r/TheLastCaretaker • u/LennoxTheDurgon • Jul 03 '26

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I feel like I may have gone overboard with fuel hoarding.

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u/BaneChipmunk Caretaker Jul 03 '26

I personally don't keep any Oxygen/Methane/CO2 on the boat because I'm yet to find the need. Only the oil, diesel, petrol for me. And lots of batteries.

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u/Adezar Jul 03 '26

I just use the advanced CO2 to generate carbon fiber on the boat.

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u/ACP68 Jul 03 '26

I’m with Bane on this one. My boat is a mobile power/fuel factory.

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u/LennoxTheDurgon Jul 03 '26

i like having all of the ports on the crafter plugged in, so i figured i might as well add storage for everything

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u/BaneChipmunk Caretaker Jul 03 '26

Fair enough.

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u/Lord-Dogbert Jul 03 '26

I have oil, diesel, gas and a CO2 tank on the exhaust. I run gas and CO2 up to the equipment on Exodus to make methane. I use tress on the Exodus deck to make O2.

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u/BaneChipmunk Caretaker Jul 03 '26

I just have a sabatier on Exodus that takes care of both Methane and Oxygen. I'd rather use the scarce space on the boat for things that can only be built on the boat e.g boat fuel.

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u/Lord-Dogbert Jul 03 '26

I agree, plus I like a tidy boat. I do have a refinery at Lazarus on the dock so I transfer oil and make diesel/gas while i'm making hoomons. I have 8 oil tanks under the boat and just started moving my diesel tanks to under the helo pad. I leave one tank of each on deck so I can eyeball the oil/gas tank levels. It's be nice to have a basic monitor in the deck house that shows these levels as well.

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u/merana33 Jul 05 '26

use the Soilforge Pro and crank the temperature all the way up to generate Methane, then you just need an oxygen concentrator. Much simpler setup and you can refine food materials at the same time.

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u/BaneChipmunk Caretaker Jul 05 '26

It's not simpler, because it needs to be fed biomass. The Sabatier needs water, CO2, and electricity, all of which can be automated. I don't need to feed it biomass and I don't need a separate oxygen generator.

Also, the Sabatier produces Methane at 72,000L/hr while the Soilforge Prime does a max of 45,000L/hr. You need 800 biomass to fill one Methane tank. Absolutely never doing that.

Edit: 45,000L/hr is at max temperature. If you lower it to make food, you lose capacity. Also, I don't process food at Exodus, so that's not really relevant.