Refinery deck

The Refinery Deck is a space station deck available at various space stations. At a refinery deck, raw minerals can be refined to increase the value of the resource with each station offering different amount of profit margins for a certain mineral. It is important to choose a good "method" of refining to maximize profits and reduce downtime.

Space station with refinery decks

Requires updating with more specific locations. These stations are in the small asteroid clusters in the vicinity of the planets.

Station	System
ARC-L1 Wide Forest Station	Stanton system
ARC-L2 Lively Pathway Station	Stanton system
ARC-L4 Faint Glen Station	Stanton system
CRU-L1 Ambitious Dream Station	Stanton system
HUR-L1 Green Glade Station	Stanton system
HUR-L2 Faithful Dream Station	Stanton system
MIC-L1 Shallow Frontier Station	Stanton system
MIC-L2 Long Forest Station	Stanton system
MIC-L5 Modern Icarus Station	Stanton system
Magnus Gateway	Stanton system
Pyro Gateway	Stanton system
Terra Gateway	Stanton system

Refinement processing

Multiple different refinement methods are available to refine minerals. Duration, cost and yield is depending on the process type and the material specialization of the refinery deck. A work order is assigned to the entire cargo of vehicle, and work orders can not be split into multiple. Minerals not included in the work order are permanently lost.

Method	Speed	Cost	Yield
Cormack Method	High	Moderate	Low
Dinyx Solvention	Very low	Low	High
Electrostarolysis	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate
Ferron Exchange	Low	Moderate	High
Gaskin Process	High	High	Moderate
Kazen Winnowing	Moderate	Low	Low
Pyrometric Chromalysis	Low	High	High
Thermonatic Deposition	Low	Low	Moderate
XCR Reaction	High	High	Low

After a work order has completed, it has to be loaded in one or more ships and sold at a trading console.

Material specializations

Updated 10/14/24 - Patch 3.24

Mineral	ARC-L1	ARC-L2	ARC-L4	CRU-L1	HUR-L1	HUR-L2	MIC-L1	MIC-L2	MIC-L5	Magnus Gateway	Pyro Gateway	Terra Gateway
Agricium (Ore)	-	-	-4%	-	-8%	-2%	+8%	-	-	-	-	+8%
Aluminum (Ore)	-5%	-	-3%	-	-4%	-	+7%	-	-	-5%	-	+7%
Beryl (Raw)	+7%	-	-4%	+7%	-	+1%	-6%	-8%	+7%	+7%	+7%	-6%
Bexalite (Raw)	-	+2%	-	-6%	-2%	-	-	+9%	+12%	-	-6%	-
Borase (Ore)	-	+2%	-	-	+1%	-	-	-3%	+9%	-	-	-
Copper (Ore)	-	+6%	-4%	-	-5%	-3%	+4%	+2%	+9%	-	-	+4%
Corundum (Raw)	-4%	-3%	-9%	+7%	-5%	+1%	+2%	+6%	-	-4%	+7%	+2%
Diamond (Raw)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Gold (Ore)	-	+7%	-4%	-6%	-3%	+1%	+1%	+9%	-	-	-6%	+1%
Hephaestanite	-4%	-8%	-5%	-2%	-	-	-	-	+8%	-4%	-2%	-
Iron	+1%	-	-	+2%	-5%	-	-	-	+8%	+1%	+2%	-
Laranite (Raw)	-2%	-	-	-8%	+2%	-1%	+2%	-1%	-	-2%	-8%	+2%
Quantanium (Raw)	+3%	+3%	-	-	+2%	+2%	-	+1%	-	+3%	-	-
Quartz (Raw)	+11%	-	-2%	-	-	-	-3%	-5%	-	+11%	-	-3%
Taranite (Raw)	-6%	-	+5%	-	-	-3%	-	-	-	-6%	-	-
Titanium (Ore)	+5%	+3%	-2%	-1%	-	-	-	+6%	+13%	+5%	-1%	-
Tungsten (Ore)	-	-6%	-5%	+2%	+4%	-	-	+9%	-	-	+2%	-

Gallery

Images

Refinery Deck

Refinery Deck

Refinery Deck kiosks

Refinery Deck kiosk menu with multiple jobs being processed

Refinery Deck

Videos

Inside Star Citizen- Air of Refinement - Fall 2020

Patch history

• December 17, 2020 - Alpha 3.12.0: Added.