How to Get Iron In Astroneer – Find out how to make Iron, what it does, and how you can get all the necessary ingredients
Iron, a highly refined resource, is created in the Smelting Furnace. It requires Hematite and has a byte size of 425 bytes.
Astroneer: How to Get Iron – Source
Iron is not easily found. You must make it using the following recipe
Recipe: x1 Hematite = x1 Iron
How do you create the Smelting Furnace
Recipe: Smelting Furnace Module = Resin x2 + Compound
Resin – Resin can be obtained using the Terrain tool on deposits that are found on all the Planets
- The Soil Centrifuge makes 8 Resin and two full Soil Canisters
- Trade Platform offers 2 Resin per Scrap, up to 8 total scraps for 8.
Compound can be found on all planets using the Terrain Tool, with varying rarities on each planet
- The Soil Centrifuge makes 8 Compound and two full Soil Canisters
- Trade Platform offers 2 Compounds for each Scrap. Up to 8 total for 4 Scrap.
How to get Hematite
Hematite is found on these planets:
- Novus > Cave Layers
- Glacio > Mantle Layers and Ice Dunes
The Trade Platform provides 2 Hematite per 3 Scraps, or up to 4 total for 6 scraps.
Astroneer: How to Get Iron – Uses
These are the items that need Iron in their recipes.
Small Printer Recipes
The Small Printer can do everything you need.
- Medium Shredder = iron x2
Medium Printer Recipes
The Medium Printer can do everything you need.
- Atmospheric Condenser = Plastic + Glass + Iron
- Large Shredder = Tungsten Carbide + Iron x2
- Large Platform C = Resin + Ceramic + Iron
- Trade Platform = Iron + Tungsten + EXO Chip
Large Printer Recipes
You can make everything on the Large Printer.
- XL Wind Turbine = Iron + Ceramic + Graphene + Aluminum Alloy
- Extra Large Platform A = Iron x2 + Ceramic x2
- Extra Large Platform B = Iron x4
- Figurine Platform = Iron x4
- Extra Large Platform C = Iron x2 + Resin x2
Chemistry Lab Recipes
All you can make in the Chemistry Lab and all the resources you’ll require plus Iron
- Steel = Iron