Turbo blend fuel, or Turbo Heavy Fuel?

[Rezznor7]

Any change to this desire in 1.0. I think I remember Turbo Blend Fuel being the preferred way to go.

[Jarlim]

Personally i went for turbo heavy fuel(cuz no blenders yet) in blue crater lake, then upgraded to diluted fuel(with blenders) used for rocket fuel then swapped to nitro rocket fuel

[Mighty Joe Young]

turbo heavy, some hardcore posts did some wild math and stated it isn't worth using turbo blend fuel.

[NocheLuz]

I skipped the whole Turbo Fuel and used Nitro Rocket Fuel.

But if I have to answer, I would say, a normal Turbo Fuel recipe (although it still counts as an alternative recipe). Because of the whole Dilute Fuel (or Dilute Packaged Fuel) that'll give you more Turbo Fuel.

[Rezznor7]

Nitro Rocket fuel, eh? I haven't come across that yet. I suppose by the name that it is more powerful than Turbo?

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Rezznor7:

Nitro Rocket fuel, eh? I haven't come across that yet. I suppose by the name that it is more powerful than Turbo?

Yeah, Rocket Fuel is almost twice as efficient as Turbo Fuel. And the Nitro Rocket Fuel alternative recipe is the same as turbo blend fuel, it just uses nitrogen gas instead of oil residue.

Haven't done the math yet so I actually don't know if it's worth it in the end though, it probably is.

[NocheLuz]

Originally posted by Rezznor7:

Nitro Rocket fuel, eh? I haven't come across that yet. I suppose by the name that it is more powerful than Turbo?

It has almost double the energy compared to Turbo Fuel, just by adding Nitrogen (Gas or Acid) into it. The normal recipe also uses 6 Turbo Fuel to make 10 Rocket Fuel and gets 1 Compact Coal back.

Nitro Rocket Fuel skips the Turbo Fuel and Nitric Acid part and blends the Fuel with Nitrogen Gas (also Sulfur and Coal) to make Rocket Fuel + Compact Coal. This is easier to set up and you can get almost the same amount of normal Rocket Fuel recipes.

FYI, using Nitro Rocket Fuel and Diluted Fuel. You can get 1200 m3 of Rocket Fuel per minute with just 300 m3 of Crude Oil (also 600 Nitrogen Gas, 800 Sulfer, and 400 Coal).

[kLuns]

Turbo heavy is pretty bad. You can double the heavy oil residue with diluted fuel for more turbo fuel out of the same oil.
Heavy Oil residue + diluted fuel is a good start.
In update 8 sulfur was pretty rare but in 1.0 oil has become more rare so I think both regular turbo and turbo blend are good.

Once you unlock tier 9 Rocket fuel is even better.

The nitro alternate is more power efficient, more oil friendly but costs a little extra resource, nitpicking quantities. When using this recipe you might want to make extra fuel so you can make extra turbo/ rocket fuel with the byproduct.

Im finishing the core of a 4200 rocket fuel factory with the regular recipe using 1800 oil, 1042,5 sulfur, 1680 nitrogen and 210 iron ore.

[sgargoyle]

im not feeding slugs into my fuel lines i need them to save space for gennies not as part of the fuel. 52 generators is more then enough hassle to build for each 600/m pump. i will max out 51 instead ~150 of them so the slugs have a better purpose then as a fuel additive

[NocheLuz]

Originally posted by sgargoyle:

im not feeding slugs into my fuel lines i need them to save space for gennies not as part of the fuel

IDK what are you talking about. But I think you mean you didn't want to overclock anything in the Fuel Factories. That is okay IMO. You can just overclock the Oil Extractor and get the amount that you want.

I only overclock all my Factories and Fuel generators because I don't want to build 288 Fuel Generators. Additionally, there is the synthetic Power Shard. This means you can make the Power Shard without using the Slug. So I don't really feel wasted using them in my Fuel Generators.

[sgargoyle]

Originally posted by NocheLuz:

Originally posted by sgargoyle:

im not feeding slugs into my fuel lines i need them to save space for gennies not as part of the fuel

IDK what are you talking about. But I think you mean you didn't want to overclock anything in the Fuel Factories. That is okay IMO. You can just overclock the Oil Extractor and get the amount that you want.

I only overclock all my Factories and Fuel generators because I don't want to build 288 Fuel Generators. Additionally, there is the synthetic Power Shard. This means you can make the Power Shard without using the Slug. So I don't really feel wasted using them in my Fuel Generators.

look up ionised fuel rocket fuel is as far as i will take my fuel upgrades is what i mean

[sgargoyle]

but i didnt know the alternate power shards counted for the fuel cause now i have a box of shards that are starting to look rather liquidy

[NocheLuz]

Originally posted by sgargoyle:

look up ionised fuel rocket fuel is as far as i will take my fuel upgrades is what i mean

TBH, Ionized Fuel takes too much to make. It might be good to make some. But to run Fuel Generators, I think Rocket Fuel still tops it off.

Someone might have done the math on Ionized Fuel but the complexity of involving Turbo Fuel already turns me off (using the Compacted Coal instead of leaving it as a byproduct). So I'll just use Rocket Fuel on my game.

[NightFlyer]

Turbo blend fuel is the most efficient turbofuel recipe in terms of sulfur consumption, and sulfur is scarcer than crude. In my turbofuel plant, the sulfur was the limiting factor, not the oil, so turbo blend (and using diluted fuel for the base fuel ingredient) is what I went with.

[Doombringer]

If you have diluted fuel and heavy oil residue alt recipes:

Nitro Rocket Fuel: - easiest to set up, highest sulfur drain
uses 0.5 nitrogen per 1 rocket fuel
0.25 crude oil
0.667 sulfur - but generates 0.167 compacted coal (so 0.5 if you use coal for turbo->rocket)

Turbofuel -> Rocket Fuel:
uses 0.4 nitrogen per 1 rocket fuel
0.27 crude oil
0.48 sulfur - but generates 0.1 compacted coal (so 0.38 if you use coal for turbo->rocket)

Turbo Blend Fuel -> Rocket Fuel: - highest crude oil drain (can't dilute all residue using this...)
uses 0.4 nitrogen per 1 rocket fuel
0.45 crude oil
0.3 sulfur - but generates 0.1 compacted coal (so 0.2 if you use coal for turbo->rocket)

(Turbo Heavy Fuel is bad if you have diluted fuel.)

So, depends what you are worried about running out of - sulfur or crude oil.
Nitro Rocket Fuel is the most convenient to build though.
1.25 heavy oil residue refinery -> 1 diluted fuel blender -> 1 nitro rocket fuel blender
(then deal with compacted coal+polymer resin byproducts)

[Giggles]

Originally posted by NocheLuz:

I skipped the whole Turbo Fuel and used Nitro Rocket Fuel.

But if I have to answer, I would say, a normal Turbo Fuel recipe (although it still counts as an alternative recipe). Because of the whole Dilute Fuel (or Dilute Packaged Fuel) that'll give you more Turbo Fuel.

Nitro Rocket Fuel is insanely good, don't even need to think about nuclear with the amount of power you can make with this.