Steel Plate

A sturdy steel plate for use in various crafting recipes.

Notes

Steel Plate is a mid-to-late-game industrial component crafted from steel, used in advanced machinery like the Electric Lathe, Excavator, and Froth Floatation Cell. It is also mintable into currency, making it a potential backing resource for a minted economy. Because it is required for many high-tier crafting stations and vehicles, keeping a steady supply in town stores helps prevent bottlenecks when players need to build advanced industrial infrastructure.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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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	3	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	0.05

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	120 calories
Craft time	1.5 min
Throughput	≈ 40 Steel Plate / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 1.5× 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

• 30× Limestone
• 21× Wood (any)
• 11.25× Iron Ore
• 11.25× Quicklime
• 4.59× Clay
• 0.5× Steel Bar
• 0.28× Silica (any)

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

Categories

• Currency
• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Steel Plate

Used in

• Carbide Helmet Lamp

• Steel Liquid Tank

• Advanced Carpentry Table
• Advanced Masonry Table
• Advanced Tailoring Table
• Automatic Loom
• Electric Lathe
• Electric Planer
• Incinerator
• Industrial Mill
• Industry Upgrade
• Injection Mold Machine
• Spin Melter
• Stove
• Valve

• Froth Floatation Cell
• Sensor Based Belt Sorter

• Standing Steel Brick Sign

• Advanced Combustion Engine
• Dumpster Compost
• Dumpster Garbage
• Dumpster Recycle
• Excavator
• Industrial Generator
• Industrial Refrigerator
• Modern Double Street Light
• Modern Street Light
• Powered Storage Silo
• Refrigerator
• Scorpion
• Skid Steer
• Steel Searchlight
• Truck
• Truck Dumpster Loader
• Truck Flatbed
• Truck Garbage Collector
• Wind Turbine

• Hanging Long Steel Sign
• Hanging Steel Mine Sign
• Hanging Steel Plain Sign
• Hanging Steel Shop Sign
• Huge Steel Banner Sign
• Huge Steel Sign
• Standing Long Steel Sign

• Federation Foundation

See also

BoardClaim Paper ItemClamCopper BarCopper PlateCotton Fabric