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Heavy Mineral Decontaminant

Heavy Mineral Decontaminant

Tools

Mineral binder that immobilizes heavy-metal contamination ? the only way down once a claim passes the self-cleaning ceiling. Apply it to any ground or built block on a claim: one unit cancels one unit of Heavy Mineral Pollution source, and half of the decontaminant waiting on an area takes effect every 24 hours.

Weight500 gMax stack50SkillFertilizers Lv 4StationOil Refinery

Notes

Heavy Mineral Decontaminant is a crafted tool item used to neutralize heavy mineral ground pollution on a claim after pollution has exceeded what natural self-cleaning can handle. Each unit directly cancels one unit of Heavy Mineral Pollution from a ground or built block, with half of the applied decontaminant taking effect every 24 hours. As a practical tip, you should stockpile this for treating pollution around mines or tailings storage, where heavy mineral contamination from ore processing accumulates the fastest.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Clay10item
Charcoal4item
Plastic0.5item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Ceramic Scrap0.8
Wood Scrap0.64
Plastic Scrap0.04

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

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor120 calories
Craft time4 min
Throughput45 Heavy Mineral Decontaminant / hour (base)

Total raw to craft this

Steps9Total labor237.73 calTotal time6.7 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

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See also

A chemical patience for poisoned ground โ€” half binds today, half waits for tomorrow.