Ice
| Ice | |
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| Category: | Ore |
| Status: | Functional |
| Function: | |
| Can be broken down into gasses | |
| Mass: | 1 kg |
| Volume: | 0.37 L |
| Data Controls: | [edit] [purge] (?) |
Ice is frozen water (H2O) found in asteroids or frozen lakes on terrestrial planets. If oxygen is enabled in the World Settings, or if you want to use Hydrogen Thrusters, Hydrogen Engines, Air Vents, or the Jetpack, then Ice is an essential source of Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Usage
You mine Ice chunks with a drill or Hand Drill and then insert them into a powered 
O2/H2 Generator. The Generator will convert Ice into Oxygen and Hydrogen gas. Regarding the storage of the processed gas, see Hydrogen Tanks and Oxygen Tanks, Hydrogen and Oxygen Bottles.
Ice functions with identically mechanics to metal ores as far as Inventory, Sorters and cargo storage is concerned. One difference to ore is that in a powered Conveyor system, a connected O2/H2 Generator pulls the raw Ice chunks to be processed, analogous to powered 
refineries automatically pulling raw ore from the connected conveyor system.
Yield
1000 kg (or 370 L) of ice convert to ~20000 L of hydrogen, or ~10000 L oxygen, or ~10000 L hydrogen and ~5000 L oxygen, depending on the amount of storage or consumption for either gas available on the connected grid.[1][2]
Gallery
Ice chunks SE version 1.186.500 4/17/2018
Asteroid Ice SE version 1.186.500 4/17/2018
Ice on the Alien planet has a reddish colour
Ice on the Titan planet has a cyan colour
All the ice you'll ever need: Europa
Trivia: Ice color
Most ice is shades of blueish white. Ice on the Alien planet has a reddish tint outside the polar regions and is more cyan towards the poles. Ice similarly has a cyan tint on Titan. The colour change is visible in lakes and also when ice is mined or dropped in world on the respective planet.
In the engines, generators, player inventory, and cargo, all ice chunks stack and are treated the same. The ice color is purely decorative and has no effect on gameplay. When you mix the chunks in your inventory and drop them, all stacked chunks take on the color of the first one you picked up.
| Ores |
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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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