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so I started my first factory and I managed to squeak out blue science but I'm rubbish at oil production could really use some help. hit me up on Steam killerkiyoshi and my time zone is central usa I'll be around between 5 p.m. And 10 p.m.

Itd be better if you learned how to yourself

There are.a bunch.of.oil.production tutorials out there. (Im sorry, im on my phone.... have a habbit of hitting period for space)

But, my advice is make room for your oil production. Leave 1 space inbetween your refinery for pole and space l.
When it comes to batteries and plastic bars you can create sets of 2 with a space in between them.
And cracking is a space between each one similar to the refinery.
Make sure theese lines have the ability to be expanded later on.

With your oil, you want to use underground pipes. Leave room infront and behind your line of refinerys and set up your oil pipes like a T. Go through the refinery outputs placing 1,2,3 pipes, then connect each one together with pipes to ground.
Itd be best to show you a picture that would be farr to difficult on my phone right now, but maybe this wall of text might help you with planning out more.

thanks for the feedback is true I could simply just YouTube it but I'm more of a monkey see monkey do kind of guy plus factorio is a big lonely world it would be nice to have someone to keep me focused but I'll post pictures of my derp factory anyway XD

if you could give me the ip i can fix it up nice and clean and not like that(pipes everywhere and machines not in a row is something i hate i just need to fix it )

Those poor chemical plants are in a mess

Keep the storage tanks far away, allocate a significant amount of space for your oil industry next time, and try arranging them in a line like this:

Chemical Plants:


Refinery Row:



Will make your experience with pipes a lot more pleasant.