution for keeping your production lines clear and preventing storage from overflowing with surplus products.
• Irrigation Tool The Irrigation Tool is a handheld item crafted in an assembler, designed for manual interaction with the terrain in your factory environment. Its intended role is to allow players to alter or manage landscape elements directly.
• Jetpack Fuel Unlock: Jetpack. Jetpack Fuel is a crafted consumable essential for operating your jetpack, enabling extended flight and fast mobility across the map. Without a steady supply, players quickly feel the friction of being grounded or limited in exploration.
• Ladder Unlock: Ladder. The Ladder is a basic movement aid crafted in an assembler, designed to help players move vertically within their factory. It provides a straightforward way to climb between different floors or navigate vertical shafts.
• Lava-Smelter I Unlock: Advanced Firmarlite Smelting. Lava-Smelter I is a factory building dedicated to processing Firmarlite Bars into Firmarlite Sheets, forming a crucial link in the metal refining and component production chain. Its operation is essential for players aiming to maintain a steady supply of advanced materials.
• Lava-Smelter II Unlock: Advanced Firmarlite Smelting. Lava-Smelter II serves as an advanced upgrade to the original Lava-Smelter I, offering improved efficiency in material processing for late-game factory setups. Its main role is to accelerate the smelting of key resources, which becomes increasingly important as production demands rise.
• Light Bot Unlock: Light Bot Assembly. Light Bot is crafted in an assembler and plays a dual role in your factory operations. As a sales item, it offers a steady avenue for profit, while also providing a significant boost to mining station output when deployed.
• Liquid Firmarlite Liquid Firmarlite serves as a fluid intermediary, produced by melting Firmarlite Bars in an electric arc furnace. Its main function is to supply the casting machine for Firmarlite Sheet production.
• Liquid Fuel Unlock: Olumite Fuel. Liquid Fuel is produced in a chemical processor using Low Density Olumite and acts as a crucial intermediate for several advanced manufacturing chains. It is essential for creating items such as fuel rods, jetpack fuel, portable fuel, explosives, and space ship fuel canisters.
• Liquid Intake Unlock: Piping. The Liquid Intake is a logistics structure designed to introduce fluids from natural sources, such as water, into your factory's pipe network. It serves as the initial entry point for any fluid-based production chain, making it essential for expanding into processes that require water or other liquids.
• Liquid Intake (Pipeline) Unlock: Pipeline. The Liquid Intake (Pipeline) serves as a key logistics component for introducing fluids into pipeline systems within your factory. It acts as the primary entry point for moving liquids from external sources into your internal fluid network.
• Liquid Polymer Unlock: Basic Olumite Processing. Liquid Polymer is an intermediate fluid resource essential for advancing mid-game crafting chains. It is produced by refining Crude Olumite in a distillation column, making it a key step in processing raw materials into more advanced products.
• Liquid Telluxite Unlock: CPU Production. Liquid Telluxite is created by melting Telluxite Ingots in an Electric Arc Furnace, rather than being mined directly. This process is essential for progressing into more advanced manufacturing, as Liquid Telluxite serves as the main input for producing Telluxite Wafers.
• Loader The Loader serves as a basic logistics building that automates the movement of items between conveyor belts and machines. Its primary role is to handle the input or output of materials in your production lines, making it essential for setting up automated workflows early in your factory.
• Loader (2nd Lane) Unlock: Loader (2nd Lane). Loader (2nd Lane) is a logistics component designed to move items between belts or machines, specifically targeting the second lane of a conveyor. This makes it essential for factories aiming to maximize throughput by utilizing both lanes of a belt system.
• Loader (3rd Lane) Unlock: Loader (3rd Lane). The Loader (3rd Lane) is a logistics component designed to move items onto or off conveyor belts, specifically supporting a third lane. This added lane enables factories to achieve higher throughput or more compact layouts compared to standard two-lane systems.
• Logistic Container I Unlock: Basic Infrastructure. Logistic Container I is the first automation-ready storage solution available, designed to hold and buffer items between machines in your early factory lines. Its main role is to help manage item flow, acting as a simple container that supports basic automation setups.
• Logistic Container II Unlock: Logistic Container II. Logistic Container II serves as an upgraded storage container crafted in assemblers, designed to help players organize and store items more efficiently within their factory layouts. Its enhanced capacity makes it a valuable addition for managing growing inventories as production scales up.
• Logistic Container III Unlock: Logistic Container III. Logistic Container III serves as a high-tier storage solution, designed for organizing large quantities of items in automated factory setups. Its robust capacity makes it a practical choice for managing inventory in areas with heavy item flow.
• Low Density Olumite Unlock: Olumite Fuel. Low Density Olumite is a refined resource produced by processing Crude Olumite in a distillation column. It acts as a vital intermediate material, forming the backbone of several advanced manufacturing chains.
• Machinery Parts Machinery Parts are a fundamental early-game component essential for assembling a wide range of machines, bots, and conveyor systems. Their importance is felt immediately as they are required for much of the core infrastructure that keeps a factory running smoothly.
• Maintenance Drone Unlock: Maintenance Drone Production. The Maintenance Drone is a crafted item that plays a crucial role in supporting logistics and automation as your factory expands. Its primary function is as a key component in the Construction Ship Port, making it indispensable for players looking to scale up their automated construction capabilities.
• Marine Exploration Bot Unlock: Marine Exploration Bot Assembly. The Marine Exploration Bot is crafted in an assembler and serves as a specialized unit for tasks related to aquatic environments. Its primary role is to support exploration or automation efforts in marine zones, making it a key asset for expanding factory operations beyond land-based setups.
• Miner Robot Unlock: Miner Robot Assembly. Miner Robot is listed with the sales items and is the unit players assign when they want a mining-robot job, not a handheld drill. The category name is Mining Robot; the item itself is Miner Robot, which is a common mix-up in menus and search.
• Miner Robot Arm Unlock: Miner Robot Assembly. The Miner Robot Arm is a key assembly line component designed to automate mining operations within your factory. By integrating this arm into your setup, you can streamline the extraction process and reduce manual intervention, making it essential for scaling up resource collection as your factory grows.
• Miner Robot Head Unlock: Miner Robot Assembly. The Miner Robot Head is an assembly line component essential for constructing miner robots and related automation machinery. As a specialized part, it plays a critical role in enabling automated resource extraction within your factory.
• Miner Robot Leg Unlock: Miner Robot Assembly. The Miner Robot Leg is a specialized assembly line component required for building or repairing mining robots. As a crafted part, it plays a key role in enabling automated resource extraction by ensuring mining robots remain operational.
• Miner Robot Torso Unlock: Miner Robot Assembly. The Miner Robot Torso is a key intermediate component in the assembly line, essential for constructing miner robots. As your factory grows into the mid-game, you'll rely on these torsos to expand your automated mining operations.
• Mineral Rocks Mineral Rocks serve as a foundational mined resource, forming the backbone of various production chains. They are essential feedstock for both construction materials and biomass-related recipes, supporting a wide range of downstream products.
• Mining Drill The Mining Drill fills a dual role in factory operations, serving both as a handheld mining tool for direct resource extraction and as a key ingredient in the assembly of mining automation equipment. Unlike many factory items, it is crafted in an assembler rather than found or purchased outright.
• Mining Drone Unlock: Mining Drone Assembly. The Mining Drone is crafted in the assembler and serves exclusively as a sales item. It is not intended for use as a deployable mining building or as a personal mining tool.
• Modular Building Planner Unlock: Construction Industry. The Modular Building Planner serves as a handheld tool designed for planning and managing modular buildings within your factory layout. Its primary function is to streamline the organization and placement of structures, making it a core utility for players focused on efficient factory design.
• Molten Superalloy Unlock: Superalloy Production. Molten Superalloy is an intermediate liquid resource essential for advancing alloy production chains. It is created within the electric arc furnace, serving as a critical processing step between base metals and the final Superalloy product.
• Molten Technum Molten Technum is a critical intermediate liquid produced in the blast furnace, serving as the foundation for advanced manufacturing chains. Its primary role is to supply downstream processes, most notably the creation of Technum Rods, which are essential for higher-tier crafting.
• Molten Xenoferrite Molten Xenoferrite is a liquid intermediate resource produced in the blast furnace and plays a central role in advanced metalworking chains. Its primary use is to feed casting machines for the production of Xenoferrite Plates, a key material for higher-tier manufacturing.
• Nautical Chassis Unlock: Nautical Chassis. The Nautical Chassis is a mid-tier component crafted in assemblers, serving as a crucial building block for several advanced aquatic and hydro bots. Its role as a key intermediate part means it sits at the heart of many factory chains focused on underwater and hydro-based automation.
• Olumic Acid Unlock: Energy Cell. Olumic Acid is a mid-tier chemical resource produced in the chemical processor. It plays a central role in advancing your factory's electronics and energy infrastructure.
• Olumite Gas Unlock: Energy Cell. Olumite Gas is a mid-chain processed resource produced by refining Crude Olumite in a distillation column. This step sits between crude extraction and more advanced chemical manufacturing, making Olumite Gas a key intermediate in several production lines.
• Omni-Analyzer Unlock: Omni-Analyzer. The Omni-Analyzer is a placeable building dedicated to analyzing and researching new technologies within your factory. It serves as the central hub for unlocking advancements and progressing through the tech tree, making it a pivotal part of your automation journey.
• Operator Bot Unlock: Operator Bot Assembly. Operator Bot is a sales item assembled in 20 seconds. The recipe leans on circuit boards and their upstream parts, so a sales push shows up as an electronics shortage before it shows up as a missing assembler.
• Operator Robot Unlock: Operator Robot Assembly. The Operator Robot serves as a foundational automation unit within production lines, handling a wide range of assembly and processing tasks across the factory. Its versatility makes it a core component for automating early and mid-stage manufacturing steps.
• Orbital Uplink Unlock: Circuit Board. The Orbital Uplink is a handheld device designed for direct communication with orbital stations. It plays a key role in connecting your factory's operations to orbital systems, allowing for advanced management and interaction beyond the planet's surface.
• Ore Scanner The Ore Scanner is a handheld tool designed to help players detect and assess ore veins in the environment. It plays a crucial role in early-game exploration, allowing you to locate key resource deposits before committing to mining infrastructure.
• Ore Vein Miner Unlock: Underground Mining. The Ore Vein Miner is a factory building designed to automate the extraction of ore from underground veins. It serves as a primary source of raw materials, feeding directly into the early stages of your production chain.
• Paint Unlock: Assembly Lines. Paint is crafted in the chemical processor using Low Density Olumite, Olumite Gas, and Water. Its main function is to allow players to color and decorate factory elements, making it easier to organize complex layouts and visually manage large production systems.
• Personal Assistant Robot Unlock: Personal Assistant Robot Assembly. The Personal Assistant Robot is a sales item produced for delivery or trade, playing a key role in your factory's economic strategy. As a product intended for the market, its value comes from efficient mass production and timely delivery rather than direct factory use.
• Personal Assistant Robot Arm Unlock: Personal Assistant Robot Assembly. The Personal Assistant Robot Arm is designed to automate tasks along the assembly line, streamlining repetitive processes within your factory. As an assembly line component, it helps reduce manual intervention and increases overall throughput by handling routine operations.
• Personal Assistant Robot Head Unlock: Personal Assistant Robot Assembly. The Personal Assistant Robot Head is an essential assembly line component, crafted in an assembler. It plays a key role in the construction of more advanced robotic items, acting as a foundational piece in the robotics production chain.
• Personal Assistant Robot Leg Unlock: Personal Assistant Robot Assembly. The Personal Assistant Robot Leg is a mid-tier assembly line component essential for progressing toward more advanced robotic builds. As a specialized part, it serves as a critical step in assembling complex robotic items, acting as a bridge between basic materials and high-tech automation.
• Personal Assistant Robot Torso Unlock: Personal Assistant Robot Assembly. The Personal Assistant Robot Torso is a key intermediate component used in assembling personal assistant robots, serving as the core structural and functional element of these automation units. Its production marks a significant step in advancing your factory's automation capabilities, as it bridges several advanced materials and subcomponents into a single, essential part.
• Pipe Unlock: Piping. Pipes are the backbone of fluid logistics, enabling the transport of liquids between machines and infrastructure throughout your factory. They serve as the primary means of connecting various fluid-handling equipment, making them essential for any production line that relies on water, oil, or other fluids.
• Pipe-to-Pipeline Pump Unlock: Pipeline. The Pipe-to-Pipeline Pump serves as a critical link in factory fluid logistics, enabling the transfer of fluids from standard pipe networks into pipeline systems. This component is essential for bridging the gap between different fluid transport methods, especially in complex layouts where machines and pipelines must work together seamlessly.
• Pipeline Unlock: Pipeline. Pipeline is a logistics item designed for moving fluids efficiently between machines and storage across your factory. It forms the backbone of any fluid transport network, ensuring that resources like water, oil, or chemicals reach their destinations without manual hauling.
• Pipeline-to-Pipe Pump Unlock: Pipeline. The Pipeline-to-Pipe Pump serves as a critical connector for fluid network builders, bridging the gap between high-capacity pipelines and the smaller pipe grid. This allows for seamless fluid transfer between two otherwise incompatible systems.
• Planter Drone Unlock: Planter Drone Assembly. The Planter Drone serves as an automation unit dedicated to planting and terraforming tasks within your factory. It is crafted in assemblers and is essential for players looking to automate large-scale agricultural or environmental projects.
• Polymer Board Unlock: Basic Olumite Processing. Polymer Board is a processed raw material manufactured in a casting machine from Liquid Polymer. As a key intermediate, it forms the backbone of many advanced production lines in the factory.
• Portable Fuel Unlock: Olumite Fuel. Portable Fuel serves as a practical solution for converting liquid fuel into a solid, transportable form. Created by combining Liquid Fuel with an Empty Barrel in an assembler fluid, it allows players to use energy sources in machines that only accept solid fuels.
• Power Line Unlock: High Voltage Energy Grid. Power Lines form the backbone of your factory's electrical grid, enabling you to connect machines and distribute electricity efficiently across your setup. Without a robust network of Power Lines, machines cannot operate reliably, making them essential for any production line that relies on powered equipment.
• Power Pole (Large) Unlock: Power Pole (Large). Power Pole (Large) is designed to extend your factory's electrical grid across greater distances, making it a crucial component for supporting sprawling layouts. Its primary advantage lies in connecting power between distant sections, reducing the need for dense clusters of smaller poles.
• Power Pole (Small) Unlock: High Voltage Energy Grid. The Power Pole (Small) serves as an essential early-game structure for distributing electrical power throughout your factory. Its primary role is to connect machines and extend your power network, ensuring that all automation setups remain energized and operational.
• Power Pole (Wall-Mounted) Unlock: Power Pole (Wall-Mounted). The Power Pole (Wall-Mounted) is designed to extend and manage your factory's power network by attaching directly to walls. This feature allows players to distribute electricity without occupying valuable floor space, making it especially useful in compact or highly optimized layouts.
• Pump (Pipelines) Unlock: Pipeline. Pump (Pipelines) is essential for moving fluids efficiently through pipeline systems in your factory. It enables the transport of liquids across long distances and helps overcome elevation changes that would otherwise stall or slow down flow.
• Pump (Pipes) Unlock: Piping. Pump (Pipes) is a logistics component designed to move fluids efficiently through pipe networks in your factory. It plays a crucial role in ensuring that liquids reach their destinations, especially as your layouts become more complex and distances increase.
• Pumpjack I Unlock: Basic Olumite Processing. Pumpjack I is a factory building designed for extracting liquid resources directly from resource nodes. It plays a crucial role in automating the early stages of fluid collection, making it an essential addition to any production line that relies on liquids.
• Quarry The Quarry is an automated factory building designed to extract mineral rock resources directly from the terrain, integrating them into your production chain without manual mining. Its main appeal is hands-off resource gathering, provided you can keep its output clear.
• Reactive Briquette Unlock: Xeno Power Plant. Reactive Briquette is a crafted component produced in a casting machine, serving as a key part of advanced fuel production chains. Its main role is to act as an input for high-tier fuel recipes, making it essential for progressing energy systems.
• Reactor Fuel Mix Unlock: Xeno Power Plant. Reactor Fuel Mix is a crafted resource that serves as a crucial input for nuclear power generation chains. Its production is a key step in fueling advanced energy systems, making it an essential component for players aiming to automate large-scale power infrastructure.
• Research Server The Research Server is a placeable science building central to advancing technology in your factory. Its primary function is to process research packs, which are required to unlock new technologies and progress through the tech tree.
• Resource Separator Unlock: Resource Separator. The Resource Separator is a factory building designed to process terrain blocks and extract their component resources, playing a key role in the mid-game production chain. It is particularly useful for converting large stacks of terrain blocks, such as tundra dirt, into more valuable materials for further manufacturing.
• Robot Parts Unlock: Robot Components. Robot Parts are a mid-tier component crafted in assemblers and serve as a crucial shared feedstock for building the limbs and torsos of multiple robot types. They are not a final product, but rather an essential intermediate required in bulk to support the assembly of different robot variants throughout your factory.
• Robot Workstation I Unlock: Robot Workstations I. Robot Workstation I acts as an entry-level automation building, allowing players to automate specific production or assembly tasks in their factory. Its introduction marks a significant step toward streamlining workflows and reducing manual intervention early in the game.
• Robot Workstation II Unlock: Robot Workstations II. Robot Workstation II serves as an upgraded factory building designed to automate and accelerate item assembly in your production lines. As a mid-game advancement, it enables faster crafting speeds and increased throughput, making it a crucial step for scaling up your factory’s efficiency.
• Robot Workstation III Unlock: Robot Workstations III. Robot Workstation III is an advanced factory building designed to automate and manage complex robotic tasks at scale. As a high-tier workstation, it represents a significant step up in factory automation capabilities, enabling more efficient handling of sophisticated production lines.
• Rocky Desert Seed (Plants) Unlock: Greenhouse. Rocky Desert Seed (Plants) is a plant seed item used in greenhouses to propagate more of itself, forming the basis for plant-based production chains in arid environments. Its primary role is to enable ongoing cultivation and expansion of plant resources specific to rocky desert biomes.
• Rocky Desert Seed (Trees) Unlock: Greenhouse. Rocky Desert Seed (Trees) is central to establishing and sustaining tree cultivation within your factory's greenhouse systems. This seed acts as both an input and an output in its own recipe, enabling a self-replicating production loop once the process is started.
• Rubber Unlock: Rubber Production. Rubber is a key mid-game component produced in a casting machine, acting as a critical gate for advanced automation. Its recipe requires both Liquid Polymer and High Density Olumite, making it one of the first crafts to demand a reliable dual-fluid supply chain.
• Sandy Desert Seed (Plants) Unlock: Greenhouse. Sandy Desert Seed (Plants) serves as a self-replicating seed essential for greenhouse operations in plant production chains. Its primary function is to enable ongoing propagation of itself within the greenhouse, supporting a sustainable supply of seeds for further plant-based processes.
• Sandy Desert Seed (Trees) Unlock: Greenhouse. Sandy Desert Seed (Trees) is a plant seed item used in greenhouses to propagate trees, supporting renewable resource production within your factory chain. By enabling the sustainable growth of trees, it helps maintain a steady supply of wood and related materials without relying solely on finite natural deposits.
• Science Assistant Drone Unlock: Science Assistant Drone Assembly. The Science Assistant Drone is a crafted sales item assembled from a range of advanced components. It plays a key role in meeting market or logistics needs tied to science operations, making it a frequent requirement for players focused on progressing through science-related tasks.
• Science Pack I Science Pack I is the foundational science item required to begin research progression in the factory. Crafted in assemblers, it serves as the basic input to the Research Server, making it essential for unlocking early technologies.
• Science Pack II Unlock: Science Pack II. Science Pack II is a mid-tier science item crafted in assemblers and serves as a key resource for advancing the factory's technology chain. Its introduction marks a significant step up in production complexity compared to earlier science packs.
• Science Pack III Unlock: Science Pack III. Science Pack III is a mid-game research item crafted from advanced components, marking a significant step forward in your factory's technological progression. As you move deeper into the research tree, this pack becomes essential for unlocking further technologies and expanding your factory's capabilities.
• Science Pack IV Unlock: Science Pack IV. Science Pack IV is a late-mid tier science item crafted in assemblers and plays a key role in unlocking advanced technologies within the research chain. Progressing to this tier often marks a significant milestone in factory development, requiring players to expand and optimize their production infrastructure.
• Science Pack V Unlock: Science Pack V. Science Pack V is a late-game science item crafted in assemblers, serving as a key resource for unlocking advanced technologies through research. Its production marks a significant milestone in factory progression, often representing the culmination of extensive automation and supply chain development.
• Science Robot Unlock: Science Robot Assembly. The Science Robot is a specialized automation tool designed to streamline research processes within your factory. By working directly with research servers, it enables hands-off progression through research milestones, letting players focus on broader factory management.
• Science Robot Arm Unlock: Science Robot Assembly. The Science Robot Arm is an advanced assembly line component crafted in an assembler. Its primary role is to automate or enhance production processes that require precise and reliable handling of materials.
• Science Robot Head Unlock: Science Robot Assembly. The Science Robot Head serves as a crucial subassembly in advanced automation setups, bridging the gap between basic robotics and more sophisticated production lines. Its primary role is to enable complex automated processes, making it essential for scaling up scientific and technical manufacturing.
• Science Robot Leg Unlock: Science Robot Assembly. The Science Robot Leg is an intermediate assembly line component crafted from advanced materials. It plays a key role in mid- to late-game automation, serving as a critical part for building more complex robotic units or systems.
• Science Robot Torso Unlock: Science Robot Assembly. The Science Robot Torso is an intermediate component essential for building science robots and related automation units in the mid-game. Its role is to bridge several advanced manufacturing chains, making it a key part of more complex assembly lines.
• Scout Robot Unlock: Scout Robot Assembly. The Scout Robot is an advanced automation item designed for factory setups that require mobility and remote operation. Unlike stationary automation tools, Scout Robots excel in tasks where movement across the factory floor is essential.
• Scout Robot Arm Unlock: Scout Robot Assembly. The Scout Robot Arm is a specialized assembly line component essential for constructing or upgrading scout robots. As your factory's automation advances, these arms become a key part of expanding your robotic workforce and maintaining efficient exploration and logistics.
• Scout Robot Head Unlock: Scout Robot Assembly. The Scout Robot Head is an assembly line component crafted in an assembler, serving a pivotal role in the construction of scout robots or similar automated machinery. As a mid-to-late game part, it represents a step up in complexity compared to early-game components.
• Scout Robot Leg Unlock: Scout Robot Assembly. The Scout Robot Leg is an advanced assembly line component essential for building scout robots and similar automated machinery. Its role is pivotal in the construction process, serving as a key part that brings mobility to robotic units.
• Scout Robot Torso Unlock: Scout Robot Assembly. The Scout Robot Torso serves as a mid-tier component in the assembly line, forming the core of scout robots and related automation modules. Its place in the production chain is crucial for expanding automated capabilities and scaling up factory operations.
• Scrap Recycler The Scrap Recycler is a specialized machine designed to process scrap materials and convert them into useful components, making it a key asset for resource loop closure in advanced factory setups. By recycling waste and byproducts, it helps reduce raw resource consumption and supports sustainable factory growth.
• Screen Bot Unlock: Screen Bot Assembly. Screen Bots are assembled sales items designed specifically for galactic trade or to fulfill sales objectives. Their production relies on several intermediate components, making them a later-stage product in most factory setups.
• Shaped Charge Unlock: Shaped Charge. The Shaped Charge is a handheld explosive crafted in an assembler, designed for precise terrain modification and demolition tasks within your factory environment. This tool is essential for clearing obstacles and reshaping the landscape to accommodate expanding production lines or new construction projects.
• Shaped Charge (Heavy) Unlock: Shaped Charge (Heavy). The Shaped Charge (Heavy) is a crafted handheld explosive designed for removing specific environmental obstacles, such as certain types of rocks. Its primary role is to help clear paths or access resources by destroying objects that cannot be removed by hand or with basic tools.
• Shipping Pad (Medium) Unlock: Shipping Pad (Medium). The Shipping Pad (Medium) serves as a central hub for transferring and shipping goods within your factory's logistics network. It is designed to handle the movement of large quantities of items, making it a key component in efficient resource distribution.
• Shipping Pad (Medium, Assembly Line) Unlock: Assembly Lines. The Shipping Pad (Medium, Assembly Line) serves as a mid-tier logistics structure designed for moving items in bulk within automated factory setups. Its primary role is to facilitate the efficient transfer of large quantities of goods, making it a crucial component in any transport chain that aims to keep up with expanding production lines.
• Shipping Pad (Small) Unlock: Transport Bot Assembly & Shipping. The Shipping Pad (Small) is a specialized factory building designed to handle off-world logistics in your production network. Its primary function is to launch and receive space ships, making it essential for transporting materials beyond the planet's surface.
• Smelter (Small) The Smelter (Small) is an early-game factory building designed to process raw materials into refined products. As one of the first processing machines available, it plays a crucial role in transforming basic resources into components needed for more advanced manufacturing.
• Snack Bot Unlock: Snack Bot Assembly. Snack Bot is a crafted item produced in an assembler, representing a mid-game product that requires several processed components. Its recipe combines Xenoferrite Plates, Machinery Parts, Electronic Components, and Glass, making it a step up from basic crafting materials.
• Solar Panel (Large) Unlock: Solar Panel (Large). The Solar Panel (Large) serves as a mid-to-late game energy generator, designed to provide renewable power for expanding factory operations. Unlike early-game options, it becomes available only after significant progression and is crafted in an assembler using advanced materials.
• Solar Panel (Small) Unlock: Solar Panel. The Solar Panel (Small) is an early-game energy generator designed to provide power to your factory systems using sunlight. As a renewable energy option, it stands out for its ability to generate electricity without any fuel consumption, making it an attractive choice for sustainable power setups.
• Space Ship Fuel Canister Unlock: Space Ship Fuel Production. The Space Ship Fuel Canister is a high-energy component crafted in a chemical processor. Its primary role is to serve as a concentrated fuel source, likely intended for powering advanced machinery or vehicles that require significant energy input.
• Space Station Terminal Unlock: Space Station Terminal. The Space Station Terminal is a crafted building designed to facilitate direct interaction with the space station. It serves as a key interface point for managing logistics and transferring resources between your factory and orbital infrastructure.
• Stairs Unlock: Stairs. Stairs are a buildable structure designed to facilitate vertical movement within your factory, making it easy to access different levels and platforms. They play a key role in connecting elevated walkways and roadways, ensuring smooth transitions between various parts of your base.
• Steam Steam is a fluid resource generated by processing Ignium-Enriched Water in a geothermal generator or boiler. Unlike solid items, steam cannot be picked up or stacked in inventory and must be transported through pipe networks.
• Steam Turbine Unlock: High Voltage Energy Grid. The Steam Turbine is an essential energy production machine, converting steam into electrical power for your factory. It sits at the heart of your power infrastructure, enabling the transition from manual or basic power sources to automated electricity generation.
• Steel Beams Unlock: Advanced Steelmaking. Steel Beams serve as a critical intermediate material in factory development, acting as the structural backbone for a wide array of advanced machines and buildings. Their importance grows as players progress, with many late-game recipes and construction projects relying on a steady supply.
• Superalloy Unlock: Superalloy Production. Superalloy is a solid plate produced from Molten Superalloy using a casting machine. This transformation marks the point where the liquid form is converted into a usable material for advanced manufacturing.
• Tank I Unlock: Tank. Tank I serves as a basic container for storing fluids or gases within your production chain. It plays a critical role in managing the flow and availability of liquid resources as your factory expands.
• Technum Ore Unlock: Ore Refinement. Technum Ore is a processed resource extracted from Technum Ore Rubble using a crusher. It stands out as a key material in the early and mid-game, feeding directly into smelting and further crafting chains.
• Technum Ore Rubble Technum Ore Rubble is a fundamental raw resource that serves as the starting point for several essential production chains in the factory. Its primary role is to act as the base material that feeds into various machines for further refinement and crafting.
• Technum Rods Unlock: Blast Furnace. Technum Rods are a basic processed material created from Technum Ore or Technum Ore Rubble. As a foundational resource, they play a critical role in supporting a wide range of early- and mid-game crafting needs.
• Telluxite Ingot Unlock: CPU Production. Telluxite Ingot is a refined material produced from Telluxite Ore using an advanced smelter. It acts as a crucial intermediate in the processing chain, serving as the base for more advanced materials.
• Telluxite Ore Unlock: CPU Production. Telluxite Ore is a core raw resource extracted directly from ore veins, serving as the starting point for several advanced crafting processes. Its importance grows as players progress into more complex manufacturing chains, where a steady supply becomes essential.
• Telluxite Ore Rubble Telluxite Ore Rubble is a raw resource extracted directly from the world and forms the starting point for all telluxite-based production. It cannot be crafted or produced by any recipe and is only obtained through mining.
• Telluxite Wafer Unlock: CPU Production. Telluxite Wafer is a specialized component produced by casting Liquid Telluxite in a Casting Machine. It plays a critical role as a mid-chain material required for CPU manufacturing, making it essential for advancing high-tech production lines.
• Train Cargo Wagon Unlock: Trains. The Train Cargo Wagon is a modular component designed to increase the carrying capacity of your trains. By attaching additional cargo wagons, you can move larger quantities of materials in a single trip, making it essential for scaling up bulk transport between distant factory locations.
• Train Engine Unlock: Trains. The Train Engine is a critical component for powering and controlling trains, making it essential for establishing automated transport within player-built logistics networks. Without a Train Engine, trains cannot move or respond to signals, halting any large-scale material movement across your factory.
• Train Loading Station Unlock: Trains. The Train Loading Station serves as the primary interface for transferring items onto trains, enabling automated transport between distant areas of your factory. As a key component in any large-scale logistics network, it allows players to move bulk resources efficiently, reducing manual hauling and streamlining complex supply chains.
• Train Signal Unlock: Trains. Train Signals are essential components for managing the flow of trains along your automated rail networks. By placing signals along the tracks, you can control train movement, prevent collisions, and keep your logistics running smoothly.
• Train Station Unlock: Trains. The Train Station serves as a crucial logistics node within your factory, providing a placeable structure where trains can load and unload resources. By integrating train stations into your transport network, you unlock the ability to automate the movement of large quantities of materials between distant factory areas.
• Train Tanker Wagon Unlock: Trains. The Train Tanker Wagon is a specialized rail car designed specifically for transporting liquids across your factory's rail logistics network. Its primary role is to move large volumes of fluids efficiently between distant locations, making it essential for any setup that requires bulk liquid transfer.
• Train Tracks Unlock: Trains. Train Tracks are a core infrastructure item that enable the automated transport of goods across your factory. By laying down tracks, you create pathways for trains to efficiently move items between distant production areas, greatly enhancing your logistics capabilities.
• Transformer (Large) Unlock: Transformer (Large). The Transformer (Large) is a critical energy infrastructure component designed for managing and distributing electrical power across expanding factory setups. Its primary advantage lies in handling higher power throughput compared to smaller transformers, making it essential as your factory grows and energy demands increase.
• Transformer (Small) Unlock: High Voltage Energy Grid. The Transformer (Small) is an essential energy item designed to help manage and convert electrical power within your factory. Its main function is to ensure that machines and production lines receive the appropriate type and amount of power needed for smooth operation.
• Transport Bot Unlock: Transport Bot Assembly & Shipping. Transport Bot serves as an early-game sales item, crafted in an assembler and specifically designed for trade and sales routes. Its primary role is to generate firmalite income by being delivered to sales points, making it essential for kickstarting your economic loop.
• Transport Drone Unlock: Transport Drone Assembly. Transport Drones are crafted in assemblers and serve as dedicated sales items within the factory ecosystem. Unlike other drone types, they are not intended for moving goods internally between production lines or storage units.
• Transport Ship Port Unlock: Construction Industry. The Transport Ship Port is a key logistics structure that enables the movement of materials from warehouses to modular building sites using transport ships. Its primary function is to bridge the gap between storage and construction, allowing for efficient bulk transport across your factory's network.
• Tropical Rainforest Seed (Plants) Unlock: Greenhouse. Tropical Rainforest Seed (Plants) serves as a foundational plant seed for greenhouse operations, enabling players to establish and maintain plant-based production lines. Its primary function is to support the ongoing propagation of itself, making it essential for any resource loop that depends on renewable plant output.
• Tropical Rainforest Seed (Trees) Unlock: Greenhouse. Tropical Rainforest Seed (Trees) serves as a core plant seed item for propagating trees within your factory ecosystem. Its primary role is to enable and sustain tree growth through greenhouse operations, making it essential for any production chain that relies on renewable wood or biomass resources.
• Tundra Seed (Plants) Unlock: Greenhouse. Tundra Seed (Plants) is essential for establishing and maintaining greenhouse-based plant production lines. Its primary function is to enable the propagation of tundra plants, making it foundational for any operation focused on this biome's crops.
• Tundra Seed (Trees) Unlock: Greenhouse. Tundra Seed (Trees) serves as the foundation for renewable tree farming in cold biomes. Used exclusively in greenhouses, these seeds are essential for producing a continuous supply of tundra trees, which support ongoing biomass and wood product loops.
• Vacuum Bot Unlock: Vacuum Bot Assembly. Vacuum Bots are crafted automation items produced in assemblers and serve as the backbone for automated transport and logistics within factory setups. Their deployment streamlines the movement of goods, reducing manual intervention and enabling more complex production lines.
• Walkway Unlock: Walkways. Walkways serve as essential buildable tiles for creating dedicated paths and elevated surfaces throughout your factory. By placing walkways, players can establish clear routes for character movement, making it easier to traverse large or multi-level layouts.
• Waste Gas Unlock: Basic Olumite Processing. Waste Gas is a persistent byproduct generated during the refining of Crude Olumite in a distillation column. As you process Olumite to obtain valuable materials like Olumite Gas, Low Density Olumite, and Liquid Polymer, Waste Gas is produced alongside these main outputs.
• Water Water is a core liquid resource that plays a central role in powering various recipes and processes across the factory. Its importance is felt early and often, as it is a required input for everything from growing biomass in greenhouses to producing advanced materials in chemical processors.
• Weapon Components Unlock: Combat Drone Assembly. Weapon Components are a key intermediate item required for assembling advanced combat machinery and robots. Their role is central in the production of late-game combat units, making them a critical link in any factory focused on military output.
• Wire Coil Wire Coil is a core intermediate component produced from Technum Rods in an assembler. It plays a crucial role in enabling the assembly of higher-tier items and essential connections throughout the factory.
• Xeno-Crystal Unlock: Xeno Power Plant. Xeno-Crystal is a pivotal mid-game resource that can be acquired either as a byproduct of processing Xeno-Crystal Sludge in a casting machine or by mining Crystal Deposits found in lava caves using an extractor. Many players first encounter friction when searching for these elusive deposits or when extractors refuse to mine, highlighting the importance of correct node placement and exploration.
• Xeno-Crystal-Extractor The Xeno-Crystal-Extractor is a factory building dedicated to extracting Xeno Crystals, serving as a key component in the resource production chain. This specialized machine is essential for automating the gathering of Xeno Crystals, which are often needed for advanced manufacturing and progression.
• Xeno-Crystal Sludge Unlock: Xeno Power Plant. Xeno-Crystal Sludge is a fluid intermediate produced in a Distillation Column by processing Xeno-Crystal, Charged Xeno-Crystal, and Olumic Acid. Unlike raw crystals, sludge is not mined directly but crafted as a crucial step in the advanced crystal processing chain.
• Xeno-Logistics Container The Xeno-Logistics Container is a specialized storage unit designed to interface directly with the Xeno-Logistics system, enabling automated item transfer and resupply throughout your factory network. Its main purpose is to streamline the movement of resources between production lines and supply points without manual hauling.
• Xeno-Logistics Tower The Xeno-Logistics Tower serves as a logistics container, automating the management and distribution of items within a defined area of your factory. Its primary role is to streamline item transport, reducing the need for manual hauling and enabling more efficient production lines.
• Xeno Power Core Xeno Power Core is a late-game crafted component designed for advanced factory setups. It is produced using the crystal refiner, signaling its place among high-tier manufacturing processes.
• Xeno-Scrap Xeno-Scrap is a unique world resource that can only be extracted from dedicated scrap nodes using the Xeno-Scrap-Extractor. Unlike most materials, it does not have a standard crafting recipe and cannot be produced in factory machines.
• Xeno-Scrap-Extractor The Xeno-Scrap-Extractor is a factory building crafted in an assembler. Its primary function is to extract xeno scrap resources, serving as a key component in automating the collection of this material within your production chain.
• Xenoferrite-Ignium Ore Blend Unlock: Basic Steelmaking. Xenoferrite-Ignium Ore Blend serves as a crucial intermediate material in the steel production process. Factory operators must process Xenoferrite Ore Rubble and Ignium Ore Rubble in a crusher to obtain this blend, which is then used for smelting Steel Beams.
• Xenoferrite Ore Unlock: Ore Refinement. Xenoferrite Ore is a core raw resource that forms the backbone of the factory's metal supply chain. It is obtained by processing Xenoferrite Ore Rubble in crushers, making it one of the earliest and most essential materials to secure for ongoing production.
• Xenoferrite Ore Rubble Xenoferrite Ore Rubble is a foundational mined resource that plays a pivotal role in several production chains. It serves as both a direct ingredient for recipes like Cement and ore blends, and as the primary input for producing Xenoferrite Ore through processing.
• Xenoferrite Plates Unlock: Olumite Barreling. Xenoferrite Plates are a foundational processed material, produced primarily from Xenoferrite Ore Rubble or by recycling empty barrels. They are manufactured in smelters, assemblers, or base stations, offering flexibility in how players integrate them into their production lines.

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