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The biofuel refinery is a production building that produces chemfuel from wood or non-hay raw food.

Acquisition

Constructing a biofuel refinery requires Biofuel Refining to be researched, as well as 150 Steel, 3 Components and 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs). It requires a minimum construction skill of 4.

Once constructed, it cannot be re-installed, it can only be deconstructed.

Summary

While the refinery is selected, click "Bills" then "Add Bill" to add an order to produce chemfuel:

Make chemfuel from wood: Turns 70 wood logs, worth 84 into 35 chemfuel, worth 80.5. Takes 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work.
Make chemfuel from raw food: Turns 3.5 nutrition worth of food ingredients into 35 chemfuel, worth 80.5. Takes 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work.
- Hay or meals are not accepted, though kibble made with hay will work. Most raw ingredients have a nutrition value of 0.05. For such ingredients, 3.5 nutrition requires 70 units, which is the same quantity required of wood.

Food that colonists don't like, such as human meat and insect meat

Analysis

Biofuel refineries are one of the few ways to produce chemfuel. Boomalopes are better in both nutrition/chemfuel and work/chemfuel with any amount of Animals proficiency. However, you'll need to actually get boomalopes, and manage the explosive animal. Infinite chemreactors are entirely free fuel, but it is exclusively a quest reward.

Chemfuel is required in order to create items like molotov cocktails and high-explosive shells, and refuel items like pod launchers and firefoam pop packs. Meanwhile, chemfuel powered generators are more efficient than wood generators in almost any scenario (see Comparison to chemfuel generators).

Fuel creation

As a rough order of which fuel takes the least work:

Insect meat and human meat. These are usually undesirable to eat, but processing them in a refinery has no consequences. An infestation can lead to a massive amount of food, for instance.
Harvesting trees, if you have a lot of trees in the nearby area (such as in a Tropical rainforest).
Growing plants - specifically corn, if available.
Actually sowing trees takes a lot of time - it is never worth it to use wood over raw food if you have to grow wood.

Version history

Before Beta 19, it used to be simply called the Refinery, and meals could be used as organic ingredients.

The former Refinery texture

Architect

Production | Neolithic: Art bench • Brewery • Butcher spot • Butcher table • Campfire • Crafting spot • Fueled stove • Fermenting barrel • Simple research bench
Medieval: Fueled smithy • Hand tailor bench • Stonecutter's table
Industrial: Biofuel refinery • Deep drill • Drug lab • Electric crematorium • Electric smelter • Electric smithy • Electric stove • Electric tailor bench • Fabrication bench • Hi-tech research bench • Hydroponics basin • Machining table • Nutrient paste dispenser (Hopper)
Related: Bioferrite shaper • Serum lab

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 * Make chemfuel from [[raw food]]: Turns 3.5 nutrition worth of food ingredients into {{icon small|chemfuel}} 35 chemfuel, worth {{icon small|Silver||{{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 35}}}}. Takes {{ticks|2500}} of work.
 ** [[Hay]] or [[meal]]s are not accepted, though [[kibble]] made with hay will work. Most raw ingredients have a nutrition value of 0.05. For such ingredients, 3.5 nutrition requires 70 units, which is the same quantity required of wood.
+Food that colonists don't like, such as [[human meat]] and [[insect meat]]
 == Analysis ==
-Biofuel refineries are one of the few ways to produce chemfuel. [[Boomalope]]s are better in both nutrition/chemfuel and work/chemfuel with any amount of Animals proficiency. However, you'll need to actually get boomalopes, and manage the explosive animal. [[Infinite chemreactor]]s are entirely free fuel, but it is exclusively a [[quest]] reward. Chemfuel is required in order to use [[pod launcher]]s and [[firefoam pop pack]]s, while [[chemfuel powered generator]]s are more efficient than [[wood-fired generator]]s in almost any scenario (see [[Wood-fired_generator#Chemfuel_powered_generators|Comparison to chemfuel generators]]).
+Biofuel refineries are one of the few ways to produce chemfuel. [[Boomalope]]s are better in both nutrition/chemfuel and work/chemfuel with any amount of Animals proficiency. However, you'll need to actually get boomalopes, and manage the explosive animal. [[Infinite chemreactor]]s are entirely free fuel, but it is exclusively a [[quest]] reward.
+Chemfuel is required in order to create items like [[molotov cocktail]]s and [[high-explosive shell]]s, and refuel items like [[pod launcher]]s and [[firefoam pop pack]]s. Meanwhile, [[chemfuel powered generator]]s are more efficient than [[wood-fired generator|wood generators]] in almost any scenario (see [[Wood-fired_generator#Chemfuel_powered_generators|Comparison to chemfuel generators]]).
 ===Fuel creation===