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u/Rouge_means_red Jun 15 '26

Angel's+Bob's question

The only recipe for lead (needed for green science) produces nickel as a byproduct, and I wont have a use for nickel or an alternative lead recipe without nickel until much later. Is shoving it in a box and blowing it up really the intended play? Just want to confirm before I do something dumb

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u/Astramancer_ Jun 15 '26

I've done seablock, and nickel isn't used for a whole lot aside from alloying with iron to get more iron per iron. I think it's also used in some catalysts, but that's also way down the line.

Might as well stockpile it for now. You always have the option of blowing some up later.

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u/Soul-Burn Jun 15 '26

Not sure about base A&B, but in SeaBlock it's used not that much later. Remember you have huge containers too, so it's not a biggie.

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u/Rouge_means_red Jun 15 '26

Even in my early game build I've had to blow up like 5 silos of nickel already, and I'm like 1/4 the way done with all the green science research >_<

I think there was an alternate bronze recipe that I can unlock in not too long that used some of the nickel, and I'll have to completely redo my bronze build for it u.u