How to Use and Understand the Refinery in Star Trek: Fleet Command

Star Trek Fleet Command is a 4X “explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate” mobile strategy game created by Irish developer Digit Game Studios and published by Scopely and CBS Interactive. Players have the freedom to explore star systems, build ships, mine resources, level up, complete missions, join alliances and battle other players via PvP.

The game follows the Kelvin timeline from the Star Trek franchise, and includes iconic characters from the series: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, Nero and more! Players can collect and upgrade characters and deploy them on ships for a RPG role-playing game-style element as well.

Today we will be talking about the Refinery, a useful building in the player’s Starbase whose utilities are various.

Refineries

The Refinery is a building in the player’s Starbase that is generally used to process raw materials and resources such as Gas, Crystals and Ore.

Raw materials are processed and refined in batches. Each batch consists of 3,000, 15,000 or 50,000 when they are 2-star and 1,750 or 12,000 when they are 3-star at level 20. Operations must be at level 22 to utilize two batches of 3-star materials and from here on, the amount to be used in batches keeps increasing exponentially.

Refinery Output

Upon processing these materials, they can then be used to upgrade various ships, buildings and research projects. Some of the materials are listed below.

As you can see, refinery usage is varied and the output is utilized in a lot of ways to help players achieve different goals throughout Star Trek Fleet Command.