Tiberium refinery (Tiberian Sun)

	For other buildings of the same name, see Tiberium refinery.

Tiberium Refinery
GDI Tiberium refinery Nod Tiberium refinery 1 of 2
Unit
Affiliation	GDI Nod CABAL Forgotten
Role	Resource processor
Protection	Wood
Tech level	1
Properties
Hit points	900
Armour type	Heavy
Production
Cost	$2000
Produced by	Construction yard
Requires	GDI or Nod power plant
Combat
Sight range	6
Function
Power	-30
Abilities	Scatters Tiberium upon destruction
Notes
Comes with a free Harvester

The second-generation Tiberium refinery, used by GDI, Nod and CABAL during the Second Tiberium War and the Firestorm Crisis, was a facility that refined harvested Tiberium and extracted the raw material from the crystals for processing and later manufacturing of vehicles and weapons for infantry. The process is hazardous to humans, and only qualified workers wearing hazmat suits were permitted in the facility.

Background

Unlike the refineries from the First Tiberium War that used to centrifuge the minerals first, the redesigned successors were forced to melt Tiberium in order to process it further due to the crystals' changes between the two wars.

Refineries continued to be fielded by both armies following the Firestorm Crisis, but returned to centrifuging Tiberium like in the First Tiberium War.

In-game

The Tiberium refinery functions as a drop off point for harvesters, it is one of the basic structures for GDI or Nod to build a battle base. It provides access to build their respective walls, gates, Tiberium silos, defenses (component tower for GDI and laser turret for Nod), war factories, radar stations and pavement. The structure is large, but fragile. When it is destroyed, it will leave Tiberium behind.

Notes

• As one harvester costs $1400 to build from the war factory, the refinery building itself should have a fair value of $600. However, if the refinery is sold, the owner will get $1000 ($2000 list price divided by 2) from the building and the harvester will be kept. Thus, a player can repeat the process for a modest economic benefit (saves $400 for each harvester) at the opportunity cost of occupying the construction queue. While this issue is not significant enough to affect overall game balance, it is recitified in Red Alert 2.

Trivia

• Certain animations were disabled for unknown reasons. For instance, when a harvester detaches its container, it was supposed to be seen entering the refinery instead of simply popping on and off the harvester.

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GDI Tiberium refinery in Snow Theater

Nod Tiberium refinery in Snow Theater

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v·d·e Global Defense Initiative Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Light Infantry Disc Thrower Engineer Field Medic Jump Jet Infantry Ghost Stalker Umagon (TS campaign only) Riot Soldier (FS campaign only) Vehicles Harvester Wolverine Titan Amphibious Armored Personnel Carrier Hover Multiple Launch Rocket System Mobile Sensor Array Juggernaut (Firestorm only) Limpet Drone (Firestorm only) Mobile EMP (Firestorm only) Mobile Construction Vehicle Mobile War Factory (Firestorm only) Disruptor Mammoth Mk. II Hunter-Seeker Droid Mammoth Tank (campaign only) Aircraft Orca Fighter Orca Bomber Orca Carryall Orca Transport (campaign only) Orca Dropship (campaign only) Kodiak (campaign only)   Structures Production & tech Construction Yard Power Plant Tiberium Refinery Barracks War Factory Helipad Radar Station Service Depot Tech Center Upgrade Center (cutscenes only) Orca Command Defenses & support Pavement Concrete Wall Gate Tiberium Silo Component Tower Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Firestorm Wall Section Firestorm Generator Searchlight Tower (campaign only) Upgrades Power Turbine Vulcan Cannon Surface-to-Air Missile Battery Rocket Propelled Grenade Ion Cannon Uplink Seeker Control Drop Pod Control Plug (Firestorm only) Cut content Dropship Bay   Other Support powers Ion Cannon Strike Hunter-Seeker Release Drop Pod Release (Firestorm only) Firestorm Defense Items in italics are exclusive to Firestorm

v·d·e Brotherhood of Nod Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Light Infantry Rocket Infantry Engineer Cyborg Mutant Hijacker Cyborg Commando Elite Cadre (campaign only) Chameleon Spy (campaign only) Toxin Soldier (FS campaign only) Vehicles Harvester Attack Buggy Attack Cycle Subterranean Armoured Personal Carrier Tick Tank Mobile Repair Vehicle Mobile Sensor Array Mobile Artillery Limpet Drone (Firestorm only) Mobile Construction Vehicle Fist of Nod (Firestorm only) Devil's Tongue Subterranean Flame Tank Stealth Tank Cyborg Reaper (Firestorm only) Weed Eater Mobile Stealth Generator (Firestorm only) Hunter-Seeker Droid Montauk (campaign only) ICBM Launcher (campaign only) Aircraft Harpy Banshee   Structures Production & tech Construction Yard Power Plant Tiberium Refinery Hand of Nod War Factory Advanced Power Plant Helipad Radar Station Tech Center Temple of Nod Tiberium Waste Facility (campaign only): Global tunnel system • Nod Pyramid Defenses & support Pavement Concrete Wall Gate Tiberium Silo Laser Turret Surface-to-Air Missile Site Laser Fence Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Obelisk of Light Stealth Generator Missile Silo Searchlight tower (campaign only)   Other Support powers Chemical Missile Multi missile Hunter-Seeker Release Items in italics are exclusive to Firestorm

v·d·e CABAL Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Cyborg Vehicles Harvester Attack Buggy Attack Cycle Subterranean Armoured Personal Carrier Tick Tank Mobile Repair Vehicle Mobile Sensor Array Mobile Artillery Limpet Drone Mobile Construction Vehicle Fist of Nod Devil's Tongue Subterranean Flame Tank Stealth Tank Cyborg Reaper Weed Eater Mobile Stealth Generator Hunter-Seeker Droid Core Defender Aircraft Harpy Banshee Structures Production & tech Construction Yard Power Plant Tiberium Refinery Hand of Nod War Factory Advanced Power Plant Helipad Radar Station Tech Center Temple of Nod Tiberium Waste Facility CABAL Core Cyborg production plant Defenses & support Pavement Concrete Wall Gate Tiberium Silo Laser Turret Surface-to-Air Missile Site Laser Fence Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Obelisk of Light Stealth Generator Missile Silo Firestorm Wall Section Firestorm generator Obelisk of Darkness CABAL Obelisk Other Support powers Chemical Missile Multi missile Hunter-Seeker Release Firestorm Defense

v·d·e Forgotten Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Mutant Mutant Soldier Mutant Sergeant Rocket Infantry Mutant Sniper Mutant Hijacker Ghost Stalker Tiberian Fiend Vehicles Harvester Attack Buggy Attack Cycle Wolverine Mobile Artillery Flame Tank Mammoth Tank Armoured Automobile Armoured truck Armoured bus Recreational Vehicle Aircraft Harpy   Structures Production & tech Construction Yard Power Plant Tiberium Refinery Barracks War Factory Advanced Power Plant Helipad Defenses & support Tiberium Silo Component Tower Laser Turret Surface-to-Air Missile Site Obelisk of Light Observation tower Upgrades Surface-to-Air Missile Battery Items in italics are only used in Firestorm