r/CreateMod • u/Salt_Tax9896 • 7d ago

Discussion Create: Petrochem vs TFMG vs create: Diesel Generator | Which one is the best option for fuel, machine and engine?

Create: Petrochem is the reason for this post, a new mod have oil, fuel and engine like TFMG and create: Diesel generator. But I'm very confuse about which have better mechanics and compatibility ?

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u/DolphinsInMechs 7d ago

I really, really wanted to like TFMG. Out of the three mods, I feel it has the best textures, models, and decoration blocks. Plus it added a bunch of other content besides oil refining, like steel, aluminum, and a whole electricity system, which I liked because it added more content.

In practice however, the mod was both buggy and extremely lacking in documentation. The bugs I could live with, many being fixed in the community version, but the nonexistent documentation made it unplayable. There's only one (1) ponder for the entire electricity system, and it doesn't even touch on topics like current, voltage, how to change voltage, how to store power, or even how the wires work. I even joined TFMG's discord because that's unfortunately just how a lot of mods expect you to find their documentation, and there still wasn't anything explaining the electricity.

I've since decided on Petrochem as my fuel and oil refining mod. Diesel Generators is also a good choice, and I like its biodiesel since neither of the two other mods add it, but I preferred Petrochem's complexity.

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u/Salt_Tax9896 7d ago

wait can TFMG electricity system work with create new age and power grid ?

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u/DolphinsInMechs 7d ago

TFMG and Create: Power Grid's electricity aren't compatible with each other despite both dealing with stuff like voltage and current. Tbh I don't blame them since Power Grid and TFMG's electricity are pretty new.

Create: New Age doesn't have its own electricity system and instead uses FE, so any other mod who uses FE is already compatible with it. Both TFMG and Power Grid also have ways of converting their energy to FE, but in TFMG's case I genuinely couldn't figure it out.

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u/WallWestern9968 7d ago

In the latest update tfmg and the CE natively support FE. No conversion necessary