Find rods before you can smelt them
Search rooms and chests as you explore. Some goo piles can also provide rods, but a particular pile should not be treated as a guaranteed drop.
Keep early rods for stations and repairs before turning them all into other components.
| Use | Iron Rods to reserve |
|---|---|
| Workbench | 2 |
| Cooking Pot | 3 |
| Chains crafting recipe | 2 |
| A prison Fix Lever showing 0/1 | 1 |
This is a list of individual costs, rather than a total for the whole dungeon.
Set up a camp Smelter
The Smelter itself costs 5 Clay + 5 Scrap Metal. Harvest Clay with a Pickaxe, then build the station and supply Scrap Metal and Coal for rods. Follow the quantities shown by your Smelter’s interface when loading it.
The camp Smelter and the large key-casting forge serve different tasks. The Jaguar Door’s 5 Coal + 8 Scrap Metal + Mold recipe belongs to the large forge; it is not an Iron Rod recipe.