Steel Buoy

WorldObject

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

Notes

The Steel Buoy is a placed world object used as a navigational marker or mooring post. It occupies a 1×2×1 footprint and must be placed on a grid-aligned surface, making it suitable for docks or waterfront areas. Produced by a Steel Buoy recipe, it stacks to 100 and weighs 5000 g per unit.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Steel Bar	4	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	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	240 calories
Craft time	1 min
Throughput	≈ 60 Steel Buoy / hour (base)

As a placed object

Recycling & waste

• 0.8× 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

• Product
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Steel Buoy

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