In Lightyear Frontier, you will need to collect a whole bunch of different materials and make a bunch more out of those materials. In order to upgrade, add to, and build your little home and farm, you will need Lightyear Frontier resources like aluminum, copper, coal, and similar things that can be found in the wild. One of the items that you will need a lot of is copper wire, which is not something that can be found out in the world. Instead, you'll have to gather up as much copper as you can and make this wire for yourself.

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Lightyear Frontier: All Wood Types & How to Get Them

In Lightyear Frontier, there are multiple variants of Wood that can be scavenged and used in a range of build recipes.

How to Make Copper Wire in Lightyear Frontier

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Lightyear Frontier: How to Get Copper Wire

Copper wire is made from raw copper in the Assembler. First, you need to farm a bunch of copper from around the map, then process it through the Assembler. For every one copper wire you want to make, you will need to have two raw copper ore. This means that you need to take however much copper wire you want to make and pick up double that number of ore. Once you have all the copper you need, you just need to process it.

Where to Find Copper in Lightyear Frontier

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So, if you are looking to make a pile of this much-needed wire, you will need to know where to find a lot of copper ore. This metal pops out of the ground in rectangles of reddish-orange, and it is found in dirt mounds similar to aluminum in Lightyear Frontier. You will need to use the Saw tool to harvest it, and the copper will come back every couple of in-game days.

The best locations to farm copper in Lightyear Frontier is in the southeastern edge of the Edge Cliffs. There is a ton of copper in this area; you can get to it by going to the Meadows where you started the game and heading south.

What to Make with Copper Ore and Copper Wire in Lightyear Frontier

If you are wondering what sort of wondrous things you can make from raw copper, copper wire, or other copper products, here are all the recipes that call for one of these things in Lightyear Frontier.

  • Aluminum Electronics
  • Battery
  • Copper Wire
  • Flower Press
  • Iron Electronics
  • Radio Tower
  • Silo
  • Steel Electronics
  • Weather Station

And here are the Lightyear Frontier mech upgrades you can make with copper or a copper derivative.

  • Inventory Capacity II
  • Inventory Capacity III
  • Lock-on Targets I
  • Lock-on Targets II
  • Lock-on Targets III
  • Pathmaker
  • Spike Saw Power II
  • Spike Saw Power III
  • Sprint Speed I
  • Vacuum Harvester Power I
  • Vacuum Harvester Power II
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Lightyear Frontier
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Released
March 19, 2024
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Developer(s)
Frame Break, Amplifier Studios
Genre(s)
Open-World, Adventure, Farming