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The subject of this article is from the Origins update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 9 November, 2020.
Portable Refiner
Portable Refiner
Category Base Building
Type Automated Refinery Unit
Total Value 10.0 Units
Updated Origins

A Portable Refiner is a portable base building product.

Summary[ | ]

A Portable Refiner is a portable base building product for purifying one element to create another or to crack higher unique elements to create smaller and more concentrated resources. It is the smallest of the four types of Refiners and can only work with recipes that use one resource only.

For example, a refiner can be used to refine Ferrite Dust into Pure Ferrite, but reduces materials like TetraCobalt to 150 Ionised Cobalt as well.

Some end products of the refinery tree are reversible.

Game description[ | ]

A vital piece of planetary equipment. The Refiner allows gathered substances to be processed into more powerful and more advanced materials.

The Portable Refiner can be dismantled and redeployed for easy transportation. Note: the Portable Refiner requires fuel to operate.

Fuel sources[ | ]

NmsTech Refiner Process

How a refiner works

The Portable Refiner has a Fuel Inverter, which requires 100 Carbon or 34 Condensed Carbon to be fully charged.

Build[ | ]

Portable Refiner can be built using a blueprint and the following ingredients:

Crafting[ | ]

A refiner can be used to refine or grind a number of materials. A list of these can be found on the Refiner page.

How to refine materials:

  1. Select the Fuel Inverter and charge it.
  2. Select the input slot to add material to be refined.
  3. Click Begin and wait.
  4. Select the refined materials in the output slot to transfer them to your inventory.

You must take out all input and output material before you can pick up the Portable Refiner. The remaining fuel is returned to your inventory in the form of Carbon.

Exploit[ | ]

There is an exploit for duplicating items as many times as you want (this works best on a flat surface).

Steps:

  1. Place one and put the items you want to duplicate
  2. Place another one in the left side with the legs edge are in each other
  3. Look into it's inventory; it should be there
  4. Go to number 2 but create it on the right side
  5. Look at the right side inventory
  6. Look at the middle inventory
  7. Look at the left inventory
  8. You can select the left inventory and take it
  9. Close the portable refiner and open it again and infinite items

Additional Information[ | ]

While in the Portable Refiner interface, environmental hazards do not affect you. If you're caught in a storm, placing and staring at a Portable Refiner until the storm ends will preserve your hazard protection.

Bugs[ | ]

Bug (3.98): There is an ongoing bug where you may lose the items placed in these items and this includes all three types of refiner machines. It typically happens when you leave the system where the refiner is located (including a refiner on a freighter), and exit the game and reload. Please report this bug here.

Related Articles[ | ]

Release History[ | ]

  • NEXT - Added as a base building product.
  • NEXT 1.51 - Fixed an issue where portable refiners placed near each other would share inventories.

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