OksTMyF4VKEkS7oZdNvnzQKmlCCkYMIu3hqW1knSjpw9sMMc6twSMyQJ4EhEq0XLIBHbg3YHpPelLCVGcry8dIjhEM7UuNMEDIxiTB+CZwfwLLtMTehFwRErĪ7kdpmGnVizMnIWRYGGwIslkbXUSojjQSMf7mtLyiAEWfOojNYG4uaqKiA5D5wI37pAQAXStwys7Nx49s2gbyky42oMrLehuyFsXrDRgsNJ/ro4E69jug+QH

Y3eyf+7a4vq78FXgXQo/u928D0z1qg/GEvjHpmyHOVqN6OTm1abX1f3PkWd/s7zFtjH718HvTONXfVm9mXa//csK7byb7QxhFI3JaUgGQPyh8/d9d25rCJyiįCkTgkeVSCoff13hYzq0SFKwDwX9E1qCcYcS7pCs9I7uhQIgSzsqJ5kAoZ6bB2MOyEChygAIlGPeOUxUX6cpWlJzsbsIiUlpA9L+o32uaG3lNAmkPgiCBuuMĪVTDc6mhk+Veh1iuApQ0QEhfdfl+YUtrN4mUQsS8bLG41ib7Pwo4SWIF6eIRHzEn7iT6CB+oiosJccxuhjno2pwPvm5szr2p/GPXgGc5TpsDkMV8U5ovkdQv The precise ratio, as the wiki says, is 20:5:17.Code: Select all H4sIAAAAAAAA/8VZy26jMBT9lSib2UAV80YVq27mLyoKntQqgYiQaqIo/z4mtKMRvtwH6qirVtXx8X2cc22Xuts0XVU2m+fiqtvBDEafiuu1LQ+62B7NUW+9 Hence it is good to remember an approximate 4:1:4 ratio of advanced processing refineries : heavy cracking : light cracking. The circuit network removes the need for balancing the building counts, but it does not hurt to know that heavy oil cracking is approximately 4x faster compared to other processes. Afterwards, it is nice to turn the bus 90 degrees and continue it down while you have branches go out either side to hold rows of chemical plants. If you have a row of oil refineries, run the bus parallel to this row. The bus should have at least 4 pipes for water, heavy oil, light oil, and gas. To prevent pipe spaghetti, a very neat way to organize your oil processing buildings is using a fluid bus, which is simply a row of pipes all spaced apart by 1 tile. With this setup, typically all the tanks will fill together, or empty together if the demand is high. Hence if you have enough throughput in your chemical plants, the inputs do not run out while trying to obtain the outputs and the outputs do not overproduce to the point that their tanks are full while you have too little left of the inputs. We connect all to all to keep it simple.īy setting > you make the chem plants crack/consume only the “excess” of each fluid compared to the input. Hence every pump in the network knows how much of each fluid there is, although each pump only needs to know about just 2 fluids. The circuit wires read every tank they connect to and the circuit network has the “space” to read multiple signals at once. set 'Heavy oil > light oil' for heavy oil cracking and set 'light oil > petroleum gas' for light oil cracking.ĭone! Now all the fluid tanks will fill and empty at similar rates. No need to add pumps to inputs.Ĭonnect all pumps and fluid tanks to a single big web of red (or green) wire.įor each connected pump set the circuit “enable condition” to >, for its respective chemical plant recipe (but don't read water). Also have a tank for lubricant.įor each chemical plant (or each row of them, if you use rows) add a pump to the output pipe. It works best if they are connected via pipes to the refinery outputs. Have a fluid tank for heavy oil, light oil, and petroleum gas. I found this tip here in comments long ago but many newcomers have been talking about troubles with oil processing, and I thought why not feature it in a beginner-friendly guide: The method uses circuits, but it is simplified and explained. Prevent your fluid tanks from emptying/overfilling asymmetrically in 4 steps.

Factorio oil setup