Crafting & machines · Item
Lithium
The lightest metal, soft and reactive: batteries and the gravity generator.
In the game
How to get it
Lithium ore lies 20 to 120 m down, more under highlands; one giant lithium lode lies within 1.5 km of the start. 16 voxels and 4 coal in the Furnace: an ingot in 12 s.
What it is for
Batteries (store electricity), the gravity generator of space stations, the Celerite alloy.
Why it exists
Power you can store and carry: lithium is its key.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
Lithium is a soft, light metal.
Finding it
- Veins 20 to 120 m down, more under highlands.
- One giant lode within 1.5 km of the world's start, and six more on the planet.
Smelting
In the Furnace: 16 voxels of lithium ore and 4 coal: one lithium ingot in 12 s.
What it is for
Batteries, the gravity generator of space stations, and the Celerite alloy (aluminium, lithium and silicon pressed together).
The lightest metal, soft and reactive: for the batteries to come.
On the progress path
MI8MineMain path
One of the items of the step Silicon and lithium.
- BeforeMI7 · Titanium tools
- This stepMI8 · Silicon and lithium
Related
Guide pages about it
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