Basalz Rod

The Basalz Rod is an item added by Thermal Foundation.

Obtaining & Usage
The Basalz Rod is obtained by killing basalzes, and each basalz will drop 0-1 basalz rod. Alternatively, they can be made by putting 5 Basalz Powder in a Compacter, though there is no practical reason, as the Basalz Rod can only be converted into up to 4 Basalz Powder. When placed into a crafting grid, it yields 2 Basalz Powder, and when placed into a Pulverizer, it yields 4 basalz powder with a 50% chance to give 1 Pulverized Obsidian as a byproduct. The main use for basalz powder is for making Petrotheum Dust, which can be used to make certain Augments, upgrade a Fluxbore from reinforced to signalum, grind ores and ingots into pulverized form in a crafting grid, or can be melted in a Magma Crucible to make Tectonic Petrotheum, a fluid whose source blocks will fall downward, similar to sand and gives the haste effect when the player swims in it. It is also needed to run a pulverizer with the tectonic initiator augment, which gives 3 pulverized ore, instead of the usual 2.