How to Get Explosive Powder in Astroneer

Last Updated on 15 January, 2022

How to Get Explosive Powder in Astroneer – Learn how to create Explosive Powder, its uses, and how to get all the ingredients involved

Explosive Powder is a composite resource that is crafted in the Chemistry Lab, requires Sulfur & Carbon

How to Get Explosive Powder in Astroneer – Source

Explosive Powder cannot be found, you must create it from the following recipe

Requires: Chemistry Lab| Recipe: x1 Sulfur + x2 Carbon = x1 Explosive Powder

How to Create the Chemistry Lab?

Requires: Medium Printer Module | Recipe: Chemistry Lab = Tungsten + Glass + Ceramic

Tungsten: Check the Tungsten guide

Ceramic: Check the Ceramic guide

Glass: Use Quartz in the smelting furnace, to find the Quartz

Quartz can be found on all of the Planets.

The Soil Centrifuge produces 4 Quartz with two full Canisters of Soil.

The Trade Platform gives 2 Quartz for every Scrap, up to 8 total for 4 Scrap.

How to Get Sulfur & Carbon?

Sulfur: Can be found on the following planets using the Atmospheric Condenser:

• Calidor : 100 ppu
• Atrox : 75 ppu

Carbon: Use Organic in the smelting furnace, to find Organic

Organic is found on every planet when using the Terrain Tool on most kinds of flora.

The Soil Centrifuge produces 8 Organic with two full Canisters of Soil.

The Trade Platform gives 2 Organic for every Scrap, up to 8 total for 4 Scrap

How to Get Explosive Powder in Astroneer – Uses

These are all the items that require Explosive Powder in their recipes:

Backpack Printer Recipes

Everything you can create on the Backpack Printer, and the resources you’ll need, plus Explosive Powder

• Dynamite = Explosive Powder
• Fireworks = Explosive Powder

SPOILER

What follows is a spoiler that may spoil your fun. It is something that is activated with Explosive Powder, so we leave it a few lines below in case you do not want us to discover it:

Explosive Powder is used to activate the Gateway Engine on Calidor.

More How to get guides:

• Tungsten
• Iron
• Aluminum
• Ceramic
• Aluminum Alloy > here
• Plastic
• Copper
• Exo Chip
• Titanium
• Silicone
• Steel
• Rubber
• Glass