Building · Machine
Concrete mixer
Cement, sand, gravel and water in a turning drum: wet concrete to pour, reinforced or coloured, plaster, or Moon concrete.
In the game
How to get it
At the grid: 4 iron sheets in the corners, 2 cogwheels on top, a bucket in the centre, a hide (the belt) at the bottom. Place it, fuel it (or a cable, 1.5 kW), fill its slots and pour water in with a bucket.
What it is for
1 m³ of wet concrete every 10 s; reinforced concrete with a steel ingot; coloured concrete blocks with a dye; plaster with limestone; on the Moon, concrete from regolith and water alone.
Why it exists
Concrete is the strongest thing you can build with, and it is poured, not placed: big structures become possible.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
A tilted oak drum on a cart, turned by its little engine or by a cable.
How to make it
At the grid: 4 iron sheets in the corners, 2 cogwheels top middle, a bucket in the centre, a hide bottom middle.
Its choices
| Choice | Takes | Gives | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid concrete | 1 cement + 32 voxels sand + 48 gravel + 1 m³ water | 1 m³ wet concrete in the drum | 10 s |
| Reinforced concrete | the same + a steel ingot (additive) | reinforced wet concrete | 10 s |
| Concrete blocks | the same + a dye (additive) | 64 voxels of concrete of that colour | 10 s |
| Plaster blocks | 32 limestone (additive) + 32 sand + 0.5 m³ water | 64 voxels of plaster | 8 s |
| On the Moon | 32 voxels regolith (in the sand slot) + 0.5 m³ water | 1 m³ wet concrete, no cement nor gravel |
Using it
- Water: right-click with a bucket of water (it holds 4 m³); the drum holds 4 m³ of wet concrete.
- Put an empty bucket in its Buckets slot, or right-click with one: it fills from the drum. Pour it where you want it: see Concrete.
- Heat: fuel in its slot, or a powered cable (1.5 kW).
Mixes cement, sand, gravel and water in its turning drum: wet concrete to pour with a bucket (it sets in a minute, hard in five), reinforced with rebar, coloured concrete blocks with a dye, plaster with limestone. Its engine burns fuel; pour water in with a bucket.
On the progress path
CH6ChemistryMain path
- BeforeCH5 · Cement
- This stepCH6 · Concrete mixer
- NextCH7 · Concrete