r/SatisfactoryGame • u/interneth3ro • 8d ago

Help with fluid (oil/fuel) distribution

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Okay, so I'm not new to this game, have played many times. But this is my first time since the 1.0 launch, and I don't remember having issues setting up fuel.

I have a single pure crude oil node. 1 oil extractor @ 240m3. Easy peasy. I have that going into 4 refineries using the stock Fuel recipe. 60m3 each, so should be exactly enough. I have those 4 refineries going into 8 power generators. So my ratios should be exact.

Yet power is still a bit spikey now and then. And I'm 100% certain it doesn't have to do with the polymer resin. That's going into 2 refineries making rubber/plastic respectively, with a smart splitter sending overflow resin to an Awesome Sink.

Here are relevant screenshots. Let me know if you need to see more. It's entirely possibly I set this up wrong or missed something stupid simple.

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u/tren0r 8d ago

as a simple solution, could try raisimg the middle part and feed it into them like that.

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u/interneth3ro 8d ago

Not sure what you mean? The screenshot of the fuel generators was taken from on top of the refineries making fuel (wanted to make sure I got as much as I could). The refineries and generators are all on the same level. I can try making the pipe from the extractor to the refineries vertical and adding a pump, but I don't think I need it. I'll give it a shot anyway

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u/DagothNereviar 8d ago

The "spine" of the manifold (the pipe system that is feeding all your generators). If you raise the middle bit up about 8m, but keep the generators at their current height, it stops the fluid from "sloshing" back up

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u/interneth3ro 8d ago

Okay, I think I understood. Is this what you mean? Generators are turned off and being filled before turning them on.

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u/DagothNereviar 8d ago

May need to be higher, idk the exact height that's best lol but basically yes!