WHERE & HOW TO FARM Where to farm A Nauvis refinery supplied by an oil field, with chemical plants for downstream processing.
Feed crude into a refinery, select an available recipe, and route every resulting fluid to a consumer or storage. Recipe choice determines product balance; add cracking and water supply to solve a specific surplus or shortage.
Before you go Crude delivered by pipe or fluid wagon. A refinery and an available processing recipe. Pipes, water where needed, and routes for refinery products. Connect crude from the oil field to refinery input. Select an available recipe based on the products your factory needs. Pipe refinery outputs separately toward consumers or storage. Check for a product that is backing up or running short. Add chemical plants for cracking only where they address that imbalance. Connect the required water and route the resulting fluids to their intended consumers. Recheck the balance after changing recipes or adding consumers. Farming tips Avoid adding cracking capacity without identifying the surplus it should relieve. Keep fluid routes distinct and easy to trace when diagnosing a stalled refinery. Repeat, collect and use Continuous while crude and output handling are available; change recipes or downstream conversion as demand shifts.
Common mistakes Allowing a refinery output to fill all available storage; make room or consume the product. Assuming recipes produce the same fluid mix; check the selected recipe. Adding cracking without its required water or target; connect inputs and use it to solve a real imbalance. When to stop or switch Stop adding refineries when crude input or product consumption is the bottleneck; improve that stage first.
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Farming route A Nauvis refinery supplied by an oil field, with chemical plants for downstream processing.
Crude delivered by pipe or fluid wagon. A refinery and an available processing recipe. Pipes, water where needed, and routes for refinery products. Rate not listed
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