Steel Axle

A rotating steel rod that can be fixed to wheels for use in vehicles.

Notes

The Steel Axle is a component crafted from steel, serving as a rotating rod that connects to wheels for vehicle construction. It is a required ingredient in several advanced vehicle and industrial recipes, including the Excavator, Industrial Barge, Industrial Generator, Scorpion, Skid Steer, and Truck. Given its use across multiple late-game vehicles and machines, ensuring a steady supply of Steel Axles is important for keeping a settlement's industrial and transport projects moving.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Talents

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Steel Bar	4	item
Epoxy	3	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	0.06
Chemical Waste	0.02

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	60 calories
Craft time	1.5 min
Throughput	≈ 40 Steel Axle / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 2× Iron Scrap
• 0.1× Plastic Scrap

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

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Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 40× Limestone
• 28× Wood (any)
• 19.22× Iron Ore
• 15× Quicklime
• 6.2× Clay
• 0.67× Steel Bar
• 0.38× Silica (any)

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

Categories

• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Steel Axle

Used in

• Industrial Barge

• Excavator
• Industrial Generator
• Scorpion
• Skid Steer
• Truck

See also

Advanced CircuitAdvanced Combustion EngineBasic CircuitBoilerCoarse StoneCombustion Engine

Forged for the turning, built to bear the weight of progress. Where steel meets motion, a civilization rolls forward.