Blasting Cap

A necessary ingredient in making safe mining charges.

Notes

Blasting Caps are a crafting component used to produce Mining Charges, which enable safe, bulk ore extraction and terrain removal. They belong to the Explosives tag and are made at a relevant crafting station. Stockpile a steady supply early, as mining charges become essential for accessing deeper ore veins and accelerating resource gathering.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Copper Plate	2	item
Insulated Copper Wiring	1	item
Ethanol	1	item
Nitric Acid	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Copper Scrap	0.05
Bio Residue	0.02
Chemical Waste	0.01

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	50 calories
Craft time	1 min
Throughput	≈ 240 Blasting Cap / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.4× Copper 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

• 20.21× Copper Ore
• 10× Corn
• 5× Natural Fiber (any)
• 3× Bio Residue
• 3× Fertilizer Filler (any)
• 0.15× Clay
• 0.08× Iron Ore

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

Categories

• Explosives
• Ingredient
• Product

Obtained from

• Blasting Cap

Used in

• Mining Charge

See also

Black PowderNitric Acid