Heavy Explosive Materials
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“ | Resource used for producing heavy explosive weapons. | „ |
— In-game description |
Heavy Explosive Materials (also known as HEmats) is a mid-to-late game material used in the crafting of the heavier equipment, specifically explosives.
Acquisition
Structure | Input(s) | Output | Time |
---|---|---|---|
Refinery | 20 x Sulfur | 1 x Heavy Explosive Materials | 00:01:00 |
Once refined, HEmats can be retrieved from the Refinery queue with the LMB
or as crates using the context menu (press RMB
).
Use
Heavy Explosive Materials is the main material to craft the heaviest ordnances (like shells). These can be used at a Factory, Mass Production Factory, or Ammunition Factory.
Item Production
Storage
Heavy Explosive Materials stack up to 100 in inventory slots.
They can be packed into crates of 20 units or their crate unpacked with the right click context menu while interfacing a Seaport, Storage Depot, or Shipping Container.
Crates of Heavy Explosive Materials can be stored in the stockpiles of Storage Depot and Seaport, up to 1000 in public stockpiles and up to 300 in Reserve Stockpiles. Only crates retrieved directly from your Refinery queue can be stored in a Reserve Stockpile.
Heavy Explosive Materials cannot be spent while in crate form.
Tactics
- Due to its slow refining speed, it is important to always think ahead and refine sulfur into hemats before you need them as you simply cannot wait hours in front of the refinery for hemats to finish refining
- Similar to Explosive Materials, Heavy Explosive Materials have no direct usage on the frontlines, and should never be transport there
- They can be used in an Ammunition Factory, however the placement of these depends on how active a frontline is an how vulnerable it is to enemy attacks
- Due to the small amount of HEmat per crate, it is often more efficient to transport HEmats uncrated where they can form stacks of 100 per slot, as long as you want to spend them on arrival and not store them in a private stockpile. A truck can carry 1500 HEmats when a shipping container can only carry 1200 (20x60).
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