First task for today was actually re-working the Liquid Biofuel setup from yesterday, a little bit. Specifically, I realized I needed to do buffering for the inputs to that little subsystem, and I needed to not be sinking the excess. I found it was sinking away the vast majority of the spoils from yesterday’s exploration.

I ended up moving the buffer crate for Solid Biofuel BACK to where it was before, along with an additional one for Plastic. However, the Dimensional Depot Uploader for Solid Biofuel is still over on the other side. With this setup, any plastic I dump into recycling will actually get saved for making Empty Canisters, as part of Liquid Biofuel. Before adding this buffer container, I would have to worry about never dropping more than 1 or 2 stacks of Plastic at a time, because it would get sunk otherwise.

Similarly, All Solid Biofuel that’s either dumped or crafted from scraps gets buffered, and that buffer feeds both Liquid Biofuel and the Dimensional Depot. Only if BOTH of those are fully backed-up does any Biofuel get sunk. And since Solid Biofuel is getting sunk already, there’s no need to sink the Liquid Biofuel as well, that would make it much more difficult to prioritize how and when Solid Biofuel is used or stored.

The three belts here send Solid Biofuel, Plastic and Liquid Biofuel (so I can dump it in the recycler and have it end up back in the Dimensional Depot) over to the Liquid Biofuel Refinery.

Next, I decided, after how much success I had with them yesterday, to make a few permanent Radio Towers, within the developed areas.

A new segment of tubeway gets me a Radio Tower that covers the Oil Coast, where I’ll be building next.

Another new segment takes me down along the coast, toward the Oil patches.

This looks like a solid spot. I’m just gonna be using the one Normal node I plopped down an extractor on, in the top-right.

Tubeway.

Here’s what I came up with for machine layout. As you might guess, the first new products for Phase 3 will be Rubber and Plastic. Tomorrow, I’ll setup the logistics, and see if I can get it powered on.