Sulfur is the Foothills resource that turns ranged combat and ship ammunition from scavenging into real production. The live item page lists it as a common resource found around rocky formations, and the live Millstones page shows exactly how it turns into Homemade Gunpowder.
Current Item Basics
Field | Current Live Value |
|---|---|
Type | Resource, Common |
Stack size | 30 |
Raw source | Found around rocky formations |
Ordinary vendor trade | The current base-item listing says Sulfur is not bought or sold by ordinary vendors |
What Sulfur Is Used For Right Now
Use | Current Requirement | Where It Happens |
|---|---|---|
10 Sulfur + 20 Ash -> 10 output in 45 seconds | ||
Reagent Table | 2 Sulfur |
Why It Matters
PC Gamer's launch-week gunpowder guide and current community database pages line up on the core point: sulfur is part of the real homemade gunpowder route, and that route runs through the Iron Pickaxe and the Millstones rather than through the starter copper loop.
Iron Pickaxe is the current mining step players look for before they take sulfur seriously.
Millstones are where sulfur stops being a pile of yellow rock and starts becoming ammunition support.
Gunpowder is the practical reason most players care about sulfur in the first place.
Merchant Contract Note
The raw Sulfur item page says ordinary vendors do not buy or sell Sulfur. That does not contradict the Merchant Contract system. The current Merchant: Natural Resources station lists Sulfur as one of its advanced goods after local threats are cleared, which is a separate base-station route rather than a normal vendor entry.
See Also
Millstones - the station that processes Sulfur into Homemade Gunpowder
Iron Pickaxe - the mining tool that matters once the Sulfur route opens
Merchant Contracts - the separate base-merchant system that can later supply Sulfur
Foothills - the biome where Sulfur becomes part of the real mid-game chain