Space · Machine
Helium-3 extractor
An iron oven under a hopper: the Moon's helium-3 ore roasted into dewars of liquid helium-3, the interplanetary drive's fuel.
In the game
How to get it
Craft it (iron sheets, a lens, steel plates, a coil, copper wire, a circuit board) and power it with a small cable (2 kW): 16 helium-3 ore + an empty dewar = a dewar of helium-3 in 24 s.
What it is for
The interplanetary drive burns one dewar of helium-3 for each 250 m/s of way.
Why it exists
The Moon is the first step to the planets.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
On the progress path
SY1The Solar SystemMain path
One of the items of the step Interplanetary ship.
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