Copper Ore

Copper Ore is a common resource found in the world. It is smelted into Copper Ingots for further processing.

Obtaining

Resource acquisition

Copper Ore can be harvested by hand (default E) in trace amounts from resource deposits scattered across the world, or from inexhaustible resource nodes on which Miners can be constructed to extract automatically.

Items produced per minute

100% Clock Speed250% Clock Speed

	Miner Mk.1	Miner Mk.2	Miner Mk.3
Impure	30	60	120
Normal	60	120	240
Pure	120	240	480

	Miner Mk.1	Miner Mk.2	Miner Mk.3
Impure	75	150	300
Normal	150	300	600
Pure	300	600	1200

Number of Copper Ore resource nodes is as follows:

Node purity	Number of nodes	Mk.3 mining rate	Mk.3 mining rate at 250 %
Impure	13	1,560	3,900
Normal	29	6,960	17,400
Pure	13	6,240	15,600
Total	55	14,760	36,900

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Copper Ore (Quartz)	1 × Reanimated SAM10 / min 10 × Raw Quartz100 / min	Converter 6 sec 100 - 400 MW	12 × Copper Ore120 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Copper Ore (Sulfur)	1 × Reanimated SAM10 / min 12 × Sulfur120 / min	Converter 6 sec 100 - 400 MW	12 × Copper Ore120 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Bauxite (Copper)	1 × Reanimated SAM10 / min 18 × Copper Ore180 / min	Converter 6 sec 100 - 400 MW	12 × Bauxite120 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Caterium Ore (Copper)	1 × Reanimated SAM10 / min 15 × Copper Ore150 / min	Converter 6 sec 100 - 400 MW	12 × Caterium Ore120 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Copper Ingot	1 × Copper Ore30 / min	Smelter 2 sec Craft Bench  × 3	1 × Copper Ingot30 / min	Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 2
Copper Alloy Ingot Alternate	5 × Copper Ore50 / min 5 × Iron Ore50 / min	Foundry 6 sec	10 × Copper Ingot100 / min	Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production
Iron Alloy Ingot Alternate	8 × Iron Ore40 / min 2 × Copper Ore10 / min	Foundry 12 sec	15 × Iron Ingot75 / min	Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production
Leached Copper Ingot Alternate	9 × Copper Ore45 / min 5 × Sulfuric Acid25 / min	Refinery 12 sec	22 × Copper Ingot110 / min	Tier 7 - Control System Development
Pure Copper Ingot Alternate	6 × Copper Ore15 / min 4 × Water10 / min	Refinery 24 sec	15 × Copper Ingot37.5 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Tempered Copper Ingot Alternate	5 × Copper Ore25 / min 8 × Petroleum Coke40 / min	Foundry 12 sec	12 × Copper Ingot60 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing

AWESOME Sink

 Copper Ore can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 3 points.

See also

•  Copper Powder
•  Copper Sheet
•  Wire

Gallery

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  A copper node
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  A copper deposit
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  Unused menu icon introduced in Patch 0.3.4.7

History

• Patch 0.3.4.9: Reverted to the old mesh as of 0.3.4.7, improved icon readability
• Patch 0.3.4.7: New mesh and icon introduced
• Patch 0.2.1.19: New mesh and icon introduced