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machine

Extruder

price$20,500
power50 kW
footprint2 × 4 m
recipes3

Draws copper into wire, and steel into beams and barbed wire.

The machine

Footprint
2 × 4 m on the factory's 1 m grid
Power
50 kW, counted against the building's limit
Price
$20,500; sells back at 50%
Its time adds
$4.50 a second to what it makes
The extruder model

Recipes · 3

TakesMakesTimePer machine, a day
1 × Copper4 × Copper wire4 s240 copper wire
2 × Steel1 × Steel beams6 s40 steel beams
1 × Steel2 × Barbed wire5 s96 barbed wire

A machine runs one recipe over and over: it takes a run's inputs from the building's stock, works, and puts the outputs back when there is room (else it waits, blocked; with nothing to take, starved).