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Biodiesel

Biodiesel

A vegetable or animal fat-based diesel fuel.

Weight30000 gMax stack10Fuel80000Carried on backSkillOil Drilling Lv 5StationOil Refinery

Notes

Biodiesel is a liquid fuel refined from vegetable oils or animal fats, used to power combustion engines and generators with a high fuel value of 80,000. It is a solid block that stacks to 10 and is carried on the back, making it a dense, transportable energy source for mid-to-late-game industry. Because biodiesel is a cleaner-burning alternative to raw petroleum fuels, using it can help reduce the air pollution and CO2 emissions that degrade housing value and the shared ecosystem.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Ethanol4item
Fat5category
Barrel1item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Food Scrap0.2
Iron Scrap0.04
Bio Residue0.03

Approximate โ€” a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor60 calories
Craft time0.8 min
Throughput75 Biodiesel / hour (base)

As a block

Solid

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Steps7Total labor541.25 calTotal time5.89 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

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