Wooden Keel
The backbone of any wooden ships.
Notes
The Wooden Keel is an ingredient and product item that serves as the structural backbone for wooden ship construction. It is produced through the Wooden Keel recipe and is consumed when crafting Small, Medium, or Large Wooden Ship Frames. Because it is a required component for every tier of wooden ship, stocking or producing keels in advance will speed the shipbuilding process for the settlement.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
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Ingredients
| Ingredient | Qty | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | category |
Byproducts (garbage)
| Material | Qty / craft |
|---|---|
| ≈ 0.16 |
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 | 60 calories |
|---|---|
| Craft time | 2 min |
| Throughput | ≈ 30 Wooden Keel / hour (base) |
Recycling & waste
3× Wood 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
8× Wood (any)
Approximate โ category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.