Overview
Ice (Water) (ItemIce) in Stationeers: ice, hash 1217489948, stack 50.
Water ice is your most important source of water. According to the game data every piece contains 20 mol of Water and 5 mol of Nitrogen and melts from 273.15 K (0 °C). At 0.018 litres per mol, 20 mol of water is about 0.36 litres.
In the underground profile water ice has weight 20, and one extraction yields 5 to 9 pieces. Not every world has it: Venus and Vulcan have no ice at all, Mimas lacks water ice but has the other ice types.
The cleanest way to turn it into water is the Ice Crusher. It sends gas and liquid into separate pipes, so water and nitrogen are split right away. If you simply leave the ice in a warm room, it melts there and the gas ends up in the room air.
The nitrogen is not waste: it works as a filler gas for breathing air. More about all ice types in Ores and what they contain.
Traders
Traders buy
- Gas trader · 1.5
- Liquid trader · 1.5
Material, fire and recycling
Raw values from the game code (5)
Field names as in the game code, untranslated. Useful for mods and exact limits.
Ice.meltTemperature | 273.2 |
Ore.temperature | 278.2 |
Ore.RefiningTime | 2 |
Ore.QuantitySmelted | 0 |
Stackable.MaxQuantity | 50 |
See also
- Survival: the first minutesSuit, breathing air, water and power – what matters right after landing, with the values from the game.
- Mars: starting world with thin CO2 airThe beginner world in detail: 2.1 to 2.7 kPa of carbon dioxide air, nights down to −52 °C, all ores and ice types, dust storms – with worked examples for your first rooms.
- Water and thirst: melting ice, filling bottles, purifying waterHow much you drink, where the water comes from, how you melt, move and bottle it – with the material values of water from the game.
- Ores and what they containWhat every ore and ice contains, which gases melting releases, why the furnace therefore needs a gas outlet, and which ores have no ingot of their own.
- Moon: vacuum, full sun and solar stormsThe Moon in detail: no air, tidally locked with a 1,297 s day, strong sun up to 1,407 W/m², solar storms and rich ore deposits – and what vacuum means for building.
- Europa: cold and oxygenEuropa in detail: pure oxygen at 44 to 47 kPa, but −149 to −140 °C, very weak sun, good wind and snow storms – with a worked example of why the outside air is useful anyway.
- Electrolysis and water: winning oxygen and hydrogenWhere the water comes from, how the electrolyzer turns it into oxygen and hydrogen, how to separate the two, why the mixture is dangerous and an IC10 program that runs the plant safely.