Steel Gear

A toothed machine part that interlocks with others.

Notes

A Steel Gear is a toothed machine part used in advanced industrial machinery, including the Jaw Crusher, Modern Rock Drill, Modern Upgrade 2, and the Steel Gearbox. It is crafted from a recipe of the same name and is a key ingredient for mid-to-late-game equipment upgrades and ore processing. Because it is a component in multiple high-tier machines, keeping a stock of Steel Gears in your store ensures that engineers and miners can build and upgrade their equipment without delay.

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)Industry Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Industry level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Precision Tooling (Industry Lv 3) Electrical Efficiency (Industry Lv 6)

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Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Steel Bar	2	item
Epoxy	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	0.03
Chemical Waste	0.01

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	0.4 min
Throughput	≈ 150 Steel Gear / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 1× Iron Scrap
• 0.1× Plastic 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

• 20× Limestone
• 14× Wood (any)
• 8.91× Iron Ore
• 7.5× Quicklime
• 3.09× Clay
• 0.33× Steel Bar
• 0.19× Silica (any)

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

Categories

• Gear
• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Steel Gear

Used in

• Steel Gearbox

• Modern Rock Drill

• Jaw Crusher

See also

Iron Gear