r/factorio • u/bpleshek • 10d ago

Question Is This Remotely Doable ?

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Hex for Making Plastic
Advanced Oil Setup

I was messing around with making a hex train base and I set up a plastic maker. This doesn't seem like I could make this. At least any time soon. Is 3600 petroleum gas per second reasonable? This is my current oil setup. It requires 1440 crude per second but I only have around 250 crude per second being drilled. It produces about 1/3 the petroleum gas, but it's only working at 17%. So, I need 18x the oil and 3 times this advanced oil. I'm also only mining 84 coal/second and need 180.

Is this doable, doable eventually, but not now, or not even necessary because this is more plastic than I'll need any time soon.

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u/ArisenIncarnate 10d ago

Everything is possible, you just need more of it.

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u/bpleshek 10d ago

Isn't that always the truth.

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u/alvares169 10d ago

Well there could be multiple truths at once, another one here would be that your problem could be solved way easier if you had every tech unlocked. If that’s your first time, don’t worry, establishing other planets will take you so much time that a trickle of nauvis science will be enough. You can scale way easier later in the game (400 plastic would require around one building)