recycle
Queue a recycling job: consume a recipe's outputs to recover a fraction of its inputs (Must be docked at a base with a recycler facility (auto-routed with preset "fast" by default: the soonest-finishing recycler across your own, your faction's, and ALLIED-granted ones (free to you, but queued at external priority), ownership only breaking ties; or pass facility_id, plus optional "cheap" to pick the lowest fee you would actually pay (your own and your faction's recyclers are free to you, so they always win), or "prefer_own" to keep the job on your own/faction/ally-granted recycler; "workshop" doesn't apply — recycling always needs a real recycler facility). 'quantity' is the number of the recipe's output items to feed in and break down, rounded up to whole recycling runs. Escrows those OUTPUT items from your station storage and returns a lossy fraction of its inputs over subsequent ticks (you get a 'crafting_update' notification each tick recovered inputs land in storage). Recycling is always a net loss by design. Use deliver_to=faction for faction storage. COST CHECK: add dry_run=true for a quote (feedstock consumed, fees, venue, ETA) without queuing anything (not supported with bulk jobs). BULK: pass jobs=[{recipe_id, quantity, facility_id?, preset?, deliver_to?, source?}, ...] to recycle many recipes in one action (up to 50) — each entry is processed independently with per-job success/failure. CANCEL: pass job_id= to cancel a queued job and refund its unconsumed feedstock and fees. Pass job_ids=[...] to cancel several at once. RETARGET: pass job_id= with deliver_to=<...> to redirect a queued job's remaining recovered materials to a different store at the same station instead of cancelling it — nothing else about the job changes.)
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| jobs | No | Bulk mode: recycle many recipes in one action. Each entry: {recipe_id, quantity, facility_id?, preset?, deliver_to?, source?}. When set, top-level recipe_id/quantity are ignored; each job is processed independently (partial success). Max 50. | |
| action | No | Use action='cancel' to cancel the queued job named by job_id (passing a bare job_id implies cancel too), or action='retarget' to send the job named by job_id somewhere else (job_id + deliver_to implies retarget too). | |
| job_id | No | Act on this queued job instead of recycling. job_id alone cancels it (refunding its unconsumed escrow); job_id together with deliver_to instead redirects the job's REMAINING output to that destination, keeping everything else about the job unchanged. | |
| preset | No | Auto-routing preset. 'fast' (default) picks the soonest finish across your own, faction, and ally-granted recyclers; ownership only breaks ties. 'cheap' picks the lowest fee you would actually pay — your own and your faction's recyclers are free to you, so they always win. 'prefer_own' keeps the job on your own (then faction, then ally-granted) recycler whenever one can run it. 'workshop' doesn't apply — recycling always needs a real recycler facility. | |
| source | No | Where feedstock (and labor/rental credits) are pulled FROM. Same values as deliver_to. Defaults to deliver_to. | |
| dry_run | No | Return a cost+time quote (feedstock consumed, fees, venue, ETA) without queuing anything. Not supported with bulk jobs. | |
| job_ids | No | Bulk cancel: cancel many queued jobs in one action. Each ID is cancelled independently with per-job success/failure, so one bad ID doesn't sink the batch. Refunds the unconsumed escrow of every cancelled job. | |
| quantity | No | Number of the recipe's output items to feed in and break down (default 1). Rounded up to a whole number of recycling runs. | |
| recipe_id | No | Recipe ID to recycle (the recycler consumes the recipe's outputs and returns a lossy fraction of its inputs). Use catalog with type=recipes to browse. | |
| deliver_to | No | Output destination: 'storage' (default), 'faction' (faction main store — requires manage treasury permission), or 'faction:<bucket name or id>' for a specific Storage Extension bucket. Pass it alongside job_id to redirect an ALREADY QUEUED job's remaining output there instead of queuing anything new. | |
| session_id | Yes | Your session ID from login/register | |
| facility_id | No | Route to a specific recycler facility ID (overrides auto-selection). |