Base Paint

A necessary base for adding pigments and liquids together creating paint mixtures for all your creative needs.

Notes

Base Paint serves as the foundational medium for mixing pigments and liquids into colored paint, supporting a wide range of creative building projects. It is a light, stackable product that must be crafted before any colored paint can be produced. A practical tip is to stockpile Base Paint early, as it is the prerequisite for all paint recipes and having a ready supply prevents delays when construction or decoration projects begin.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Painting level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Painting Focused Speed (−50%) Painting Lavish Resources (−5%) Painting Parallel Speed (−20%)

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Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
White Powder	4	item
Iron Bar	0.5	item
Oil	2	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Food Scrap	≈ 0.08
Bio Residue	≈ 0.03
Iron Scrap	≈ 0.01

Approximate — a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	40 calories
Craft time	1 min
Throughput	≈ 600 Base Paint / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.4× Bio Residue
• 0.2× Iron Scrap
• 0.05× Chemical Waste

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 2× Oil (any)
• 1.88× Iron Ore
• 0.57× Trillium Flower
• 0.03× Clay

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Product

Obtained from

• Base Paint

See also

Acorn PowderAdobeAdobe DoorAdorned Ashlar Basalt BenchAdorned Ashlar Basalt ChairAdorned Ashlar Basalt Table