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Steel Square Fixture

Steel Square Fixture

WorldObject

A more modern way to light up a room.

Weight500 gMax stack100SkillElectronics Lv 3StationRobotic Assembly Line

Notes

The Steel Square Fixture is a mid-to-late-game lighting object placed on ceilings (attaches on its Up side) with a 2x1x2 footprint. It contributes a base housing value of 8 under the Lighting category, but because lights suffer diminishing returns—each repeat item in a room is worth only 70% of the previous—you get the most value from placing just one or a few per room rather than covering every ceiling.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Steel Bar2item
Plastic6item
Copper Wiring5item
Composite Lumber8category
Light Bulb1item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Plastic Scrap0.51
Copper Scrap0.28
Wood Scrap0.1
Glass Scrap0.08
Chemical Waste0.03
Iron Scrap0.03

Approximate — 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 — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor120 calories
Craft time4 min
Throughput15 Steel Abstract Fixture / hour (base)

As a placed object

RoomLightingHousing value8Furniture typeLightsRepeats worth70% eachSize2×1×2

Each extra copy of this furniture type in the same room counts for less housing value than the one before.

Viewer
Placement
AttachesUp side

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

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

Steps42Total labor3229.48 calTotal time37.14 min

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

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