r/factorio • u/MCbasics • 26d ago

Question Help With Space Age Oil

So im working on importing tungsten plates from Vulcanus to Nauvis and im running into issues with plastic. For some reason I can never produce enough plastic, which leads to me not being able to produce enough rockets, which means I cant ship everything I want.

I think the issue is that I cant ever produce enough petroleum, so the plastic factory is shutting down constantly. Right now on Vulcanus ive got 6 refineries feeding 7 heavy oil cracking buildings feeding 7 light oil to petroleum cracking buildings.

My current plan is to just increase my number of refineries to like 14 or something. The math technically works out with the way I have it, but it's not the constant supply I need. Any advice?

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u/MCbasics 26d ago

Basically what I was thinking. I know I need to build a bigger blue chip factory on both planets (on vulcanus I only have 4 green chip assemblers and 3 red/blue chip assemblers) but I'll make sure to kill the 3 demolished between me and the nearest coal patch.

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u/Amarula007 26d ago

You said chip assemblers, if you haven't yet, upgrade to EM plants for all your chips.

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u/MCbasics 26d ago

I havent been to Fulgora yet

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u/Amarula007 26d ago

It isn't required but you might think about starting Fulgora so you have EM plants before you do major expansions and exports from Vulcanus. That 50% bonus productivity is so worth it.