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Plastic Buoy

Plastic Buoy

WorldObject

A modern plastic navigational buoy, can also be used as a moorage post.

Weight2000 gMax stack100SkillIndustry Lv 4StationElectric Machinist Table

Notes

A Plastic Buoy is a modern, placed world object that serves as a navigational marker or a moorage post for boats. It is crafted from a recipe of the same name, stacks up to 100, and must be placed grid-aligned with a 1x2x1 footprint. For practical use, consider placing buoys along waterways or at the edges of your dock to mark safe passages or provide convenient tie-up points for vessels.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Steel Bar4item
Plastic6item
Copper Wiring5item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Plastic Scrap0.48
Copper Scrap0.24
Iron Scrap0.06

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor240 calories
Craft time1 min
Throughput60 Plastic Buoy / hour (base)

As a placed object

Size1×2×1
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Placement
AlignmentMust be grid-aligned

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

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

Steps23Total labor2538.75 calTotal time25.33 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

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