Screening Machine

WorldObject

A machine for dry concentration that produces less harmful tailings. Can only be used to concentrate Iron.

Notes

The Screening Machine is a dry concentration device that processes iron ore into concentrated iron while generating less harmful tailings than wet methods, making it a cleaner alternative for early-to-mid industrial pollution management. It accepts Advanced and Mining Advanced upgrade modules to improve efficiency, and can also craft the Mining Advanced Upgrade itself and Sand Concentrate Lv2. Place it on a 3x3x4 footprint and keep it inside a room of sufficient tier to support its upgrade slots for optimal resource savings.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)Specialty (none)Mechanics Advanced Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Mechanics level 0Skill level changes labor only.Reset to base

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	40	item
Screws	15	item
Iron Gear	10	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	1.28

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	300 calories
Craft time	5 min
Throughput	≈ 12 Screening Machine / hour (base)

As a placed object

Accepts upgrade modules

• Advanced Upgrade
• Mining Advanced Upgrade

Crafted here

• Concentrate Dry Iron
• Mining Advanced Upgrade
• Sand Concentrate Lv2

Recycling & waste

• 16× 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

• 201.56× Iron Ore
• 3.36× Clay

Categories

• Crafting Table
• Housing Objects
• Industrial
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• Product
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Screening Machine

See also

Advanced Carpentry TableAdvanced Masonry TableAdvanced Tailoring TableAnvilArrastraAssembly Line