How to Use a Refinery
EDFM // Mining / Field Procedures
Turn collected fragments into cargo by managing refinery bins and transferring completed tonnes into the cargo hold.
Use this procedure when collected fragments are not becoming cargo, the refinery is filling with unwanted resources, or a mining run needs a clean refinery workflow.
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Required equipment
- Refinery
- Cargo space
- Collectible mining fragments or chunks
Procedure
Procedure
- Confirm the refinery is installed, powered, and not disabled by module priorities.
- Confirm the cargo hold has free space for completed tonnes.
- Let collector limpets deliver fragments to the refinery.
- Watch refinery bins as each resource percentage rises toward a full tonne.
- If a bin contains an unwanted resource, vent or clear that bin before it blocks preferred fragments.
- If collectors keep bringing unwanted fragments, add that commodity to the ignore workflow for the run.
- When a tonne completes, confirm it transfers into cargo and frees refinery space.
Completion check
The refinery is working when useful fragments are increasing bin percentages, completed tonnes are moving into cargo, and unwanted bins are not blocking the desired commodity.
Common problems
- Refinery full: clear unwanted bins or free cargo space.
- Cargo full: sell, transfer, abandon, or make space before more tonnes can complete.
- Wrong fragments keep arriving: see How to Ignore Unwanted Mining Commodities.
Related Reference Pages
Mining Refinery Collector Limpet Controller Cargo Rack
Related Field Procedures
- How to Core Mine (Draft) — Identify core asteroids, place seismic charges, crack the asteroid safely, and collect exposed deposits.
- How to Ignore Unwanted Mining Commodities (Draft) — Use the contacts and refinery workflow to stop collector limpets from repeatedly bringing in fragments you do not want to keep.
- How to Laser Mine (Draft) — Extract surface fragments from asteroids with mining lasers, collect them with limpets, and refine useful commodities.
- How to Mine Surface Deposits (Draft) — Break surface deposits from asteroids with an abrasion blaster and collect the resulting materials or commodities.
- How to Resolve a Full Refinery (Draft) — Clear blocked refinery bins and cargo problems so mining can continue without losing valuable fragments unnecessarily.
- How to Sub-surface Mine (Draft) — Extract sub-surface deposits from asteroids with displacement missiles and collect the released chunks.
- How to Use Collector Limpets (Draft) — Deploy collector limpets efficiently and avoid common mistakes that destroy limpets or slow collection.
- How to Use a Refinery (Draft) — Turn collected fragments into cargo by managing refinery bins and transferring completed tonnes into the cargo hold.