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· Facility materials are used for constructing and upgrading facility buildings, producing supplies, ammunition, vehicles, vehicle parts, and deploying weapons within facilities.
· These materials can be broadly categorized into three types.
· Construction Materials: Used for constructing and upgrading facility buildings, producing other facility materials, and producing and upgrading vehicles.
· Assembly Materials: Used for producing supplies, vehicles, and vehicle upgrades.
· Rare Alloys and Metals: Used for producing advanced vehicles and vehicle parts, and some special uniforms.

· Construction Materials (CMATs) are fundamental facility materials, used in many basic facility recipes and construction tasks.

Production Facility	Upgrade	Required Resources	Output	Notes
Materials Factory	None	Salvage 10	Construction Materials 1	Basic Recipe
Materials Factory	Metal Press	Salvage 15 Petrol 25L	Construction Materials 3
Materials Factory	Smelter	Salvage 15 Coal Coke 25	Construction Materials 3
Materials Factory	Assembly Bay	When producing Sandbags, Metal Beams, Barbed Wire	Construction Materials (Byproduct)

· Processed Construction Materials (Peacons) are refined materials used for advanced facility construction and upgrades, armored vehicle upgrades, and as resources for advanced facility materials.

Production Facility	Upgrade	Required Resources	Output	Notes
Metal Works Factory	None	Construction Materials 3 Components 20	Processed Construction Materials 1	Basic Recipe
Metal Works Factory	Blast Furnace	Construction Materials 3 Components 55 Heavy Oil 6L	Processed Construction Materials 3
Metal Works Factory	Recycler	Construction Materials 15 Metal Beam 1 Heavy Oil 10L	Processed Construction Materials 1	'Vegan' Recipe (No Components required)

· Steel Construction Materials (Escons, Steelcons) are the highest grade of construction materials, used in exclusive product recipes such as aircraft fuselages, advanced vehicles, advanced facility structure upgrades, and cutting-edge assembly materials.

Production Facility	Upgrade	Required Resources	Output	Notes
Metal Works Factory	Engineering Center	Processed Construction Materials 3 Coal Coke 200 Sulfur 6 Heavy Oil 35L	Steel Construction Materials 1
Metal Works Factory	Engineering Center	Processed Construction Materials 9 Coal Coke 375 Enriched Oil 90L (3 Cans) Water 100L (2 Cans)	Steel Construction Materials 3

· Assembly Materials (AATs or Asmats) are used for assembling equipment, vehicles, and vehicle parts.
· Additional resources such as Salvage, Coal Coke, and Petrol are required for production, making the selection of production facility locations very important.
· Placing facilities near resource fields allows for the production of large quantities of assembly materials without transportation.
· Generally, trading between facilities located near different resource fields is more efficient than producing everything at a single facility.

Material Type	Production Facility	Upgrade	Required Resources	Output
Assembly Material Type 1	Materials Factory	Forge	Salvage 15 Coal Coke 75	Assembly Material Type 1 (1)
Assembly Material Type 2	Materials Factory	Forge	Salvage 15 Petrol 50L (1 Can)	Assembly Material Type 2 (1)
Assembly Material Type 3	Metal Works Factory	Blast Furnace	Construction Materials 3 Sulfur 20	Assembly Material Type 3 (1)
Assembly Material Type 4	Metal Works Factory	Blast Furnace	Processed Construction Materials 1 Heavy Oil 66L	Assembly Material Type 4 (1)
Assembly Material Type 5	Metal Works Factory	Engineering Center	Steel Construction Materials 3 Coal Coke 245 Assembly Material Type 1 (10) Assembly Material Type 2 (10)	Assembly Material Type 5 (1)

· Rare Alloys and Materials are used for advanced facility upgrades, superstructures, ship and aircraft parts, and special uniform production.

Material Type	Production Facility	Upgrade	Required Resources	Output
Rare Materials	Metal Works Factory	Blast Furnace	Rare Metal 1 Construction Materials 5	Rare Materials 1
Rare Alloys	Metal Works Factory	Blast Furnace	Rare Metal 20 Processed Construction Materials 5 Coal Coke 60	Rare Alloys 1

· To produce facility materials, approach a facility, press Shift + E, and select the facility from the dropdown menu to open the production menu.
· Top Left: The facility's inventory
· Bottom Left: The vehicle's inventory
· Center: The production panel, showing all available recipes. Use the scroll wheel to view hidden recipes.
· Top Right: The facility's Stockpile
· Below that: Power status and (if applicable) fluid tank status
· You can switch between Personal and Public production via the dropdown menu at the top of the production panel; Personal production is the default.
· Recipes show which resources are converted into which materials, and the time it takes to complete one production cycle at maximum efficiency.
· The switch behind a recipe can turn production on (green) or off (red). If production is halted, the switch turns orange, and hovering over it will show missing requirements (e.g., insufficient materials, no power supply).
· Hovering over the small factory icon below the switch will show the actual conversion rate of resources to materials.
· Next to it, the power requirements for maximum efficiency production are displayed. If less power than required is supplied, the production speed will slow down proportionally. This applies to all facilities connected to the same power grid.

· Personal Production: Produced materials are stored in a personal queue for a limited time, and finished materials can be retrieved as crates and stored in a Reserve Stockpile.
· Public Production: Finished materials are stored in the facility's Public Stockpile and cannot be retrieved as reservable crates.
· Personal production requires you to directly submit the necessary resources and materials into the recipe's input slots. However, liquids can be used directly for personal production orders if they are in the facility's internal fluid tanks.
· Public production can use materials stored in the facility's Public Stockpile, as well as materials submitted to the recipe's input slots.

· To submit resources or materials to a facility for personal production, bring the materials to the facility and press E to open the facility menu.
· With the appropriate materials in your vehicle's inventory (bottom left), hold Shift and left-click the recipe's material input slot to transfer all resources or materials to the production panel.
· This applies to resources and materials stacked in vehicle inventories like regular trucks, resource trucks, personal backpacks when on foot, or vehicle stockpiles like trailers or small rail cars.
· Liquid cans can be directly transferred from a truck inventory or fuel cart stockpile to an input slot.
· To submit liquids to a facility's internal fluid tank, equip a can in your third equipment slot, press 3 to pull out the can. Aim at the facility and hold left-click to fill the fluid tank.
· If a small fuel cart, fuel truck, or fuel container is nearby, you can click the 'Refuel' button in the fluid tank status panel to connect a hose and automatically fill the fluid tank.
· Note that all liquids in a facility's fluid tanks are public and can be used by anyone.
· Once all required resources are submitted, power is supplied, and the production queue is not full, production will automatically begin. You can confirm this by the switch turning green and the progress bar below the recipe filling up.

· Once a personal production cycle is complete, the produced materials will appear in the recipe's output slot within the production panel.
· These materials will remain in the production panel for up to 26 hours after the last material was produced. If not retrieved within this time, they will be transferred to the facility's Public Stockpile.
· To retrieve materials as stacks without crates, simply left-click them, and they will move to your selected inventory or stockpile.
· To submit materials directly to the facility's stockpile for further processing, right-click the materials in the output slot, select 'Submit to Stockpile', choose the quantity of materials to submit, and click submit.
· To retrieve as crates, right-click the output icon and select 'Retrieve All as Crates'. Depending on the material, multiple finished materials may need to be present in the output slot.
· Hovering over the output slot will show detailed information about the material and the quantity required to retrieve it as crates.
· Retrieved crated materials are 'Reservable'. To store them in a Reserve Stockpile, go to a Depot or Seaport and press E to open the menu.
· Click the large '+' button in the 'Actions' panel to create a Reserve Stockpile, enter a name, and submit. Ensure the newly created Reserve Stockpile is selected, then right-click the crates in your vehicle's inventory (bottom left) and select 'Submit All to Stockpile'.
· Materials retrieved as stacks can also be crated here, but they will not be reservable. In this case, right-click the stack and select 'Create Materials'. These crates can be stored in the Public Stockpile of a Depot or Seaport.

· Stopping recipe production is as simple as clicking the switch behind the recipe. This will halt production, but all resources and materials will remain in the recipe's input and output slots.
· To switch to a different recipe in the same facility, you must first clear the input and output slots of the previous recipe. Otherwise, you will receive an error message: 'Must retrieve all items from orders first'.
· Right-click a slot and select 'Retrieve All' to transfer all resources or materials from that slot to your selected inventory.
· Right-click an input or output slot and select 'Submit to Stockpile' to transfer those resources or materials to the facility's Public Stockpile.
· Once all input and output slots are empty, you can switch recipes by Shift + left-clicking the recipe's input slot or by turning on the switch for that recipe.

· Producing materials with the Public setting allows you to directly use resources and materials stored in the facility's Public Stockpile, and newly produced materials are added to the stockpile after each production cycle is complete.
· To submit materials to the Public Stockpile, bring the resources or materials to the facility and press E to open the facility menu. Right-click the resources or materials and select 'Submit All to Stockpile' to transfer them all.
· Keep in mind that resources and materials within the facility's stockpile can be used or retrieved by anyone.
· To start public production, select 'Public' from the dropdown menu. If the required resources and materials are in the facility's stockpile, power is supplied, and a production slot is available, click the switch behind the material recipe to begin production.
· If you already have resources and materials in your personal queue, you can open the dropdown and select 'Public' to switch to public production. In this case, the materials in the recipe's input slots will be used first, followed by materials from the Public Stockpile.
· A combination of inputs from both input slots and the stockpile is also possible.

· Once a public production cycle is complete, materials are stored in the facility's stockpile.
· Here's how to retrieve these materials:
· Left-click: Transfers one at a time (10 for CMATs).
· Shift + Left-click: Transfers three at a time (30 for CMATs).
· When a vehicle stockpile is selected (e.g., Small Rail Car): Right-click and select 'Retrieve Custom' to retrieve up to 15 at a time.