Metal Keel

The backbone of any metal ship.

Notes

A Metal Keel is the structural backbone required to build medium and large metal ship frames, serving as a foundational component in advanced ship construction. As a heavy 5-kilogram ingredient that stacks to 100, keep a steady supply on hand through dedicated production runs, since your shipbuilding projects will quickly consume keels once you start assembling the frames that depend on them.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Mechanics level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Shaping Up (Mechanics Lv 3)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	8	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	0.13

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	120 calories
Craft time	2 min
Throughput	≈ 30 Metal Keel / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 4× 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

• 30× Iron Ore
• 0.5× Clay

Categories

• Ingredient
• Product

Obtained from

• Metal Keel

Used in

• Large Metal Ship Frame
• Medium Metal Ship Frame

See also

AcornAdobeAdvanced CircuitAdvanced Combustion EngineAgave LeavesAgave Seed