Radioactive Bar
| Radioactive Bar | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Furnace |
| Sell Price | 3000g |
The Radioactive Bar is the most valuable metal bar a Furnace can make. It is smelted from Radioactive Ore, which only turns up in the dangerous versions of The Mines and Skull Cavern, so every bar takes real effort to produce. In return, it unlocks two of the best automation tools on the farm, the Heavy Tapper and the Hopper. Ten bars also buy a Galaxy Soul from the Island Trader, the item needed to turn a Galaxy weapon into its final Infinity form. Maru treasures the bar as a gift, which makes it one of the few metals that wins hearts as well as machines.
Location
Making a bar starts with five pieces of Radioactive Ore and one lump of Coal. Loading both into a Furnace starts a long smelt, far longer than copper, iron, gold or iridium. The bar is usually ready the next morning if the Furnace is filled in the evening.
The ore itself needs the dangerous mines. Mr. Qi's "Danger in the Deep" quest switches The Mines into that state, and the Shrine of Challenge on floor 120 can switch it back on later. The "Skull Cavern Invasion" quest does the same for Skull Cavern, followed by the statue at the cavern entrance. On those floors, glowing green Radioactive Nodes break open for the ore. Good daily luck makes the nodes noticeably more common.
Uses
The Heavy Tapper is the first big reason to smelt. Its recipe costs Qi Gems at the vending machine in Qi's Walnut Room. Crafting one takes a Radioactive Bar and a stack of Hardwood. Fixed to a Maple, Oak or Pine Tree, it fills in about half the time a normal Tapper needs. Maple Syrup, Oak Resin and Pine Tar therefore arrive twice as often from the same tree, which helps any farm that runs many Kegs or crafts lots of Bee Houses.
The Hopper is the second. Its recipe also comes from the Walnut Room, at a higher Qi Gem price. Crafting one takes a Radioactive Bar, an Iridium Bar and some Hardwood. Items dropped into a Hopper load themselves into the machine in front of it. A line of Hoppers in front of Kegs or Preserves Jars saves a great deal of walking and clicking on a big artisan farm.
Galaxy Souls are the third. On the last day of each season, the Island Trader on Ginger Island trades a Galaxy Soul for ten Radioactive Bars. The offer only appears after at least fifty dangerous monsters have been defeated. At the forge in the Volcano Dungeon, three Galaxy Souls and a pile of Cinder Shards turn a Galaxy weapon into its Infinity form. Qi's Walnut Room sells Galaxy Souls too, so the bar trade suits farms that are short on Qi Gems but rich in ore.
At the Sewing Machine, a bar in the spool with Cloth in the feed makes Radioactive Goggles. A bar also works as a lime dye in the spool, and the green dye pot at Emily and Haley's house accepts it.
Crafting Radioactive Bar with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Heavy Tapper | 
|
Hardwood (30), Radioactive Bar (1) |
| Hopper | 
|
Hardwood (10), Iridium Bar (1), Radioactive Bar (1) |
Gifts
These villagers love receiving Radioactive Bar as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
|---|---|
| Maru | 
|
Notes
Maru loves the Radioactive Bar, and it counts among her best gifts. Nearly every other villager hates it, so it should only go to her.
The bar sells for a large sum at the Shipping Bin. Even so, one bar turned into a Heavy Tapper keeps producing for as long as the tree stands, while a sale pays only once.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |