Iron Ore

Iron Ore

Iron Ore is a natural resource obtained through mining. It is combined with Coal in a Blast Furnace to process into Molten Iron. In later stages of the game, Iron Ore can be processed into Iron Ore Crushed in the Crusher before smelting to increase material efficiency. Smelting of Iron Ore, along with Copper Ore, are the primary sources of Slag. If you have the ore sorting setting enabled you will need a Ore Sorting Plant to separate it from the different Natural resources.

Island reserves

Each Home Island contains varying amounts of natural resources. The amount of resources mined by Excavators is modified by the ore mining yield modifier on the Game Difficulty screen. On the other hand, the amount of Crude Oil (and maybe Water?) is modified by the Extra Starting Materials modifier on the Game Difficulty screen. Any modifier cannot be changed once the island has been founded.

All maps have been updated for U3/0.7 (larger, with added Bauxite, Titanium Ore and Uranium Ore deposits), with the addition of Dragontail Isle, and removal of Insula Mortis. Armageddon was also added in an earlier update.

Easily accessible resource reserves on the Home Island (version 0.7.5)

Map	Iron Ore	Copper Ore	Coal	Limestone	Sand	Quartz	Gold Ore	Uranium Ore	Bauxite	Titanium Ore	Crude Oil	Groundwater	Wood
New Haven	1.4	0.88	1.4	1.7	3.3	1.7	0.83	0.21	0.79	0.33	0.69	0.14	0.22
Dragontail Isle	1.7	1.1	1.5	2.1	2.8	1.6	1.1	0.27	1.7	0.59	0.43	0.19	0.4
Armageddon	2.3	1.6	1.1	1.9	3	1	0.67	1.4	1.4	0.5	0.4	0.19	0.32
Beach	0.9	1.5	1.3	0.71	13	1.3	0.47	0.29	1.7	0.057	0.82	0.15	0.16
Curland	1.7	2.2	1	2.7	3.6	1.8	0.32	0.37	1.9	0.56	0.79	0.14	0.24
Golden Peak	1.3	1.5	0.96	1.5	3	1.5	2.4	0.73	1	0.1	0.41	0.18	0.27
You Shall Not Pass	0.97	1	1.1	2.5	2.5	0.97	0.48	0.79	1.2	0.32	1	0.16	0.17
The Crater*	3.7	2.3	5.8	1.8	0.7	-	0.67	-	-	-	0.7	0.48	0.87

Total resource reserves on the Home Island (version 0.7.5)

Map	Iron Ore	Copper Ore	Coal	Limestone	Sand	Quartz	Gold Ore	Uranium Ore	Bauxite	Titanium Ore	Crude Oil	Groundwater	Wood
New Haven	9.3	9.1	12	8.2	5.2	11	5.1	2.3	5.3	0.35	0.69	0.14	0.22
Dragontail Isle	13	11	13	9.4	4.5	11	6.6	4	7.5	4	0.93	0.19	0.4
Armageddon	13	8.7	15	7.9	4.4	7	5.6	7.5	12	1.6	0.4	0.19	0.32
Beach	9.8	8.6	10	6.1	16	7.4	3.3	5	8.5	0.46	0.82	0.15	0.16
Curland	12	9.2	9.4	9.5	5.4	7.5	3.4	6.8	7.6	1.6	1.8	0.14	0.24
Golden Peak	10	11	9.6	6.9	3.5	9.8	130	6.4	9.5	0.28	0.41	0.18	0.27
You Shall Not Pass	11	12	24	11	6	7.7	2.7	7.1	7.9	10	1	0.16	0.17
The Crater*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

The Crater map is Supporter Edition only. Ask someone who has it to update+fill in the data and update the map image.

All numbers in the table are in units of millions (1=1,000,000). Note that only Dragontail Isle and Curland have ocean oil deposits.

It should be noted that most of the above natural resources are non-renewable. But there are alternative ways to get unlimited resources.

• Dirt can be created by dumping Compost onto the ground or mixing Compost and Gravel.
• Wood is infinite, since Trees can be planted with Tree Planters.
  • This also means Coal is as well, since it can be made from Wood with a Coal Maker.
• Water can be indefinitely collected by 3 different ways:
  • Rain can also be collected directly with the use of a Rainwater Harvester.
  • Rain replenishes the Natural Groundwater reservoir (which can be pumped with a Groundwater Pump).
  • Seawater can be pumped limitlessly from the sea with a Seawater Pump(Tall) and turned into Water through desalination.
• Crude Oil consumption can potentially be avoided in the mid-game using the Biodiesel technology for Diesel and Naphtha Reforming for Naphtha.
  • Additionally, the player can switch over to Hydrogen usage for vehicles.
• Quartz is effectively crystallized Sand, and can be turned into it by processing it in a Crusher twice, prolonging the time to run out, while potentially saving your nice looking beaches.
  • Manufactured Sand, made from Rock via Gravel, can substitute for sand in Concrete Slab and Filter Media production, also saving sand.
• All other resources can be imported infinitely from Outposts or by Contracts, or dropping an endgame asteroid.

Recipes

Below are all the recipes, which contain this item. Note, that some of them may be locked behind Research, and not immediately available in your game.

Consumption

Tier I

:

10

30

4

12

20 

60 

8

24

4

12

8

24

:

16

32

30 

60 

16

32

:

96

192

30 

60 

96

192