Metal

Every base metal and alloy placed on the ground

Many items in the game are made of metal including tools, weapons, armor, and lanterns. There are eleven base metals, which can be found in raw ore form. Eight of the base metals have a current use, while three base metals have no current use. Base metals with melting points at or below 1300°C can be melted in a crucible and cast into ingots or used to create alloys when combined in specific ratios. Metals with melting temperatures higher than 1300°C require a bloomery to smelt and form ingots.

Base metals

Copper

Copper Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	1084°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Copper is found as native copper, and malachite chunks and nuggets.

Copper is very likely to be the first metal most players obtain. It can be found in small stone surface deposits that provide smeltable ore nuggets when broken, thus a hammer isn't needed. Copper nuggets can also be obtained by panning. A high temperature fuel such as charcoal is needed to smelt copper, which can be used to make every type of weapon, tool, and armor via the casting and smithing mechanics. Copper is also used as a component in almost all alloys, including: brass, tin bronze, black bronze, bismuth bronze, molybdochalkos and cupronickel.

Gold

Gold Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	1063°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Gold is found only as native gold in quartz chunks which give native gold nuggets.

Gold is a rare metal that is used to make the alloys black bronze and electrum. Gold can be used to craft lanterns and armor. Gold plates can be used to create a lining for lanterns to increase their light level. Gold nuggets can sometimes be obtained by panning.

Silver

Silver Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	961°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Silver is found as native silver in quartz, and native silver in galena chunks which both give native silver nuggets.

Silver is a rare metal that is used to make the alloys black bronze and electrum. Silver can be used to craft lanterns and armor. Silver plates can be used to create a lining for lanterns to increase their light level. Silver nuggets can sometimes be obtained by panning.

Tin

Tin Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	232°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Tin is found only as cassiterite chunks and nuggets.

Tin is used as a component of the alloy Tin Bronze. It is also used to craft lead and silver solderbars.

Zinc

Zinc Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	419°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Zinc is found only as sphalerite chunks and nuggets.

Zinc is used as a component of the alloys brass and bismuth bronze. The base metal has no current use. Zinc in the form of sphalerite nuggets can sometimes be obtained by panning.

Bismuth

Bismuth Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	271°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Bismuth is found only as bismuthinite chunks and nuggets.

Bismuth is used as a component of the alloy bismuth bronze. Bismuth itself can only be used to make lanterns.

Lead

Lead Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	327°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Lead is found only as galena chunks and nuggets.

Lead is only used as a component of the alloy molybdochalkos. The base metal is the only metal that can be worked when cold, but lead itself has no use as the only item created from its ingots are plates, which are not used to craft anything.

Iron

Iron Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	1482°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Iron is found as limonite, hematite, and magnetite chunks and nuggets.

Unlike copper, iron can't be found on the ground. It does appear in rocks and requires a tier 3 (Bronze) pickaxe to mine. A bronze anvil is also needed to work iron. Due to the high melting temperature, Iron can only be smelted in a bloomery.

Meteoric iron

Meteoric Iron Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	1476°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Meteoric iron can be found in meteoric crash sites in the form of meteoric iron blocks. Crash sites can be identified as slight indentions in the landscapes, sometimes surrounded by suevite stones and meteoric iron pieces similar to surface metal bits. One crash site can have one or more meteoric iron blocks, the player might need to dig down through a dirt layer to find the surrounding suevite rocks around the meteoric iron blocks.

To mine meteoric iron, an iron pickaxe or better is required. Similar to iron, meteoric iron can only be smelted in a bloomery, however it does not produce a bloom and instead results directly in a finished meteoric iron ingot. Two pieces of meteoric iron are needed for every meteoric iron ingot.

Meteoric Iron can only be worked on a tier 3 anvil, meaning you will need at least an iron anvil to be able to work meteoric iron ingots.

Steel Types

Blister Steel

Blister Steel
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	1602°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Blister Steel is made by carbonizing Iron. It cannot be found naturally in the world, instead the player needs to follow the Steel Making process to obtain it. Blister Steel is the preliminary stage to obtaining steel, and functions the same way iron blooms do. It cannot be used to make tools, weapons or armor, and only functions as a step between iron and steel.

Steel

Steel Ingot
Stackable	16
Smeltable
Smelt Point	1502°C
Requires Container	Yes
Items

Steel is made by working blister steel on an anvil by hand or with the help of a helve hammer. It can only be worked on an iron anvil. Steel is used to create the highest tier tools and armor.

Alloys

Alloys are created using the casting mechanic. For more information on alloys, see the casting page. Two notable alloys include bronze and steel.

Metals with current use

Base Metal	Melting point	Used for
Copper	1084 °C	Tier 2 Tools
Iron	1482 °C	Tier 4 Tools
Gold	1063 °C	Tier 3 Tools
Silver	961 °C	Tier 3 Tools, Alloy
Lead	327 °C	Alloy ingredient
Tin	232 °C	Tier 3 Tools, Alloy, Dye making
Zinc	419 °C	Tier 3 Tools, Alloy
Bismuth	271 °C	Tier 3 Tools, Alloy
Titanium	1668 °C	Tier 3 cementation furnace, not used for ingots or metal working yet
Chromium	1907 °C	Dye making, not used for ingots or metal working yet
Nickel	1455 °C	Alloy

Metals without current use

Image	Name	Melting point
	Platinum	1770 °C
	Rhodium	None
	Uranium	None
	Stainless Steel	None