The current ratio of Oil Refineries to Heavy Oil -> Light Oil Cracking to Light Oil -> Petroleum Cracking is 25:3:21, (or 8:1:7 for smaller arrays). In the combinators, you'll want to use a value of 1,000, (instead of 100), for the current version.
Hey Katherine, i would like to say than you for this video it realy helped me! If i may ask, could you make a blueprint out of this? It would be realy helpful since it is not on your onedrive with blueprints. Thanks again!
Jesus wept! I'm a Factorio beginner and largely ignored networks, as well as pumps and combinators. And after seeing this, I feel like a caveman who just discovered the stone wheel and 10 minutes later saw a sports car. Thank you for this tutorial!
heh, amen to that, feel just the same... awesome tutorial btw, totaly agree whit others... gone into the mod world abit too fast, and my oil and gas setup are so big of a mess i have to redo it all over..
you should see my first base. it was so crap, i had to venture into new territory to start a proper factory, with bus system and all. i wish i could attach a screenshot of my started base. funny.
I was thinking just the opposite, she has complete scatter brain and should probably have a piece of paper with what she wants to go over with bullet points lol.
@@cameronhoss4039 I think you'll find the term you're looking for is - "she's a complete scatter brain". Your syntax is appalling!! The less said about the bullet points barb, the better. But then I guess you ended with "lol", so that is excusable. One mean comment, always deserves a meaner one....
@@rayzimmerman6740 I could have just said what I actually thought and said I clicked off the video mid video due to the nasty taste in my mouth from her lack of cohesiveness that was readily apparent in the video. It was very hard to watch and I have never watched a video since.
I have tried watching several posters who think they can produce tutorials, and I must say, you have the concept down pat. Love how you progress through your explanation. Also, you obey a cardinal rule which is always show what you are doing slow enough so the viewer can follow what you are selecting and where you are placing things. You also explain what NOT to do, which is vital. Keep doing this type of video. Your help is badly needed. Also, your voice is lovely and you don't put annoying music or other background sound into your video - THANK YOU! AND - you don't just assume the viewer knows how to do anything. Great point to remember. I really enjoy your tutorials. I subbed your YT channel so I could watch all your vids over and over if need be.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback! I must confess that I created my tutorials AFTER I had seen several (general gaming) ones that were extremely annoying, and ended up being seriously unhelpful. It's good to know that I'm presenting things in a useful way :-)
Jesus Christ! I'm a Factorio beginner and struggled a lot with oil refineries. But this was before ! Thousands of huge thanks for this tutorial! You're super clear, the tone and voice are perfect, even for foreigners! Thanks thanks thanks!
Nice detailed tutorial, like it a lot. As an alternative, lately I've been using power switches instead of pumps to turn the cracking plants on and off, mostly because power switches can be crafted for cheap and pumps need electric engines, which I don't build until after my cracking is done usually. It also saves the drain from an idle machine attached to the power grid.
OH my God! the best tutorial on this game so far and I have seen many! this is well explained amazing!!! actually one of the best tutorial I ever seen!!! in any game! no words to describe you are amazing!!!
Question: Could you make a video on how combinators and that part of the game works? :) It's kind of like magic to me and many others. Looks flashy, awesome, and useful but beyond a simpleton like myself to learn by oneself. >_
I just found this video. I have been search for a while for a decent oil setup video and this is the best one by far. Even though it is from a couple versions ago, it still seemed to work. This was the first time I am satisfied by the way I have my oil set up after abandoning 8 previous starts. It was always the oil that made me give up each time. Thank you!
This video is brilliant! Has all the information, explains what you need to do, shows examples of how you could do it, and ways to implement circuitry and other stuff! 7 years old, still the best video i could find after a while of confusion, that is a sub
I have 100 hours in this game just messing around. I thought I was getting an idea of how the game works. I watched this video and I feel like a total newbie again. Good lord, so much stuff to learn, and such a great tutorial. The content in this video could have taken up 5 videos at least.
Factorio really brings out the logical side of people, made me look at everyday problems from a different perspective. Thanks for the tutorial solved my problems!
I stood through every aspect of the game alone without any tutorials and still, after 575 hours ingame, I like to improve on my own behalf, finding out new ways of setting things up myself (figured out logic circuits after 300h and train signals after 400h, but my factories are really advanced, and are only getting smarter now). I wouldn't want to change that, but the oil process was really tedious. This tutorial might just be what a newcomer to factorio needs.
One of the better Factorio channels I've seen. I thought I had this game handled. Then I realized I need to start making red chips, which means I need to make plastic, which means I need to even start doing fluid works, which means I want to cry. This video is the tissue to dry my eyes. I hope.
Thank you very much for this tutorial. I built this set up in my world (0.17) and never had to touch it again. I launched a rocket for the first time and wouldn't have succeeded without the excellent plastic production from this build.
Hi Katherine. As a new player - thanks so much for these tutorials. Absolute sanity savers. Easily understood, caters to all factorio types (including newbies like me who have never seen a storage tank let alone built one) and never a wasted moment throughout the video. Just awesome.
I've been using a mod that allows me to set what specific product I want from a refinery because oil setups are way frustrating. After watching this tutorial, I'm willing to try the normal way again. Ty so much for this!
LOL! She sacrificed (her free time) to deliver us (spaghetti factory) sinners from our evil ways. She may not turn water into wine, but she does turn it into various petroleum products delivered through an auto-regulated liquid bus ... now THAT is a true miracle!
I have only been playing the game a few weeks and stumbled onto this tutorial, which i have to say all of the tutorials you have made are well thought out extremely insightful and very helpful. I really do like the layout you have made not just for the oil refineries but i love the design you made for the belts/splitters/underground belts plus the inserter's, very compact and wonderful design thank you for you help so far and for your support i'll have in the future from you other tutorials.
Really good tutorial, I think a lot of the fun of Factorio is figuring stuff out yourself but it's not as user friendly as one might hope, so this tutorial will really help me clean up the mess that is my oil/chemical production. Thanks for making it.
I came across your channel last night, and I'm loving your tutorial videos. Thank you! Oil always gives me a headache, but now I feel like I can move on and let other things give me headaches instead :D
Holy shit. When I saw this is going to be a 39 minutes video I said to myself "Look at the first 3 minutes, then randomly click forward to a few sections." but now I'm sitting here after watching the whole video in one run without DARING to move my mouse anywhere as it was just fascinating. Thumbs up!
Thank you so much. I was so much in the dark about oil and how to set up everything properly. Then you gave me a match (liquid bus), a flash light (area design) and a fu**ing sun (pumps and logic network). Thanks.
This is a super helpful video. I've been on UA-cam for hours looking for how to set this up and nothing was working until I found your video. Many thanks! Also it's great to see a woman making a tutorial on a video game, I love to see it! Great job and thanks for doing what you're doing.
making orderly refinery was one of my biggest issues playing this game and after watching this it makes me feel a little dumb for how easily you put them in order. Thank you very much for the help! looking forward to more videos from you.
Don't feel bad -- we were ALL at that beginner point at some time. It took me several playthroughs and reading on the forums, and watching videos to develop an oil setup that I really liked and which worked for me!
Thanks, this will help, my group is very new to factorio, we are just now getting to the age where we need oil(oil>batteries>blue potion) and oil is by far the hardest thing we've run into
coming back to factorio, it's all so complicated! You've made everything so straightforward and I wish I didn't have to use tutorials but its no issue when I get to hear about your cats and their antics, Cheers KoS!!!
i like that you go step by step and you go slow so it is easy to follow and even beginners can learn i do know a fair amount but oil was always a tricky one
Hello KatherineOfSky Thanks for this great tutorial. I learned quite a lot today from you, not only how to Setup a better oil production, but how to use those combinators too. I always wondered hoe they work, but i was lazy to search for it, but now i know how it works :).Btw. you have a nice and clear voice. I had no issues to understand you, even as a foreigner.
I, personally, prefer to adhere to KISS principle and keep cracking locked to the "is there more of crackable oil than the oil I can get in result?" condition. Works for me. I was quite fascinated, however, by the placement and the 100 units condition, since I didn't know those. Anyway, thatnk you for the tutorial and that wonderful Steam guide that introduced the whole idea of main bus to me.
Brilliant tutorial, probably the best I've ever seen! I finally understand how the circuit connections work, and how to actually use a main bus for oil!
There's so much more in this guide than just oil refining! I learned a lot thank you. I had to adjust the numbers slightly due to some updates by the looks of it but I got the combinators working as you described.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, the hours I have just wasted watching videos and trawling the web for a “simple” tutorial you would not believe, I appreciate the other content creators but sometimes my simple brain just doesn’t understand them.
This hurts my head... not gonna lie. I'm still so new to this game that I'm overwhelmed. BUT I'LL FIGURE IT OUT! I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this video multiple times. Thanks for this!
Oil is a big learning curve in the game. I'd advise just pausing the video and replicating the setups in your game. That might make it easier to organize :-)
I just discovered this game 2 days ago and... jesus.... there's so much things to get done but don't know how or why and this video is the answer to almost everything. Thank YOU!!!
Pedantically, it's slightly better to set the Pump condition to: Work IF [Blue Square] > 1, instead of to = 2, because you might accidentally, perhaps tens of hours later, add more [Blue Square] value to your base-wide Red Wire for another purpose entirely, having forgotten about your earlier usage. Either way, it'll screw things up, but > 1 will do somewhat less harm. Also consider multi-player. Ideally everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and all keep track of which signals are already being used. However, some multiplayer games take place in the real world, rather than in an ideal world.
I love your tutorials, they are easy to understand. I think it may be harder to follow what you are doing if we have not tempered with oil and understood it at the basic point; in which case I did. Thank you.
I was having my big fat brain out the other day and did some calculation. I was thinking... in there must be somewhere. So i check out... What is the fastest producing unit of anything. Sulfuric acid. So i calculated would the power draw increase or decrease if i put production (3) modules in the sulfuric acid production. And the break point was actually as high as 0.6 average oil drils. For Sulfur and Plastic production (they are very similar) it was somewhere in the 0.3 region. For refining and cracking (about the same for all) it was in the 0.15 or something region. And that punpjacks all with out speed modules. So actually having production modules in the oil industry actually reduces the power constraints in total. Also intresting. Production-modules makes everything slower, so one might imagine that one would need more refinearies and so on. Productivity 3 with 2 modules give a net speed reduction of 10%. So if one have the acid production it will produce 10% less. But the sulfur production will produce 10% less, but throw the end production (via the acid plant) be 20% more productive, that makes it a net effect that the end result is actually 10% more production. For the Refining the and cracking the plants will produce about 10% less, but that is on the productivity of both acid and sulfur production the net result is actually 30% more. So one can actually cut down on the number of refining and cracking plants, and still produce more acid. Actually cuting down from 4 refining plats to 3 with productivitymodules will produce a tad more accid. For plastic the result is about the same, but the difference is just 10% in this level. The reason it works is because one will probably never use efficiency modules at the oil plant. For green circut it really don´t give the same kind of result. Even thow the green circut have high trhowput, if one use efficiency modules at the smelters and miners the reduced power is very little. But for blue circut it actually do make sence. Its souch a huge amount of components going into them, Even tho the time is quite long. The time for the prior production is a bit longer. The diffrance needs to be greater than 1:3 to get a gain. For blue circuts its 15:48, that is 1:3.1 (of cause with no efficiency modules). but ad smelting, acid and plastic to that, the diffrance is more like 1:6 or something like that.
Very long video for what I wanted, but it was very detailed, and I also learned about circuit usage as well. So great video thank you. I learned a lot of tricks I will be attempting to elaborate on to fit my play style.
Katherine, thank you for making these videos. And for your guide on Steam. Great info and nicely presented. I only have ~80hrs in game (haven't even made blue science packs yet, yikes), and this info will definitely help me for the next 80+! You rock! :)
lol, I started this video, started working on mine, skipped around the video and finally finished, ran into this issue, so skipped back through to see if she mentioned it, didn't find it. Your comment saved me.
Goodness gracious. I just made my first pumpjack and refinery and was very confused about what was going on, so I came to look up some videos on the topic. You seem to have incredible knowledge of the game and go really in depth about it, but a ton of the things you talked about in this video are things I haven't gotten to yet (researched, but not tried). Trains? Circuit networks? Tanks? This is getting over my head really quickly! All I wanted to know was how to get something out of a pumpjack turned into a useful product, but it looks like I have a ton of stuff still to learn before I can do that.
23:40 the sulfuric acid line did not get connected to your base with pipe-to-ground. On a serious note, I've been following this step-by-step, and I sincerely appreciate you sharing your approach. I'm decent with busses for materials, but when it comes to oil, it normally ends up looking like a hot mess! Thank you for helping me!
I just finished my first playthrough, and the endgame was madness! Like using a bucket to prevent the sinking of the Titanic, lol. Building that rocket took forever. And now I'm going to watch your videos to see how a pro does it :) Edit: Holy crap, I didn't know you could actually program these things!
I highly recommend my Belt Diva series then! I reach production levels to produce a rocket every minute (approximately) :-) Enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/2iYfayRB9yw/v-deo.html
Hahaha! I have a single player series, a multiplayer seriess also on the channel, do a second MP map when I stream with Nilaus, and do MMO events every few weeks :-) (And I host two community maps each week via my Discord). Yes... you could say I still play Factorio ;-)
Excellent!! Very clear and easily understandable. You covered several difficult topics, and really made it easy to grasp. Thank you, you have earned another sub!
Oh my Goodness, I'm just discovered your Channel today. Your tutorials are really good. Your way, the speed, the voice, perfect 10/10. For sure I'm a new subscriber of your channel.
A bit late on the video but... that was amazing, just started playing factorio now and your videos are an excellent source of information and learning knowledge, thank you for your time and congratulations, you made a product you should be proud of.
One thing i noticed, is the lack of small pumps, small pumps are the best way to move fluids to/from storage tanks and keep the line charged as max as possible and storage tanks as empty as possible. Also if you put small pumps between multiple storage tanks all pumping to the last tank that tank will be filled first rather then all fill roughly at the same time. Making a true "buffer" that will empty down to 0 instead of sitting at around 100 and a line charge of < 0.1 taking forever for items to get enough fluids to make products
Actually, small pumps limit throughput on the line, since they pump less volume than the max allowed for the pipe. The only reason for the 100 unit buffer in the petroleum tank is so that the pumps split he fluid evenly between plastic production and sulfur. If there is NO buffer in the tank, it will drain unevenly, favoring one production over another. The time it takes for the fluids to fill the line is entirely dependent on your refinery capacity and crude delivery. Putting small pumps in is not going to make production more efficient ... indeed, it will hinder fluid movement on filled lines.
Katherine, your layouts are wonderful and have given me some ideas for my next map :) I love the term "bus" which is very apt; and also loved how you interleaved joined your pipes coming out of the factories. Happy New Year!
Fantastic tutorial, easy to follow, very nice tips, lot of things started to make sense after viewing this. I managed to build this setup step by step, with pausing the video of course, since I am way slower then Katherine :)
Thank you so much for this video! I love your clean, concise style. And you've also casually taught me a couple of Factorio lifehacks while going through the motions of this vid, so thanks! Also, nice closing out of the vid. Love~!
The current ratio of Oil Refineries to Heavy Oil -> Light Oil Cracking to Light Oil -> Petroleum Cracking is 25:3:21, (or 8:1:7 for smaller arrays). In the combinators, you'll want to use a value of 1,000, (instead of 100), for the current version.
I like your dedication to update a 2 year old video. That's cool.
Thanks for the update, appreciated! I've learned so much from your video's :)
do you use a mod for the 1 tile pump or is that the old version of the game?
Older version of the game.
Hey Katherine, i would like to say than you for this video it realy helped me! If i may ask, could you make a blueprint out of this? It would be realy helpful since it is not on your onedrive with blueprints.
Thanks again!
Jesus wept!
I'm a Factorio beginner and largely ignored networks, as well as pumps and combinators.
And after seeing this, I feel like a caveman who just discovered the stone wheel and 10 minutes later saw a sports car.
Thank you for this tutorial!
Glad to have helped! :-)
heh, amen to that, feel just the same... awesome tutorial btw, totaly agree whit others... gone into the mod world abit too fast, and my oil and gas setup are so big of a mess i have to redo it all over..
Kristian -- thanks! I find that once you learn how to organize the fluids, the game becomes MUCH better and more fun!
you should see my first base. it was so crap, i had to venture into new territory to start a proper factory, with bus system and all. i wish i could attach a screenshot of my started base. funny.
Exactly how I feel....
There should be more teachers in the world like you , your manner and tone are excellent. Your students are lucky to have you.
Thank you for the kind words :-)
Totally Agree! Ive tried to find other oil help but youre the best!!! ...... Xterm is pretty good too ;)
I was thinking just the opposite, she has complete scatter brain and should probably have a piece of paper with what she wants to go over with bullet points lol.
@@cameronhoss4039 I think you'll find the term you're looking for is - "she's a complete scatter brain". Your syntax is appalling!! The less said about the bullet points barb, the better. But then I guess you ended with "lol", so that is excusable.
One mean comment, always deserves a meaner one....
@@rayzimmerman6740 I could have just said what I actually thought and said I clicked off the video mid video due to the nasty taste in my mouth from her lack of cohesiveness that was readily apparent in the video. It was very hard to watch and I have never watched a video since.
I have tried watching several posters who think they can produce tutorials, and I must say, you have the concept down pat. Love how you progress through your explanation. Also, you obey a cardinal rule which is always show what you are doing slow enough so the viewer can follow what you are selecting and where you are placing things. You also explain what NOT to do, which is vital. Keep doing this type of video. Your help is badly needed. Also, your voice is lovely and you don't put annoying music or other background sound into your video - THANK YOU! AND - you don't just assume the viewer knows how to do anything. Great point to remember. I really enjoy your tutorials. I subbed your YT channel so I could watch all your vids over and over if need be.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback! I must confess that I created my tutorials AFTER I had seen several (general gaming) ones that were extremely annoying, and ended up being seriously unhelpful. It's good to know that I'm presenting things in a useful way :-)
Jesus Christ! I'm a Factorio beginner and struggled a lot with oil refineries. But this was before ! Thousands of huge thanks for this tutorial! You're super clear, the tone and voice are perfect, even for foreigners! Thanks thanks thanks!
Nice detailed tutorial, like it a lot. As an alternative, lately I've been using power switches instead of pumps to turn the cracking plants on and off, mostly because power switches can be crafted for cheap and pumps need electric engines, which I don't build until after my cracking is done usually. It also saves the drain from an idle machine attached to the power grid.
That's a great alternative!
The power switches let you control beacons, too.
Thanks for the guide I was struggling a lot, just started playing factorio and it’s cool you’re still making updates to your 5 year old video😊
OH my God! the best tutorial on this game so far and I have seen many! this is well explained amazing!!! actually one of the best tutorial I ever seen!!! in any game! no words to describe you are amazing!!!
Aww! Thanks so much for the kind words - it means a lot to me! Glad you found the video useful. Have fun with your game!
The Pastmaster from the forum. Thanks a lot for the video. ^_^ Great help. :D
Heya Pastmaster! Glad to help :-)
Question: Could you make a video on how combinators and that part of the game works? :) It's kind of like magic to me and many others. Looks flashy, awesome, and useful but beyond a simpleton like myself to learn by oneself. >_
He's right you know.
extra thanks for putting the playlist link in the description and saving people a few more actions. truly the spirit of efficiency lies within you.
I just found this video. I have been search for a while for a decent oil setup video and this is the best one by far. Even though it is from a couple versions ago, it still seemed to work. This was the first time I am satisfied by the way I have my oil set up after abandoning 8 previous starts. It was always the oil that made me give up each time. Thank you!
Have fun playing!
This video is brilliant! Has all the information, explains what you need to do, shows examples of how you could do it, and ways to implement circuitry and other stuff! 7 years old, still the best video i could find after a while of confusion, that is a sub
Welcome!
I have 100 hours in this game just messing around. I thought I was getting an idea of how the game works. I watched this video and I feel like a total newbie again. Good lord, so much stuff to learn, and such a great tutorial. The content in this video could have taken up 5 videos at least.
Factorio really brings out the logical side of people, made me look at everyday problems from a different perspective. Thanks for the tutorial solved my problems!
I love how you plan everything in your base, and the pipe management is absolutely amazing :D Thanks for teaching me how to do proper oil refining.
Have fun!
Youuuuuu.... are an artist, and this game is your canvas.
Aww, thanks!
I stood through every aspect of the game alone without any tutorials and still, after 575 hours ingame, I like to improve on my own behalf, finding out new ways of setting things up myself (figured out logic circuits after 300h and train signals after 400h, but my factories are really advanced, and are only getting smarter now). I wouldn't want to change that, but the oil process was really tedious. This tutorial might just be what a newcomer to factorio needs.
btw around the 29:00 I finally understood how combinators work :) good explanation
Glad I could help :-)
One of the better Factorio channels I've seen. I thought I had this game handled. Then I realized I need to start making red chips, which means I need to make plastic, which means I need to even start doing fluid works, which means I want to cry. This video is the tissue to dry my eyes. I hope.
Pretty cool conection of the pipes with the refinery helps to make the setup more expansive using blueprints later too.
Thank you very much for this tutorial. I built this set up in my world (0.17) and never had to touch it again. I launched a rocket for the first time and wouldn't have succeeded without the excellent plastic production from this build.
Woohoo! Congrats on the rocket launch! :D
your Factorio tutorials are just pure gold! Thanks for your tremendous work and solving out many spaghetti issues :)
Thank you!
Shit, I've been playing for years and I still learned a few things. Articulate and knowledgeable tutorial. Subscribed
Thanks! Glad it was helpful! :-)
Hi Katherine. As a new player - thanks so much for these tutorials. Absolute sanity savers. Easily understood, caters to all factorio types (including newbies like me who have never seen a storage tank let alone built one) and never a wasted moment throughout the video. Just awesome.
Thanks so much Andrew! Glad you are finding the videos helpful!
I've been using a mod that allows me to set what specific product I want from a refinery because oil setups are way frustrating. After watching this tutorial, I'm willing to try the normal way again. Ty so much for this!
you are the jesus of factorio, because you keep saving everyone
ROFL!
word!
LOL! She sacrificed (her free time) to deliver us (spaghetti factory) sinners from our evil ways. She may not turn water into wine, but she does turn it into various petroleum products delivered through an auto-regulated liquid bus ... now THAT is a true miracle!
I have only been playing the game a few weeks and stumbled onto this tutorial, which i have to say all of the tutorials you have made are well thought out extremely insightful and very helpful. I really do like the layout you have made not just for the oil refineries but i love the design you made for the belts/splitters/underground belts plus the inserter's, very compact and wonderful design thank you for you help so far and for your support i'll have in the future from you other tutorials.
Thanks so much for the kind words! Glad the vids are helpful :-)
Really good tutorial, I think a lot of the fun of Factorio is figuring stuff out yourself but it's not as user friendly as one might hope, so this tutorial will really help me clean up the mess that is my oil/chemical production. Thanks for making it.
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful :-)
These are genuinely some of the best (if not THE best) tutorials I have ever seen, thanks!
Thanks so much!
This game blows my mind more and more the more I look into it.
It's pretty great!
I was genuinely stuck with oil processing, this is a great and simple explanation of the entire thing, thanks!
After many years, I am returned to learn from one of the best.
I'm new to Factorio. I bought it just a few days ago. Seeing you so effortlessly build this was awesome! haha.
Thanks! Have fun with the game! :-)
I came across your channel last night, and I'm loving your tutorial videos. Thank you! Oil always gives me a headache, but now I feel like I can move on and let other things give me headaches instead :D
Haha! Well said! I'm so glad the tutorial was useful for you! :-)
Holy shit. When I saw this is going to be a 39 minutes video I said to myself "Look at the first 3 minutes, then randomly click forward to a few sections." but now I'm sitting here after watching the whole video in one run without DARING to move my mouse anywhere as it was just fascinating. Thumbs up!
Hi Tarik! I try to keep tutorials as brief as possible, but give all the needed info. I'm glad you liked it!
Thank you so much. I was so much in the dark about oil and how to set up everything properly.
Then you gave me a match (liquid bus), a flash light (area design) and a fu**ing sun (pumps and logic network).
Thanks.
Thank you for the video, the light oil cracking is a fantastic way to set it up, I adopted that for my own factories.
Glad to be of help! :-)
This is a super helpful video. I've been on UA-cam for hours looking for how to set this up and nothing was working until I found your video. Many thanks! Also it's great to see a woman making a tutorial on a video game, I love to see it! Great job and thanks for doing what you're doing.
Thanks! Glad you found the video helpful!
making orderly refinery was one of my biggest issues playing this game and after watching this it makes me feel a little dumb for how easily you put them in order. Thank you very much for the help! looking forward to more videos from you.
Don't feel bad -- we were ALL at that beginner point at some time. It took me several playthroughs and reading on the forums, and watching videos to develop an oil setup that I really liked and which worked for me!
welp watching your tutorial videos defiantly have helped me construct better productions lines than i did before so thank you very much!
Thanks! So glad I could help! :-)
Thanks, this will help, my group is very new to factorio, we are just now getting to the age where we need oil(oil>batteries>blue potion) and oil is by far the hardest thing we've run into
Yeah, Oil has a steep learning curve. Glad you found the video useful!
I started watching your videos yesterday, and I totally regret not starting before, this is some good videos you got.
Thanks so much! Enjoy!
Just started with the game and in searching out tutorials on youtube I have found yours to be the best of the lot. Excellent job.
It´s so satisfying seeing you bild this because the spacing fits so perfect
Thanks!
the best explanation of oil processing for factorio I have seen, wish I had seen this earlier
Thanks so much for the kind compliment!
coming back to factorio, it's all so complicated! You've made everything so straightforward and I wish I didn't have to use tutorials but its no issue when I get to hear about your cats and their antics, Cheers KoS!!!
:D
i like that you go step by step and you go slow so it is easy to follow and even beginners can learn i do know a fair amount but oil was always a tricky one
Thanks! Glad to help!
what is funny i was making iron pipes while watching switched back to my game and my iron deposit was almost gone now i have to train in iron :p
Hello KatherineOfSky Thanks for this great tutorial. I learned quite a lot today from you, not only how to Setup a better oil production, but how to use those combinators too. I always wondered hoe they work, but i was lazy to search for it, but now i know how it works :).Btw. you have a nice and clear voice. I had no issues to understand you, even as a foreigner.
Thanks so much! Glad to help!
min 21:46 its the moment i said im such a noob look at what she build and i barely got turrets and i was feeling proud of myself ! you got a new sub.
Thanks! :-)
21:22 OMG THANK YOU. I always used filter inserters for this but this is wayyyyy more efficient. THANK YOU!
You are very welcome!
I, personally, prefer to adhere to KISS principle and keep cracking locked to the "is there more of crackable oil than the oil I can get in result?" condition. Works for me. I was quite fascinated, however, by the placement and the 100 units condition, since I didn't know those.
Anyway, thatnk you for the tutorial and that wonderful Steam guide that introduced the whole idea of main bus to me.
This is still the best factorio tutorial channel even now!👍👍
Brilliant tutorial, probably the best I've ever seen! I finally understand how the circuit connections work, and how to actually use a main bus for oil!
Picked up facotio recently and found this tutorial to be very helpful in an area I was having difficulty with. thanks a bunch
You're very welcome! :-)
There's so much more in this guide than just oil refining! I learned a lot thank you. I had to adjust the numbers slightly due to some updates by the looks of it but I got the combinators working as you described.
Yes, the number for splitting of oil should be 1000 instead of 100. (All oil values were multiplied by 10 in the 0.15 update). Glad it worked for you!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, the hours I have just wasted watching videos and trawling the web for a “simple” tutorial you would not believe, I appreciate the other content creators but sometimes my simple brain just doesn’t understand them.
Thank you KatheineOfSky for pointing me to your tutorial here. I don't want another long game to be ruined because I fumbled my Oil set up ;)
You are very welcome! I hope it brings you more enjoyment in the game! :-)
SUPER tutorial! Thank you so much for walking through it step by step and explaining not only the process but the thinking behind it!
You are a Factorio God! I bow to your skills!
This hurts my head... not gonna lie. I'm still so new to this game that I'm overwhelmed. BUT I'LL FIGURE IT OUT! I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this video multiple times. Thanks for this!
Oil is a big learning curve in the game. I'd advise just pausing the video and replicating the setups in your game. That might make it easier to organize :-)
I come back to this video on every new save. Hard to believe it's 7 years old now.
I just discovered this game 2 days ago and... jesus.... there's so much things to get done but don't know how or why and this video is the answer to almost everything. Thank YOU!!!
So glad you found it helpful!
Pedantically, it's slightly better to set the Pump condition to:
Work IF [Blue Square] > 1, instead of to = 2, because you might accidentally, perhaps tens of hours later, add more [Blue Square] value to your base-wide Red Wire for another purpose entirely, having forgotten about your earlier usage.
Either way, it'll screw things up, but > 1 will do somewhat less harm.
Also consider multi-player. Ideally everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and all keep track of which signals are already being used. However, some multiplayer games take place in the real world, rather than in an ideal world.
I'm a newbie. I come here for tips about oil refining, and i also learned how to use combinators :)
Very good tutorial, thank you
Glad it was helpful! :-)
I love your tutorials, they are easy to understand. I think it may be harder to follow what you are doing if we have not tempered with oil and understood it at the basic point; in which case I did. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I was having my big fat brain out the other day and did some calculation.
I was thinking... in there must be somewhere. So i check out... What is the fastest producing unit of anything. Sulfuric acid.
So i calculated would the power draw increase or decrease if i put production (3) modules in the sulfuric acid production. And the break point was actually as high as 0.6 average oil drils.
For Sulfur and Plastic production (they are very similar) it was somewhere in the 0.3 region. For refining and cracking (about the same for all) it was in the 0.15 or something region. And that punpjacks all with out speed modules.
So actually having production modules in the oil industry actually reduces the power constraints in total.
Also intresting. Production-modules makes everything slower, so one might imagine that one would need more refinearies and so on. Productivity 3 with 2 modules give a net speed reduction of 10%. So if one have the acid production it will produce 10% less. But the sulfur production will produce 10% less, but throw the end production (via the acid plant) be 20% more productive, that makes it a net effect that the end result is actually 10% more production.
For the Refining the and cracking the plants will produce about 10% less, but that is on the productivity of both acid and sulfur production the net result is actually 30% more. So one can actually cut down on the number of refining and cracking plants, and still produce more acid. Actually cuting down from 4 refining plats to 3 with productivitymodules will produce a tad more accid.
For plastic the result is about the same, but the difference is just 10% in this level.
The reason it works is because one will probably never use efficiency modules at the oil plant.
For green circut it really don´t give the same kind of result. Even thow the green circut have high trhowput, if one use efficiency modules at the smelters and miners the reduced power is very little.
But for blue circut it actually do make sence. Its souch a huge amount of components going into them, Even tho the time is quite long. The time for the prior production is a bit longer. The diffrance needs to be greater than 1:3 to get a gain. For blue circuts its 15:48, that is 1:3.1 (of cause with no efficiency modules). but ad smelting, acid and plastic to that, the diffrance is more like 1:6 or something like that.
wow. Math :P
Very long video for what I wanted, but it was very detailed, and I also learned about circuit usage as well. So great video thank you. I learned a lot of tricks I will be attempting to elaborate on to fit my play style.
Glad you found it useful!
You answered every question I had! After getting my answers i kinda just kept watching. Your Voice is very calming. Greetings from switzerland :)
Katherine, thank you for making these videos. And for your guide on Steam. Great info and nicely presented. I only have ~80hrs in game (haven't even made blue science packs yet, yikes), and this info will definitely help me for the next 80+! You rock! :)
Glad you find it useful! :-)
11:57 The 1 reason i came to look this up
lol, I started this video, started working on mine, skipped around the video and finally finished, ran into this issue, so skipped back through to see if she mentioned it, didn't find it. Your comment saved me.
Goodness gracious. I just made my first pumpjack and refinery and was very confused about what was going on, so I came to look up some videos on the topic. You seem to have incredible knowledge of the game and go really in depth about it, but a ton of the things you talked about in this video are things I haven't gotten to yet (researched, but not tried). Trains? Circuit networks? Tanks? This is getting over my head really quickly! All I wanted to know was how to get something out of a pumpjack turned into a useful product, but it looks like I have a ton of stuff still to learn before I can do that.
Indeed, Factorio has much to learn within it! Enjoy the experience :-)
You're just a marvel of engineering. I came here to learn how oil goes from crude to product, and now my head hurts lol
In a good way... I hope? :-)
@@KatherineOfSky At first no lol, but I'm getting it now :)
23:40 the sulfuric acid line did not get connected to your base with pipe-to-ground.
On a serious note, I've been following this step-by-step, and I sincerely appreciate you sharing your approach. I'm decent with busses for materials, but when it comes to oil, it normally ends up looking like a hot mess! Thank you for helping me!
You are very welcome! Glad it was useful!
OMG, I always hated oil production, now I love both you and it ;) Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial!
I'm so glad the video was helpful!!!
You're my hero, was feeling a little intimidated by the step up to oil but you explained it all very well and gave great layouts!
Many thank you's ^_^
You are very welcome! Glad to help! :-)
fml wish i saw this before i built my crappy oil industry, i got to tear alot of stuff down and rebuild, best tutorial ever thank you.
i still come here when ever im building an oil setup
For some reason, fluids in factorio always seemed to be complicated. I came back a few times on this video and now they are not. Thanks for this :)
I just finished my first playthrough, and the endgame was madness! Like using a bucket to prevent the sinking of the Titanic, lol. Building that rocket took forever. And now I'm going to watch your videos to see how a pro does it :)
Edit: Holy crap, I didn't know you could actually program these things!
I highly recommend my Belt Diva series then! I reach production levels to produce a rocket every minute (approximately) :-) Enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/2iYfayRB9yw/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to make this :) helpful beyond measure.
You're very welcome! :-)
KatherineOfSky that was a super fast reply! Do you still play factorio? Would be great to play sometime
Hahaha! I have a single player series, a multiplayer seriess also on the channel, do a second MP map when I stream with Nilaus, and do MMO events every few weeks :-) (And I host two community maps each week via my Discord). Yes... you could say I still play Factorio ;-)
KatherineOfSky just occasionally I see. Maybe you should play more often ;)
I might have to! lol
This was very informative, thanks muchly for making. Even though I have played Factorio for over 150 hours I still need to learn more.
Excellent!! Very clear and easily understandable. You covered several difficult topics, and really made it easy to grasp. Thank you, you have earned another sub!
Oh my Goodness, I'm just discovered your Channel today. Your tutorials are really good. Your way, the speed, the voice, perfect 10/10.
For sure I'm a new subscriber of your channel.
Welcome!
A bit late on the video but... that was amazing, just started playing factorio now and your videos are an excellent source of information and learning knowledge, thank you for your time and congratulations, you made a product you should be proud of.
Watching factorio tutorials makes me think, that my lifetime won't be enough to master this game :D
One thing i noticed, is the lack of small pumps, small pumps are the best way to move fluids to/from storage tanks and keep the line charged as max as possible and storage tanks as empty as possible. Also if you put small pumps between multiple storage tanks all pumping to the last tank that tank will be filled first rather then all fill roughly at the same time. Making a true "buffer" that will empty down to 0 instead of sitting at around 100 and a line charge of < 0.1 taking forever for items to get enough fluids to make products
Actually, small pumps limit throughput on the line, since they pump less volume than the max allowed for the pipe. The only reason for the 100 unit buffer in the petroleum tank is so that the pumps split he fluid evenly between plastic production and sulfur. If there is NO buffer in the tank, it will drain unevenly, favoring one production over another.
The time it takes for the fluids to fill the line is entirely dependent on your refinery capacity and crude delivery. Putting small pumps in is not going to make production more efficient ... indeed, it will hinder fluid movement on filled lines.
Love the video! told me exactly what I needed!. only downside was probably the compression
21:40. *I have a wall. I have a big wall around my whole base*
Katherine for PRESIDENT! Make the base great again!
This is so nice and proper, my factory looks like absolute chaos!!!
haha! I like to build neatly so it's easier to expand production later! (But trust me, my early factories were also spaghettified!)
Such a pleasure to watch! Am almost tempted to go home (am at work now) just to play this! hahahha
Thanks! You're quite thorough, and you explain the steps well.
Thanks! :-)
Katherine, your layouts are wonderful and have given me some ideas for my next map :) I love the term "bus" which is very apt; and also loved how you interleaved joined your pipes coming out of the factories. Happy New Year!
Hi Mickey! Glad to be of help! A Happy New Year to you too!
Really enjoyed this video. Would love a tutorial of how you get your buses all set up. Thanks a bunch
Thanks! I'll add it to my list!
omg finaly a tutorial that shows a good setup of oil procesing
Thanks! Glad you find it useful!
Wow, lot of good information here that I'll be putting to use when I get home. Thanks!
:-)
I watched this Video several times
You describe everything so well and its very easy to follow. Love this!!!
Thanks!
Just found your channel. This guide is well thought out, easy to grasp, and thorough. Thank you for it.
I discovered your tutorials today, and I have already learned so much! Thank you for your amazing videos!
Thanks so much!
Fantastic tutorial, easy to follow, very nice tips, lot of things started to make sense after viewing this. I managed to build this setup step by step, with pausing the video of course, since I am way slower then Katherine :)
Glad the vid was helpful!
just subscribed because your commentary is amazing and your designs are the best ive seen
Thanks so much! Welcome to the channel!
Thank you so much for this video! I love your clean, concise style. And you've also casually taught me a couple of Factorio lifehacks while going through the motions of this vid, so thanks! Also, nice closing out of the vid. Love~!