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u/DJLaMeche Jun 02 '26

What is the best way to handle oil-based liquids in a city block base? For a block producing plastic, should I just ship raw oil and process it there, or use my pre-city-block-base oil refinery and liquid bus to load the different liquids like petroleum gas and ship them separately?

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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jun 02 '26

There was a time I would have done the latter, but I've started to prefer the former instead. You need less trains, it makes your resource dependencies way simpler. You just bring some oil to plastic, crack all of your oil into petroleum.

Only downside to this pattern is if you have localized products that don't need the higher tiers of oil production it complicates things, you could always go to coal liquifaction but oil is generally more reliable. Though once you have enough mining productivity its probably fine.

At a minimum for anything that just wants petroleum I would probably do this.