How to make 🤘 Metal in Infinite Craft

How to make 🤘 Metal — step by step

The cheapest known path. Craft each step in order — every ingredient is either a basic element or something you make earlier in this list.

1. Earth + Fire = LavaBoth Earth and Fire come straight from your starting elements — craft Lava first, everything else in this chain depends on it.
2. Fire + Water = SteamSteam is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
3. Fire + Steam = EngineIf you already made Engine in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
4. Earth + Water = PlantOne quick craft for Plant: drag Earth onto Water and keep the result for the chain.
5. Engine + Plant = CarCar is only needed as an ingredient — make it once, don't farm extra copies.
6. Earth + Wind = DustDust is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
7. Car + Dust = RustIf you already made Rust in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
8. Lava + Rust = MetalFinal craft: combine Lava and Rust to make Metal. That's the whole path — 8 crafts total.

✓ Last verified October 2026 · 8 total crafts

Why this is the cheapest path to Metal

We rank every known recipe for Metal by total crafts from the four starting elements, not just by the final combination. The two direct ingredients — Lava and Rust — cost 2 and 7 crafts to build from scratch, which is why the whole chain above needs only 8 crafts. The alternatives in the table below are ranked the same way: their "approx. cost" is the pricier ingredient plus one, so you can see at a glance which route actually saves you crafts — and which ones quietly waste five.

Alternative combinations for Metal

Any valid combo works — pick the ingredients you already have.

What can you make with Metal?

Metal is a busy ingredient. In the community dataset it shows up in dozens of downstream recipes: pair it with Pangaea and you get Earth; pair it with Fireplace and you get Fire; pair it with Firewood and you get Fire; pair it with Prometheus and you get Fire; pair it with Aeolus and you get Wind; pair it with Geysers and you get Steam. Crafted items are never consumed, so one copy keeps working.

Tips for crafting Metal

• Craft in one sitting. The 8-craft chain for Metal takes under two minutes once you know the route — the list above is already in dependency order, so just go top to bottom.
• Reuse your inventory. If you've played before you probably own the early intermediates (like Steam) already — skip straight to the first step you can't do.
• Missing an ingredient? Check the alternatives table — e.g. Lava + Rust also produces Metal if that route fits your inventory better.

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