Components and project chains
Iron Ingot
Components
A smelted metal intermediate used across construction and production.
ComponentsRecipe chain depth 11 supported recipe route
WHY CONSIDER IT
It is an early shared bottleneck candidate; combined demand is more useful than a single recipe count when many lines consume iron.
When it fits: Set a stock/flow target before adding several iron-consuming machines.
The tradeoff: One source recipe run makes 1 and lists 1 Iron Ore at Arc Smelter / Plane Smelter / Negentropy Smelter; 1 recipe variant(s) for this output are grouped together. Verify access where the pack is incomplete. Ore availability and smelter capacity are operating constraints beyond this one conversion recipe.
Stack size100
Planner recipes & alternatives
Material calculator: DSP 0.10.29.21950 · FactorioLab snapshot.
Access & prerequisites
- Unlock availability is not modeled; check the selected game build.
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