Biofuel refiner food efficiency guide

[Marek15]

With the Biofuel refiner you can convert raw food and honey into fuel for your engines.
The quantity of raw food needed to create 1 biofuel depends on which type of food you use.
So i decided to test all raw foods and share the results.

Since the potato has the lowest efficiency all foods, all other foods will have their efficiency measured in potatoes.
It is important to know that a single unit of biofuel requires 20 potatoes worth of food (plus 1 unit of honey) and the refiner can store up to 40 potatoes worth of raw food.
Here is the list from best to worst.

Potato equivalent
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mama bear head = 40
puffer head = 30
shark head = 20
warthog head = 20
screecher head = 20
bear head = 20
sharkmeat = 15
red berries = 12.5
milk = 10
catfish = 10
salmon = 10
melon = 8
drumstick = 8
raw meat = 7
tilapia = 6.5
mackerel = 6.5
egg = 6
pineapple = 4
coconut = 4
pomfret = 4
herring = 4
raw beet = 1

3 raw foods are not compatible/bugged at the time of writing:
Mushrooms show prompt to add but nothing happens when pressing E.
Mango is not treated as compatible raw food.
Silver algae is not treated as compatible raw food (this one could be by design rather than
a bug).

EDIT: Added values for animal heads.

Hope this info is of use.

[Rio]

Can you make this into an actual guide? Or I can do it for you, if you like...give you the credit, of course!

[Metallica]

Hmmm, interesting!!! Thanks man, I find it crazy that puffer head is the top food lol. I would suggest to errrbody that they do not use potatoes or beats because they are more useful as an stew ingredient. Is it me or have potatoes become very rare all of a sudden. I even tried to frame the last one I found because they are soooo rare for me now. Sigh frame would not accept potato though.
Another thing is after you complete balboa island, you will not find any more smaller islands with bears and honey. So make lots of metal arrows if you want more honey cause you need to go back to balboa for that honey.

[Marek15]

Originally posted by Rio:

Can you make this into an actual guide? Or I can do it for you, if you like...give you the credit, of course!

I forgot steam guides are a thing. If you want to write one feel free to do so.

Originally posted by Metallica:

Hmmm, interesting!!! Thanks man, I find it crazy that puffer head is the top food lol. I would suggest to errrbody that they do not use potatoes or beats because they are more useful as an stew ingredient. Is it me or have potatoes become very rare all of a sudden. I even tried to frame the last one I found because they are soooo rare for me now. Sigh frame would not accept potato though.
Another thing is after you complete balboa island, you will not find any more smaller islands with bears and honey. So make lots of metal arrows if you want more honey cause you need to go back to balboa for that honey.

Potatoes are common and you can grow massive quantities using a lot of small crop plots.
Also islands with honey will still appear after completing balboa. They are uncommon but you can still find them with the radar (green dots).

[Metallica]

Grow potatoes? really? Cool i will have to check that out but I am not sure why I do not get them anymore. Welp now I just have to wait forever to get another potato. Thanks for letting me know.

[Rio]

Guide published! Credit given to you, Marek!

[Grezko]

Originally posted by Rio:

Guide published! Credit given to you, Marek!

I have some issues with those values though. I am pretty sure that it takes 40 potatoes to full up the refiner, while only 2 puffer heads. That would make the puffer head equal to 20 potatoes.

I have similar issues with shark meat, the correct number should be 13.3 potatoes as it requires 3 sharkmeat to full the refiner.

Egg is 5.7 ( 7 eggs fill the refiner)
Raw meat is 6.66 (6 raw meat fills the refiner)

[Marek15]

Originally posted by Grezko:

Originally posted by Rio:

Guide published! Credit given to you, Marek!

I have some issues with those values though. I am pretty sure that it takes 40 potatoes to full up the refiner, while only 2 puffer heads. That would make the puffer head equal to 20 potatoes.

I have similar issues with shark meat, the correct number should be 13.3 potatoes as it requires 3 sharkmeat to full the refiner.

Egg is 5.7 ( 7 eggs fill the refiner)
Raw meat is 6.66 (6 raw meat fills the refiner)

The issue with calculating the value as [40 / number to fill] is that it is inaccurate.
Take the puffer head for example: it takes 2 heads to fill one refiner up. But if you use 1 puffer head and 10 potatoes the refiner fills up as well. Thus it is calculated as [40 - 10 = 30].
So if the puffer was worth 20 potatoes like you would suggest, than i would have to add 20 potatoes to fill it up after just 1 puffer head. But that was not the case.
I used the same method of partially filling the refiner with the food i am test and filling the remainder with potatoes to get accurate values on all other foods.

[Grezko]

Originally posted by Marek15:

Originally posted by Grezko:

I have some issues with those values though. I am pretty sure that it takes 40 potatoes to full up the refiner, while only 2 puffer heads. That would make the puffer head equal to 20 potatoes.

I have similar issues with shark meat, the correct number should be 13.3 potatoes as it requires 3 sharkmeat to full the refiner.

Egg is 5.7 ( 7 eggs fill the refiner)
Raw meat is 6.66 (6 raw meat fills the refiner)

The issue with calculating the value as [40 / number to fill] is that it is inaccurate.
Take the puffer head for example: it takes 2 heads to fill one refiner up. But if you use 1 puffer head and 10 potatoes the refiner fills up as well. Thus it is calculated as [40 - 10 = 30].
So if the puffer was worth 20 potatoes like you would suggest, than i would have to add 20 potatoes to fill it up after just 1 puffer head. But that was not the case.
I used the same method of partially filling the refiner with the food i am test and filling the remainder with potatoes to get accurate values on all other foods.

Thanks for the explanation.

Just another question:
If Mackarel / tilapia = 6.5, does this mean 6*6.5 = 39 to 40 you need 1 extra potato. Or maybe this is due to rounding

[Marek15]

Originally posted by Grezko:

Thanks for the explanation.

Just another question:
If Mackarel / tilapia = 6.5, does this mean 6*6.5 = 39 to 40 you need 1 extra potato. Or maybe this is due to rounding

You do need 1 extra potato in that case.

[Grezko]

Originally posted by Marek15:

Originally posted by Grezko:

Thanks for the explanation.

Just another question:
If Mackarel / tilapia = 6.5, does this mean 6*6.5 = 39 to 40 you need 1 extra potato. Or maybe this is due to rounding

You do need 1 extra potato in that case.

Potato fueling unit or 1 pfu.
Makes me chuckle when thinking of potatoes being used as a measurement unit.

[maestro]

Guess I should stop discarding those puffer heads. I thought they were cosmetic.

[listless]

Very useful! - thank you for sharing this.
I'm lamenting all the pufferfish heads I've left to the sea...

[Borfoid]

You can put the shark head in the refiner too.

I don't know it's potato value but it's pretty good, filled my tank up about 1/3 of the way.

[Borfoid]

All the heads work actually, even the bear. :)

[Marek15]

Originally posted by Vladislav:

All the heads work actually, even the bear. :)

0_0 wut!? that was unexpected... back to testing then.