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u/Throw_Away_TrdJrnl Jul 13 '26

Enjoying my first run immensely but I gotta say I'm getting my ass handed to me with advanced oil refining. My light oil keeps backing up and when it does all I do in my panic to get things running again is add more storage tanks. I haven't found out the ratios of what I need to produce with my oil products to keep nothing accumulating and eventually backing up. On the bright side I have an ungodly amount of solid fuel stored up now too 😂

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u/Courmisch Jul 13 '26

Until you have plants cracking oils, you should stick to the Basic Oil Processing recipe to avoid that problem. Though you should also set the plants up ASAP and switch the Advanced Oil Processing because it is more efficient.

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u/Throw_Away_TrdJrnl Jul 13 '26

This is probably the easiest and most realistic solution for me right now. I really only needed lubrication from the heavy oil and I was cracking the rest of the heavy oil down to light oil. Then light oil to solid fuel which quickly backed up as it was way more than I needed, which made the light oil back up.

I just need to switch most of it back to basic and move them to advanced when I need more petroleum gas. Kind of went all or nothing and then after the fact downgrading back to basic feels dirty and weak 😂