I assume the extra 2 refineries would just go idle from time to time and it's better to have them on, rather that destroy them? Would the extra 2 mess up with a very delicate balance?Īlso, there's another thing I'm trying to wrap my brain around. Can someone tell me if/how this messes with the above ratio? Does it matter? For 8 refineries is 2 lubricant plants enough? Or, better yet, for 10 refineries, since actually I already built 10 refineries before arriving to the advanced processing part of the game. But I'm now also finding out that I can use heavy oil to produce lubricant. I found out that the near optimal setup from refining to cracking is 8:2:7. Of course, a combination of both cracking and circuits will give you a much greater degree of control of your fluid levels.I'm a beginner on my first serious factory playthrough, and I've just bumped into the advanced oil processing. Then just play with the pipeline lengths and number of solid fuel plants to balance things out. This prioritizes petrol and heavy oil for plants closer to your refinery because the solid fuel plants will not get any liquid unless the beginning of the pipeline (and tanks) are relatively full.Īlso try putting a pump off of the petrol pipeline headed to solid fuel plants, then use the pumped pipe for your sulfur. In this case, solid fuel from heavy and petrol are prioritized because it's at the start of the belt, inserters from the light oil plants will have to wait until the belt clears up to output.Īlso, the heavy oil pipeline and petrol pipeline to those solid fuel plants could be 20 times longer than other plants using heavy oil and petrol. Then, further upstream the solid fuel belt, 2 heavy oil solid fuel plants on one side of the belt and 2 petrol on the other. Neither cracking nor the circuit network are required to balance refineries, and it can be fun and challenging to do so without.įor example, you can have 6 light oil solid fuel plants, 3 on each side of a belt going towards your boilers. The most efficient producer of solid fuel is Light oil. Use basic Oil processing if you need mainly Lubricant. Use Advanced oil processing if you need mainly Petroleum Gas. It is also a good idea to surround it with beacons filled with speed modules. It is always a good idea to use productivity modules on your refinery, to use less crude.
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It might take you a while to learn how to do it, but it is a fun puzzle to solve.
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The goal is to make sure that if your refinery stalls, it happens only with *everything* full, not one or two products full and the rest empty. That is why you use cracking on circuit conditions based on tank volume and/or conversion to solid fuel. If one of the 3 tanks/pipes coming out of your refinery fill up, it will stall the refinery and not produce the other products either. If memory serves, I think you use Speed modules (level 3 is the best, but even level 1 is better than nothing). You can compensate somewhat by maxing modules and beacons around the Pumpjacks. After that they produce only a small amount. Pumpjacks produce at full volume only for a while. But the tank levels are dry so I'm going to assume you aren't hooked up to enough pumpjacks. Ignoring time and all other chemicals, to balance dedicated basic refineries for solid fuel you should have at least the following solid fuel chemical plants: 3 from heavy oil, 6 from light oil, and 4 from petrol.įrom what I can see in your picture, your setup should eventually deadlock on light oil. The refinery in basic mode (pictured) will produce 30 heavy oil, 30 light oil, and 40 petrol every 5 seconds.
Solid fuel costs 20 heavy oil, or 10 light oil, or 20 petrol and takes 3 seconds to make. You can look at the recipes and see what is being used by how much and how often.
If you have not researched cracking or circuit networks then you must balance your refinery output to prevent a "deadlock" Like when light oil backs up to the refineries stopping them, and petrol is empty, and nothing is currently consuming light oil. If not, then the output is backed up.īefore a refinery cycle happens, the crude icon builds up to 100 units. When a refinery cycle happens, the icons for petrol, light, and heavy typically will disappear quickly because the fluid is consumed through the pipe by the chemical plant. You will see icons for crude input, and petrol, light, and heavy output. Easiest way to tell is to click on the refinery.
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