Refinement (Building)

This article is considered accurate for the current version (U51-600112).

This article is considered accurate for the current version (U51-600112).

Refinement buildings focus on turning waste materials into useful materials.

List of refinement buildings

In	Name	Description	Effects	Requires	Heat	Materials	Research
		Uses Power and Radbolts to crush Refined Carbon into Diamond		Duplicant Operation 100 kg Refined Carbon 1000 Radbolts	+16 kDTU/s	800 kg	Pressurized Forging
	Algae Distiller	Refines Slime into Algae. Algae distillers convert disease-causing slime into algae for oxygen production.	Algae: +200 g/s @ 30+ °C Polluted Water: +400 g/s @ 30+ °C	Slime: -600 g/s	+1.5 kDTU/s	200 kg	Distillation
	Compost	Reduces Polluted Dirt and other compostables down into Dirt. Composts safely deal with biological waste, producing fresh dirt.	Dirt +100 g/s @ 75 °C	Compostable: -100 g/s Duplicant Operation	+1.125 kDTU/s	400 kg	Basic Farming
	Desalinator	Removes Salt from Brine or Salt Water, producing Water. Salt can be refined into table salt for a mealtime morale boost.	Water: +4.65 or 3.5 kg/s Salt: +0.35 or 1.5 kg/s	Salt Water or Brine: -5 kg/s	+8 kDTU/s	200 kg	Liquid-Based Refinement Processes
	Ethanol Distiller	Refines Lumber into Ethanol. Ethanol distillers convert Lumber into burnable Ethanol fuel.	Ethanol: +500 g/s @73.4+ °C Polluted Dirt: +333.33 g/s @ 93.4+ °C Carbon Dioxide: +166.67 g/s @ 93.4+ °C	Lumber: -1000 g/s	+4.5 kDTU/s	200 kg	Distillation
	Fertilizer Synthesizer	Uses Polluted Water to produce Fertilizer Fertilizer Synthesizers convert polluted dirt into fertilizer for domestic plants.	Fertilizer: +120 g/s @ 50+ °C Natural Gas: +10 g/s @ 76 °C	Dirt: -65 g/s Phosphorite: -26 g/s Polluted Water: -39 g/s	+3 kDTU/s	200 kg	Agriculture (research)
	Rock Crusher	Inefficiently produces refined materials from raw resources. Duplicants will not fabricate items unless recipes are queued. Rock Crushers loosen nuggets from raw ore and can process many different resources.		Duplicant operation	+16 kDTU/s	800 kg	Brute-Force Refinement
	Sludge Press	Separates  Mud and other Sludges into their base Elements. Duplicants will not fabricate items unless recipes are queued. What Duplicant doesn't love to play with  Mud?	60 kg  Dirt and 90 kg  Water or 60 kg  Polluted Dirt and 90 kg  Polluted Water	Duplicant operation 150 kg  Mud, or  Polluted Mud	+4 kDTU/s	200 kg	Filtration
	Water Sieve	Produces clean Water from Polluted Water using Sand. Produces Polluted Dirt. Sieves cannot kill germs and pass any they receive into their waste and water output.	Water: +5 kg/s Polluted Dirt: +200 g/s	Filtration Medium: -1000 g/s Polluted Water: -5 kg/s	+4 kDTU/s	200 kg	Distillation
	Bleach Stone Hopper	Uses Salt and Gold to produce Bleach Stone. Bleach stone is useful for sanitation and geotuning.			+3 kDTU/s	800 kg	Catalytics
	Brackwax Gleaner	Refines Brackene into Brine and Brackwax, and emits Carbon Dioxide. Duplicants can slather up with brackwax to increase their travel speed in transit tubes.	Brackwax: +90 g/s Brine:+ 810 g/s Carbon Dioxide: +100 g/s @ 75+ °C	Brackene: -1000 g/s	+8 kDTU/s	800 kg	Brackene Flow
	Glass Forge	Produces Molten Glass from raw Sand. Outputs High Temperature Liquid. Duplicants will not fabricate items unless recipes are queued. Glass can be used to construct window tile.	Produces 25 kg Molten Glass @ 1941.85 °C	100 kg Sand Duplicant operation	+16 kDTU/s	800 kg	Superheated Forging
	Kiln	Fires Clay to produce Ceramic. Duplicants will not fabricate items unless recipes are queued. Kilns can also be used to refine coal into pure carbon.			+20 kDTU/s	200 kg	Brute-Force Refinement
	Metal Refinery	Produces Refined Metals from raw Metal Ore. Significantly Heats and outputs the Liquid piped into it. Duplicants will not fabricate items unless recipes are queued. Refined metals are necessary to build advanced electronics and technologies.	Produces Refined Metals	Duplicant operation Coolant: 400 kg Liquid	+16 kDTU/s	800 kg	Smelting
	Molecular Forge	Processes Rare Materials into advanced industrial goods. Rare materials can be retrieved from space missions. Duplicants will not fabricate items unless recipes are queued. Rare materials can be procured through rocket missions into space.		Duplicant operation	+16 kDTU/s	800 kg	Catalytics
	Oil Refinery	Converts Crude Oil into Petroleum and Natural Gas. Petroleum can only be produced from the refinement of crude oil.	Petroleum: +5 kg/s @ 75+ °C Natural Gas: +90 g/s @ 75+ °C	Crude Oil: -10 kg/s Duplicant operation	+10 kDTU/s	200 kg	Fossil Fuels
	Oxylite Refinery	Synthesizes Oxylite using Oxygen and a small amount of Gold. Oxylite is a solid and easily transportable source of consumable oxygen.	Oxylite: +600 g/s @ 30+ °C	Oxygen: -600 g/s Gold: -3 g/s	+12 kDTU/s	800 kg 100 kg	Catalytics
	Plant Pulverizer	Crushes Sleet Wheat Grain or Pincha Peppernut to extract Brackene. Brackene can be used to refill the Critter Fountain. For Duplicants who are too squeamish to milk critters.		Duplicant operation	+2 kDTU/s	400 kg	Food Repurposing
	Polymer Press	Converts Petroleum into raw Plastic. Plastic can be used to craft unique buildings and goods.	Plastic: 500 g/s @ 75+ °C Steam: 8.33 g/s @ 200+ °C. CO2: 8.33 g/s @ 150+ °C	Petroleum: -833.33 g/s	+32.5 kDTU/s	400 kg	Plastic Manufacturing