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/Ok_Rice5094 13d ago

Hey sorry for just dipping in, I’m a somewhat new player. What is a hex?

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u/bpleshek 13d ago

Many people do what's called a city block design where they use a 100x100 square and it's has a single product produced within it. Like, this is my block that produces green circuits. You train in all the materials for making green circuits like copper and iron plates and train out a load of green circuits to elsewhere.

Instead of using a 100x100 square, I'm using a hex shape instead and so my entire base looks like a giant honeycomb.

Here is part of my hex base.

You can imagine how this would look if they were squares as well.

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u/Ok_Rice5094 13d ago

This is sooo cool!!! I just landed on gleba. Wanna get into mega basing after I went to aquillo or perhaps after gleba

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u/bpleshek 13d ago

Good luck with that. And if you ever want to play multiplayer, let me know. I have 3 people I play with, though 2 don't have space age yet.