Observatories and refineries in Starlink Battle for Atlas Starlink Guide and Walkthrough

Last update: 26 October 2018

Observatories and refineries

Every planet in Starlink: Battle for Atlas has a lot of important locations. The most important of them are Observatories and refineries. Help them to make the game easier for you.

Observatories

Observatories are one of the first locations that you will encounter in the game. You must establish contact with them to be able to complete one of the first story missions. Complete an Observatory's request to gain their favor. Usually, you are asked to scan a certain animal species by using special equipment.

Complete their mission to get access to an Observatory's data. This reveals the portion of the map around a particular facility. You can increase this area by placing special beacons in the places pointed by an Observatory's crew. Open the world map to check an Observatory's range [1].

Also, every Observatory gives you opportunity to trade certain resources. This panel [2] informs you which resources are accepted by a given facility. You can also ask them to repair your ship.

Refineries

Refineries provide you constant income of electrum. Thanks to that you can passively collect this currency which is required for upgrading your ship. Just like with Observatories, Refineries also require you to gain their favor first. You can do that by completing a mission. Usually, you have to get the right resource and deliver it to the appointed facility.

Complete this task. After that the miners will start providing you with a certain amount of electrum. This delivery happens in intervals. Get closer to a befriended facility to see how much time you have for the next delivery.