Crafting & machines · Item
Coil spring
Eight springs from two steel ingots: buttons, valves, relays, latches and hatches.
In the game
How to get it
2 steel ingots in a column in the grid: 8 coil springs.
What it is for
Buttons, valves, electric relays, taps, delays, memories, diverters; in space the cockpit's hatches (4), the satellite deployer (4) and the docks' latches (8 for a central dock).
Why it exists
Stored movement: everything that snaps back, clicks or lets go has a spring in it.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
The coil spring is the part of everything that clicks, closes or lets go.
How to get it
2 steel ingots one over the other in the grid: 8 springs.
What it is for
- Controls: Button, Electric relay, Valve, Tap, Diverter, Delay (its escapement), Memory (its latch).
- Measures: the torque meter's head.
- Space: the cockpit's sprung hatches (4), the Satellite deployer's pushers (4), the latches of the Central dock (8) and the Secondary dock (4).
Steel wire wound tight: clocks and mechanisms.
On the progress path
AT3The workshopMain path
One of the items of the step Cogwheel, bolts, spring, coil.
- BeforeAT2 · Sheets and copper wire
- This stepAT3 · Cogwheel, bolts, spring, coil