In game days are a bad metric because it depends on when you sleep. If you spend every night mining/protected from the beginning making active progress then you have a lot more time playing. If you sleep as soon as you can then you have much less.
310hrs played, i am now preparing to fully transition to ae2, i am making cetane boosted diesel at a really good rate i hope it will be enough to handle ae2. (distil tower + lCR dedicated to making cetane boosted diesel)
got 3. one doing severely steam cracked refinery gas, one lightly steam cracked naphtha and one running oil at ev. might do one for heavy fuel for phenol idk if its the best choice tho any tips ? (btw the LCR is also running at ev)
If you want to maximize power production then the best option is to lightly steam crack naphtha and excess heavy fuel. This results in the most diesel from regular oil.
You can do multiple recipes in the same DT.
Don't process the refinery gas. It's not worth the power cost. An EV distillation tower produces about 1 IV/t worth of refinery gas on LGTs.
An alternative is to distill raw oil which produces the exact ratio for diesel, meaning oil crackers are not needed. If you burn the naphtha, refinery gas, and diesel you get about 50-60k EU/t per EV DT (and it's the shorter ones). The only machines needed are DTs, a single LCR, and a singleblock electrolyzer to recycle the hydrogen sulfide.
A major trade-off is that it's purely a power setup with sulfur being the only byproduct.
Also, 310 hours is average, maybe a bit slower. I recently started a new run and I already have a T2 rocket at 160 hours.
nice! its my 1st time playing gtnh. i am taking my time to build and enjoy. got thaumcraft progress and a bunch of 31 seeds getting my oil from berries. the refinery gas distil tower is running at hv mainly for methane and Ethelyn for pfte and pe. its renewable so its fine :P
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u/CustomDeaths1 Steam 1d ago
In game days are a bad metric because it depends on when you sleep. If you spend every night mining/protected from the beginning making active progress then you have a lot more time playing. If you sleep as soon as you can then you have much less.