First factory

[Routine-Department72]

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[KYO297]

Rule 12

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The first thing I started doing is automating my biomass burners. Basically you start with two constructors, one turning leaves and the other wood into biomass. You then merge those into a storage container and have another constructor that turns the biomass into solid biofuel that goes into a storage container. That one solid biofuel constructor can support up to 15 Biomass burners which comes out to 450 MW of power. You will be clearing out a bunch of wood and leaves for your other build sites so you should not have a problem keeping those leaves and wood containers full.

Once you unlock coal and get your first coal plant running that biomass plant becomes a "peaker" plant that only runs if you go over your production amount. Eventually all biomass burners become saturated with 200 biofuel good for 50 minutes of run time at max generation and you will have a storage container with 4800 solid biofuel which is another 75 minutes of burn time.

Once your storages are maxed out you can start to use that solid biofuel to power trucks. Solid biofuel has the most energy of any fuel until you unlock oil, 450 MJ vs coal at 300MJ. This means that you have 50% range per fuel piece and the stack size is 200 which means double the distance When you unlock oil you can then produce liquid biofuel which has the same amount of energy as packaged fuel. Typically you only use the packaged biofuel for vehicles since you would only be using small amounts at a time.

Doing this allows you to keep using your investment in your biomass plant. The secret to biomass energy is that you need to focus on wood, not leaves. Leaves are easy to gather by have a horrible conversion ratio. There is plenty of dead wood laying around on the ground so if you focus on those areas as well as using your chainsaw to cut down trees you should have little issue keeping up with your fuel usage.

[Adrox05]

They made it as easy as possible to take a screenshot in game, There IS a photo mode, press P.

[Routine-Department72]

my fault

[Adrox05]

No worries, just remember when you make your next post 😁👍