Chemical Facility

The Chemical Facility is a large production building used for processes centered on fluid inputs such as Water and Refined Oil. It behaves somewhat like a stretched Assembler, but it is bulkier and more restrictive to place: it measures 7×4 and can accept Sorters only on its wide/long side. Because of its footprint, it requires a substantial amount of space, and many of its recipes also have long craft times.

Its size makes it especially convenient for long, straight production chains. For example, placing six of them in a line requires 42 cells of length, or about 8 small grid squares. This makes the building well suited to equatorial layouts where factories can run in extended parallel lines.

The Chemical Facility is important for several key intermediate and advanced materials. Notable outputs include:

• Organic Crystals, used for research
• Sulfuric Acid, an early fluid output
• Fire Ice refinement
• Plastic, which later gains additional use in progression
• Carbon Nanotubes, used in purple science and in the construction of Dyson Spheres