Refinery Guide for Mining

​Once you have finished your SHIP mining session, you have the choice of either selling your (raw) and (ore) as-is to the ore sales terminal in the refinery deck. FPS and Ground Vehicle minables are *not* refinable, you sell those as-is through commodity trading terminals, or use them for crafting!

​A Quick Balance Note about Refining Ore/CM:

Though some Starter Mining vehicles can carry 32 SCU of ore, and some Starter Salvage vehicles can carry anywhere from 13-27 SCU of salvage, most Starter Freight ships ONLY carry around 2-8 SCU of cargo. Due to this imbalance, and due to the changes they were already anticipating for Crafting gameplay, CIG changed refining in 4.5 to have significantly smaller output compared to the resources you input. They also generally increased the cost of these refined goods to ensure profit from these gameplay loops stayed relatively consistent. Anyways, on with the guide...

If you want more profit, and don't mind the extra work, you can allow a refinery to process your material for a fee. Head to the refinery deck at a station and go to the refinery kiosk. (To find a station with a refinery deck, look for the REFINERY SERVICES icon at a station in the Star Map)

First, choose either your ship or the station's storage from the dropdown, depending on where your boxes of raw material are currently stored.

​Choose SETUP WORK ORDER

​Choose a processing selection from the dropdown. These vary in cost, yield, and time.

• Dinyx Solventation ----------very low speed, low cost, high yield <<< best for high yield if you're not in a rush

• Pyrometric Chromalysis ----low speed, high cost, high yield

• Ferron Exchange--------------low speed, moderate cost, high yield

• Thermonatic Deposition---low speed, low cost, moderate yield

• Electrostarolysis --------------moderate speed, moderate cost, moderate yield <<< middle ground

• Kazen Winnowing -----------moderate speed, low cost, low yield

• Cormack Method ------------high speed, moderate cost, low yield​

• XCR Reaction ------------------high speed, high cost, low yield

• Gaskin Process ----------------high speed, high cost, moderate yield <<< best if you're in a hurry

Choose which materials you want to refine (you can choose more than one if you have others available) in this job by toggling the slider on for each, and then choose GET QUOTE

​The quote will show your yield, cost, and processing time. Confirm your selections to begin the refining job.

​After you confirm, you will get a WORK ORDER ACCEPTED message

​Visit the refinery kiosk again when you want to collect your refined goods. Click COLLECT to confirm. If the job is still in progress you can choose STOP & COLLECT to interrupt it and collect everything they have refined so far, but it will DISCARD the remaining unrefined material.

​A finished refinery job will just say COLLECT, and can be delivered to your freight elevator inventory. This screenshot is from an older version where you had to deliver to a ship. You will select the station/LZ inventory instead, which means you can refine as much as you want and not worry about whether you have a ship big enough to fit it all at that location!

After collecting your refinery job, you can now sell your processed goods at commodity trading kiosks, or consolidate all of your collected goods and use them for crafting! If you want to sell, then the trading kiosks will be at the admin offices and at trade centers in landing zones.