1× Coke → 1× Coke Powder in the Grinder, 12 seconds. It burns for 660 heat and sells as a sundry fuel, but the reason to build it is steel: 1× Iron Ingot + 1× Coke Powder → 1× Steel Ingot (25%) or 1× Iron Ingot (75%) in the Athanor, 4 seconds.
Recipe
| Field | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Device | Grinder | DATAMINED |
| Input → Output | 1× Coke → 1× Coke Powder | DATAMINED |
| Craft time | 12 s | DATAMINED |
| Heat value | 660 | DATAMINED |
Coke itself sits at the end of the wood line: Logs → 6× Plank → 6× Charcoal → 6× Charcoal Powder → Coke. So Coke Powder is a four-step derivative of a log. Build the chain, not the grinder alone.
The steel maths nobody mentions
The Athanor steel recipe is a 25% conversion. On average you need four iron ingots and four Coke Powder per steel ingot, and the three failures return iron (75% branch), so the loss is Coke Powder and time, not iron.
Coke Powder demand is four times what the steel output suggests. A steady two-steel-per-minute line needs eight Coke Powder per minute, which is eight Grinders unless a higher-tier grinder shares the load.
The other two uses
| Product | Device | Recipe | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandy | Alembic | 5× Coke Powder + 100× Fruit Wine → 40× Brandy | 5 s |
| Transformation Potion | Assembler | 2× Coke Powder + 1× Gloom Spores → 1× Transformation Potion | 6 s |
Brandy matters because Blast Potion needs 40 of it — so Coke Powder secretly feeds Black Powder twice over: once as the steel input and once through the brandy branch.
Recipe, time, heat value and the 25%/75% steel split: DATAMINED from build 1.1.5024. The “four per steel” figure is arithmetic on the stated 25%, not a separate observation.
Independent fan reference for Alchemy Factory. Game data refers to the current official 1.0 build (Steam, PC). Field-level evidence is flagged on each page with OFFICIAL / OBSERVED / COMMUNITY badges; amounts shown without a badge come from the official 1.0 patch notes or store descriptions.