Oil factorio trial#

So I think I'm probably missing a pumps to line ratio or something where I just don't have enough of them. But then every time I reconfig the tanks and pumps a bit everything is back online. I then tried a tank at the beginning and end of the lines with a couple pumps along the line between but doesn't seem to work long-term only for maybe 10 minutes before the pressure drops again. The way I've tried to approach it is to either have a tank near the beginning of the line or near the end, sometimes with more than one feed, then then place a pump after the tank and branch to all the chemical plants etc downstream from that last pump. Is there a rule of thumb something like 'if you're pumping HO, LO, PG over a long distance, you need a pump before every bend in the line and otherwise every X pipe segments. I think ti Have the wrong mix or configuration of Plant > line > tank > pump > line. They seem to work for a while then the pressure disappears but it's not because wells are going dry. Having a tough time keeping the three outputs from a cracking plant going over time.

Otherwise I might over do it just to be safe, or under do it and realize the mistake a very long time in the future when I am building stuff I don't even realize now they exist.

Oil factorio trial#

I guess I could find out by myself through trial and error, but I'd rather focus on the layout of the oil processing setup if I would already know how many chemical plants to use and where to place pumps and tanks in the processing line. Where should I place tanks and pipes and in which order? Is overkill having too many tanks placed down to act as buffers? Should I place tanks before and after a chemical process? Where should I place the pumps? Basically, how much do I overdo it if I go with something like Refineries -> Pump -> Tank -> Pump -> Cracking -> Pump -> Tank -> Pump -> Other cracking, and so on. Setting conditions for the pipes and the best way to place them, along with some storage tanks. 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. I'm a beginner on my first serious factory playthrough, and I've just bumped into the advanced oil processing.