fct.term.recipe_steel_plate

Steel plate is a smelting recipe that converts 5 Iron plate into 1 Steel plate over 16 seconds using a Stone furnace; it is the standard method for producing Steel plate in smelting-based production chains. As a mid-tier metal product, Steel plate serves as an input for many advanced buildings, machines and items, and is typically produced in batches in dedicated smelting arrays. The recipe belongs to the smelting category and requires only Iron plate as an ingredient, yielding a single Steel plate per operation.