Cobalt Ore
| Cobalt Ore | |
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| Category: | Ore |
| Status: | Functional |
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| Can be refined into a usable material | |
| Mass: | 1 kg |
| Volume: | 0.37 L |
| Data Controls: | [edit] [purge] (?) |
Cobalt Ore is a naturally occurring ore found in planets, asteroids and moons. It is an uncommon resource, more rare than Silver Ore, but more common than Gold Ore and Platinum Ore. The ore has a rich blue color to it.
Finding cobalt ore marks the step from early game to mid game.
Usage
Refined Cobalt is used to create important components such as metal grids, thruster components, and gravity generator components.
Yield
Cobalt Ore can be processed in a Refinery to produce Cobalt Ingots at a 30% ratio, which is to say 1000 kg of ore will produce 300 kg of ingots. Using a Refinery, 281 kg of cobalt ingot can be produced per hour, without Yield or Speed Modules, at "realistic" refinery speed. 1 kg of Cobalt ingot takes up 0.112 L of volume.
Cobalt Ore is one of the harder metals to smelt in Space Engineers (as of 10/11/2016). It cannot be processed in a Survival Kit and it is one of the three ores that can be first processed in the Basic Refinery, but only at low yield levels. (21%; 100 kg of ore yielded 21 kg of ingots.) It is wise to use Conveyor Sorters and build a dedicated Refinery just to smelt Cobalt Ore, given that its extremely slow smelting speed would occupy one Refinery extensively.
Usage
In survival mode, cobalt is the most important ore to find after Ice, as Stone does not contain Cobalt, but Cobalt Ingots are essential to make Metal Grid, Thruster Components, Gravity Components, and mid-game level tools and weapons such as MR-8P Rifle, RO-1 Rocket Launcher, PRO-1 Rocket Launcher, Grinder (Tool) and Welder (Tool).
Gallery
New Cobalt ore texture
Chunk of Colbalt ore
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 Cobalt Ore,  Gold Ore,  Ice,  Iron Ore,  Magnesium Ore,  Nickel Ore,  Platinum Ore,  Silicon Ore,  Silver Ore,  Stone,  Uranium Ore
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