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machine

Refinery

price$58,000
power200 kW
footprint5 × 5 m
recipes3

Refines crude into fuel, plastic and chemicals, and mash into ethanol.

The machine

Footprint
5 × 5 m on the factory's 1 m grid
Power
200 kW, counted against the building's limit
Price
$58,000; sells back at 50%
Its time adds
$12 a second to what it makes
The refinery model

Recipes · 3

TakesMakesTimePer machine, a day
2 × Crude oil1 × Fuel 1 × Plastic6 s40 fuel, 40 plastic
1 × Crude oil 1 × Water1 × Chemicals5 s48 chemicals
2 × Corn mash1 × Ethanol 1 × Animal feed6 s40 ethanol, 40 animal feed

A machine runs one recipe over and over: it takes a run's inputs from the building's stock, works, and puts the outputs back when there is room (else it waits, blocked; with nothing to take, starved).