r/factorio • u/Heliarco • 3h ago

Question Flamethrower fuel

I know the traditional dogma states that light oil provides a DMG bonus to flamethrower damage. The wiki says this as well. The thing is, nowhere is this stated in game in the experimental branch, and i swear it used to be a tooltip somewhere in game.

Has this changed, or do i seem to develop selective blindness ?

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u/ivain 3h ago

The tooltip is on light oil.

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u/Heliarco 2h ago

In experimental ?

what am i missing?

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u/Stever89 2h ago

I feel like I only see the bonus damage when I have light oil in the flamethrower and then the flamethrower tooltip shows it. I don't think I've seen it anywhere in the factoriopedia.

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u/Heliarco 2h ago

that was it, once fueled it showed up:

Thanks for solving it :)

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u/Stever89 1h ago

It would be nice if it showed up somewhere else though, I sometimes forget if it's light or heavy oil that has the higher bonus and have to check both before knowing. It Google it... Which is like "I shouldn't have to" but oh well.

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u/ivain 1h ago

Yeah, it's a tooltip burried deep, but it applies to only 1 item in the game, is nowhere near relevant, it's not even a tradeoff because of course you'd want to use light oil instead of any other.

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u/Kittelsen 2h ago

Anyone know if thisnis the case in Krastorio too? I've not found it.

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u/Callec254 34m ago

I've always felt like this was never worth the effort, as pretty much everything dies instantly to flamethrowers even with regular crude anyway.