Hungry, Hungry Iron Hoarder

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Hungry, Hungry Iron Hoarder

For all your greedy iron needs! This guide details the locations of most current iron sources so that people will stop heading directly to Robotics for the iron there.

I’ve only looked up stacks of 50 iron and included stacks of nearby rods.

Station Iron Deposits

Box

AI sat: 50 iron
Engineering: 250 iron, 100 rods
Xenoarch: 50 iron
Atmospherics: 100 iron
Robotics: 300 iron
R&D: 50 iron
Aux storage: 100 iron, 50 rods
EVA: 50 iron, 50 rods
Aux base: 100 iron, 50 rods

Corg

Construction: 50 iron
Robotics: 300 iron
R&D: 50 iron
Shuttle construction: 50 iron, 50 rods
Cargo: 50 iron
Chemistry plumbing: 50 iron
Toxins test room: 50 iron, 50 rods
Aux base: 100 iron, 50 rods

Delta

Toxins test room: 50 iron, 50 rods
Robotics: 150 iron
R&D: 50 iron
Science Lobby: 50 iron
EVA: 50 iron
Engineering: 100 iron, 50 rods
Gateway: 50 iron, 50 rods
AI sat: 50 iron
Aux storage: 50 iron, 50 rods
Atmospherics: 100 iron, 100 rods
Aux base: 50 iron, 50 rods

Echo

Atmospherics: 100 iron
Engineering: 150 iron, 50 iron
Nanites: 50 iron
Abandoned Library: 100 iron, 50 rods
R&D: 100 iron
Medbay storage: 50 iron, 50 rods
Teleporter: 50 iron, 50 rods
Robotics: 250 iron
AI sat: 100 iron

Fland

Shuttle construction: 50 iron, 50 rods
Toxin test room: 50 iron, 50 rods
Gateway: 50 iron, 50 rods
Atmospherics: 300 iron, 100 rods
Robotics: 300 iron
Science lobby: 50 iron
R&D: 50 iron
Aux storage: 50 iron, 50 rods
Teleporter: 50 iron
Engineering: 150 iron, 100 rods
Aux base: 50 iron, 50 rods
Security test range: 50 iron, 50 rods
EVA: 100 iron, 100 rods
AI sat: 50 iron

Kilo

Engineering: 200 iron, 50 rods
Atmospherics: 100 iron, 100 rods
EVA: 100 iron, 50 rods
Bar: 50 iron
R&D: 50 iron
Science: 50 iron
Robotics: 300 iron
Aux base: 100 iron, 50 rods
AI sat: 50 iron

Meta -

Toxins test room: 50 iron, 50 rods
Robotics: 300 iron
R&D: 50 iron
EVA: 100 iron, 100 rods
Teleporter: 50 iron
Gateway: 50 iron, 50 rods
Atmospherics: 100 iron
AI sat: 50 iron
Aux storage: 100 iron, 50 iron rods
Aux base: 100 iron, 50 rods
Engineering: 200 iron, 100 rods

Rad

Science Maintenance: 50 iron
Engineering: 100 iron, 100 rods
Atmospherics: 150 iron, 50 rods
EVA: 50 iron, 50 rods
AI sat: 150 iron
R&D: 100 iron
Robotics: 250 iron
Chemistry plumbing: 100 iron
Nanites: 50 iron
Aux base: 100 iron, 50 rods

Summery

Iron can be found everywhere! Engineering typically needs 300+ iron if they are doing repairs, but these repairs take late into the game making those resources stationary and ideal for the picking! But you have resources all over the place! I learnt of locations to nick iron from myself from doing this list. For example Chemistry and Atmospherics has a ridiculous amount of iron for how much they actually need and use.

Future

I will not update this guide and it is mostly to inform the people of the options they have. I understand people head to Robotics because they have the largest amount and are among the easiest to get a hold of. But there are many, many other places you can find iron too!

This guide is dedicated to @taylor the iron hoarder.

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I think this is far too much iron available at the start of the round for 0 effort. I will be making a PR to reduce this supply to ~100 sheets of iron on each station. Thank you for compiling the locations making my job so much easier!

just kidding

unless?

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Plasteel has iron too just feed it to any lath and extract the iron

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Yep! But they tend to be in stacks of like 15 plasteel. You tend to find them next to any iron deposit too.

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You could just use the search function of any mapping tool to find it. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Round start cargo budget has enough to order 250 glass and iron. Helping out with 1-2 bounties can lead to sums enough to order 1000+ iron.

As a qm I usually order the 250 mats at round start, so there won’t be any problems for others.

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Also, this may potentially be more of a exploit, you could just have your friendly Eng borg put down floors and such and harvest those materials. Eng borgs just have to go to a borg recharger and then their materials are replenished, cause bluespace technology doesn’t have to follow the laws of physics

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I ahelped a long time ago a Robotist and a borg that Spent half an hour Just making materials that way, The admin Claimed It’s not an exploit If there is no miners or the station is falling apart and it was marked IC?!?

Anyway, Engineering borgs making large amounts of materials Isn’t classified as an exploit somehow and i’ve never ahelped it again.

Also side note if you want to make lots of material at once Don’t make Floor tiles or anything. Just craft iron rods, If you want glass Use iron rods on normal glass. you’ll make a whole stack of iron and glass within 5 seconds as a borg… Since it’s not considered an exploit to admins I learned how to do it And Honestly, IT’S GAMEBREAKING.

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Or use welder on the iron rod stack
And use the glass stack to make shards and then weld those

Since it’s not an exploit…

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Pretty sure most stations have 50 iron in the crate in the bomb test launch room.

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Depends on the map I think as I know meta has them and kilo does not have them

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Yes, this has already been included.

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Have you prehaps checked maints as some maps have fixed maint loot therefore they have iron

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I have not, I know Rad Robotics maintenance has like 10 iron, but it is quite insignificant compared to the other sources.

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thank you . . .

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still counts towards the end goal of iron hoarding.

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