Just unlocked crude oil

[Ninjabiscuit90]

Back again with another question,
I just unlocked crude oil research but the nearest one is fairly far at 2k meters away, this is probably one of the furthest resources so far. What do you guys do to like handle something like that distance? Because most of my resources aren't overly spread out and one just has a tractor delivering stuff but it's maybe a 500 meter drive. Is it worth setting up a delivery route for such a long distance? I was hoping the train would've been a little quicker to get but I'm not really sure how to tackle this.

[Wolfgang]

Have your Refineries close to the source of your oil. You can then either belt or truck the products to your base. Transporting liquids is something you want to do only over short distances.

[Mythrix]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Have your Refineries close to the source of your oil. You can then either belt or truck the products to your base. Transporting liquids is something you want to do only over short distances.

Not sure I agree. I piped the oil from the northwest down to my starting base in the green fields to the south, probably 2km. It was a bit tedious but it was all flat/downhill so no liquid pumping logistics and now I have a ton of oil right next to my base which has come in handy over the phases.

But yes, if the pumping is substantially uphill there are probably better ways.

[Tenzek]

Build an oil products factory on the oil. There is no need to bring everything back to one place. If you do try to build one single mega factory, you should be sure your computer can handle the lag that will eventually cause. You're almost to trains, and with trains, movement between biomes is relatively easy.

[Ninjabiscuit90]

Originally posted by Tenzek:

Build an oil products factory on the oil. There is no need to bring everything back to one place. If you do try to build one single mega factory, you should be sure your computer can handle the lag that will eventually cause. You're almost to trains, and with trains, movement between biomes is relatively easy.

Thats what I'm ultimately trying to rush towards because I can only imagine how much easier it is, I was just trying to think of a way to at least make it less tedious for the time being but I might just have to suck it up.

[Ion]

Head out there and produce all oil based items on location. In the future, a train line can be setup to collect the items, but before that setup a simple road or hypertube.

[MJS WARLORD]

Hello ninjabicuit30 ..... one of the reasons i started a new playthrough was because the landscape was remodelled where my crude oil wells were so i could not use them , crude oil is not unique in being a long way off from where you are , regardless of where you start you will always be a long way from " something ".... thats just the way it is .....

May i recommend you go after ALL the oil nodes , the 5 i found this time were all next to each other , overclock all the extractors , use mark 2 pipes and do not join the pipes up , use the stackable pipe supports to keep each pipe line separate.

[headhunter]

Pipe it its worth it especially when you get more alt recipes. Leave a huge space for refineries

[SpaceWombat]

you should build factories on sites that are closest to the required nodes. Then you create a supply chain through railways.

imo i'd just set up a temp base at the oil nodes and set up a quick computer and heavy frame factory to get mk.4 belts and railways unlocked.

[DaBa]

Tracktors, Trucks, then trains. Better than building kilometers of belts.. Plenty of ways to do long distance hauling. Also, never transport oil, not worth it. Make it into products on site then transport those.

Originally posted by headhunter:

Pipe it its worth it especially when you get more alt recipes. Leave a huge space for refineries

Piping over such long distances is even worse than making long belts. Why make it harder on yourself, a few trucks can ferry all the oil products across the whole map, and you can supply them with fuel made from the same oil too.

That, or if you really hate automating trucks, then you can just make a bunch of plastic and rubber, then bring that to your base in a truck and use it to unlock trains for a permanent long term solution.

[DrNewcenstein]

Tanker trucks would be nice.
Trains only carry about half the container, whether it's fluid or freight.

Process crude on-site whenever you find it. There are very few places where you find oil that don't have enough floor space to build a processing setup. Pave a lake if you have to. Long pipe runs are subject to bugs where you have an empty pipe in the middle of two full pipes, and pumps will not help.

[Nova Unit]

Like most of the others suggest, build a base for plastic, rubber and oil.
Use pipelines and conveyer belts to send it to where you want it.

I had everything coming from all different places to one place. At the end, I had too much of everything instead..

[nfgman]

First thing to do with oil is produce plastic for circuit boards and computers. Circuit boards are plastic and copper sheets until you find the alternate recipe using silicone. Computers are more plastic, circuit boards and screws. Don't worry about fuel generators right away because they need computers but a small amount of packaged fuel is needed for the jet pack.

So the choices are
1) to transport oil all the way back and process at base.
2) to process oil to plastic near the oil and transport that back
3) to transport copper and iron to the oil and set up manufacturing there
4( to find a closer source of copper and iron to the oil and build a remote factory.

[headhunter]

Its not that hard running miles of pipes you need to run a power line anyway so just put pipes in at same time and with powerlines next to your pipes installing pumps along the way is no issue

[MAX-K-29]

Originally posted by headhunter:

Its not that hard running miles of pipes you need to run a power line anyway so just put pipes in at same time and with powerlines next to your pipes installing pumps along the way is no issue

Il faut produire asse d'Energie pour faire fonctionner les pompe. Je me suis retrouver avec le même probleme quand j'ai débloquer le pétrole, mes centrale a charbon ne produisait pas suffisamment pour alimenter tout :-(

[Ninjabiscuit90]

So I ended up doing what some suggested and automated a plastic area and hyper tubed a way all the way to the back and work on getting the train.