Thorium

Thorium is a rare resource in Mindustry. It is found in a handful of campaign maps (usually in low quantities), where a Laser Drill or Airblast Drill is required to mine it - No other units or drills can. Thorium is used in building advanced blocks and walls, high-damage ammunition, and in reactors for mid-game power.

Thorium can be produced in very low quantities (11.1%) with the Disassembler where Scrap is available. Although this is conversion process requires a lot of power.

Trivia

• In Version 4.0, the Tau Mech was the only mech which could mine thorium, at a very slow rate. In Version 6.0, no units can.
• In real life, thorium (Th) is a weakly radioactive, fertile metal which is being considered for nuclear energy.

Used For

Uses for Thorium

Produced In	Used In	Used to Build	Used as ammo
Laser Drill Airblast Drill Disassembler	Phase Weaver Thorium Reactor RTG Generator	Phase Weaver Alloy Smelter Thorium Wall Large Thorium Wall Armored Conveyor Mass Driver Thermal Pump Plated Conduit RTG Generator Thorium Reactor Impact Reactor Airblast Drill Oil Extractor Core: Nucleus Vault Segment Tsunami Fuse Spectre Multiplicative Reconstructor Exponential Reconstructor Tetrative Reconstructor Interplanetary Accelerator Logic Processor Hyper Processor	Salvo Spectre Fuse Interplanetary Accelerator

Locations

Thorium can be found in these zones:

• Overgrowth
• Tar Fields
• Nuclear Production Complex
• Impact 0078
• Desolate Rift
• Planetary Launch Terminal

A table of all the zones with Thorium from the List of sectors page.

High Node Count	Basic node count (a)	Basic node count (b)	Basic node count (c)
117 119 133 120 263	4 5 6 7 24 25 29 30 52 53 54 55 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 65 66 68 69 70 72 80 84 85 87 88	112 113 114 115 116 118 121 122 124 125 126 128 129 131 145 158 162 163 180 181 198 199	206 207 211 218 223 224 225 226 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 239 240 248 254 255 256 257 259 260 261 262 264 265 268 269

Gallery

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Thorium Ore in v4.0.

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Thorium's sprite.