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Mechanical Squirrel Box
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 4 gold89 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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Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Engineering
- Item level
- 1
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Handful of Copper Bolts1 gold
1Copper Bar1 gold99 silver
2Malachite95 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Handful of Copper Bolts Parts · 62,278 on the Auction House · crafted by Handful of Copper Bolts (Engineering) | 1 | 1 gold | 1 gold | 20% |
| Copper Bar Metal & Stone · 36,938 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Copper (Mining) | 1 | 1 gold99 silver | 1 gold99 silver | 41% |
| Malachite Jewelcrafting · 16,367 on the Auction House | 2 | 95 silver | 1 gold90 silver | 39% |
| Total per craft | 4 gold89 silver | 100% |
About Mechanical Squirrel Box
One craft takes 1 Handful of Copper Bolts, 1 Copper Bar and 2 Malachite. It is taught by Schematic: Mechanical Squirrel Box, which needs Classic Engineering 75.
- Recipe category
- Devices (Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill)
- Orange below 105 · Yellow 105 to 119 · Green 120 to 134 · Grey 135 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Mechanical Squirrel Box tooltip
How to learn Mechanical Squirrel Box
Schematic: Mechanical Squirrel Box
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Mechanical Squirrel Box.
- Requires
- Classic Engineering (75)
- Auction House
- listed on 57 US realms, cheapest 10 gold, 147 for sale
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Where the reagents come from
Handful of Copper Bolts. Made with Handful of Copper Bolts (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 1 Copper Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Handful of Copper Bolts for 1 gold99 silver, against 1 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 4 other recipes (4 Engineering); Rough Boomstick takes the most, 3 per craft.
Copper Bar. Made with Smelt Copper (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Copper Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Copper Bar for 1 gold72 silver, against 1 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 38 other recipes (24 Blacksmithing, 6 Engineering, 6 Jewelcrafting and 1 Mining); the most per craft: Ironforge Breastplate (Blacksmithing, 16 per craft), Heavy Copper Broadsword (Blacksmithing, 14 per craft), Copper Battle Axe (Blacksmithing, 12 per craft), Heavy Copper Maul (Blacksmithing, 12 per craft) and Ironforge Chain (Blacksmithing, 12 per craft).
Malachite. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 9 other recipes (3 Engineering, 3 Jewelcrafting and 3 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Deepdive Helmet (Engineering, 4 per craft), Bronze Band of Force (Jewelcrafting, 3 per craft), Copper Battle Axe (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft), Crude Scope (Engineering, 2 per craft) and Inlaid Malachite Ring (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Mechanical Squirrel Box cost 4 gold89 silver. Most of that is Copper Bar - 1 at 1 gold99 silver each, 1 gold99 silver, 40.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 5 gold14 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.
Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →
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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).