Advanced setting: solid fuel from heavy/light oil / petroleum

[mpsijm]

At the moment, only petroleum is used for solid fuel. However, it is more efficient to use light oil for solid fuel. Since it also depends on your factory setup whether you're creating solid fuel from heavy oil, light oil or petroleum, I think it should be possible to indicate which of these oil products should be used for solid fuel.

It would be even better if it is possible to set ratios in which chemical plants are producing solid fuel from the different oil products. E.g. when you have excess petroleum, you switch on some chemical plants that use the excess petroleum to make solid fuel. In this case, solid fuel would be created from both light oil and petroleum.

[doomeer]

Thanks for your suggestion!

We had a discussion about this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/4dmxib/my_factorio_planner_now_has_a_web_interface/d7a2qaz/

Short version is: it's a little more complicated than I would like it to be :P

[mpsijm]

Ah yes, I see :) Thanks for your reply!

[DeCristoforis]

Added option to select solid fuel recipe in #55 (for all plants, not for individual, off course)

[doomeer]

This is great :D I did not have the courage to implement something to automatically choose the recipe to use, but having a setting to do that is probably best anyway.

I guess this should stay open as the second part of the request (ratios) is not implemented though.

[mpsijm]

It's already an improvement, thanks a lot :smile: I agree that the issue can stay open for that reason :slightly_smiling_face: