Transmission Pole

WorldObject

Can link electrical energy.

Notes

The Transmission Pole is a placed electrical infrastructure object, used to link and extend electrical energy across a settlement. Its 1x8x1 footprint makes it a long, narrow structure that carries power from generators like combustion or solar panels to demand objects such as laser drills and computer labs. An effective tip is to plan a power grid route that avoids placing poles through water or heavily polluted areas, since high pollution can degrade nearby housing value and indirectly complicate energy infrastructure expansion.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	6	item
Copper Wiring	8	item
Basic Circuit	1	item
Lumber	10	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Copper Scrap	≈ 0.4
Iron Scrap	≈ 0.14
Wood Scrap	≈ 0.12
Bio Residue	≈ 0.04
Gold Scrap	≈ 0.02

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

Labor	480 calories
Craft time	4 min
Throughput	≈ 15 Transmission Pole / hour (base)

As a placed object

Recycling & waste

• 5× Copper Scrap
• 1.2× Iron Scrap
• 0.2× Gold 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

• 31.25× Gold Ore
• 22.5× Iron Ore
• 20.42× Copper Ore
• 10× Lumber (any)
• 4× Wood Board (any)
• 0.98× Clay

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

Categories

• Product
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Transmission Pole

See also

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Quiet sentinels standing in rows, each catching the hum of the current and passing it on, until a distant town glows.