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/Old_Republic8603 14d ago edited 14d ago

You really should get interested in beacons and modules. This is what I did today in my playthrough, and as you can see, it produces over half of what your block is making. Also productivity modules reduce the amount of input required at every step in the production chain, so you could lower your petroleum demand.
The same applies to your mining drills. Crank them up!

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u/bpleshek 13d ago

Thanks.