Overview[]
Called the Wire Drawer in AL1 and the Wire Maker in AL2, this early game machine allows you to create wires from the material it receives. If a wire drawer receives an item that is not a plain resource, then it will not cut the material.
Assembly Line 1[]
When initially unlocked, the wire drawer takes 3 seconds to process a basic resource. It can subsequently upgraded, decreasing time to make wire. Each upgrade reduces the the processing time by 1 second to a minimum of 1 second. The starting operating cost is $5 per second and can be decreased to $3 with 2 upgrades.
Assembly Line 2[]
Shows starters feeding into cutters and then sellers for all basic resources in Assembly Line 2. From left to right, gold, diamond, copper, iron, aluminum, and no resource selected.
The Wire Maker is one of 2 machines (along with Crafter MK 1 ) that is unlocked by default. As the Crafter MK 1 has the Circuit recipe unlocked, this enables the player to begin crafting circuits within minutes of starting the game.
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The wire maker is the only production machine that can process radioactive basic materials into the same processed results as standard materials. Processing Uranium or Plutonium will create Uranium and Plutonium wires respectively. This can subsequently be processed into Uranium and Plutonium cables.
There is currently no crafter recipes that call for any of the basic processed forms of radioactive materials. While a Wire Maker takes on the color of the radioactive material it processes (as it does with the starter materials), the cable maker does not, and instead retains the red color for no recipe selected, despite the fact that it produces cable form of both materials with proper sprites and being properly labeled on the profit statistics layout.
Uranium and Plutonium can both be processed into wires and subsequently cables, though these recipes are not used in 1.19