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Guilds/Nile River Guild/Material Recipes

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Metal Treatment

  • Tank Located in the Science Compound at 880 -5930
  • NEVER use the tank without tongs - you will waste 100 acid

Titanium - Hard, Stainless

  • used in the 2nd reactory upgrade

20 coal
50 cactus sap
10 gravel
16 potash

Sun Steel - Hard, Stainless, Insulative

  • used in the 3rd reactory upgrade

110 cactus sap
10 gravel
16 potash

Gold-Plated Strontium - Stainless, insulative, non-toxic

  • 18 used to make tongs
  • I think this recipe is solid. Please confirm.
  • 40 Salts of Strontium 
  • 10 cactus sap
  • 8 Salt 
  • 40 Coal 
  • 30 Arsenic
  • 38 Salts of Gold (it's now gold plated) 
  • 20 Lime 
  • 20 Coal 
  • 50 Cactus Sap 
  • 10 Lime 
  • 5 Salts of Gold 
  • 50 Cactus Sap 
  • 10 Gravel  (try 8?)
  • 10 Arsenic 
  • 17 Salts of Gold

Moon Steel - Plastic Nontoxic Ductile

  • Used for Automatic Loom Upgrades
  • 60 salt
  • 10 cabbage juice
  • 60 cactus sap
  • 10 saltpeter
  • 8 gravel
  • 8 potash

Thoth's Metal - Hard Stainless Ductile

  • Used for Sawmill Upgrades
  • 20 coal
  • 10 cactus sap
  • 30 gravel
  • 25 lime
  • 40 cactus
  • 8 gravel
  • 20 potash

Sunsteel - Stainless, Insulative

  • Used for Reinforced Kilns
  • 10 coal
  • 30 cactus sap
  • 10 gravel
  • 20 potash

Wood Treatment

Tank K-Values
Flexibility 4.000000
Cuttability 5.023256
Flammability 4.153846
Water Resist 5.128049
Insect Toxicity 4.401408
Human Toxicity 4.153846
Darkness 5.142857
Glossiness 4.083333


Rigid, Rotproof, Nontoxic boards

1. 80 seconds Oil
2. 25 seconds Beewax
3. 50 seconds Potash
4. 70 seconds Water
5. 10 seconds Beewax
6. 50 seconds Lead
7. 10 seconds Beewax
8. 20 seconds Sulfur
10. 10 seconds Lead
11. 5 seconds Beewax