Refinery
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| “ | A Refinery for converting raw resources into materials. | „ |
| — In-game description |
The Refinery is a large world structure found in certain towns that is used to convert raw resources into materials. Its stockpile that can store the types of resources and materials it can convert and create.
Construction
New refineries can't be built. You can only rebuild the existing ones if destroyed. You'll need 400 
and a Construction Vehicle, and the nearby town must have unlocked the Industry 
base upgrade.
Refining
| Input(s) | Output(s) | Time (hh:mm:ss) |
|---|---|---|
1 x Aluminum  |
1 x Aluminum Alloy  |
00:00:00.24 |
1 x Iron  |
1 x Iron Alloy  |
00:00:00.24 |
1 x Copper  |
1 x Copper Alloy  |
00:00:00.24 |
2 x Salvage  |
1 x Basic Materials |
00:00:00.48 |
20 x Sulfur  |
1 x Heavy Explosive Materials  |
00:01:00 |
20 x Components  |
1 x Refined Materials  |
00:00:40 |
5 x Coal  |
1 x Gravel  |
00:00:01.2 |
| 10 x Salvage |
1 x Explosive Materials  |
00:00:33.3 |
| 10 x Salvage |
1 x Diesel  |
00:00:12 |
You can access the refinery while on foot, in a vehicle, or in the attached Stationary Crane by pressing E. It has a Loading Area on its side that lets you place a Shippable, such as a Resource Container to refine the content or a Shipping Container to retrieve crates of materials (only from your queue).
To refine a raw material into a refined material you must have the raw material in your personal inventory (backpack, truck, or resource container) or the refinery inventory. Click on the icon that corresponds with the raw resource you have. Left click will refine 1 predefined stack from your inventory, Shift + Left click will refine all available specific resource in your inventory. This will prioritize pulling from your personal inventory first.
You can select to refine in "public" or "personal" using the drop down menu at the top of the center window. "Public" mode directly transfers what you refine into the public stockpile on the right. "Personal" keeps the materials you refined in private queues in the center window. Only you can retrieve materials from your private queues but if you don't refine anything for 50 hours the content of those queues is automatically transfered into the public stockpile.
To retrieve the materials once refined, press Left click to retrieve it all in your inventory, or press Right click and choose "Retrieve as Crate" if you want the materials in crate form which are reservable and can be placed in a private reserve stockpile at a Storage Depot or Seaport. If a shipping container is placed on the loading platform with a crane, using "Retrieve as Crate" will put the crates directly into the container. However you cannot directly transfer materials from the refinery's public stockpile into the shipping container.
Your personal refining queue have a limit to the amount of each materials it can hold: 1k for technology materials, 12.5k for Basic Materials, and 6k for every other material.
The Refinery stockpile also has a limit of 32k for each item. If that limit is reached for a material and you try to refine more publically the Refinery shall accept your raw material (Salvage) but wont refine more Basic Materials. While it wont be a frequent situation, it is wise to avoid wasting raw materials.
The buttons at the bottom of the menu do the following when pressed:
Submit Stockpile Items:
Submits the items inside the building inventory into the building stockpile.
Submit Loading Area Equipment:
Submits equipment from the structure's loading area into the stockpile. This is only available when this structure is accessed from a Crane that has deployed equipment to the loading area.
Package Loading Area Equipment:
Packages the Shippable (container) on the Loading Area so it can be lifted by crane. Only available when refinery is accessed from a Crane that has deployed the shippable on the loading area.
View Log:
Opens up the event log.
Gallery
The menu of a Refinery
The Refinery refinement rates of all raw resources
A resource container placed on the refinery's loading area to transfer its content
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