And what happens when you build a factory with solar power and electric furnaces? Your solid fuel (and thus your light oil) will go unused, but you might run out of heavy oil if petrol fills up. I'm not saying that your particular factory is wrong, I'm just saying that I've run into situations where...

I finished recreating the Refinery, and the blueprint string and screenshots are below. This version is slightly different since I added a secondary tank for the petrol dump, for use in petroleum solid fuel production before the petroleum gets dumped. As MeduSalem says, it is more efficient this way...

I don't want to post a blueprint of the current one since it has a lot of clutter inside it, but I'm planning on recreating it on a new map, hopefully a bit cleaner. I'll try to get a blueprint string when I do so.

-Nathan

Oil factories are one of the more fiddly parts of Factorio. Balancing the three different outputs can be tricky, especially when your usage pattern changes. Early game you only care about petroleum, but light and heavy oil are useful mid and late game products, so you can't just completely ignore th...

Yah, I always make a production path for flamethrower fuel.... then let it sit in the chests.

Hmm, you're right. That would probably work better if you use a lot of fuel (though if you actually plan to use flamethrower fuel, it might deserve its own pump/tank priority). It would be a fairly simple modification to put the start of a fuel conveyor belt by the light oil tanks, and then run it b...

So, I'm sure we've all had a problem with oil at one time or another. The fact that it outputs 3 separate resources tied to the same input resource means that it is highly susceptible for having one of the resources stall, starving you out of the other resources. It has often felt like a balancing a...