Steel Shovel
When an iron shovel is not enough and you need something more durable while terraforming.
Notes
The Steel Shovel is a tier 3 digging tool that significantly outlasts its iron counterpart, with 2000 maximum durability for heavy terraforming work. It costs 20 calories per use and deals minimal damage to animals, making it strictly a construction and excavation implement. When a Steel Shovel finally breaks, it can be recycled into scrap metal via the Scrap Tool recipe, so consider saving worn-out shovels rather than discarding them.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
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Ingredients
| Ingredient | Qty | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | item | |
| 8 | item | |
| 5 | category |
Byproducts (garbage)
| Material | Qty / craft |
|---|---|
| ≈ 0.34 | |
| ≈ 0.08 | |
| ≈ 0.06 |
Approximate โ a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.
Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ see the Garbage & Recycling guide.
Crafting
| Labor | 750 calories |
|---|---|
| Craft time | 0.5 min |
| Throughput | ≈ 120 Steel Shovel / hour (base) |
As a tool
Recycling & waste
6× Iron Scrap
1× Bio Residue
0.8× Wood Scrap
0.2× Textiles
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
200× Limestone
140× Wood (any)
75× Iron Ore
75× Quicklime
30.63× Clay
5× Lumber (any)
4× Bison Carcass
3.33× Steel Bar
1.88× Silica (any)
Approximate โ category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.