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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

What Sulfur Is Used For Right Now

Why It Matters

'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