Black Powder

A highly combustable mixture.

Notes

Black Powder is a combustible mixture used as an ingredient in crafting explosives, specifically Dynamite. It is categorized as an Explosive and an Ingredient, weighing 200 grams per unit and stacking up to 100. Players producing Dynamite will need a steady supply of Black Powder, so coordinating its production with a dedicated chemist is a practical step for any mining or demolition operation.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Charcoal Powder	4	item
Compost	2	item
Crushed Sulfur	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	0.03

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	35 calories
Craft time	2 min
Throughput	≈ 120 Black Powder / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.1× 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

• 135× Iron Ore
• 2.8× Wood (any)
• 2.25× Clay
• 2× Bio Residue

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

Categories

• Explosives
• Ingredient
• Product

Obtained from

• Black Powder

Used in

• Dynamite

See also

Blasting CapNitric Acid