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Topic	Factorio is rather relaxing
adjl 05/07/23 3:44:38 PM #18:	Lokarin posted... how much iron do you even need? I could expand, but i'm comfortable where I'm at... my starting iron has about 150k left, same with my starting copper... Well, just to craft the rocket (not counting the silo) costs 49,100 iron, 92,500 copper, 9,500 coal, and 277,778 crude oil. You can (and should) reduce that by ~28% with productivity modules, but given that you still have to finish all of the research to get there, build all of the machinery to help you do so, and probably do some incidental research and building as well just for personal interest, I'd say you're going to want to tap new iron and copper patches. I'm not sure off-hand what the bare minimum needed is, but it's probably going to be quite a bit more than 150k. Lokarin posted... Unfortunately my iron expansion I don't have a lot of iron production since that's where my oil is. I'm not understanding the problem. Did you put your refineries on top of the patch or something? It should be possible to both mine iron and collect oil from the same area. Lokarin posted... My oil bottlenecked, my tanks have too much light oil even though I have two plants pumping out solid fuel just to waste it (although I am aware I need 1000 solid fuel for rockets, I'm trying not to spoil progression too much but I just didn't know what to do with all my light oil) Look at the cracking recipes that unlocked with Advanced Oil Processing. Generally speaking, you should be cracking as much of your other oil products as possible into petroleum gas, except the heavy oil you need for lube and the light oil you need for solid/rocket fuel. If one of them is backing up, build more cracking (or just look up the cracking ratios). That's one of the first things most players encounter that can really benefit from circuits. If you wire pumps to your heavy/light tanks that only send them to cracking when they're over a certain value, that will ensure they're available if you need them for lube/solid fuel, but turn any excess into petroleum because you'll generally need more of that in the long run. [LFAQs-redacted-quote] One of these days, I'll pick up Satisfactory, but I always just end up defaulting to Factorio if I want that itch scratched. It kind of interferes with finding the motivation to buy it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:973323429] in Factorio i... [t:80435383]...</cite> <quote>Lokarin posted... </cite><quote>how much iron do you even need? I could expand, but i'm comfortable where I'm at... my starting iron has about 150k left, same with my starting copper...</quote>Well, just to craft the rocket (not counting the silo) costs 49,100 iron, 92,500 copper, 9,500 coal, and 277,778 crude oil. You can (and should) reduce that by ~28% with productivity modules, but given that you still have to finish all of the research to get there, build all of the machinery to help you do so, and probably do some incidental research and building as well just for personal interest, I'd say you're going to want to tap new iron and copper patches. I'm not sure off-hand what the bare minimum needed is, but it's probably going to be quite a bit more than 150k.Lokarin posted... </cite><quote>Unfortunately my iron expansion I don't have a lot of iron production since that's where my oil is.</quote>I'm not understanding the problem. Did you put your refineries on top of the patch or something? It should be possible to both mine iron and collect oil from the same area.Lokarin posted... </cite><quote>My oil bottlenecked, my tanks have too much light oil even though I have two plants pumping out solid fuel just to waste it (although I am aware I need 1000 solid fuel for rockets, I'm trying not to spoil progression too much but I just didn't know what to do with all my light oil)</quote>Look at the cracking recipes that unlocked with Advanced Oil Processing. Generally speaking, you should be cracking as much of your other oil products as possible into petroleum gas, except the heavy oil you need for lube and the light oil you need for solid/rocket fuel. If one of them is backing up, build more cracking (or just look up the cracking ratios).That's one of the first things most players encounter that can really benefit from circuits. If you wire pumps to your heavy/light tanks that only send them to cracking when they're over a certain value, that will ensure they're available if you need them for lube/solid fuel, but turn any excess into petroleum because you'll generally need more of that in the long run.<cite>[LFAQs-redacted-quote]</cite> One of these days, I'll pick up Satisfactory, but I always just end up defaulting to Factorio if I want that itch scratched. It kind of interferes with finding the motivation to buy it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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