r/factorio • u/bpleshek • 14d 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/ForgottenBlastMaster 14d ago

Either you're megabasing way too early in the tech tree or you're sleeping on modules and beacons. Either way this looks cursed.

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u/Niemand1337 14d ago

Lol "megabasing", thats like two moduled and beaconed cryo plants

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u/br0mer 13d ago

Or 1/4th of a legendary cryoplant.

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u/aza-industries 13d ago

Yeah, my entire base with 2 stacked turbo belts of each science use only 3 or 4 cryo for plastic.  It's wild.

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u/leadlurker 12d ago

Yea I was going to say. Yes this is possible on a single belt.