Iron Axle

A rotating iron rod that can be fixed to wheels for use in vehicles.

Notes

Iron Axle is a crafted intermediate component used as a structural part in wheeled vehicles and machinery. It is required to build advanced vehicles like the Steam Tractor and Steam Truck, as well as a Crane and the Medium Fishing Trawler, and also serves as an ingredient for modern engineering research. Because it appears in multiple key industrial recipes, maintaining a stock of iron axles in a store or public storage can speed up vehicle production for the settlement.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	0.03

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

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	75 calories
Craft time	2 min
Throughput	≈ 30 Iron Axle / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 1× Iron Scrap

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

• 7.5× Iron Ore
• 0.13× Clay

Categories

• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Iron Axle

Used in

• Crane
• Steam Tractor
• Steam Truck

• Engineering Research Paper Modern

• Medium Fishing Trawler
• Wooden Transport Ship

See also

Advanced CircuitAdvanced Combustion EngineBasic CircuitBoilerCoarse StoneCombustion Engine