Ore Refinery

An ore refinery melts and refines raw asteroid ore into its constituent materials, and outputs the results. This is the primary way in which building materials will be produced.

For example, the player character or clones can insert iron-rich asteroid ore blocks into the ore foundry to produce chondrite blocks and iron blocks. Most asteroids consist largely of iron and chondrite; thus, when an asteroid ore block is inserted, the ore foundry will immeditaley return a block of chondrite, and store whatever fraction of iron the original block contained. When enough ore is inserted and enough iron stored, a solid block of iron is dispensed.

Ore can be conveyed to the refinery from a hold using a grinder and a pipe network, so the smelter will always be loaded; in this case, a player character or clone need only operate it and carry away the materials. Without an automatic conveyor setup, player characters or clones must manually load blocks into the refinery.

Requires: Electricity, ore