Olivine

Olivine

Description	A dark green gem that seems to block light.
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

Olivine is a olive-green silicate mineral that is found by processing other blocks. The high crystallization point of olivine allows it to be used as cheap fuel in blast furnaces, and the stone's vitreous luster enables it to block light from passing through it.

Obtaining

Trommeling

Block	Amount	Chance
Dirt	1	0.3%
Gravel	1-2	24%
Sand	1	3.6%
Rich Scorched Dirt	1-3	15%
Grass	1	0.3%
Retro Grass	1	0.3%

Blasting

Cobbled Basalt can be smelted in a blast furnace to obtain olivine.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Cobbled Basalt

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Block of Olivine	8

Usage

Fuel

Olivine can be used as fuel in a blast furnace to smelt 2 items. It does not work in regular furnaces.

Crafting ingredient

Olivine can be used to craft olivine blocks and tinted glass.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Block of Olivine	Olivine
Tinted Glass	Glass + Olivine	4

Data values

Name	Type	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Olivine	Item	item.olivine	16513

History

History
?
		Added olivine.
Better than Adventure! 1.7.7.0
Pre-1
	Updated the texture of olivine.

Trivia

• Since olivine smelts two items per piece, it can be used to very slowly create infinite blast furnace fuel, provided the player has constructed a basalt generator.
• In the real world, olivine is one of the minerals that comprises darker, more iron-and-magnesium-rich "mafic" stones, hence why it yields from smelting down basalt (a mafic stone) in a blast furnace.
• While olivine does catch fire at incredibly high temperatures in the real world, this attribute does not lend it to being used as fuel much. Its fuel properties in BTA! are somewhat of an artistic liberty taken in favor of providing more interesting mechanics and a tradeoff with fuels on the blast furnace tier.
• Olivine's texture is similar to Etherian Mana, an item from Terraria. It also looks like Plumbob from The Sims series.