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Oil without oil: Pyrolyse Oven on logs, wood dust, plant balls or bio chaff

Chain id: oil_pyro · Tags: Infinite source

Era setup: HV

Plan modules: Oil without wells (pyrolyse + distillery)

Tips: 5

Machines

Pyrolyse Oven · circ 3Multiblock
GreenhouseGreenhouse logsinfinite32 logsWood Dust32 Wood dustPlant Ball32 Plant balls
Oil HeavyHeavy Oil 16 B384 EU/tOil LightLight Oil 16 B96 EU/tOil MediumMedium Oil 16 B96 EU/t
gtceu:pyrolyse_oven

Flow

Direct steps

  • Heavy Oil 16 B → Distillation
  • Light Oil 16 B → Distillation
  • Medium Oil 16 B → Distillation

How to build

  1. Logs from the greenhouse go to a drawer. In CO₂ + fertilizer mode the greenhouse makes 128 logs per 30 s, 256 a minute. Keep the log drawer next to the oven so a Modular Router or a Pipez item pipe feeds it directly. — gtceu:greenhouse, minecraft:oak_log, functionalstorage:oak_1
  2. Pyrolyse Oven: 17 ULV machine casings (6 minimum), 16 coils (cupronickel is enough), 2 air blocks in the middle, controller. Hatches: input bus, output bus, output hatch, maintenance, and an HV Energy Hatch. Kanthal coils make it faster, not just hotter. — gtceu:pyrolyse_oven, gtceu:cupronickel_coil_block, gtceu:ulv_machine_casing
  3. Heavy oil line, ghost circuit 3: 32 logs → 16 B heavy oil + 4 ash dust in 15 s at 384 EU/t. With cupronickel coils the oven is 25 % slower: 20 s, 48 B of oil and 96 logs a minute. Output hatch → steel drum; the ash goes to a drawer or an Item Voiding Cover. — gtceu:oil_heavy_bucket, gtceu:ash_dust
  4. Light oil: 32 wood dust (from the cutter) → 16 B light oil in 24 s at 96 EU/t. Medium oil: 32 plant balls (8 crops each in a compressor) → 16 B in 22.5 s. Plain oil: 32 bio chaff → 16 B in 16 s. All use circuit 3 and only need an MV hatch; run each on its own oven if you want all three. — gtceu:oil_light_bucket, gtceu:wood_dust
  5. One input drawer per ingredient, with a Modular Router (or Pipez item pipe + Item Filter) into the oven’s input bus. The oil leaves through the output hatch by a pump cover or Pipez fluid pipe into its own steel drum: the oven simply stops when the drum is full. Never share a drum between oil types. — modularrouters:modular_router, gtceu:steel_drum
  6. Easy to miss: the distillation tower that uses all this is an EV machine. Until then the oil just piles up, so build one oven, fill four drums, and stop. Do not burn logs you need for charcoal and rubber. — gtceu:steel_drum, gtceu:distillation_tower

Tips

  • Pack recipes (circuit 3, 32 items → 16 B oil + 4 ash dust): heavy oil from logs 15 s at 384 EU/t; light oil from wood dust 24 s and plain oil from bio chaff 16 s, both 96 EU/t; medium oil from plant balls 22.5 s, 96 EU/t.
  • Coils slow or speed the oven: cupronickel x1.33 duration (heavy oil 20 s), Kanthal x1.0 (15 s), Nichrome x0.67 (10 s). An HV hatch also overclocks the 96 EU/t oils once (half the time, 384 EU/t); heavy oil cannot overclock further.
  • Heavy oil is the only 384 EU/t one: it needs an HV Energy Hatch. The BOM lists the oven with an MV hatch; swap it for the HV hatch.
  • One greenhouse in CO₂ + fertilizer mode (128 logs per 30 s) feeds about 2.7 cupronickel ovens (96 logs a minute each).
  • Nothing in HV uses the oil yet: it waits for the EV distillation tower (HV hull + 4 EV circuits; oil recipe 96 EU/t). In this pack oil only comes from pyrolysis, there are no wells. Keep it in drums and do not overbuild.

Bill of materials

Item Qty
gtceu:greenhouse 1
gtceu:pyrolyse_oven 1
gtceu:hv_energy_input_hatch 1
functionalstorage:oak_1 2
modularrouters:modular_router 1
gtceu:lv_robot_arm 1
gtceu:item_filter 1
gtceu:steel_drum 3
pipez:fluid_pipe 8
pipez:item_pipe 16

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