Overview
Ore (Iron) (ItemIronOre) in Stationeers: ore, hash 1758427767, stack 50. With recipe.
Iron ore is the ore you will find most often: in the underground profile of every world it has the highest weight (90), and one extraction yields 3 to 5 pieces. The game data says 3 to 6, but the upper limit itself never occurs; on the Easy difficulty you get twice as much, on Creative five times. It is also the fastest to mine. Every piece contains exactly 1 unit of iron.
There are two ways to an ingot. The Arc Furnace needs 1 s and 200 J per ingot, without any gas. In the Furnace iron melts from 800 K and 100 kPa. There every piece of ore releases 0.5 mol of Carbon Dioxide and 2 mol of Pollutant – a full stack of 50 brings 125 mol of gas into the furnace.
Iron is used in more recipes than any other substance, and on top of that in steel, solder and invar. For steel a detour pays off: turn the ore into Ingot (Iron) in the arc furnace first. The ingot holds the same iron but no gas, and the pressure in the gas furnace stays easier to control.
How to find and mine ore is explained in Mining: finding and extracting ore, the way to steel in Making steel: step by step in the furnace.
Manufacturing
- 1 Iron
Used in
Traders
Material, fire and recycling
Contains: 1 Iron
Released when melted: 0.5 mol Carbon Dioxide, 2 mol Pollutant
Flammable according to game data: flash point 373.2 K (100 °C); Autoignition 573.2 K (300 °C); burn time 15 s
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
- Mining: finding and extracting oreWhere each ore lies, how much battery each drill draws, how the ore detector and mining charges help, and how much ore fits into belt and backpack.
- Furnaces and alloysThe three furnaces compared, how a temperature and pressure window works and which mix every alloy needs.
- 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.
- Making steel: step by step in the furnaceMix, temperature and pressure for steel, how much gas has to be in the furnace, why iron ingots beat iron ore and how a chip watches the window.