how to deploy portable refiner?

[mystikmind2005]

The tutorial had me deploy a portable refiner and pick it up again.

Now i got a secondary mission to repair a drop pod for some upgrades or something.
I need carbon nanotubes and antimatter housing, but the game gives no advice on how to find or make them?

I though i would start with the portable refiner, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to deploy it??

[cogvos]

You craft those items, indeed most if not all 'made' things directly in your inventory. You only need a refiner to convert one resource into another. So for example converting copper into chromatic metal.

To craft something just left click on an empty inventory slot, either suit or ship, and select the item. The game will tell you what you need to make it. If you cannot see the item in the menu then you have not yet learnt the necessary blueprint.

To deploy the refiner press build (default is 'z' on a PC keyboard)

Hope that helps

[Flash Hendricks]

Originally posted by mystikmind2005:

The tutorial had me deploy a portable refiner and pick it up again.

Now i got a secondary mission to repair a drop pod for some upgrades or something.
I need carbon nanotubes and antimatter housing, but the game gives no advice on how to find or make them?

I though i would start with the portable refiner, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to deploy it??

Just use the build shortcut key again ("Z"if your using k&m on PC): when you "build" a new one, it will simply "place" it, if you already have one in your inventory (same with all mobile tech)

[Lady Neravin]

Carbon nanotubes and antimatter housing are build from the inventory.

Your portable refiner is placed by building it (Z on PC I think, Y for me but that is the german keyboard layout) just like anything else, but instead of paying the normal building cost it just uses the picked up one from the inventory

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Even when it is already in your inventory, you still use the Z command (build) to deploy it. Remember to pick it up when done. I must have left over 100 behind over the years. They are cheap to make so no big if you forget....just like to keep a clean universe.

[Jacob Locke]

Welcome to the 'verse.

[mystikmind2005]

Thanks everyone for the quick responses, i will go see what happens in game

[mystikmind2005]

Seems like i am not allowed to build antimatter housing, in that case should i abandon this quest?

[yaerav]

Originally posted by mystikmind2005:

Seems like i am not allowed to build antimatter housing, in that case should i abandon this quest?

Nah, if the antimatter housing is greyed-out, you need more specific materials to craft it. And I think you need condensed carbon for antimatter housing. Which you can get by either refining regular carbon, or mining red crystals, if you can find them (the small ones, that is, for the big ones, you need an advanced mining laser, which you will have soon enough, but probably not quite yet)

Correcttion: you need 30 oxygen and 50 ferrite dust for antimatter housing. Oxygen can be obtained by harvesting the glowing red flowes or mining hazardous flora, and you already know about ferrite dust ;-) )

[mystikmind2005]

Originally posted by yaerav:

Originally posted by mystikmind2005:

Seems like i am not allowed to build antimatter housing, in that case should i abandon this quest?

Nah, if the antimatter housing is greyed-out, you need more specific materials to craft it. And I think you need condensed carbon for antimatter housing. Which you can get by either refining regular carbon, or mining red crystals, if you can find them (the small ones, that is, for the big ones, you need an advanced mining laser, which you will have soon enough, but probably not quite yet)

Correcttion: you need 30 oxygen and 50 ferrite dust for antimatter housing. Oxygen can be obtained by harvesting the glowing red flowes or mining hazardous flora, and you already know about ferrite dust ;-) )

The antimatter housing was not in the list at all.

But i managed to solve the problem, since there was a nearby spaceport where i managed to figure out how to sell some stuff and then buy the antimatter housing unit.

That same seller is also offering an advanced mining laser, so i will collect some more crap and go buy that.

[GenSec39]

If you can't craft them in your inventory - you didn't unlock them yet. Leave it for now, do some story related/tutorial tasks - in 2-3 steps you will get recipe.

[Jacob Locke]

Originally posted by GenSec39:

If you can't craft them in your inventory - you didn't unlock them yet. Leave it for now, do some story related/tutorial tasks - in 2-3 steps you will get recipe.

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