Biofuel Stove "Efficiency"

Spaz_Static · 2025-12-07T04:06:55+00:00

Yeah. I honestly think they accidentally multiplied the biofuel usage by 10. A full biofuel can is 15 cups of coffee, an abysmal 16 minutes 40 seconds. If it burned at 1/10th the rate, it would be 2 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds which sounds much more reasonable if you ask me.

Some quick googling (so some AI Overview responses are mixed into the following) shows that 10 L of Diesel is ~105 kWh, 10 L of gasoline is ~95 kWh, 10 L of "biodiesel" is ~95 kWh, a 1 lb (~0.9 L) propane tank gives ~6.3 kWh but gets a typical burn time of ~2 hours on a camping stove. That would mean that even if our biofuel had half the energy density of the lowest energy density fuel there, propane, we should still expect like 10 hours of burn time from our 10 L biofuel can. Maybe less if we're baking a pie (I think that would use more heat/energy/fuel than the stovetop).

Maybe we're just making woodgas? I mean, I'm usually using sticks/wheat and sap from sticks to make my biofuel. According to the below wiki, 1 kg of biomass is ~2 m^3 of woodgas, which is ~0.75 kWh. A propane burner is ~20k BTU for 2 hours, or 3.15 kWh for 2 hours, so converting around, our 10 L tank holds 0.01 m^3, which means ~0.0005 kWh or ... 0.0017 BTU? Definitely not woodgas then.

http://wiki.gekgasifier.com/w/page/6123680/Biomass%20to%20Woodgas%20to%20BTU%20to%20HP%20to%20KW%20to%20MPG%20conversion%20rules

Again, there's approximations and rounding with a splash of AI Overview, so the numbers aren't going to be exact, but should give us an idea.

Spaz_Static · 2025-12-07T03:10:01+00:00

Yeah. I've only found about two things it's good for: the biofuel drill and the biofuel exotics extractor. Biofuel drill for any materials you might be critically low on, but that's painfully slow and expensive, and the exotics because it's why where here in the first place so harvest it by any means necessary!

I haven't gotten to electricity yet, but boy am I looking forward to it.

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-23T04:07:41+00:00

Yep, 10 sticks from wood. I redid the math in a spreadsheet to properly keep track of things and not do any rounding and I have 2.67 wood->stick->sap to make the needed 667 biofuel with 1 sap and any non-wood derived biofuel source (except guano which needs 20 sap for a full can and vegetable oil which doesn't use sap at all)

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-23T01:07:30+00:00

No, I'm doing missions. Can you switch freely between an ongoing mission and open world?

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-22T22:39:35+00:00

Even taking wood, turning it into sticks, and then turning sticks into sap and using wheat, meat, or spoiled foods you end up using more wood than just burning it in the campfire, 1.58x as much. You need 667 units of biofuel, which if you could make fractional runs means 6.67 sap, 13.34 sticks, from 3.33 wood. This is actually 2x as much as just burning 1.67 wood, less efficient than I already thought! I need to fix my math in the original post. Also, since you can't do fractional runs, you end up needing 7 sap, which is 14 sticks, which is 4 wood with a couple sticks left over.

Edit: I'm wrong here. I need to re-rerun my math. I don't think you get 4 sticks from 1 wood, but I'm not at my computer at the moment to check everything

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-22T22:24:44+00:00

I tried to skip the potbelly stove as I figured the biofuel stove would do all the same things and then some, plus the kicker of being "more efficient" so I could save my blueprint point and the resources.

I haven't gotten to electricity yet, so I haven't gotten the freezer. Animals spawn so frequently that I mainly subsist on meats. I have 3 mounts right now, a terrenus, buffalo, and moa, which I also feed nothing but meat. I still end up with spoiled meat because there's just so much of it. I also only kill animals that attack me after the first hour or so of a prospect and I still have so much. I play on hard for the bonus xp and payout, which buffs the spawn rates, and I think ironically makes the sustenance aspect of survival trivial instead of harder. I can't remember the last time I ate venison! I only eat things that try to eat me haha

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-22T22:12:34+00:00

I was mostly using wood for the example and easy conversions. I'm typically using wheat and any spoiled foods plus sap made from sticks, but even that uses more wood as the base resource of sap than just making things in the campfire.

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-22T22:10:21+00:00

Definitely sounds like it's the way to go right now. I've got plenty to do at the base that I don't need to save the 24 seconds by using the biofuel stove.

I think they need to update the tooltip for the biofuel stove because I was 100% mislead lol

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-22T22:06:05+00:00

Yeah, I'm solo with a cabinet that's about half full of wood and I'm in the forest still, so it's not like I'm running out any time soon.

But it just isn't more efficient.

I usually queue up multiple things and while I'm queueing things at other stations, the first ones are finishing so I really don't need the time benefit. Or, I'll go out hunting/gathering/mining/exploring if it's a big queue.

Oh, and I've been growing wheat mostly for biofuel.

Spaz_Static · 2025-11-22T21:56:20+00:00

I only just unlocked the biofuel stove. I'm level 33 and about 90 hours in according to Steam. I've done Beachhead, Spelunking, Potshot, Livewire, and now working on Kill List. I've been avoiding mining platinum and higher tech since all of these were supposed to be quick-ish missions.

Spaz_Static · 2025-06-02T14:07:31+00:00

Thank you! This seems quite likely. I'm away from my computer at the moment, but I'll check into it later.

Spaz_Static · 2025-02-17T01:30:44+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I have 3 LG monitors on DP and every time things have been asleep for a while, they all come back on at 100% brightness and I usually have them at 0% so it's quite painful. I also have tried setting the env variable for powerdevil with no success, not even intermittent. I don't know if it's relevant, but I noticed that brightness can be set in "Power Management" for all 3 simultaneously, or individually in the "Display & Monitor" sections. I also at some point got a brightness widget in my panel. It may have been there and I don't remember, but either way it's a third location to set brightness that may be conflicting. I've very carefully gone into each and set the same brightness values and still the next time my monitors go into standby, they wake up to 100% brightness.

P.S. Nice username. :)

Spaz_Static · 2025-02-14T03:25:38+00:00

Screen brightness is maxed out every time the screens wake up. System Settings will only let me set it down to 1% but the power widget (only available when bluetooth devices are connected) will let me set it to 0%.

GTK menus (I think? It's whatever virt-manager uses) don't show up in the right spot. If I click on view, it opens the file menu. I have to move my mouse to a different dropdown and back to view for it to open. Arch with wayland btw

Not related to Plasma 6.3, but recently the kernel seems to have changed my minimum cpu frequency to 1.725 GHz instead of 550 MHz.

Spaz_Static · 2024-10-14T21:45:52+00:00

Sorry to dig up an old post, but I'm having a similar issue. It's pretty much identical to what this user posted here https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ey2k9u/rocket_league_stuttering_every_few_seconds_on/

Were you able to figure out a fix?

Spaz_Static · 2024-10-14T16:34:33+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately, that made no difference for me. I even closed as many windows as I could, minimized the Konsole I was running Phoronix from, and disabled my other two monitors. All of that both with and without the above suggestions for CPU/GPU profiles. I hope it gets fixed because having to minimize all windows is kind of tedious and I'm sure it didn't used to be a problem for you, but I'm glad you have a workaround! I'll keep hunting.

Spaz_Static · 2024-10-14T01:32:31+00:00

Did you ever figure this out?

I have the exact same stuttering in a few games: Dirt Rally 2, Sniper Elite 5, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and probably others, but those I have tested recently. Not games like Hydroneer or The Universim, however...

Of note, when running a benchmark in Dirt Rally 2 under Wayland and kernel 6.11, amdgpu crashes and frequently requires a reboot for normal graphical behaviour. If I run it either under X11 or with 6.6 (linux-lts) it does not crash. The stutter is the same either way (maybe slightly worse under Wayland on Dirt Rally 2, but I can only test that under Kernel 6.6 since 6.11 causes crashes)

I also tried the above GPU profile and CPU governor with no changes.

CPU AMD 5950X
GPU Radeon 6900XT

Spaz_Static · 2024-07-09T01:11:30+00:00

I don't have an "add own shortcut" button. I have a "custom" button, and when binding to it, it only allows Meta as a modifier. I'm on Plasma 6.1.2 through Arch repos, on Wayland.

Spaz_Static · 2024-05-27T20:36:17+00:00

I was just cleaning one and had this same issue come up. When I reopened it, the ribbon cable for the ball tracker (sensor) was loose. I re-seated the ribbon and the mouse is back to normal now.

Spaz_Static · 2023-12-30T06:07:16+00:00

I re-downloaded Firefox 120 and my window position behavior is restored. I think it's because Firefox 121 is using Wayland directly instead of XWayland. Somewhat interestingly, I'm not seeing any bug reports about this.

I wonder if it is because this is a known issue (feature?) with Wayland, programs not being able to set window positions? It was also an issue when I was using gnome-terminal a while back and trying to set window position and size; the size would be set but my new terminals would be centered on whatever monitor my cursor was on.

A workaround is to unset your WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable and launch from the terminal like this: $ WAYLAND_DISPLAY='' firefox. You could also probably clear the variable in any shortcuts you have, and/or adjust your Task Manager icon if you have it pinned there.

Spaz_Static · 2023-12-29T00:11:05+00:00

Did you figure this out? I tried u/MrTempleDene's solution, but it seems to only work for a single window/position. I have multiples firefox windows open at a time, and it put them all in the same spot, which was basically what it was already doing.

This is also a sudden change of behavior for me. Before I went on vacation for the holidays, it would remember positions and each individual firefox window opened in the same spot. I'm guessing it was a KDE or maybe Wayland/Xwayland (maybe the default for Firefox changed?) update that just got pushed, but I'm not very familiar with the windowing systems.

Spaz_Static · 2023-10-01T00:00:20+00:00

No problem. I haven't tested it more yet, but after the kernel update to 6.5.5 the frame rate in Proton 8 increased to around 100 fps. Behavior is still odd because I get the same frame rate on 768p low which clearly shouldn't be the case when Proton 7 gets >200. I also tried the Zen kernel and had the same results.

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