Basic Refinery - Space Engineers Wiki (2024)

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Basic Refinery

ComponentsRequired

Functional

Overview

The Basic Refinery is similar to its larger counterpart the Refinery in that it refines Ores into Ingots. However, it is limited to only refining common metals:Iron Ore,Nickel Ore,Cobalt Ore,Magnesium Ore,Silicon Ore,Scrap Metal, andStone.The Basic Refinery is 8x smaller, requires far fewer Components to build, and needs 41% less power to run. But it is also slower (65% speed) and produces less usable material (Only 70% efficiency) compared to the large Refinery.

However, unlike the larger and more expensive Refinery, it has no attachment ports allowing it to be upgraded. Unless you are short on space or resources, the Basic Refinery should be used as a stepping stone to constructing the larger and (depending on its upgrade modules) more efficient Refinery.

It has two inventory compartments: one that only accepts Ores (and Scrap Metal) and one that only holds Ingots. Both hold 4,000L

4m³
400hL

by default.

Usage

Operating the Basic Refinery is similar to the Refinery. A simple example of its use is below:

Example Tutorial
Build/place your Basic Refinery anywhere you like If connected to a Conveyor Network, the furnace will automatically draw Ores from another inventory. However, for this example we will be placing the ores in manually. While close to the large conveyor port door; open the inventory. 175px) Drag your ore from your inventory on the left, and place inside the Basic Refinery. It will now begin processing automatically.

Example Tutorial

Build/place your Basic Refinery anywhere you like
- If connected to a Conveyor Network, the furnace will automatically draw Ores from another inventory. However, for this example we will be placing the ores in manually.
While close to the large conveyor port door; open the inventory.
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Drag your ore from your inventory on the left, and place inside the Basic Refinery. It will now begin processing automatically.

Control Panel

Control Panel
Options	Comments
Toggle block	Turns the device on, or off.
Name	You can enter in your own custom name in the text box
Show on HUD	If there is an Antenna attached to the same grid, this device will display its position on the players HUD
Use Conveyor System	If "on" allows the Basic Refinery to automatically draw ores from other inventories connected to it

Refining Rates

Ore	Processing Time	Combined Efficiency	Consumption	Production	Production Time	Result
Cobalt Ore	4.615 s/kg	21%	0.217 kg/s	0.046 kg/s	21.978 s/kg	Cobalt Ingot
Iron Ore	0.077 s/kg	49%	13 kg/s	6.37 kg/s	0.157 s/kg	Iron Ingot
Magnesium Ore	0.769 s/kg	0.49%	1.3 kg/s	0.006 kg/s	156.986 s/kg	Magnesium Powder
Nickel Ore	1.015 s/kg	28%	0.985 kg/s	0.276 kg/s	3.626 s/kg	Nickel Ingot
Scrap Metal	0.062 s/kg	56%	16.25 kg/s	9.1 kg/s	0.11 s/kg	Iron Ingot
Silicon Ore	0.923 s/kg	49%	1.083 kg/s	0.531 kg/s	1.884 s/kg	Silicon Wafer
Stone	0.015 s/kg	3.528%	65 kg/s	2.293 kg/s	0.436 s/kg	Gravel Iron Ingot Nickel Ingot Silicon Wafer

Based on game data file content.

Kilogram ore consumed per second = Ore Mass / (Ore RefineTime / Refinery Speed)

Kilogram ingots produced per second = Refined Mass / (Ore RefineTime / Refinery Speed) * Refinery Efficiency

Media

Tips

Like the Survival Kit, the Basic Refinery can also refine stone into trace metals. It is much faster and happens automatically, but you get 30% less materials due to its Material Efficiency.

Known Issues

Programming

Action List - Arc Furnace

Update History

Update 1.189	Arc Furnace renamed to Basic Refinery and changed parameters
Update 01.057	Fixed mirroring of arc furnace
Update 01.052	Arc furnace can now refine more metals, the Arc Furnace was only capable of refining Iron Ore previously
Update 01.048	Fixed cannot stack items in production queue
Hotfix 01.045.013	Fixed 'Arc furnace' building progress models Changed name of Blast furnace to “Arc furnace”
Update 01.045	Arc Furnace’ (Previously Blast furnace) introduced