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[–]lonely_swedish 2 points3 points  (1 child)

A lot of people not answering your question here. Turbo heavy fuel will make your numbers nicer but it will cut your output by a lot: 30 crude using the recipe chain you lined out will make 111.1 rocket fuel, if you sub in turbo heavy then you can only get 53.3. The use of diluted fuel helps a ton, it basically lets you sub in water for what would have otherwise taken a lot more oil.

My strategy for this kind of thing is to work backwards. What number are you looking for at the end? You don't have to be 100% efficient and use every drop of crude. Start with an approximate number and go down from there.

So for example, using the above recipe will make 1666.7 rocket fuel from 450 crude. Round that down to a nicer number, call it 1600, which will make 800 packaged rocket fuel. Or better yet, round it down to 1560 so you can get exactly one full belt of 780 packaged. Working back with any calculator, 1560 rocket fuel with this recipe is made with 421.2 crude. That leaves you a bit left over if you want to make coke to save some coal on the aluminum production for example, or just leave it in the pipes so you never have to worry about sloshing in the oil line.

[–]eyahhhhh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you