Iron Bar

Refined bar of iron.

Notes

Iron bars are the foundational refined metal of mid-game industry, smelted from iron ore and used in a huge range of crafting recipes — from anvils and assembly lines to buildings, furniture, and advanced machinery. They also serve as a high-value mintable commodity, with each bar capable of backing up to 10,000 coins of currency. If you are setting up a town's economy, making iron bars available in a store early is one of the fastest ways to establish a widely-trusted minted currency, because nearly every player needs iron for their own progression.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Recipe (3 ways to make this)Blast Furnace · Smelting Lv 1Bloomery · Smelting Lv 1Blast Furnace · Recycling Lv 2

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Smelting level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Concentrate	1	item
Clay Mold	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Ceramic Scrap	0.22
Crushed Mixed Rock	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	60 calories
Craft time	0.6 min
Throughput	≈ 400 Iron Bar / hour (base)

As a block

Recycling & waste

• 0.2× 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

• 15× Iron Ore
• 0.25× Clay

Categories

• Block
• Currency
• Ingredient
• Metal
• Product

Obtained from

• Iron Bar
• Recycled Iron Bar

• Smelt Iron

Used in

• Cooking Utensils
• Huge Iron Banner Sign
• Huge Iron Sign
• Iron Frame Wide
• Iron Pipe
• Iron Plate
• Iron Saw Blade
• Nail
• Ornate Iron Frame Wide
• Standing Basalt Pot

• Combustion Generator
• Recycler

• Weave Nylon Curtains

• Bank
• Brazier
• Candle Stand
• Ceiling Candle
• Currency Exchange
• Decorative Anchor
• Hourglass
• Iron Anchor
• Iron Paint Sprayer
• Rotating Cube
• Sawmill
• Tallow Wall Lamp
• Wall Candle

• Anvil
• Cast Iron Bench
• Cast Iron Chair
• Cast Iron Stove
• Cast Iron Table
• Smelting Upgrade
• Town Bell

• Blacksmith Table
• Paint Mixer
• Wooden Dumpster

• Electric Water Pump

• Recurve Bow

• Iron Axe
• Iron Hammer
• Iron Hoe
• Iron Machete
• Iron Pickaxe
• Iron Rock Drill
• Iron Shovel
• Iron Sickle

• Bakery Oven
• Bathtub
• Brick Fireplace
• Glassworks
• Small Sink

• Iron Axle
• Screws

• Assembly Line
• Laboratory
• Screening Machine
• Stamp Mill
• Steam Engine
• Transmission Pole
• Tripod Camera

• Medium Metal Ship Frame
• Wooden Transport Ship

• Base Paint

• Metallurgy Research Paper Basic

• Barrel

• Storage Silo

• Piston

• Country Foundation
• Outpost Table
• Stenographers Table

• Gearbox
• Iron Gear
• Metal Keel

• Wooden Barge

• Cast Iron Bed
• Cast Iron Royal Bed
• Kite

• Hand Plow
• Iron Road Tool
• Iron Wheel
• Magnet
• Mechanical Water Pump
• Stop Sign
• Street Sign
• Wooden Elevator

• Wall Mounted Chest

See also

Copper BarGold BarSteel Bar