Polymer Resin

Polymer Resin
Used for crafting. A by-product of oil refinement into fuel. Commonly used to manufacture plastics.
Unlocked by	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Class name	Desc_PolymerResin_C
Item
Stack size	200
Sink points	12

Polymer Resin is a solid byproduct derived from the Crude Oil refining process. It can be refined to useful products when combined with Water.

Obtaining

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Fuel As byproduct	6 × Crude Oil60 / min	Refinery 6 sec	4 × Fuel40 / min 3 × Polymer Resin30 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Heavy Oil Residue Alternate As byproduct	3 × Crude Oil30 / min	Refinery 6 sec	4 × Heavy Oil Residue40 / min 2 × Polymer Resin20 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Polymer Resin Alternate	6 × Crude Oil60 / min	Refinery 6 sec	13 × Polymer Resin130 / min 2 × Heavy Oil Residue20 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing

Alternate recipes analysis

Polymer Resin is part of the Fuel production chain. See Fuel#Alternate recipes analysis for more info.

1. Polymer Resin is not a particularly desirable main product in Oil production, due to poor ratios. However, since both the default Fuel recipe and the Heavy Oil Residue alt create it as a byproduct, it is all but inevitable that a player with Fuel power will be generating it somehow, and it has to be disposed of in some way to avoid backing up. While this can be handled with the AWESOME Sink, merely adding water allows it to be used to produce Rubber, Plastic or Fabric (via a MAM unlock). This allows it to be used to allow a Fuel plant to augment the primary production of a Rubber or Plastic factory.
   • Residual Rubber makes 1 Rubber from 2 Resin and Residual Plastic makes 1 Plastic from 3 Resin ( the Polyester Fabric alt recipe makes 1 Fabric from 1 Resin )
   • It is important to still have a overflow Sink in a line handling Polymer Resin, as a safeguard against backing-up.
2. If you don't have access to a lot of alternative recipes, the Polymer Resin recipe can be used to double Residual Rubber production (or to slightly increase Residual Plastic production) . Otherwise it's useful in combination with the Polyester Fabric recipe to automatically produce fabric.
   - "Recycled What? Diluted Who?"

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Residual Plastic	6 × Polymer Resin60 / min 2 × Water20 / min	Refinery 6 sec	2 × Plastic20 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Residual Rubber	4 × Polymer Resin40 / min 4 × Water40 / min	Refinery 6 sec	2 × Rubber20 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Polyester Fabric Alternate	1 × Polymer Resin30 / min 1 × Water30 / min	Refinery 2 sec	1 × Fabric30 / min	MAM Mycelia Research - Synthetic Polyester Fabric

AWESOME Sink

 Polymer Resin can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 12 points.

Gallery

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  A closed-loop of petrochemical with Plastics, Rubber, and Fuel as final products with no by-product which requires one or more Alternative recipes.

Tips

If your intent with Polymer Resin is to only sink it to the AWESOME Sink, you can consider turning it into Fabric using the "Polyester Fabric" alternate recipe and then sinking. Though it adds a Water Extractor and a Refinery, it nets 140 points per item compared to 12 per item with Polymer Resin.

History

• Patch 0.3.2.2 Increased production rates of all by-product refinement recipes
• Patch 0.3 Introduced