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Tallow Lamp

Tallow Lamp

WorldObject

A pottery lamp. Fuel with tallow.

Weight500 gMax stack100SkillMasonry Lv 2StationKiln

Notes

The Tallow Lamp is a placed lighting object that burns tallow as fuel, providing a housing value of 2.5 per lamp. As a Lighting furniture item, each additional lamp placed in the same room contributes only 70% of the previous lamp's value, so stacking many identical lamps yields rapidly diminishing returns. This makes it an accessible early-game light source (using animal tallow), but for best housing value per item, consider diversifying with other lighting types or upgrading to higher-tier lamps as the town progresses.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Clay2item
Tallow4item
Cotton Thread1item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Ceramic Scrap0.16
Food Scrap0.03
Bio Residue0.02

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor50 calories
Craft time2 min
Throughput30 Tallow Lamp / hour (base)

As a placed object

RoomLightingHousing value2.5Furniture typeLightsRepeats worth70% eachSize1×1×1

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

Viewer

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

Steps4Total labor182.5 calTotal time7 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

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