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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 →

Nitric Acid

An acidic compound used in a large number of chemical products . Not suitable for food.

Weight1000 gMax stack100SkillOil Drilling Lv 1StationOil Refinery

Notes

Nitric Acid is an industrial chemical produced through its own dedicated recipe and serves as a key intermediate in advanced manufacturing. It is used to craft Blasting Caps for explosives, as well as Etched Basic and Etched Advanced Circuits, making it essential for high-tech infrastructure and mining. Because it is tagged as an Explosive and an Ingredient, players should ensure a steady supply of Nitric Acid is available before progressing into mid-to-late-game circuit production or demolition work.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic Advanced Modern Specialty

Oil Drilling level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Fuel Focus (Oil Drilling Lv 6)

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

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
Ingredient	Qty	Type
Compost Fertilizer	3	item
Crushed Copper Ore	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	0.24

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	50 calories
Craft time	1 min
Throughput	≈ 60 Nitric Acid / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

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

Steps4Total labor200 calTotal time5.25 min

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

Categories

Obtained from

Nitric Acid

Used in

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