Forge alloys into your tools: Raisonite axe, press, terraforming

What is an alloy, and how do I forge one?

An alloy is a resource you press, then forge into a tool, weapon or armor piece. It is not a new item: it is one property of the item you already own. The pickaxe, axe, shovel, chisel, shears, melee and ranged weapons (not thrown ones) and the four armor pieces can take one, as the table below shows; a raisonite item can take three.

1. 1

   Make the alloy

   The Raisonite in the Furnace, the six others and the nine alloys of the planets in the hyperbaric press (see below). Each alloy is a resource you carry in the inventory.

2. 2

   Put the item and the alloy in the grid

   Open the crafting grid and place the item and one alloy anywhere in it. The result shows the same item with its alloy.

3. 3

   Take it

   The item keeps its tier and its wear. Its name gets the alloy (“Iron axe · Raisonite”), its tooltip an “Alloy” row with the effect, and its icon and its model a tint in the alloy colour.

• One alloy per ordinary item. Forging another alloy replaces the first, which is lost. A raisonite item holds up to three: each new alloy is added, a fourth is refused. The same alloy twice is refused.
• An alloy that does not bond with the item is refused: the grid says “This alloy does not bond with this item.” A Brisite pickaxe, for instance, does not exist.
• The alloy is part of the item: you can store it, trade it, and the item keeps it until it is used up.

How do I make the Raisonite alloy, the first one?

1. 1

   Find raisonite

   Violet ore 35 to 110 m deep, in rare pockets of 1 to 3 cubes. Dig it with an iron pickaxe or better: any other tool takes twelve times longer.

2. 2

   Cut a shard

   16 voxels of raisonite ore in one cell of the crafting grid give 1 raisonite shard.

3. 3

   Fire it

   In the Furnace: 2 gold ingots in the input slot and 1 shard in the reducer slot give the Raisonite alloy in 10 s.

What is the hyperbaric press?

The hyperbaric press is a 2 × 2 × 2 m electric machine. Two hydraulic rams in a riveted steel frame drive matter to its limits, behind a thick round viewport that glows from violet to white as the pressing advances. Three input slots, one output: it runs when its inputs hold exactly one of the seven operations below.

How much power does it take?

• Its power port is of the very high class: it wants a large power cable (250 kW), whatever the operation. See the power guide for cables and transformers.
• Each operation has its own power draw, from 30 kW to 200 kW. It is all or nothing: if the network cannot give the full watts, the press waits and keeps its progress, it never presses slower.
• Plan batteries and generators for the biggest operation, the diamond, which draws 200 kW for 15 minutes.

Is it worth pressing diamonds?

Almost never. A diamond costs 200 kW for 15 minutes: 50 kWh, five full lithium batteries, for 256 voxels of coal. A mined diamond (gem ore) is far cheaper. A rare alloy is another story: nothing else makes it. The cheap ones (Nivelite and Lissite, 30 kW for one minute, half a kWh each) cost almost nothing to press.

Which alloy does what?

“Life” is the tool durability counted in voxels of stone (see tools and mining). An iron pickaxe lasts 288 cubes of stone: 360 with Raisonite, 864 with Duracier. A titanium one lasts 880: 1100 with Raisonite, 2640 with Duracier. Armor and weapons get the same factors on their own durability.

How does the Raisonite axe fell a whole tree?

Hit the trunk of a wild tree, a tree the world grew by itself, with a Raisonite axe in survival. Instead of one cube, the whole tree goes in a single blow: trunk, branches and leaves.

• Only natural trees. The game recognises the tree the world generated around the voxel you hit. Anything you built or planted yourself, planks, logs you placed, a log you put in a tree, stays where it is. A block that is not part of a wild tree breaks as a normal cube.
• Every voxel wears the axe, bark, wood and leaves alike, each by its hardness compared with stone, as for any other break. A big tree is thousands of voxels.
• All or nothing. If the axe cannot afford the whole tree, nothing is cut and a message tells you, for example: “Your axe would break before the tree is down: it needs 2310 and has 1840 left.” Cut a smaller tree, or forge a new axe. The axe never breaks half way.
• The items fall stacked at the foot of the tree, one pile per kind of block, in full stacks, not scattered over the leaves.
• In a protected zone (a claim you do not own) the whole blow is refused: “Part of it is in a protected zone: nothing was cut.”
• Creative mode: the tree goes at once, nothing wears and nothing drops.

How do Nivelite and Lissite reshape the ground?

These two alloys make no extra item and no extra key: aim, hold the left button as usual. They use the same all-or-nothing wear as the Raisonite mass blows.

Neither touches machines, prefabs, doors, liquids, bedrock or anything in a zone that is protected: a protected voxel anywhere in the area refuses the whole blow.

What do the alloys do in a fight?

• Brisite: weapons deal 1.4 times the damage, melee and projectiles.
• Celerite: melee cooldown ×0.7, ranged fire interval ×0.75; a Celerite armor piece weighs half as much (see weapons and armor).
• Egidite: each piece protects 1.3 times more; the protection of a full set, capped at 80 %, can now reach 86 %.
• Raisonite: the weapon also strikes every other hostile within 3 m of the target for 20 % of the blow; a full armor set sends 10 % of the melee damage back to the creature.
• Duracier and Raisonite also multiply the life of weapons and armor (×3 and ×1.25).

What are the alloys of the planets?

Each body of the Solar System gives one more alloy, nine in all (alloys of the worlds). Bring back the body's metal, melt it into ingots in the Furnace, then press 2 of its ingots and 1 titanium ingot in the hyperbaric press (60 kW, 90 s). Each one has a power on armor, one on weapons and one on tools, and they matter for the final fight.

How do I put three alloys on one item?

Late in the game, the raisonite synthesizer takes one ingot of each of the nine bodies and gives four raisonite ingots in 3 minutes, with no fire and no power. Craft them in the titanium patterns into raisonite tools, weapons and armor, the strongest of the game.

• A raisonite item holds up to three different alloys (3 alloys per item): put it and one alloy in the grid and the alloy is added; again for the second and the third. A fourth is refused, so is one it already holds.
• The powers add up: a Lunite and Aresite pickaxe cuts a 3 × 3 tunnel 8 deep; a Jovite, Glacite and Hadesite sword strikes lightning, freezes and heals.
• Do not confuse it with the Raisonite alloy of the Furnace, made from Earth shards: that one is an ordinary alloy, one per item.

What is Raisonite?

A violet crystal so hard it rings like a bell when struck, said to have fallen from space. On the Earth only shards are found, in rare violet pockets deep underground.

Updated 2026-10-22