Clay Mold

A container required to shape liquid metal into useful shapes more suitable to make tools and other parts with.

Notes

A Clay Mold is a single-use container used to shape molten metal into bars, such as Copper, Gold, or Iron Bars. It is crafted at a Campfire or Kiln from clay and is consumed when used in a smelting recipe. As a basic tool for metalworking, it is one of the first industrial items a town needs to produce raw ores into usable ingots; be sure to keep a steady supply in stock if you are the local smelter.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Clay	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Ceramic Scrap	0.08

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	0.2 min
Throughput	≈ 1200 Clay Mold / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.2× Ceramic Scrap

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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• 1× Clay

Categories

• Ingredient
• Product

Obtained from

• Clay Mold

Used in

• Copper Bar
• Gold Bar
• Iron Bar
• Recycled Copper Bar
• Recycled Gold Bar
• Recycled Iron Bar

• Cast Iron Bench
• Cast Iron Chair
• Cast Iron Table
• Smelt Copper
• Smelt Gold
• Smelt Iron

See also

AcornAdobeAdvanced CircuitAdvanced Combustion EngineAgave LeavesAgave Seed