Did the same recipe combo. But managed to fit both blenders and refinery into a 5x5 blueprint editor. I then did 3 groups of 5 (15 x 150 rocket fuel) and fed 3 floors of 180 (540 total) power generators. My generators were switched off when I saved the blueprint, but I used satisfactory calculator to switch them all on once they were full/backed-up to the refinaries. I also highly recommend balancing the pipes as much as possible because some generators get starved. In my case, I divided them into groups of 36 so each group were fed by 1 blender. My next playthrough will be done better because it was a spider web of pipes! I will also be trying ionised fuel for better efficiency :)
Very cool! I’ve never thought about switching them all on at once with the save editor. That’s a terrific idea! I definitely want to try ionized fuel at some point too. Good luck!
Excellent point! I knew it was a gas, and then totally forgot and treated it like a liquid. You could definitely flip the two floors and not need any pumps!
Yeah I used this recipe in my first playthrough too, really easy to setup a lot of power. Used the Compacted coal for Turbofuel for moar power instead of the compacted steel recipe. Because while it's efficient, have fun placing houndreds of foundries because each one only outputs 10 steel per minute at 100% clockspeed. For the sulfur, it's not bad, you honestly don't need much sulfur anymore in 1.0. A huge or even maxed out Nuclear Powerplant without converting resources wont require that much sulfur. (My Big plant in my first save producing over 300.000MW only used 1233 Sulfur per minute.) And since you don't need batteries for drones and also not for the magnetic field generators, there is not much need for sulfur in the game anyways. So I don't see an issue with this plant being for sulfur heavy. The best location for such a plant is in the blue crater, since you have all resources you need in large quantities. Also, when you're going to use a full pure node, just be careful with the pipes, even when the devs said there are no issues anymore with mk2 pipes, I still had issues with them running at full capacity. Also, if you set the plants to 240% Clockeed, each of them will consume 10m³ of rocket fuel, which makes it easier scaling. And rocket fuel is a gas, so you can keep the liquids on the bottom and build a hug generator tower.
Turning the compacted coal into more power is definitely the smarter thing to do with it. But it'll only be 160 Foundries to place, that's what blueprints are for :) Great point about the mk2 pipe and pure node, I keep hoping it gets fixed at some point. Luckily for me 2 normal nodes were closer than the next pure node, so I'm just using those. I totally forgot that rocket fuel was a gas! That's great to know.
Where do you plan on having your plant? I've heard that Blue Crater is a good place, but I actually did mine in the swamp because bauxite is also really close for creating the empty fluid tanks to package some of that rocket fuel up for my drone army. :)
I think the Blue Crater is probably the most convenient place to do it. But I think both the swamp or the west coast would be good choices too. I wouldn’t recommend what went with lol. I wanted it next to my 18GW diluted packaged fuel power plant that is in the Spire Coast to show that it only takes up a little more space. Logistically it wasn’t the best decision.
I don't know why, but I can't do compact elevators anymore. Sometimes I can't connect a splitter to any elevator that also connects to an assembler. I am going to reinstall, I think...
Oh no! I don’t think you are alone however. I was watching a stream and they were complaining about the same thing and said it started with the ficmas update. I haven’t had any issues but I rarely attach the splitter or merger directly to the lift. Hopefully after their holiday break it gets fixed!
I don't put splitters or mergers on the top or bottom of an elevator either, doesn't look right. But I use 2 tall most everywhere. Thanks for the reply, I thought I was going nuts!!!
Here is the link to the link to the Google Drive for the blueprints:
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Did the same recipe combo. But managed to fit both blenders and refinery into a 5x5 blueprint editor. I then did 3 groups of 5 (15 x 150 rocket fuel) and fed 3 floors of 180 (540 total) power generators. My generators were switched off when I saved the blueprint, but I used satisfactory calculator to switch them all on once they were full/backed-up to the refinaries. I also highly recommend balancing the pipes as much as possible because some generators get starved. In my case, I divided them into groups of 36 so each group were fed by 1 blender. My next playthrough will be done better because it was a spider web of pipes! I will also be trying ionised fuel for better efficiency :)
Very cool! I’ve never thought about switching them all on at once with the save editor. That’s a terrific idea! I definitely want to try ionized fuel at some point too. Good luck!
Rocketfuel doesn't need to get gravity fed
It's a gas!!
And oil to fuel can be in one mk2 blueprint
Excellent point! I knew it was a gas, and then totally forgot and treated it like a liquid. You could definitely flip the two floors and not need any pumps!
Yeah I used this recipe in my first playthrough too, really easy to setup a lot of power. Used the Compacted coal for Turbofuel for moar power instead of the compacted steel recipe. Because while it's efficient, have fun placing houndreds of foundries because each one only outputs 10 steel per minute at 100% clockspeed.
For the sulfur, it's not bad, you honestly don't need much sulfur anymore in 1.0.
A huge or even maxed out Nuclear Powerplant without converting resources wont require that much sulfur. (My Big plant in my first save producing over 300.000MW only used 1233 Sulfur per minute.) And since you don't need batteries for drones and also not for the magnetic field generators, there is not much need for sulfur in the game anyways. So I don't see an issue with this plant being for sulfur heavy.
The best location for such a plant is in the blue crater, since you have all resources you need in large quantities.
Also, when you're going to use a full pure node, just be careful with the pipes, even when the devs said there are no issues anymore with mk2 pipes, I still had issues with them running at full capacity.
Also, if you set the plants to 240% Clockeed, each of them will consume 10m³ of rocket fuel, which makes it easier scaling.
And rocket fuel is a gas, so you can keep the liquids on the bottom and build a hug generator tower.
Turning the compacted coal into more power is definitely the smarter thing to do with it. But it'll only be 160 Foundries to place, that's what blueprints are for :)
Great point about the mk2 pipe and pure node, I keep hoping it gets fixed at some point. Luckily for me 2 normal nodes were closer than the next pure node, so I'm just using those.
I totally forgot that rocket fuel was a gas! That's great to know.
Rocket fuel is the best, my plant generates 166GW and like you said, very straightforward to set up.
Very nice! I was genuinely surprised how straightforward it was.
Where do you plan on having your plant? I've heard that Blue Crater is a good place, but I actually did mine in the swamp because bauxite is also really close for creating the empty fluid tanks to package some of that rocket fuel up for my drone army. :)
I think the Blue Crater is probably the most convenient place to do it. But I think both the swamp or the west coast would be good choices too. I wouldn’t recommend what went with lol. I wanted it next to my 18GW diluted packaged fuel power plant that is in the Spire Coast to show that it only takes up a little more space. Logistically it wasn’t the best decision.
I don't know why, but I can't do compact elevators anymore. Sometimes I can't connect a splitter to any elevator that also connects to an assembler.
I am going to reinstall, I think...
Oh no! I don’t think you are alone however. I was watching a stream and they were complaining about the same thing and said it started with the ficmas update. I haven’t had any issues but I rarely attach the splitter or merger directly to the lift. Hopefully after their holiday break it gets fixed!
I don't put splitters or mergers on the top or bottom of an elevator either, doesn't look right. But I use 2 tall most everywhere.
Thanks for the reply, I thought I was going nuts!!!