Recipe Station is a building that unlocks new production and food recipes for the player. It functions as an in-game station whose primary purpose is to make additional manufacturing and culinary schematics available. The Recipe Station must be placed inside a Habitat to operate.
The Recipe Station is obtained as a reward: it is granted as the Level 2 reward from the Moon Energy Corporation in the Corporate Terminal. Once acquired and installed inside a Habitat, the station enables access to additional recipe content that expands crafting and food-preparation options.
Placement requirement: must be placed within a Habitat (cannot be deployed outdoors or in non-habitat modules).
Function: unlocks new production recipes and new food recipes when installed.
Operational note: the station’s effect is tied to its placement inside a Habitat rather than to an exterior or production-only module.
Recipe Station is referenced in multiple locale descriptions with consistent behavior and placement constraints across translations: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (pt-BR), Russian, Thai, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese descriptions all state that it unlocks production and food recipes and must be placed inside a habitat or residential module. The English game description and the English wiki entry confirm the same details.