Industrial Alchemy: Real Ores & Chemistry


A Factorio 2.0 industrial overhaul with true orefields, real ore processing, metallurgy, hydrometallurgy, petrochemistry, catalysts, gases, waste handling, and advanced materials.

Overhaul
2 hours ago
2.0 - 2.1
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Environment Mining Fluids Logistic network Manufacturing Power

g Is there a way to vent gas/fluids?

9 days ago

For a while now, with my Coke processing, I've been stuffing the Ash and Coal Tar into boxes. I got technology that utilizes those now, but I'm confused as to how I can handle the gas and fluids. One recipe combines Oxygen with Coal Tar to make Industrial Carbon. If I use an Air separator to get Oxygen, I'm left with some Nitrogen. I don't seem to see a way to vent that.

Alternatively, I see a way to turn Coal Tar into Naphta and other things. One of the byproducts is Waste Gas, which I have no way of disposing at the moment. Even if I did, it leads to even more gases/fluids that I have no way of disposing.

So I'm wondering if I'm missing something obvious on how you're supposed to deal with these. I suppose I can either keep adding storage for this, or I add the fluids into a tank system with alarms that go off if they are close to full so I manually can clear them. Both seem inefficient and unintended though.

9 days ago

Thanks for reporting this. You are not missing a disposal machine—the early gas-handling progression is incomplete. Air separation currently creates surplus nitrogen before its useful consumption routes, while coal-tar processing creates waste gas before a genuine disposal option is available. I’ll add early nitrogen/oxygen venting and combustible-gas flaring, while keeping the later recovery and emissions-treatment routes as the more efficient option.

8 days ago

Great thanks!

8 days ago

For Naphtha and others that have a fuel value is there a fuel boiler?

7 days ago

added

7 days ago
(updated 7 days ago)

Thanks for adding the boiler. I am wondering though, is it intended for the pipe connections on the Fuel Boiler to be right next to each other? I would either need to use pipe to ground or Advanced Fluid Handling to make sure the pipes don't mix.

6 days ago

fixed

6 days ago

Thanks. Overall I'm enjoying this mod.

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