Asteroid crushing: crusher recipes and outputs
A normal crusher turns one metallic chunk into 20 iron ore every 2 seconds (10 iron ore per second), a carbonic chunk into 10 carbon and an oxide chunk into 5 ice. Since Factorio 2.1.7 the basic recipes give the chunk back 30% of the time.
Basic crushing (2 s)
| Chunk | Out | Per crusher per second |
|---|---|---|
| Metallic | 20 iron ore, 30% chunk back | 10 iron ore |
| Carbonic | 10 carbon, 30% chunk back | 5 carbon |
| Oxide | 5 ice, 30% chunk back | 2.5 ice |
Advanced crushing (5 s)
| Chunk | Out | Per crusher per second |
|---|---|---|
| Metallic | 10 iron ore, 4 copper ore, 10% chunk back | 2 iron ore, 0.8 copper ore |
| Carbonic | 5 carbon, 2 sulfur, 10% chunk back | 1 carbon, 0.4 sulfur |
| Oxide | 3 ice, 2 calcite, 10% chunk back | 0.6 ice, 0.4 calcite |
Reprocessing
Asteroid reprocessing turns one kind of chunk into the others: each recipe gives 40% the same chunk and 20% each of the other two, 80% back in total. Use it to rebalance a platform that collects too much of one kind. Since 2.1.7, quality modules are not allowed in crushers running reprocessing.
Crusher facts
- Crafting speed 1 at normal quality (2.5 at legendary), 2 module slots, 540 kW.
- Only buildable on space platforms.
- Asteroid collectors catch chunks in a 15 × 15 area with one arm at normal quality, up to 25 × 25 with six arms at legendary.
Platforms with crushers and collectors: space platform blueprints. Fuel for them: thruster fuel ratio.