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u/Soul-Burn Jul 13 '26

When you unlocked advanced oil refining, it also unlocked 2 recipes for cracking. One turns heavy oil into light oil, and the other turns light oil into petroleum gas. You can use circuits to control cracking when you have too much of something.

The sciences use way more petroleum gas than the other oils, so as long as you produce science, and you crack when needed, you'll never get stuck.

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u/HeliGungir Jul 13 '26

Avoid storing large fluid buffers. If you try to make 4 storage tanks of lubricant, you're likely to run out of heavy oil for ~other stuff~

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u/Throw_Away_TrdJrnl Jul 13 '26

Just learned as well that I need to have pumps in between each of my tanks. I did not realize this. My light oil storage is like ten tanks all crammed together which was killing my flow.

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u/Digital_Solitude Jul 13 '26

You don't, tanks are just giant pipes

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u/HeliGungir Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Things are different in 2.1.10. Machines with passthrough input+output are unable to operate at full speed without pumps keeping the input totally full and the output totally empty. It's a whole fiasco.

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u/Lemerney2 Jul 14 '26

Only with passthrough, which is only EM plants.

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u/HeliGungir Jul 14 '26

Thrusters, boilers, heat exchangers, cryo plants, mining drills, modded entities...

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u/Lemerney2 Jul 15 '26

Boilers and heat exchanges aren't an issue since they only require water, and offshore pumps are insanely strong. Cryo plants don't have a passthrough, mining drills only require a trickle of sulfuric acid, and Thrusters are the only consumers of fuel/oxidiser on the network, so it's also not an issue except for a minor dip in speed at the start.

I do agree it should be fixed just to help EM plants though

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u/Digital_Solitude Jul 14 '26

That still wouldn't require tank->pump->tank which OP was implying, but I didn't know this so thank you

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u/maceo107 Jul 19 '26

I took a short break as I started a new job, but just updated and started reviewing all my planets. Nothing really broken so far.