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Iron Oxide  
 


This item can be used in tradeskills.
WT: 0.1 Size: TINY
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

Item Type:Combinable
Stackable:1000
Merchant Value:0 pp 0 gp 1 sp 0 cp
Lucy Entry By:Kerasota
Item Updated By:Gidono
Source:Live
IC Last Updated:2022-01-17 05:20:55
Page Updated:Sun May 10th, 2020

Expansion: Original Original


Average Price: 150pp Pricing Data...
Rarity: Common
Level to Attain: 9

[Drops | Quests | Recipes | Comments ]
This item is a ground spawn.

Drops

This item is found on creatures.

Akheva Ruins
NPC Name
A rubble rouser
A shade golem
Shaded stones

Echo Caverns
NPC Name
a stonegrabber

Erud's Crossing
NPC Name
a fire elemental

Erudin Palace
NPC Name
a water elemental

Firiona Vie
NPC Name
a cliff golem

Katta Castrum
NPC Name
a darkmud keeper
a darkmud slave
Mudpuppy

Lavastorm Mountains
NPC Name
a fire elemental

Marus Seru
NPC Name
A Crumbling Stonegrabber
a Stonegrabber
a Weathered Stonegrabber

Mons Letalis
NPC Name
A Studded Stonegrabber

Nagafen's Lair
NPC Name
lava guardian

Najena
NPC Name
an earth elemental

Plane of Fear
NPC Name
Terror - Plane of Fear

Rathe Council Chambers
NPC Name
a Rathe Council minion

Relic, the Artifact City
NPC Name
a courtyard earth pile
a mud spirit
Xanthrin of Deep Strata

Ruins of Old Paineel (The Hole)
NPC Name
a broken construct
a broken gargoyle
a destroyed construct
a massive construct
a ratman inhabitant
a ruined construct
a stone ward
an ancient construct
an Animated Construct
an elemental warrior
an old construct
an unmasked changeling

Ruins of Takish-Hiz
NPC Name
an elemental infiltrator

Solusek's Eye (Solusek A)
NPC Name
blazing elemental

Steamfont Mountains
NPC Name
an earth elemental

The Grey
NPC Name
a boulder fiend
a boulderling
a shimmering rockfiend
a stone beast

The Overthere
NPC Name
a cliff golem

The Steppes
NPC Name
a massive elemental
an earthen elemental

Twilight Sea
NPC Name
a fire elemental
an earth elemental


Quests

This item is used in quests.
Expansion List - Premium only.

Ak'Anon
Quest Name
Deep Muses Boots

Used in 4 recipes.
Recipe list - Premium only.


Can find these in Steamfont Mountains at,

#1 These three cogs on the ground have spawns on, around, or inside of them. 1488, -1401, 2

#2 The 4 pillars outside mino cave. One ground spawn on each side. 1250, -1580, 17

Ground Spawn Map Locations:(Put this in your steamfontmts_3.txt map file)
P 1607.53, -1226.90, 16.63, 200, 0, 0, 2, iron_oxide
P 1563.07, -1272.36, 14.73, 160, 82, 45, 2, russet_oxide
P 1492.20, -1513.04, 6.89, 160, 82, 45, 2, russet
P 1478.99, -1583.77, 7.01, 200, 0, 0, 2, iron
P 1424.97, -1518.66, 10.29, 160, 82, 45, 2, russet
P 1449.92, -1511.95, 17.97, 200, 0, 0, 2, iron
P 1402.21, -1504.23, 6.85, 200, 0, 0, 2, iron
P 1381.11, -1440.51, 2.41, 160, 82, 45, 2, russet
P 1285.01, -1466.99, 2.41, 200, 0, 0, 2, iron
P 1251.92, -1500.95, 2.41, 160, 82, 45, 2, russet
P 1211.13, -1379.75, 14.17, 200, 0, 0, 2, iron
P 1189.99, -1385.14, 17.70, 160, 82, 45, 2, russet
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why
# Jan 06 2003 at 1:13 AM Rating: Default
why do these sell for so much? along time ago, maybe a year, i was hunting in steamfont waiting for a rare spawn killing elementals and they dropped these no prob, i just let them rot, all of a sudden i saw these later for so much and im like, ok? why dont they just kill elementals, havent killed any latly so maybe they made the drop rare or something, but i could have been making big bucks:(
RE: why
# Jan 07 2003 at 10:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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3,705 posts
These Used to be worth about 2pp. Then the new pottery items came out that use Divine Crystalline glaze. Most notably, the goldent idols, and faithstones/spiritstones. When these first came out, the drop rate on iron oxides was low, these were rare, and the demand for golden idols was high (since they are used in the solstice earring quest, which has Flowing Thought 1, as an effect). The price quickly shot up to 1kpp per iron oxide. However, SOE changed the drop of iron oxides. It used to be that you could only get them in a few locations. Steamfont (groundspawns, and dropped by elementals), najena, Nagafen's lair and the hole. NOW, elementals everywhere in Norrath and on Luclin drop these, and the drop rate has been increased. On my server (Rodcet Nife) the value of these has fallen to about 50pp. They are NO LONgER rare. as a nice side effect, the cost of golden idols has dropped to under 1500pp. :)
RE: why
# Jan 07 2003 at 3:57 AM Rating: Decent
Dunno about before recently, but the drops off elementals and stonegrabbers have become rare, if not on the boarderline of becoming very rare. SOE might have nerfed the drop rate, or people used it as vendor food. Who knows. I just want to be able to sell mine for 750pp again :(
Price
# Dec 26 2002 at 1:21 AM Rating: Decent
Due to heavy farming of the creatures that drop these, the price in bazaar has dropped hellaciously. The lowest price today was 75pp. The average was between 150-250, kinda like the HQ Lion Skins. Just a heads up in case you've got plans for ubercoin.
New drop location
# Dec 05 2002 at 10:07 AM Rating: Good
23 posts
One dropped off of a rock critter in The Grey last night. I would like to tell you which one, but a guildmate looted it out of a pile of dead mobs, and I am not sure which one it came from.
RE: New drop location
# Feb 04 2003 at 2:49 AM Rating: Decent
I have gotten a few off of Stonegrabbers in Merus Seru ..
Twilight Sea
# Dec 01 2002 at 9:25 PM Rating: Decent
40 posts
Had about 4 of em drop off of Fire and Earth Elementals in The Twilight Sea. Previous post stated that they don't drop there, but I had got a few during my 4 hours while hunting. I have heard that the drops have been increased in varying zones due to public outcry from EQ players, so it may have been changed in the recent months. I'm not certain it it drops off of the other elementals...
Selling
# Nov 30 2002 at 10:21 PM Rating: Default


Edited, Fri Dec 20 17:21:38 2002
New Drop Loc
# Nov 23 2002 at 3:44 AM Rating: Decent
48 posts
Today some dropped off of the rock creatures in Mseru. 4 pieces in about 4 hours
RE: New Drop Loc
# Nov 27 2002 at 3:59 PM Rating: Decent
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346 posts
Yep. I picked up a couple myself there over the past couple of days.

The price is dropping too...
?
# Nov 09 2002 at 8:34 PM Rating: Decent
ive come across several of these on Drinal server, but have yet been able to sell any of it
RE: ?
# Nov 12 2002 at 4:49 PM Rating: Default
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346 posts
Sell in bazaar. It takes time, but if you can keep a trader up overnight or during the day (while at work/school), you should have no problem selling it. 800pp - 1000pp is a good price range. I have sold around 25 of these, most for over 900pp.
In Twilight Sea
# Sep 13 2002 at 7:27 AM Rating: Decent
Just curious if they drop off the elementals in the twilight sea?
RE: In Twilight Sea
# Sep 18 2002 at 1:17 PM Rating: Decent
I hunted twilight sea for 4 hours killed maybe 150 earth elementals with a coulpe of friends and did not find any iron oxide.
Also drops in Najena
# Sep 09 2002 at 9:22 AM Rating: Decent
21 posts
Hunting in Najena last night, I looted this off the corpse of an earth elemental there. Not a difficult kill, but can be a pain if you get swamped by 3 or 4 of them at once, even with pet!
RE: Also drops in Najena
# Nov 02 2002 at 12:56 AM Rating: Decent
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748 posts
Najena seems to have become a popular place to farm this (does anybody ever bother going into Najena to kill, say, Najena anymore?) Najena is usually empty except for people hunting spell components or farming iron oxide. Probably the easiest place to get this (though still rare).
Finding Iron Oxide
# Sep 04 2002 at 2:53 PM Rating: Decent
23 posts
In addition to being ground spawn in steamfont, it drops off of earth elementals and less often steam elementals. Rare drop though. The Fae Drakes are phs for the earth elementals. Also, "ground spawn" should not be taken literally. It may be found on the side of any metal thing in the vicinity of the Minotaur Cave, as well as on the ground.

Anlorn Redbranch
Ranger of 50 Seasons
Mithril Daggers
Sol Ro
Finding Iron Oxide
# Nov 29 2006 at 5:04 AM Rating: Decent
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463 posts
Anyone know what the respawn time is on these ground spawns? I came into the zone and found none on or near the metal surfaces where I previously have. Nobody else was in the zone, but I figured someone might've come through recently, so I waited 20 minutes or so, but nothing. I wondered whether maybe it only shows up after a rain, but alas Wake of Karana only lets me stop rain, not start it!
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Sells for
# Aug 21 2002 at 5:43 PM Rating: Default
[/blue] ... This item sells for 1k on 7th hammer :)

Edited, Wed Aug 21 18:31:45 2002
#REDACTED, Posted: Aug 14 2002 at 2:08 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) OMG, i have searched norrath and cannot find this sketch. If anyone can help plz.
RE: casserole dish sketch
# Sep 25 2002 at 8:24 PM Rating: Default
Off the subject..
The sketch is found in Jaggedpine only
CoM
# Jul 18 2002 at 9:37 PM Rating: Decent
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155 posts
Got an Iron oxide off a Black Reaver in City of mist the other day.
PotG
# Jul 16 2002 at 1:37 PM Rating: Decent
I recently found this on the ground, in Steamfont. It looks like a black loop with red dots and can be spotted fairly easily. I know it spawns in random spots, but just for some information I found mine near the mechanical guard inside that little pit that he stays in way back near the minotaur cave. I did some research and was told that it is also used for the Protection of the Glades quest. I also found about the price of the item, and I was told the price of it on Luclin server as of today ranges from 200-1000pp.
RE: PotG
# Jul 18 2002 at 3:54 PM Rating: Decent
Sadly, I can actually imagine someone paying 1000pp for this item. All of the combines it is used for are low-risk, so you would really only need one for any given item, and the golden idol of tunare can sell for as high as 5k.

Incidentally, the quest is the Protection of the Cabbage, which returns a very nice earring, and a no drop spell called, oddly enough, Protection of the Cabbage. Level 59 druid spell, single-target version of the level 60 group spell, Protection of the Glades (hence the confusion).
Wasted as a dye
# Jan 17 2002 at 7:43 PM Rating: Good
28 posts
Iron oxide is also used in pottery to make range slot deities for specific religions. It's the only way currently to advance beyond 188 in pottery.

Yes, they can be used to stain armor too. But wasting something this rare on twink aestethics would make me cry. :(

Note: the elementals in Lavastorm, Najena, and Steamfont can also drop this. Very rarely, but they do.
RE: Wasted as a dye
# Nov 02 2002 at 12:51 AM Rating: Decent
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748 posts
No longer true... I'm not going to list them all here, but there's many new pottery recipes between 188 and 250 now. Would suggest casserole dishes to 199 then opal encrusted steins to 222 before doing something expensive as golden idols. Check http://www.eqtraders.com for details on pottery recipes.

Edited, Sat Nov 2 00:32:43 2002
FYI
# Aug 06 2002 at 1:12 PM Rating: Excellent
36 posts
Along with the latest batch of new recipes to be patched into the game, there's one for a "casserole dish" that trivials at 199. So, if you're a potter who plans on skilling up into the GM range (like me), you don't have to start rooting around for Iron Oxide *just* yet, hehe.

1 large block of clay + casserole dish sketch + water flask + ceramic lining (and then fired with 1 HQ firing sheet) = casserole dish (trivial 199)

'Hope this helps.

Cheers =)

Bilious

Edited, Tue Aug 6 13:59:27 2002
#REDACTED, Posted: Nov 04 2001 at 12:56 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) way off the subject of the game, but...
Dye Ingredient
# May 03 2001 at 3:06 PM Rating: Good
This is used to dye smithed Fine Plate Armor. If you're on Xegony I'll be happy to buy them from you.

Neemo
Master Smith
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