Idle Planet Miner – Smelting / Crafting Guide

Smelting

Creating bars/alloys from mined ore. To buy a higher level bar/alloy you must first purchase all recipes up until the desired one – skipping recipes is not possible. Speeds and other helps may be increased by the following:

Mothership Rooms

• Forge -> Increases smelt speed.
• Underforge -> Reduces smelt prices (amount of ores needed to smelt ores).

• Thunderhorse (premium purchase)
  • 2.0x all smelt/craft speed
• Eldership (premium purchase)
  • 1.5x smelt/craft speed
• Aurora (premium purchase)
  • x2.0 bonuses for all managers (will affect ALL smelt/craft)
• Space Station
  • Smelt Speed 1 – 5

Crafting

Creating items from smelted alloys and/or other items. To buy a higher level item you must first purchase all recipes up until the desired one – skipping recipes is not possible. Speeds and other helps may be increased by the following:

Mothership Rooms:

• Workshop -> Increases craft speed.
• Dorms -> Reduces craft prices (amount of alloys/items needed for crafting).

• Thunderhorse (premium purchase)
  • 2.0x all smelt/craft speed
• Eldership (premium purchase)
  • 1.5x smelt/craft speed
• Aurora (premium purchase)
  • x2.0 bonuses for all managers (will affect ALL smelt/craft)
• Space Station
  • Craft Speed 1 – 5

Important Notes

Smelters and Crafters work in an assembly line pattern from the top left slot to the bottom right.

Ex: Smelting Inerton

S1 - Gold Bar        |     S2 - Platinum Bar
S3 - Palladium Bar   |     S4 - Inerton Bar

Ex: Crafting Solar Panels

C1 - Copper Wire     |     C2 - Glass
C3 - Circuit         |     C4 - Solar Panel

The crafting/smelting order matters because that’s how the game will calculate what was produced when you reopen the app.

Example of what this setup would do:

• Crafter 1- attempt to make lens, but since there’s no glass there’s no lens.
• Crafter 2- it’ll make a bunch of glass assuming you’re making silicon alloy.
• Crafter 3- it won’t be able to make any lasers because there’s no lenses.