Iron
| Iron | |
|---|---|
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| A bar of pure iron ready to be worked. | |
| Type | Metal |
| Found In | Swamp |
| Location | |
| Weight | 12 |
| Stack | 30 |
| Teleport | No |
| Crafting Station | - |
| Crafting Materials |
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| Spawn ID | spawn Iron
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No one wears iron plate until The Elder gives up the Swamp Key. Iron starts as scrap buried in the muddy piles of a Sunken Crypt in the Swamp, and it only becomes a bar in the Smelter.
How to Get It
Muddy scrap piles fill the crypts, and a crypt door only opens for someone carrying the Swamp Key, so The Elder comes first. The piles break with a pickaxe, and the Antler Pickaxe is enough for them. The Scrap Iron then has to be hauled to a smelter and burned down with Coal. Neither scrap nor bars can go through a portal unless you have raised a Portal Stone, so most runs end with a boat ride and a smelter built near the water. Smaller amounts turn up later in Frost Cave doors, Mistlands viaducts and the ancient pots of the Ashlands.
Notes
- Iron is extremely useful, and it goes into highly durable building parts and equipment right through the endgame.
- Like other metals, it cannot be teleported without a Portal Stone.
- Iron reaches well past the Swamp tier: later Biomes tiers use it too, in the Padded armour of the Plains and the Carapace armour of the Mistlands.
Iron Crafting Recipes
Iron runs through the whole middle of the game, and the recipes below cover its tools, weapons, armour and stations.
Iron Building Elements
The pieces below are the heavy structural work, from gates and grates to the reinforcements that let stone and wood spans carry their own weight.
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