No Man's Sky - Refinery Guide (Next Update)

A concise guide to learn need to know refinery recipes in order to minimize the grind.

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Quick Guide to Refinery

Important Recipes

Outliers

Additional Info

Biomes & Resources

Quick Guide to Refinery

There are three types of refineries in NEXT. You need the portable refinery to progress in the game and warp. It’s not very efficient with resources though. You can get the medium and large refineries through base building quests. Some older game saves might have trouble getting these due to bugs. This will probably be fixed soon.

You get the medium refinery blueprint about halfway through the base analyzer missions. The large refinery comes early in the science terminal missions. The advanced refineries have two or three slots. Once you place them, you can’t move them.

Important Recipes

This is what you came for. The advanced refineries can spit out resources at an ungodly rate. I will list the most effecient conversions I’ve found for the various resources.

Chromatic Metal

1 Copper + 1 Pure Ferrite = 3 Chromatic Metal

Magnetised/Pure Ferrite

1 Platinum + 1 Oxygen = 10 Magnetised Ferrite

Carbon

2 Carbon + 2 Oxygen = 5 Condensed Carbon
1 Condensed Carbon + 2 Oxygen = 6 Condensed Carbon

Sodium

Same ratios as carbon, but substitute carbon for sodium.
I.E: 1 Sodium Nitrate + 2 Oxygen= 6 Sodium Nitrate

Cobalt

Same ratios as carbon.

Dioxite

Sodium Nitrate plus Carbon or Condensed Carbon will yeild Dioxite.
*Dioxite can be turned into Ferrite Dust at a 1:1 ratio. Useful if no rocks are nearby, but you have a source of Sodium Nitrate and Condensed Carbon plus sufficient Oxygen.

Chlorine

Salt + Oxygen into Cholrine + Oxygen. Watch your money breed rapidly.

Silver/Gold/Platinum

Silver can be extracted from most manufactured alloys, except lemmium which converts to gold. Geodesite and Iridesite convert to Platinum. The ratio is 1:250 for silver and gold alloys, while Geo/Iridesite converts to Platinum at a 1:500 ratio.

Parrafinnium

1 Silver + 1 Oxygen = 2 Parrafinium

Pyrite

1 Gold + 1 Oxygen = 2 Pyrite

Outliers

Coprite can help you get more sodium and carbon. Mix 1 Coprite with 1 condensed carbon to get 3 condensed carbon. This makes Coprite useful if you’re growing plants.

You can turn Coprite into Mordite, then into Marrow Bulb using oxygen or sodium. This lets you change Coprite into cobalt.

Pungeum can increase many resources. It’s best for making more ferrite. Di-Hydrogen turns into Duterium when mixed with another resource.

Tritium doubles carbon when mixed together. When mixed with most other things, it turns into Sodium Nitrate. No one has found a way to make lots of salt yet. There might be more recipes using three ingredients that we don’t know about yet.

*Salt is important because salt + any plant will yield the environment specific element.

So, 1 Salt + 2 Gamma Weed = 1 Uranium.

Additional Info

NEXT added Oxygen Harvesters. These help you make fuel and shields without buying from space stations. You need 50 Condensed Carbon to run them, and they give you 250 Oxygen.

You can mix Oxygen with air gases to make other gases. This means you only need one type of air harvester if you have enough Oxygen harvesters. Oxygen harvesters fill up pretty fast, in about 5-10 minutes. So you don’t need many to keep up with your air harvesters if you stay at your base.

Advice: Grow a lot of coprite. Use it to make more condensed carbon for your harvesters. A big tray of plants needs 17 condensed carbon every 2 hours. Coprite helps you keep enough condensed carbon, especially if you’re using Oxygen to change air gases.