Steel Bar

Refined bar of steel.

Notes

Steel Bars are refined metal bars used in numerous advanced recipes, including machines, tools, and building blocks. They are heavy (20 kg each) and stack to only 20, so efficient transport and storage are important. Steel Bars can also be minted into currency at a Mint, making them a viable backing for a stable government currency.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Recipe (3 ways to make this)Blast Furnace · Advanced Smelting Lv 1Blast Furnace · Advanced Smelting Lv 1Blast Furnace · Recycling Lv 3

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Advanced Smelting level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Carbon Enrichment (Advanced Smelting Lv 3) Metallurgy Improvements (Advanced Smelting Lv 3) Rolling Steel (Advanced Smelting Lv 6) Steel Processing (Advanced Smelting Lv 6) Fuel Efficiency (Smelting Lv 6) Using Bellows (Smelting Lv 6)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Concentrate	1	item
Ceramic Mold	1	item
Quicklime	4	item
Charcoal	8	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Wood Scrap	1.28
Ceramic Scrap	1.03
Crushed Mixed Rock	0.19

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	≈ 160 Steel Bar / hour (base)

As a block

Recycling & waste

• 0.2× 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

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

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

Categories

• Block
• Currency
• Ingredient
• Metal
• Product

Obtained from

• Charcoal Steel
• Recycled Steel Bar
• Steel Bar

Used in

• Builder Boots
• Explorer Boots
• Smith Boots

• Sharpening Steel
• Small Faceted Steel Pot
• Small Steel Pot

• Electric Machinist Table
• Rolling Mill
• Sink
• Waste Filter

• Orrery

• Rebar
• Rivet
• Steel Pipe
• Steel Spring

• Rubber Wheel
• Steel Axle

• Electric Stamping Press
• Plastic Buoy

• Steel Gear
• Steel Gearbox

• Steel Plate

• Electric Motor
• Electric Wall Lamp
• Robotic Assembly Line
• Solar Generator

• Framed Glass
• Standing Glass Sign

• Metallurgy Research Paper Modern

• Steel Buoy

• Large Metal Ship Frame
• Steel Moorage Post

• Chainsaw
• Elk Gong
• Modern Axe
• Modern Hammer
• Modern Hoe
• Modern Machete
• Modern Paint Sprayer
• Modern Pickaxe
• Modern Rock Drill
• Modern Scythe
• Modern Shovel
• Steel Axe
• Steel Hammer
• Steel Hoe
• Steel Machete
• Steel Pickaxe
• Steel Saw Blade
• Steel Shovel
• Steel Sickle

• Metallurgy Research Paper Basic

• Jaw Crusher
• Laser
• Steel Abstract Fixture
• Steel Ceiling Light
• Steel Floor Lamp
• Steel Hanging Lamp
• Steel Kitchen Lamp
• Steel Table Lamp
• Streetlamp
• Washing Machine

• Corrugated Steel
• Flat Steel
• Hanging Steel Framed Sign
• Huge Steel Banner Sign
• Huge Steel Sign
• Long Steel Shelf
• Short Steel Shelf

• Kitchen

See also

Copper BarGold BarIron Bar