Shale

Shale is a solid element used as a raw material in Oxygen Not Included. The available source data shows that it has at least two practical uses, one in ranching and one in refining, making it more than just a background terrain material.

In ranching, Shale can be consumed at a rate of 140 kg per cycle to produce 70 kg per cycle. It can also be refined at a rate of 100 kg every 40 seconds to produce 100 kg of output. These conversion rates make it useful as a feedstock where a steady supply of mineral material is needed rather than as a long-term storage resource.

• Shale has a ranching use that consumes more mass than it produces in the listed output, so it functions as a support material rather than a mass-efficient source of products.
• The refining use processes the same mass it takes in, which makes it a direct input material for whatever refinery chain uses it.