Cant seem to place this at all, even though im in my habitable base. Anyone else unable to place the medium refiner?

Pre-Beyond I had to create a separate cuboid room as the system does not allow both large and small refiners in the same room.

Same thing in freighter except that room is better defined and it was the equivalent area of a cuboid room.

I tried this with a wooden cube shaped empty room. no luck :(

I thought great i'll just delete the small refiner, still wont let me build the medium and error message just says must attach to surface or something equally unhelpful :/

Has anyone got it to work without having to change their base design?


Got it to lock into a centre position in a large round building so it gts power when the building is connected to power, didn't try a small cube as i have no use for a room that size for that much resources.

I actually sent a bug report about this.. then i worked out you can put them in the Large Prefab Circle room

Hope that helps 8)

I could place it in the middle of a square room (powered).

I've found that only the pre-fab rooms seem to be able to host non-portable equipment. And I ran into a nasty bug where I dropped a small refiner and a signal beacon inside a cylindrical large room to make space in my inventory. Then, when I try to pick up the portables, it causes everything non-portable in the room to disappear, including the door! It's a NASTY bug that is repeatable, so I warn you not to drop portables in a room for now. Bug reports have been sent to HG.

You have to build a cuboid room from the Cuboid Room building tree.
https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Cuboid_Room

The Medium Refiner and several other installations like hydroponic trays WILL NOT work in and on wooden, concrete or metal base structures.