Iron Gear

A toothed machine part that interlocks with others.

Notes

Iron Gear is a basic mechanical component crafted from iron, widely used in advanced machinery such as assembly lines, gearboxes, and steam engines. As a foundational part in many industrial recipes, maintaining a steady supply is essential for powering a town's progression from manual labor to automated production.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Mechanics level 0Skill level changes labor only.

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Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	0.02

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	0.4 min
Throughput	≈ 150 Iron Gear / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.5× 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

• 3.75× Iron Ore
• 0.06× Clay

Categories

• Gear
• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Iron Gear

Used in

• Biowaste Sorter
• Construction Scrap Sorter
• Electric Machinist Table
• Garbage Sorter
• Industrial Waste Sorter
• Metal Scrap Sorter
• Residual Waste Sorter
• Steam Tractor Tree Cutter

• Engineering Research Paper Modern

• Assembly Line
• Portable Steam Engine
• Screening Machine
• Stamp Mill

• Metal Rudder

• Wooden Rudder

• Gearbox

See also

Steel Gear