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Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
Garbage & recycling: waste sorts from mixed garbage down to pure materials, and can be recycled back into stock.
Pollution has four kinds: acid rain, chemical, soil and heavy mineral, each settling into the ground differently. Pollution guide →
Modules reworked: upgrades are now Basic / Advanced / Modern / Specialty, one per slot, driving the same bonus system as talents. Module guide →
Fresh water: machines need it — water drawn from the ocean has to be desalinated first.

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Oil Refinery

WorldObject

Sets of pipes and tanks which refine crude petroleum into usable products.

Weight10000 gMax stack1Air pollution3.4 ppm/hSkillMechanics Lv 1StationAssembly Line

Notes

The Oil Refinery is an advanced industrial crafting station that processes crude petroleum into fuels, plastics, and industrial chemicals like gasoline, biodiesel, and epoxy. It fits in the mid-to-late game when oil drilling comes online, and its significant pollution output (3.36 PPM/hour while running) makes placement away from populated areas and careful tailings or pollution management important. Installing Modern or Oil Drilling Upgrade modules can reduce resource and labor costs, so upgrading it inside a high-tier room is a practical way to improve efficiency.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic Advanced Modern Specialty

Mechanics level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Improved Assembly (Mechanics Lv 6)

Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
Ingredient	Qty	Type
Reinforced Concrete	12	item
Iron Pipe	20	item
Boiler	2	item
Copper Plate	6	item
Basic Circuit	4	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
Material	Qty / craft
Crushed Mixed Rock	3.84
Iron Scrap	1.34
Copper Scrap	0.22
Gold Scrap	0.06

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor	420 calories
Craft time	20 min
Throughput	≈ 3 Oil Refinery / hour (base)

As a placed object

RoomIndustrialSize5×8×5

Viewer

Requires connection ports — highlighted below.

Placement

AlignmentMust be grid-aligned

Operating

Labor25–6000 cal

Accepts upgrade modules

Crafted here

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Steps71Total labor20631.09 calTotal time303.39 min

241.13× Iron Ore
126× Limestone
125× Gold Ore
96.25× Copper Ore
86.6× Silica (any)
37.6× Crushed Limestone
22.18× Clay
16× Wood Board (any)
14.7× Wood (any)
12× Crushed Rock (any)
9× Cement
0.5× Quicklime

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

Obtained from

Oil Refinery

See also

Combustion Generator