My first question is why does the Refinery need water?

It needs water for advanced oil processing, you need to unlock the technology. It producess less heavy oil but more petroleum (or less light oil, I don't remember :?)


Another question is concerning barrels. Specifically, what are they used ...

I keep starting new games every now and then, only to realize it always follows the exact same formula and every game feels the same, the exact same way of playing works every time. It gets depressing.

I feel the same way.

I reached a point where I could make trains on my first game but thought ...

It works for me. It's really impressive, I think you won at Factorio. All the production is controlled by thousands of flying robots and trains, you have the best possible equipment and... you have everything 1000 times.

What was the aliens size settings at the map generation btw ? Big ?

But the stones deposit never get bigger than 5x5. I just walked for 15 minutes on a map with all deposits set to "very big", here's the result:

http://i.imgur.com/jam7mPf.png

See, all the stone deposits are extremely small... But now that I think of it, stone is used only to create 3 items, so ...

Hi

So stone is extremely rare, almost more rare than oil. In the map generation options the "very big" stone size is as big as iron and coper's "very small" size. In my 2 games with normal settings I was able to find a few pieces of stones, and then in all the chunks scanned by the radars there ...

I discovered the game on Reddit (this post http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/23h2f3/anyone_heard_of_a_little_indie_game_called/), I didn't even watch Quill's video, I just read the comments that described it as a mix between OpenTTD, Minecraft and SpaceChem with combat... so I googled it, found ...

That was it, 1 piece of pipe was filled with crude oil, thanks!

Hi

I'm new! Fantastic game!

So I'm trying to make sulfur, and I don't understand why this doesn't work :oops:

http://i.imgur.com/oeZHJ5a.jpg

The 2 plants on the top side don't work, but the pipes are connected and they're full of petroleum, but the plants don't get filled. What am I doing wrong ...