industry / Base game
Oil Refinery
Produces Chemicals, Fertilizer, and Fuel from Crude Oil.
Production recipe
Required inputs
- 4 Crude Oil units
Output
- 4 Chemicals units
- 1 Fertilizer units
- 2 Fuel units
Baseline: 182.5 cycles per default simulation year. Actual throughput depends on deliveries and operating conditions.
Restrictions
- Economies: Temperate, Dry, Tropical, Subarctic
Storage
- Crude Oil: 800 units (Input stock)
- Fuel: 400 units (Output stock)
- Chemicals: 800 units (Output stock)
- Fertilizer: 300 units (Output stock)
Production
- Recipe cycle frequencies accompany each production recipe. Actual output depends on available inputs, productivity boosts and plots.
- Worker boost: at least 10 workers arriving by a passenger line within two default simulation years; productivity increases by 1.5–2.5× while the condition is met.
Connections
Requires · 1
Produces · 3
Worker arrivals · 1
Planning guides
Game data sources
Build 25754343 · Pack base
base/content/industries/oil_refinery.zip:oil_refinery/oil_refinery.con.luabase/content/gui.zip:gui/entity_window/industry_react_util.tlbase/content/gui.zip:gui/main/industry_util.tlbase/content/industries:industryutil.luabase/content/industries:industry_productivity_util.tlbase/content/industries:industry_workers.script.tl
Gameplay references
Overview and native model detail views. Full detail is available in the image viewer.
- Overview: source build 25754343
- Processing hall: source build 25533170
- Storage building: source build 25533170
- Pipework: source build 25533170
Source values
{
"industrialCapacity": 20,
"rules": [
{
"capacity": 182.5,
"input": [
[
4
]
],
"output": {
"::/cargos/chemicals/chemicals.cargo": 4,
"::/cargos/fertilizer/fertilizer.cargo": 1,
"::/cargos/fuel/fuel.cargo": 2
}
}
],
"sourceDescription": "Place the industry building.",
"stocks": [
{
"capacity": 800,
"cargoType": "::/cargos/crude_oil/crude_oil.cargo",
"type": "INPUT_STOCK"
},
{
"capacity": 400,
"cargoType": "::/cargos/fuel/fuel.cargo",
"type": "OUTPUT_STOCK"
},
{
"capacity": 800,
"cargoType": "::/cargos/chemicals/chemicals.cargo",
"type": "OUTPUT_STOCK"
},
{
"capacity": 300,
"cargoType": "::/cargos/fertilizer/fertilizer.cargo",
"type": "OUTPUT_STOCK"
}
],
"timingEvidence": {
"boosts": "Cargo multiplier 1 + boostFactor; workers multiplier productivity",
"formula": "api.util.getDefaultYearDuration() / stockList.rules[ruleNumber].capacity",
"plotMaximum": "api.engine.util.construction.getNumAndFilledAutoFillSlots(constructionEntity)"
}
}



