Add missing recipes to handle Canola/Cooking Oil like other farm/food products
Canola (and cooking oil as the only further refinement of it) can't currently be sunk in the same way any other food/plant can, via Mixer (Compost/Animal Feed) or Anaerobic Digester (Compost + Fuel Gas). This normally allows you to turn excess via additional effort/worker/energy into useful products or at least prevent/reduce air pollution.
Not only is Canola used as an animal feed in real life (compare that to certain mixer recipes for wheat, soy,...) but also can be turned into gas via anaerobic processes.
Currently the only way to handle any overproduction is via Burner (hard air pollution with no way to counteract via effort) or turn it into via cooking oil into diesel which suffers from two issues: 1) no late game use for diesel atm once you explored the map and transitioned to H2 and it can only be flared for hard pollution with again no counter measure.
Both feels unsatisfying from a realism and game design perspective. Please add missing recipes for handling those products :)
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15 Sep, '25
Rolling StenHighlighted comment
You can just leave it rot in farms. If you are farming canola with something else and fears of blocking output belt, just pair it with produce needing flat belt (vegetables or fruits). This way there is no need to get rid of that. -
12 Sep, '25
Rahbek(ran out of space) Yes, I am aware you can use soy for Cooking Oil. However it is an important crop in reality for this purpose and reducing your options and settling for a less efficient crop does not feel like good design in this case. I might be wrong but the current recipes (Burner) and lack of alternatives feel to me like potentially a leftover from previous patches, rather than conscious, intended design. I might be wrong here though - only played since U3 :)
Lastly I wanted to also make an alternative suggestion where you could replace Canola with Sunflowers. Sunflower Seeds could be used both as a source of cooking oil AND a salted snack to add another food item for your settlement? This could (depending where it is put in the tech tree) give you an easy, early/early-mid game snack item (either similarly placed as soy or past yellow science but before the current fermentation/biodiesel tech).