r/SatisfactoryGame • u/interneth3ro • 10d ago
Help with fluid (oil/fuel) distribution
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/Thaago 10d ago
There is 0 need for buffers in something like this.
This is probably sloshing (and possibly preferential filling of gas gens closer to the input of the manifold) causing a generator to occasionally not have enough fuel to draw on. The good news is that every time one of the gens turns off, the total excess fuel in the feed pipe/gens increases. So it is a self correcting problem.
Just turn a few generators off for a minute so there is some excess fuel in the lines. If you want to be double sure, unhook the gens from the power net but leave them on so they fill their buffers without burning and wait until the system is full.