STFC Refinery Automation

Star Trek® Fleet Command has extensive refinery options. The new in-game bulk refine mechanism has undoubtedly reduced the amount of time we spend collecting things. But letting FastTrek run the STFC Refinery automatically can save you additional valuable time every day.

Refinery Woes

The STFC Refinery grows every month. Scopely invent a new currency to exchange for some other currency every second. A new grind means yet another thing to exchange, and regular players will be spending 10-15 minutes or so just to go through the refinery.

It’s dumb, repetitive, total time waster. Oh and that’s just the refinery. Haven’t even touched the gifts section or the faction store. Just let me do something else already!

Sound familiar?

Set up once

Most STFC players refine exactly the same things and quantities every single day. Twice a day for materials like Crystal, Gas and Ore. STFC’s built-in bulk refinery allows you to select what you want to refine within each menu.

You then tell FastTrek which of these menus to visit to trigger the ‘bulk refine’ in the corner. You can either do this manually and watch, or on a fully automated smart schedule (see below).

Smart Schedule

I recommend setting up your refinery selections before enabling this option. However, FastTrek will try and read refinery cooldown timers and adjust its scheduling automatically.

Smart scheduling involves:

  • Within about 5 minutes of launching or enabling this option, FastTrek will check what needs to be refined.
  • If ‘bulk refine’ is available within a menu, it will run it.
  • The refinery will also run within about 5 minutes of event reset. This allows it to check if a bonus refinery is running and claim as soon as possible, potentially allowing for extra bonus refines.
  • All subsequent refines will run fully automatically based on your selections and each menu’s bulk refine cooldown.
  • All collection times are slightly randomised.

Cooldown Timer Reset

If for any reason the schedule seems incorrect (sometimes the OCR makes mistakes, not least to the poor font that Scopely have chosen and the way it shows numbers), head into the settings and click “Reset” next to the menu entry.

This will force FastTrek to enter that menu and collect and/or re-read its countdown.

Supported Refinery Items

FastTrek supports all STFC refinery items which are available with ‘bulk refine’. I’ll leave this list here just to make the point:

  • Materials
    • G5 Bonus Crystal, Gas, Ore
    • G4 Crystal, Gas, Ore
    • G4 Bonus Crystal, Gas, Ore
    • G4 Crystal, Gas, Ore
    • G3 Bonus Crystal, Gas, Ore
    • G3 Crystal, Gas, Ore
    • G2 Crystal, Gas, Ore
  • Ship Parts
    • G6 Broken Interceptor, Explorer, Battleship, Survey Parts
    • G5 Broken Interceptor, Explorer, Battleship, Survey Parts
    • G4 Broken Interceptor, Explorer, Battleship, Survey Parts
  • Transogen
    • Common, Uncommon, Rare Transogen
    • Transogen Canister Exchange
    • Transogen Containment Exchange
    • Transogen Forge Materials
    • Artifacts: Common, Uncommon, Rare
    • All the pointless Exos
  • Continuum
    • Type 03 Loot exchange
    • Polygon Loot exchange
    • Fabricator > Mats
    • Type 03 Directives
    • Polygon Directives
    • Chaos Tech Shard Exchange
    • Chaos Materials Exchange
    • Chaos Fragment Exchange
  • Mirror Universe
    • Omega Trellium Exchange
    • District 56 Claim
    • Mirror Expeditions Claim
    • Raw Trellium A Exchange
    • Raw Trellium D Exchange
    • Mirror Efficiency Exchange
    • Liquid Trellium D Store
      • District 56
      • Corrupted Cybernetic Implant
      • Orion Cargo Transporter
      • Holodeck Advancement
      • Tokened Resources
      • Forbidden Tech
      • NX-01 Crew
      • Rift Keys
      • Mirror Dust
    • Mirror Trade Down
    • Liquid Omega Trellium Store
      • NSEA Claim
      • Trellium D Claim
      • Omega Mirror Dust
      • Beryllium Spheres
      • Krag Vort’t Refit
      • Repair Prime Particles
      • Faction Event Particles
      • Elite Recruit Prime Particles
      • Away Teams Particles
  • Territory
    • ISO Grades 1, 2 and 3
    • Emitters
    • Diodes
    • Cores
    • Reactors
    • Iso-Resin and Particle Bundle
  • Amalgam
    • Amalgam Loot exchange
  • Support
    • Borg Cube Refinery
    • Fleet Commander SPs
    • Beryllium to Titan-A Parts
    • Beryllium to Veridium Isotope
    • Cerritos Refinery
    • Discovery Refinery
  • Resources
    • Franklin and Franklin A BPs
    • Swarm Biotics to Parsteel, Tritanium or Dilithium
    • Swam Biominerals to Parsteel, Tritanium or Dilithium
    • Frequency Modulators to Mk. II
  • Borg Tech
    • Uncommon Solo Exchange
    • Rare Solo Exchange
    • Epic Solo Exchange
    • Inert Nanoprobes to Charged Nanoprobes
    • Inert Nanoprobes to Active Nanoprobes
    • Borg Solo Armada Directives (Vi’dar) (En, Fr, De, Ru only)
    • Borg Solo Armada Directives (Talios) (En, Fr, De, Ru only)
    • Independent Credits
    • Federation Credits
    • Klingon Credits
    • Romulan Credits
    • Federation Points (Faction Reputation)
    • Klingon Points (Faction Reputation)
    • Romulan Points (Faction Reputation)
  • Latinum
    • Raw Latinum Exchange
    • Concentrated Latinum (Feesha) Exchange
    • All other Latinum exchanges (inc. Primes and Refits)
  • Mantis
    • Actian Venom to Synthetic Nitrium
    • Actian Venom to Synthetic Ion
    • Actian Venom to Syndicate XP
    • Actian Venom to Hull Fragments
  • USS Voyager
    • Hirogen Exchange
    • Species 8472 Exchange
    • Common Anomaly Samples
    • Rare Anomaly Samples
    • Explorer Commerce
    • Battleship Commerce
    • Interceptor Commerce
    • Survey Commerce
    • Franklin-A Commerce
    • Amalgam Commerce
    • Feesha Commerce
    • Cerritos Commerce
  • Forbidden Tech
    • Refinery Credits to Fusion Rods
    • Refinery Credits to Tier-up Catalyst (Control Seeker Probes)
    • Refinery Credits to Tier-up Catalyst (S31 Torpedo Pods)
    • Refinery Credits to Tier-up Catalyst (Dual Photon Warheads)
    • Refinery Credits to Tier-up Catalyst
    • Protomatter to Emblem of Assessment
    • Tarka’s Isolytic Weapon Claim
    • Concentrated Latinum to Forbidden Tech Fragments (Ferengi Whip)
    • Refinery Credits to Mantis Reward (Breen Dampener)
    • Rare Fragments to Forbidden Tech
    • Epic Fragments to Forbidden Tech
    • FT Pieces to Refinery Credits
  • Monaveen
    • Neural Net Chip Exchange (En, Fr, De, Ru only)
    • Active Net Chip Exchange (En, Fr, De, Ru only)
    • Choice Selection Exchange
    • Automated Shipyard Exchange
    • Queen’s Favour: Parsteel (En, Fr, De, Ru only)
    • Queen’s Favour: Tritanium (En, Fr, De, Ru only)
    • Queen’s Favour: Dilithium (En, Fr, De, Ru only)
  • Isomatter
    • Eviscerator Refinery
    • Axion Plasma Claim
    • SNW Officers (with Gorn Eviscerator)
    • G4 Interceptor Parts Exchange (with Gorn Eviscerator)
    • G4 Explorer Parts Exchange (with Gorn Eviscerator)
    • G4 Battleship Parts Exchange (with Gorn Eviscerator)
    • G4 Survey Parts Exchange (with Gorn Eviscerator)
    • Volatile Isomatter to Officer Shards
    • Volatile Isomatter to Artifact Pieces
    • Volatile Isomatter to G4 resources
    • Volatile Isomatter to G5 resources
  • Enterprise NX-01
    • Scrap Trade
    • Xindi-Aquatic Exchange
    • Picard Hugh Claim
    • Picard Refit Claim
  • Vindicator
    • Vindicator Strongbox
    • Fleet Commander Acquisition
    • Officer Acquisition
  • GS-31
    • All claims and exchanges

Seriously, just look at the length of that list, it’s absolutely ridiculous!
Thank you to past contributors who donated screenshots of some of these options until Scopely finally came up with the Bulk Refinery.


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