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Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
Garbage & recycling: waste sorts from mixed garbage down to pure materials, and can be recycled back into stock.
Pollution has four kinds: acid rain, chemical, soil and heavy mineral, each settling into the ground differently. Pollution guide →
Modules reworked: upgrades are now Basic / Advanced / Modern / Specialty, one per slot, driving the same bonus system as talents. Module guide →
Fresh water: machines need it — water drawn from the ocean has to be desalinated first.

The character calculator has been updated for these changes. Read the garbage & recycling guide →

Modern Rock Drill

Tool

A gasoline-powered alternative for faster geological sampling.

Weight1000 gMax stack1SkillBlacksmith Lv 5StationPower Hammer

Notes

The Modern Rock Drill is a tier-4 gasoline-powered tool used for faster geological sampling. It consumes 15 calories and 1 durability per use, with a maximum durability of 2000, and deals minimal damage to animals (×0.2). As a high-tier sampling tool, it is produced by its own recipe and can be recycled into Scrap Tool when no longer needed.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic Advanced Modern Specialty

Blacksmith level 0Skill level changes labor only.

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

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
Ingredient	Qty	Type
Steel Bar	6	item
Steel Gear	4	item
Synthetic Rubber	4	item
Combustion Engine	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	1.06
Chemical Waste	0.08
Plastic 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	1000 calories
Craft time	0.5 min
Throughput	≈ 120 Modern Rock Drill / hour (base)

As a tool

Tier4Damage1Vs animals×0.2Calories/use15Durability/use1Max durability2000

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

4× Iron Scrap
0.2× 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

Steps72Total labor18469.17 calTotal time198.92 min

335.63× Iron Ore
140× Limestone
98× Wood (any)
52.5× Quicklime
26.16× Clay
2.33× Steel Bar
2× Medium Carcass (any)
1.31× Silica (any)

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

Categories

Obtained from

Modern Rock Drill

See also

Handheld Camera