Basic Refinery

Production block information is listed in the table down below.

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, and Stone. 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 4,000 L by default.

Usage

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

Control Panel

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

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.

Programming

Refinery and Arc Furnace

Interface name: IMyRefinery
Parent: IMyProductionBlock
Parent: IMyFunctionalBlock
Fields:
bool UseConveyorSystem

Actions:
OnOff -> Toggle block On/Off
OnOff_On -> Toggle block On
OnOff_Off -> Toggle block Off
UseConveyor -> Use Conveyor System On/Off