No Man's Sky Recipes

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Basalt

Basalt is a localised earth element in No Man's Sky. The best yield: refine Phosphorus x1, Magnetised Ferrite x1 in a Medium Refiner to get 2.

Best yield

Medium Refinerabout 0.36s per batch

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Basalt

1 batch: 1 Phosphorus + 1 Magnetised Ferrite in a Medium Refiner makes 2, about 0.36s in one refiner.

How to refine Basalt2 recipes

Best yield per input first

Times are approximate, per batch (one run of the recipe). In-game refiner timers are often off.

What can you craft with Basalt?2 items

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Local mineral extract, typically found in large deposits or extracted from common minerals after inspection with an Analysis Visor.

Typically found on planets with a volcanic environment.

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2026-10-28