Lubricant

An extremely useful greasy material that helps machinery to run.

Notes

Lubricant is an industrial material used as a component in a wide range of high-tier machinery and crafting stations, including Combustion Generators, Cranes, Excavators, and advanced carpentry and masonry tables. Produced from grease, it is a mid-to-late game consumable that players specializing in mechanical or electrical power, construction, or mining will need in steady supply. Keep a stockpile of lubricant available through stores or contracts to avoid bottlenecks when building or maintaining advanced equipment.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Recipe (2 ways to make this)Butchery Table · Butchery Lv 1Oil Refinery · Oil Drilling Lv 1

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Butchery level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Poor Cuts (Butchery Lv 6) Prime Examples (Butchery Lv 6)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Tallow	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Food 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	180 calories
Craft time	1.5 min
Throughput	≈ 160 Lubricant / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.1× Chemical Waste

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

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• 2× Medium Carcass (any)

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Grease

• Lubricant

Used in

• Biowaste Sorter
• Combustion Generator
• Construction Scrap Sorter
• Crane
• Garbage Sorter
• Industrial Waste Sorter
• Metal Scrap Sorter
• Residual Waste Sorter
• Steam Tractor
• Steam Truck

• Waterwheel
• Windmill

• Advanced Carpentry Table
• Advanced Masonry Table

• Engineering Research Paper Modern

• Steam Engine

• Industrial Barge
• Medium Fishing Trawler
• Wooden Transport Ship

• Polishing Paste

• Excavator
• Industrial Elevator
• Jaw Crusher
• Scorpion
• Skid Steer
• Truck
• Wind Turbine

• Gearbox

• Small Wooden Boat
• Wooden Barge

• Hand Plow
• Powered Cart
• Wood Cart
• Wood Shop Cart
• Wooden Elevator

See also

Advanced CircuitAdvanced Combustion EngineBasic CircuitBoilerCoarse StoneCombustion Engine

A dark, oily lifeblood for industry's joints. Without it, the gears of progress seize and fall silent.