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Curious Red Button

A Engineering recipe learned at Midnight Engineering 1 that crafts Curious Red Button from 3 reagents.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
67 gold2 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
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Auction House cut (5%)
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Estimated profit at that listed price
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  • Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Evercore
Parts · 146,330 on the Auction House
12 gold30 silver2 gold30 silver3%
Song Gear
Parts · 5,668 on the Auction House
163 gold97 silver63 gold97 silver95%
Pile of Junk
Parts · 18,131 on the Auction House
325 silver75 silver1%
Total per craft67 gold2 silver100%

About Curious Red Button

One craft takes 1 Evercore, 1 Song Gear and 3 Pile of Junk.

Recipe category
Bits (Midnight Schematics)

Curious Red Button tooltip

Curious Red Button
Item Level 90
Consumable
Requires Level 78
Use: Deploy a particularly curious device. Lasts for 10 min. Must be deployed prior to combat. Only usable outdoors.
Sell price: 6g 9s

Curious Red Button: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 31% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.

Now
6 gold93 silver
30-day low
5 gold Oct 24
30-day high
155 gold55 silver Oct 7
30-day median
10 gold
7-day median
7 gold29 silver
Hourly snapshots
692

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Evercore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 2 gold30 silver and rank 2 3 gold17 silver. Also a required reagent in 100 other recipes (100 Engineering); R0CKY takes the most, 150 per craft.

Song Gear. Made with Song Gear (Engineering, Midnight Engineering) from 10 Refulgent Copper Ore, 5 Umbral Tin Ore and 1 Malleable Wireframe. At lowest listed prices that makes one Song Gear for 95 gold10 silver, against 63 gold97 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 63 gold97 silver and rank 2 88 gold3 silver. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Engineering); the most per craft: G-00 (Engineering, 75 per craft), Aetherlume Field Lamp (Engineering, 10 per craft), Ambient Aethercharged Crystal (Engineering, 10 per craft), Ren'dorei Crafting Framework (Engineering, 10 per craft) and Ren'dorei Lightpost (Engineering, 10 per craft).

Pile of Junk. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 30 other recipes (30 Engineering); the most per craft: R0CKY (Engineering, 80 per craft), B0P, Curator of Booms (Engineering, 10 per craft), B1P, Scorcher of Souls (Engineering, 10 per craft), Coiled Snake-Eye (Engineering, 10 per craft) and HU5H, Nonchalant Pup (Engineering, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Curious Red Button cost 67 gold2 silver. Most of that is Song Gear - 1 at 63 gold97 silver each, 63 gold97 silver, 95.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 70 gold54 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.

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Data notes

  • No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).
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