



The subject of this article is from the Crossplay update.

The information from this article is is up-to-date as of 16 July, 2020.

The information from this article is is up-to-date as of 16 July, 2020.

How a refiner works

Refining is a process of combining ingredients.

Refining is a process of combining various ingredients (mostly resources) into other ingredients with the use of a refiner.

Refined materials are more condensed or more powerful and efficient than raw materials. The advantage of refined materials is that you can carry more of them. Also you need fewer refined materials to recharge something. The disadvantage is that refining takes time and possibly fuel.

You can take out refined materials before all are processed. You can also stop the refining process or adjust the output number to meet your requirements. Though output number can go up to 1023, the output slot can only hold one standard Exosuit stack at a time (250x for resources, 5x for products) --- the refining process will automatically pause if the refiner detects that its output slot is full. An exception is with inputs that produce 150 outputs (e.g. TetraCobalt). The refiner will process 2x input items and stop with 300x items in the output slot.

Refiner types [ edit | edit source ]

There are four types of refiners with different properties.

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1. Carbon

2. Condensed Carbon

3. Oxygen

4. Di-Hydrogen & 5. Deuterium

7. Ferrite Dust

8. Pure Ferrite

9. Magnetised Ferrite

11. Sodium

12. Sodium Nitrate

13. Cobalt & 14. Ionised Cobalt

15. Salt

16. Chlorine

18-21. Copper-Cadmium-Emeril-Indium

22. Chromatic Metal

23. Parafinium

24. Pyrite

25. Ammonia

26. Uranium

27. Dioxite

28. Phosphorus

29. Mordite

31. Silver

32. Gold

33. Platinum

34. Sulphurine

35. Radon

36. Nitrogen

41. Fungal Mould

42. Frost Crystal

43. Gamma Root

44. Cactus Flesh

45. Solanium

46. Star Bulb

47. Marrow Bulb & 48. Kelp Sac

49. Faecium

50. Nanite Clusters

51. Junk To Nanites

52. Crafted Products (1)

52. Crafted Products (2)

54. Aronium

55. Dirty Bronze

56. Herox

57. Lemmium

58. Magno Gold

59. Grantine

60. Glass

61. Thermic Condensate

62. Enriched Carbon

63. Nitrogen Salt

Single-name ingredients can often be refined into a double-name ingredient.

Refined materials can also be refined.

A ratio of 2 : 1 means the output will be half as much as the input (2 in, 1 out).

1 means the output will be half as much as the input (2 in, 1 out). Multiple refiners can be used at the same time.

The arrow buttons increase or decrease the target total of the operation.

The displayed amount of time for the refining action is often incorrect.

When using the Large Refiner to quadruple (x4) Cadmium, Emeril, or Indium output using Chromatic Metal, add Chromatic Metal first, then add the Cadmium, Emeril, or Indium to receive 1:4 output (1 in, 4 out).

If a refiner is processing a recipe and only has one item left in the inputs, the input will be consumed with no reward, so as to prevent the player having to deal with stacks of one item such as carbon.

Additional information [ edit | edit source ]

Assistant for No Man's Sky is an Android and iOS App providing Crafting and Refiner recipes, plus a Portal Library and user guides.

Mobile apps to browse recipes are available: Android (Google Play Android), iOS (App Store iOS)

A spreadsheet of Profitable Recipes that takes the products' total values into account can be found here.

A comprehensive spreadsheet of all NEXT recipes can be found here (created by Ket). (July 2018) (Outdated)

See also [ edit | edit source ]

Release history [ edit | edit source ]