Paper

It's paper.

Notes

Paper is a versatile crafted good that serves as both a fuel (100 fuel value) and a mintable currency backing material (up to 10,000 coins per item). Its primary role is as a key ingredient in many advanced recipes, including research papers, skill books, dynamite, and camera film. While it can be burned for a modest heat source, its high demand in knowledge-based crafting makes it far more valuable for research progression than as fuel.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Paper Milling Focused Speed (−50%) Paper Milling Lavish Resources (−5%) Paper Milling Parallel Speed (−20%)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Cellulose Fiber	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	0.06

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	20 calories
Craft time	0.1 min
Throughput	≈ 3600 Paper / hour (base)

Total raw to craft this

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• 24× Natural Fiber (any)

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

Categories

• Burnable Fuel
• Currency
• Fuel
• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Paper

Used in

• Agriculture Research Paper Modern
• Culinary Research Paper Modern
• Dendrology Research Paper Modern
• Engineering Research Paper Modern
• Geology Research Paper Modern
• Geology Research Paper Modern Glass
• Metallurgy Research Paper Modern

• Camera Film
• Dynamite
• Laboratory
• Medium Shipyard

• Anatomy Book
• Atlas Book
• Botanical Book
• Eco Book
• Gold Trim Book

• Redwoods Poster

• Bookshelf
• Heated Display Cabinet
• Refrigerated Display Cabinet

• Embassy Desk
• Outpost Table
• Stenographers Table

• Large Festive Paper Lantern
• Large Paper Lantern
• Paper Milling Upgrade
• Printing Supplies
• Small Paper Lantern
• Waxed Paper

See also

BoardClaim Paper ItemClamCopper BarCopper PlateCotton Fabric