What does the sluice box cost?

4 Board + 4 Bronze Nails, unlocked by the Bronze Forge research — the cheapest station of the metal group by a wide margin.

What does the sluice box produce?

One recipe: 3 Sand → 1 Tin + 1 Golden nugget, 5 ticks, no fuel. The recipe's own name in the data is Tin; the nugget comes out alongside it.

Where does the sand come from?

Nine recipes consume Sand, and one produces it: the zombie sand craft. If you are running the metal line by hand, sand is the input you will be short of first.

Does the sluice box need fuel, and can a zombie run it?

It needs no fuel — its one recipe lists none — and the station data does not mark it as automatable, so plan on panning it by hand unless a later build changes that.

Graveyard Keeper 2 sluice box

The Sluice Box turns Sand into metal: three Sand in, Tin and a Golden nugget out, five ticks a batch. Tin is what Bronze Ingot is smelted from and the nugget is what Golden ingot is smelted from, so one cheap station feeds both the bronze and the gold chain.

Build cost & research

Building	Recipes	Build cost	Where	Unlocked by
Sluice Box	1	Board ×4 Bronze Nails ×4	Yard	Bronze Forge 20R

Costs and research come straight from the game data, and “Where” is the work zone whose build desk offers the building — the game’s own placement record. “No research listed” means the page has none to show: either this build records none, or the game ships no name for it. In practice these rows are gated by materials, not by the tech tree.

Filter recipes

Sluice Box 1

Output	Ingredients	Ticks	Inspiration lv	Tech	Unlocked by
TinGolden nugget	Sand ×3	5	2	R 1	Bronze Forge

“Inspiration lv” is the level this station’s own inspiration track has to reach — below it the recipe is not offered. “Needs” is the extension that has to stand next to the station before the recipe appears.

What these products feed

Product	Used by recipes	Stations
Tin	1	Furnace I · Furnace II
Golden nugget	1	Furnace II

Only products with a follow-up recipe are listed; anything missing is not consumed by a recipe in this build.

Where the inputs come from

Input	Used here	Produced at
Sand	1	Sand Digger Stand
Board build cost	—	Sawhorse · Circular Saw
Bronze Nails build cost	—	Wooden Anvil · Iron Anvil · Steel Anvil

“Used here” counts how often the input appears in this page’s recipes and build costs; “no producing row” means the recipe, alchemy and crop tables all come up empty — you gather, hunt, buy or loot it instead.

Common questions

What does the sluice box cost?: 4 Board + 4 Bronze Nails, unlocked by the Bronze Forge research — the cheapest station of the metal group by a wide margin.
What does the sluice box produce?: One recipe: 3 Sand → 1 Tin + 1 Golden nugget, 5 ticks, no fuel. The recipe's own name in the data is Tin; the nugget comes out alongside it.
Where does the sand come from?: Nine recipes consume Sand, and one produces it: the zombie sand craft. If you are running the metal line by hand, sand is the input you will be short of first.
Does the sluice box need fuel, and can a zombie run it?: It needs no fuel — its one recipe lists none — and the station data does not mark it as automatable, so plan on panning it by hand unless a later build changes that.

Recipes: 1 Burns fuel: 0 Automatable: 0 Zombie worker: 1 Covers: 1.004.2