Batteries

Batteries are one of the types of Items you can craft which stores power. When a surplus is produced it can be stored in an internal battery which needs to fill up.

They are filled up and release their power at the maximum rate of 4 units/sec or 1 bar/sec.

This page is about the external batteries, see the Power page for the differences between the internal and external batteries.

Crafted from the Backpack
→ See Small Battery

Right from the start of the game, you can craft a small battery in you backpack's printer, using 1 lithium.

You can place it in any one slots.

It stores up to 8 units or 2 bars of power.

So when placed in the backpack, it increase the total energy storage by 80%, from 10 to 18 units. A single of this battery in the backpack, yet visually a lot smaller than the main battery, almost doubles the storage and the time you can spend mining while not tethered (or no other source of energy is available). Energy will be drawn first from the battery over the internal one but as said above will only be filled when the main one is itself full.

Crafted from the Printer
→ See Battery

Once researched, you can craft a bigger battery in the Printer module, using 2 Lithium.

You can place it in any two adjacent slots.

It stores up to 16 bars of powers.