Generator Gas usage

[Jaggid Edje]

I've finally gotten to the point in my game where I was able to start building all the various things that take electricity so I put a generator on my roof, filled it with gas and fired it up.

But when I googled to try to find out if the rate of gate usage goes up when you use more electricity I'm finding contradicting information. Some places say no...it is a flat rate per hour and other places caution against leaving things running that don't need to be....

Anyone help a brother out and tell me how the game works RIGHT NOW? I'm pretty sure I know the answer and that it is flat gas usage, 1 per hour that is then adjusted based on if you adjusted the slider for fuel consumption.

I just want someone to tell me "yes, you got it right" or "no, you're a knucklehead"...or I guess "yes...you got it right but you're still a knucklehead"

[Nicoliolio]

Flat rate. Tried and tested. I have mine hooked up to 8 different things and it uses the same amount as it did when I just had one fridge

[Serangel]

I'm more exactly sure what default is but it's definitely not as hungry as 1 gas per hour. It's more around 5-7 hours. It's also a flat rate, it doesn't matter what's connected, it will consume the same amount of gas. I do believe cables will only be supported so far from the generator though.

[Jaggid Edje]

Thank you both!

I'm not too concerned about the cable length limits.

When I built my house quite a while ago I intentionally left a ton of room for all of the things I figured I'd need to add over time. The industrial forge was a bit of a problem (it's so big!) but I fit everything into the house...even the forge, it just sticks out the roof. haha (actually looks okay though, like it' has a smoke stack or something)

Glad to know fuel usage will not be an issue. I made like 1000 gas already... I guess I'm set for a while.

[[BRTD]Luewen]

Generator uses 1 fuel per hour. 33 days and 8 hours with full 8 stacks of gas.

[margalus]

as others have already stated, it is a flat rate. So power your whole city. This is unlike Empyrion Galactic Survival where everything has a power usage. The more power you need, the more fuel is used. I've heard people say there is a length limit in ARK, but I've approached close to 100 lengths of straight cable and they have worked fine. I run multiple buildings from one generator.

[Jaggid Edje]

this makes me quite happy... i also switched my game from being singleplayer/non-dedicated server to having a dedicated server running on my 2nd computer, so like..fuel will get used even when i'm not playing if I forget to shut it down there.

I'm glad my 1000 gas will last me a good long time.

[Nicoliolio]

Yea I left the game for a while, came back, still had gas lol

[[BRTD]Luewen]

Originally posted by margalus:

as others have already stated, it is a flat rate. So power your whole city. This is unlike Empyrion Galactic Survival where everything has a power usage. The more power you need, the more fuel is used. I've heard people say there is a length limit in ARK, but I've approached close to 100 lengths of straight cable and they have worked fine. I run multiple buildings from one generator.

I believe there is meaningfull cable limit only on wind turbines. Normal cables can go quite far away.

[Floridaman]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

I've finally gotten to the point in my game where I was able to start building all the various things that take electricity so I put a generator on my roof, filled it with gas and fired it up.

But when I googled to try to find out if the rate of gate usage goes up when you use more electricity I'm finding contradicting information. Some places say no...it is a flat rate per hour and other places caution against leaving things running that don't need to be....

Anyone help a brother out and tell me how the game works RIGHT NOW? I'm pretty sure I know the answer and that it is flat gas usage, 1 per hour that is then adjusted based on if you adjusted the slider for fuel consumption.

I just want someone to tell me "yes, you got it right" or "no, you're a knucklehead"...or I guess "yes...you got it right but you're still a knucklehead"

Man I dont know, I got one gen 500 fuel is 20 days another gen at another base has 500 fuel and lasts seven days, both just powering one fridge so nothing is adding up.

[🦊 Hermit]

Bear in mind that some build mods like Structures Plus/Super Structures extend the length of time a single unit of gas will burn for. Perhaps one generator is modded and one is vanilla?