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Gold Flakes

Gold Flakes

A highly efficient conductor for delicate electronics.

Weight50 gMax stack100SkillElectronics Lv 1StationElectronics Assembly

Notes

Gold Flakes are a refined material crafted from gold, serving as a high-efficiency conductor for electronic components. They are a key ingredient in all circuit recipes—Basic, Advanced, Etched Basic, and Etched Advanced—making them essential for advancing into computer and laser technology. Because circuits are required for nearly every high-tier machine and the meteor-defense lasers, ensuring a steady supply of Gold Flakes is critical for a town's tech progression.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Gold Bar2item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Gold Scrap0.03

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

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor75 calories
Craft time0.8 min
Throughput600 Gold Flakes / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

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

Steps5Total labor350 calTotal time2.73 min

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