Charcoal Powder

A black powder made by taking bits of charcoal and turning it into a fine powder through a mill.

Notes

Charcoal Powder is an intermediate crafting material produced by milling charcoal into a fine dust. It functions primarily as a key ingredient for making Black Powder, which is essential for explosives like the dynamite needed for mining and meteor defense, and also for crafting Ink. Because it stacks to 100 and is consumed in bulk for ammunition and blasting, keeping a steady supply milled ahead of demand is a practical habit for anyone relying on firearms or excavation.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Recipe (2 ways to make this)Mill · Milling Lv 2Industrial Mill · Milling Lv 2

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Charcoal	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Wood Scrap	0.16

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	24 calories
Craft time	0.4 min
Throughput	≈ 750 Charcoal Powder / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.1× Bio Residue

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

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Total raw to craft this

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• 3.5× Wood (any)

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

Categories

• Ingredient
• Pigment
• Product

Obtained from

• Processed Charcoal Powder

• Charcoal Powder

Used in

• Black Powder

• Ink

• Carbon Filter

See also

Blue PowderCopper HydroxideCyan PowderIron OxideMagenta PowderWhite Powder