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The mobile base inThe Altersis designed to provide everything that the crew needs. Builder modules like the Workshop, Kitchen, and Refinery process raw materials into tools, gadgets, and even mining infrastructure. Of course, each project takes time and resources, so you need to prioritize your production lines to ensure that everything stays running smoothly.
There are a lot of recipes to keep track of in the game, so it can be useful to have a quick reference at hand. We’ve put all the standard recipes in one place, so that you can easily plan your mining - check it out below.
Workshop Recipes
The majority of your crafting will be done in the Workshop. TheWorkercompletes all of these projects fifty percent faster than anyone else, including Jan Prime.
30 Metals
2 hours
Can be deployed on a Deep Deposit and operated manually to extract resources.
50 Metals, 30 Minerals
Works identically to a Mining Outpost, but extracts resources faster. You must research and build a different type for the resource you wish to extract.
20 hours
1 hour, 18 minutes
Provides 3 Components for building Pylons outside the base. A basic Pylon uses one Compolnent, a Fast Travel Pylon uses 3, and a Pylon Hub uses 5.
1 hour
20 Metals
Single-use item that allows you todestroy rock barriersonce you’ve researched and built the Vertara Drill.
30 minutes
10 Metals
Single-use item that lets any characterrepair a damaged module in the Base.The Technician performs repairs fifty percent faster than anyone else.
10 Metals,. 20 Organics
Protects the Base from radiation for 24 hours before needing to be replaced. Radiation Filters burn out faster during Magnetic Storms. If no Radiation Filter is installed in the Machinery Room, rooms will break down faster and Alters will suffer radiation poisoning.
20 Metals, 20 Minerals, 1 Damaged Chip
Can be installed in the Quantum Computer toupgrade its Qubit Level. This unlocks new research tiers and Alters.
Refinery Recipes
The Refinery allows you to process Enriched Metals and ALX (which are useless otherwise) into usable materials for crafting. TheRefinerperforms this task fifty percent faster than anyone else.
Building multiple Refineries lets you assign several characters to this task, which can be useful if you have a large stockpile to go through. You can always disassemble the extra Refinery later.
Enriched Metals To Metals And Organics
5 units of Enriched Metals can be split into 5 Metals and 5 Organics. The base time for this process is30 minutes. If the base’s storage is full, the Refinement will stop, butif the Organics Tank is full and there is still room for Metals, then the excess Organics will simply be wasted.
ALX Conversion
ALX, which isdropped by Anomaliesafter destroying them with the Luminator, can be converted into Organics, Metals, or Minerals if you have the appropriate technologies researched. The base process, regardless of which resource you’re refining for, requires 10 ALX and takes 15 minutes. Converting ALX yields either 18 Organics, 10 Minerals, or 10 Metals, depending on which resource you’ve chosen to create.
You can researce ALX Conversion Efficiency to reduce the ALX cost down to 7.
Food And Cooking
Food can beprepared in the Kitchen; either tasteless Mush made from organic matter, or proper vegetable meals grown in the base’s Greenhouse.
Greenhouse
The Greenhouse lets yougrow Raw Food, which can then be made into Cooked Meals in the Kitchen. You can either grow Raw Food one at a time, or grow a ten-pack:
50 Organics
16 hours
As you may see, growing the ten pack ismuch cheaper, costing only half as much as growing the same amount of food individually, but takes a lot longer - and youdon’t get anything until the project is done.The ideal way to use the Greenhouse is toresearch Efficient Food, taking the Package growth time down to 12 hours, andassign the Botanistto the task, as he cultivates crops at double the normal speed.
Crops only make progress while the Greenhouse is being actively worked - there is no passive growth whatsoever between shifts.
Kitchen
All foodmust be prepared in the Kitchenbefore it can be eaten. If the Kitchen suffers a malfunction,Alters may become ill from food poisoning as a result.The Doctor is a skilled cook, andprepares meals fifty percent faster than anyone else.
1 Raw Food
20 minutes
Cooked Meals arebetter than Mush in every way; they take up less storage space, are faster to prepare, and provide a morale boost when eaten. The only drawback is that actually growing the Raw Food needed to make them reliably requires time and resources that you might not have until late in the game.
