Updated: August 6, 2018

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This guide will cover how to set up a lucrative terrestrial farming base and total T1-T5 production chain so that the user can produce all material goods required to manufacture the tier 5 highly-refined technology item 'Stasis Device' which sells for 18 million units per item.
If the user follows the suggested build in this guide to conclusion they will create a farm that will produce 8 of these Stasis Device items (147 million units worth) per production cycle while being able to run one cycle every 120 minutes, thereby allowing them to accrue a fortune of over 1 Billion units in as little as half a day while requiring just a few minutes of active maintenance and harvesting each cycle.
I will explain my reasoning for limiting production to 8 items each cycle within the guide and in the appendix describe how to tweak the operation to run more frequent production cycles as well as offer tips on how to scale the operation up to produce more Stasis Devices per cycle for the user looking for maximum profits.
This guide will make some build suggestions but not cover a step-by-step construction plan or optimized farm layout as many users will likely want to incorporate this industrial process into an already existing base or on a favored planet and as such the location they build their biodomes, oxygen harvesters, refiners, and plant fields may vary greatly.
Other No Man's Sky Guides:

Basic Starting Guide (Next Update).
Perfromance Improvement (Next Update).
Refinery Guide (Next Update).
How to Use the Exocraft Signal Booster.
How To Start Your First Base.

Introduction and Prerequisites

A Note on Starting Out: Producing T5 trade items like the Stasis Device is not a task to be undertaken right after a Traveler awakens. This is advanced gameplay that will require a large number of blueprints as well as the ability to locate, mine, refine or buy thousands of units of raw materials needed to craft the structures and seed the hundreds of plants that will be required in setting up our functioning farm. This process will also require a bit of time, how much time will depend on how quickly you can farm up the needed blueprints and gather the construction materials. I went about this in a relaxed way, doing other in-game things at the same time while also having very bad luck with blueprint drops so it took me around 20 in-game hours total to complete this farm from first conception. With my collected and simplified knowledge in this guide, I hope it should take you less than half that time to start making billions and enjoying the true fruits of your farming fortune: exotic ships, capital freighters, and the freedom from grind to spend your game time exploring the galaxy's infinite wonders.
When to Become a Dirt Farmer: You don't have to wait until endgame when you have seen and done everything to start this process but you should be solidly into the midgame; having saved up a few million units, maybe built a small base and unlocked some blueprints from the NPCs, expanded your ship and exosuit inventories, discovered some rich systems that will be useful for buying bulk construction materials and T0 raw inputs, and ideally have familarity with how to aquire technology blueprints from Operations Centres and Manufacturing Facilities on planets (I will detail this process further below).
What you will need: the most important prerequisite for what we are trying to do with this farm are the blueprints for the T1-T5 trade goods we will be producing. Without those blueprints, even a fully functioning farm will leave us with nothing but an unusable glut of carbon and thousands of units of plant materials that are almost entirely useless on their own. In short, we have to find all the necessary blueprints to complete the T1-T5 production chain if we want to make our fortune from the dirt, so that is where we should start.
Blueprints that we absolutely need:

Nitrogen Salt
Thermic Condensate
Enriched Carbon
Semiconductor
Superconductor
Poly Fibre
Heat Capacitor
Circuit Board
Quantum Processor
Lubricant
Glass
Living Glass
Hot Ice
Cryo-Pump
Cryogenic Chamber
Grantine*
Iridesite
Stasis Device

Optional blueprints (these items can be bought):

Magno-Gold
Aronium

* Note on Grantine: This was once an optional blueprint as in the past this item was sold but while double checking my facts for this guide, I was not able to find it. So it may have been removed from sale lists the way Nitrogen Salt and Enriched Carbon were recently. No matter, it is easy to make.
The chart below shows all the above T1-T5 trade items/blueprints needed in our production chain as well as their relationship to each other, it would be good to familarize yourself with this information or keep it handy for reference.

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Getting the blueprints: Some of these blueprints you can get by doing the Scientist Station and Base Computer questlines but many others, particularly the higher tier ones, you will only get by completing the puzzles found at the terminals in Manufacturing Facilities and Operations Centres on the surface of inhabited planets. Gek and Korvac systems seem to provide the most trade good blueprint rewards from their sites while Vy'keen seem to more frequently provide module rewards so I would recommend staying in Gek/Korvac space to farm your blueprints.
There are three ways to go about finding Manufacturing Facilities and Operations Centres:

Ask NPC lifeforms for directions in stations or at trade posts, sometimes you will get lucky and they give you the right site, other times they will offer a useless ruin or distress signal.
Fly low and slow over inhabited planets looking for these sites. You can test to make sure you've found the correct facilities by shooting their doors; if they take damage, you've found the right type of building.
The fastest way I've found is to feed Navigation Data into the Signal Booster portable technology placeable and choose the option to 'Scan Secure Frequences' as this almost always returns a correct site. You can easily find 1-3 Navigation Data on practially every space station in the game, look for interactable blue cubes, orange diamonds, and black discs on tables and counters.

Once you have found a suitable site, they all work the same way: to enter you will have to shoot and destroy the 'Reinforced Door' if you did not do so with your ship's cannons from the air. This will trigger nearby sentinels to attack you and others to spawn. Usually they are not a threat but some facilities have multiple 'dog' sentinels and even two-legged 'walker' types so blast the door open quickly and run inside, the sentinels will not follow or continue to attack you once you are inside, it as if you become invisible to them and they will eventually despawn or leave.
Now that you are inside you must interact with the facility terminal and solve a puzzle, some of these are simple math riddles, others are more like logic puzzles or even guessing games with a few hints given to you in an alien langauge that you may or may not have found the words to understand yet.
I recommend using the following data spreadsheet to find the correct answers for each:

Google Doc with Facility Puzzle Answers.

If you fail, simply reload your last autosave and try again until you succede and recieve a random reward of a blueprint, upgrade module, nanites, words, or units. (The rewards do not change with a reload so there is no point in trying to reload until you get a specific blueprint.)
Once you have completed a facility, continue searching

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