An Iron Table is a decorative furniture-item the size of one block that can be placed but does not store or display items/blocks like Wall Shelves can.
Currently, Iron Tables cannot be found in Treasure Chests nor can they be obtained from any Creatures.
These items of furniture can be crafted in your Crafting Menu (to be opened by "Q" as the default key).
The crafting recipe for Iron Tables has to be unlocked first by:
- crafting (or taking) an Obsidian Table, which in turn is unlocked after crafting a Stone Table
- creating Iron Slabs in a Processor from Iron Bars, that are made in a Forge from Iron Ore which can be extracted from Nodes on the Stalactite layer underground or can be found in Iron Treasure Chests or Diamond Treasure Chests
- creating Iron Rods from Iron Bars in a Processor
To craft 1 Iron Table, you'll need:
- 1x Melted Wax made of Beeswax in a Forge or looted from Wood Treasure Chests or Iron Treasure Chests
- 2 Iron Slabs made of Iron Bars in a Processor
- 1 Iron Rod made of Iron Bars in a Processor
Crafting an Iron Table is one of the unlocking requirements of the crafting recipe for Diamond Tables.
Iron Tables do not have slots that you can fill with items nor can they downsize blocks for display like Placemats, Hidden Temple Altars, Shelves, Flower Pots or Wood Planters can. However you can put a Placemat or also any placeable block or items onto Iron Tables similar to how you would place them on the ground.
Iron Tables can be fully rotated in all directions by pressing and holding R and moving the mouse while holding the left mouse button. The chosen rotation angle can then be "locked" too by simply typing R while looking at a rotated item, so that all items of the same stack in the selected quickslot will be placed facing the same direction.
When turned sideways or upside down, tables can be used as decorative elements in walls or detailed builds, but in this case you cannot put Placemats on them that are often used to lay the table with Food and other objects that cannot be directly placed down, and with objects or blocks that will be reduced in size for display.
Since update R32 you won't need to equip any Power Cells to pick up Iron Tables that have been placed into the world. Of course you won't be able to take such items on claims of other players or in game-worlds where your permission level is set low.
Tables cannot be wired and their permission level cannot be set/changed.