Refinery Deck

The Refinery decks were added in Alpha 3.12.0 and are dedicated areas in Rest Stops that allow players to drop off mined materials to be refined, or buy new mining equipment.

Refining

The Refinery Deck allows Citizens to refine mined ores. The refining process is done through work orders, which can be dispatched at refining terminals located in the processing center.

When interacting with the terminal a suitable vehicle with mined ore can be selected. Which then allows the player to select which stored ores they want to refine, and what refining method to use. Before requesting a quote of the generated yield, cost and time. the work order. Different refining methods have different durations, costs and yield associated with them.

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Method	Speed	Cost	Yield
Cormack Method	High	Moderate	Low
Dinyx Solvention	Very low	Low	High
Electrostarolysis	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate
Ferron Exchange	Low	Moderate	High
Gaskin Process	High	High	Moderate
Kazen Winnowing	Moderate	Low	Low
Pyrometric Chromalysis	Low	High	High
Thermonatic Deposition	Low	Low	Moderate
XCR Reaction	High	High	Low

Once a work order has been completed, the refined ores will need to be loaded into one or multiple ships. After which they can be sold at a Trading Console

Refinery specializations

Different Refinery decks will be specialized at refining certain minerals. Or be worse at refining a specific mineral.

Vehicle renting

All current Refinery decks are also equipped with equipment rental terminals allowing Citizens to rent a select few vehicles.

These terminals can be found in the store section of the Refinery deck.

Store

The Refinery deck also has a store located on the premise. The store generally sells some basic amenities like Oxy en Medipens, flight suits, (mining) armor and the Pyro RYT Multi-Tool with attachments.

The store also sells Mining laser modules for ships, and Mining gadgets.

Space Stations with a Refinery Deck

For more information about Refinement, see Refining.