Overview
Dirty Ore (ItemDirtyOre) in Stationeers: ore, hash -1234745580, stack 50.
Dirty ore is what the Deep Miner produces – 10 or 11 pieces every 100 to 119 s. Unlike normal ore it does not contain one substance but a mixture. Which one is set by the deep mining profile at the miner's location: with the iron profile every piece holds 1 iron, with the gold and silver profile 0.2 gold and 0.1 silver, with the cobalt profile only 0.1 cobalt.
Because it is a mixture, dirty ore belongs in the Centrifuge. According to the recipe data it turns every substance into the matching pure ore – iron into Ore (Iron), hydrocarbon into coal. An ore comes out as soon as a whole unit of one substance has been collected: with the gold and silver profile, 5 pieces are enough for one gold ore, for one silver ore you need about 10. At full speed the centrifuge needs 18 s per piece. Ores from the centrifuge no longer release gas when melted.
Do not put it straight into the furnace or the arc furnace. There every piece counts as melted but adds no substance – the ore is simply gone. In the recycler you only get half of the contents back.
It stacks up to 50 and fits into any ore slot. If you combine stacks from different profiles, the game averages the mix over all pieces. The easiest setup links deep miner, centrifuge and furnace with chutes into one chain. What that looks like is described in Deep miner and automatic mining.
Raw values from the game code (4)
Field names as in the game code, untranslated. Useful for mods and exact limits.
Ore.temperature | 273.2 |
Ore.RefiningTime | 2 |
Ore.QuantitySmelted | 0 |
Stackable.MaxQuantity | 50 |
See also
- Recycling and centrifuge: getting material backWhat the recycler returns from old parts, how the centrifuge separates mixtures back into pure ores, what the combustion centrifuge does differently and what a recycling line looks like.
- Deep miner and automatic miningHow the deep miner produces dirty ore, what it costs in power and parts, how you pass the ore on through chute and centrifuge, and which other automatic miners exist.