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The Fuel Tank is a feature introduced in Version 1.21 that allows players to store extra Eggs from their current farm. These stored Eggs can then be used to fuel Spaceships while on other farms.

The Fuel Tank has seven upgrade levels. To upgrade beyond the initial level, players must purchase the Pro Permit. Upgrades cost Golden Eggs and increase both the Fuel Tank's capacity and its maximum output rate of the Tank increase.

Added in Version 1.28, limits for each type of Egg can be set using a slider, which controls the maximum amount of that Egg stored in the Fuel Tank. This allows players to set up refueling strategies (see below). If the slider is adjusted below the current amount for a given Egg type, players will be given the option to either keep or dump the excess Eggs.

Unlike most buildings, the Fuel Tank does not reset upon prestige. It is located to the bottom-right of the launchpad and below the Hall of Artifacts. Levels 0 through 3 have a different visual appearance on the farm. Once the Tank reaches level 3, the appearance does not change.

Level Capacity Max Output
(Minutes) 		Golden Egg}} Cost Golden Egg}} Net Cost Capacity/Golden Egg}}
0 2B 300M/min 6.67 0 0
1 200B 12B/min 16.67 50K 50K 4M
2 10T 180B/min 55.56 250K 300K 33.33M
3 100T 3T/min 33.33 1M 1.3M 76.92M
4 200T 4.5T/min 44.44 2M 3.3M 60.61M
5 300T 6T/min 50 3M 6.3M 47.62M
6 400T 7.5T/min 53.33 4M 10.3M 38.83M
7 500T 9T/min 55.56 5M 15.3M 32.68M

Note: The upgrade screen rounds down and doesn’t show decimal values. For example, the level 4 upgrade displays 4T/min, but the actual output is 4.5T/min.

Strategy[]

There are many different strategies depending on how far you are in the game, which spaceships you have unlocked, and how many Soul Egg you currently have.

The basic strategy is to fill the Fuel Tank with as many Eggs as possible - except for the last egg type needed. Then, go to the highest-level Egg farm needed by the ship you're launching. Your Fuel Tank will use stored Eggs from lower-level farms and fresh Eggs from your current farm to meet the ship's requirements.

Example: If you’re launching short Henerprise ships, you need 2TDilithium Egg}} + 2TAntimatter Egg}}. The best approach is to store as many Dilithium Egg}}Dilithium Eggs as possible in your Fuel Tank, then switch to the Antimatter Egg}} Antimatter farm. When you fuel spaceships, the ship will use Dilithium Egg}}Dilithium Eggs from the Tank and Antimatter Egg}}Antimatter Eggs from your current farm.

Atreggies Henliner[]

Most players who need a dedicated fueling strategy are launching multiple extended Atreggies Henliners. The following strategy will assume that you have at least a level 3 Tank, which is the minimum level needed to effectively fuel multiple Henliners.

The extended Atreggies Henliner needs 2TTachyon Egg}} + 6TDilithium Egg}} + 6TAntimatter Egg}} + 6TDark Matter Egg}} Eggs per ship.

Step-by-step strategy:

  1. Fill the Tank with at least 24TDark Matter Egg}}Darkmatter Eggs (see chart below). This will let you launch up to 4 ships while refilling the other Eggs.
  2. Use the remaining Tank space to store as many Tachyon Egg}}Tachyon, Dilithium Egg}}Dilithium, andAntimatter Egg}}Antimatter Eggs as possible (based on your Tank level below).
  3. Go to the Dark Matter farm and start launching ships.
  4. After 4 ships are fueled (3 launched and 1 on the pad), and your tank is about half empty, switch back to the Tachyon farm.
  5. While refueling the first three Eggs, keep using the stored Dark Matter Eggs to launch more ships.
  6. Repeat as needed.

The below chart lays out the target amount of each egg for each Tank level:

Level Ships per Tank Tachyon Egg}}Tachyon Dilithium Egg}}Dilithium Antimatter Egg}}Antimatter Dark Matter Egg}}Darkmatter
3 5 10T 30T 30T 30T
4 12 24T 72T 72T 32T
5 19 38T 114T 114T 34T
6 26 52T 156T 156T 36T
7 34 68T 204T 204T 24T


Example:

If you have a level 3 Tank, set the sliders to:

  • 10T Tachyon Egg}}Tachyon
  • 30T Dilithium Egg}}Dilithium
  • 30T Antimatter Egg}}Antimatter
  • 30T Dark Matter Egg}}Darkmatter

Once those are loaded, switch to the Dark Matter farm and launch. After 4 ships are fueled, go back to Tachyon and refill the Tank. Keep cycling through to fuel as many ships as you want.

Trivia[]

  • The capacity limit for the Fuel Tank applies to the total of all eggs of any type you have stored in it. Hence, a Tank with capacity of 2B cannot hold 2B Edible and 2B Superfood Eggs, but it could hold 1B Edible and 1B Superfood.
  • Special Events which affect fueling do not affect the output of Fuel Tanks. They only affect eggs being produced on your current farm which are going into a Spaceship or Fuel Tank.
  • In the Advanced Flow Control, you can separately toggle whether or not you want to divert your fuel into Spaceships and into the Fuel Tank. If both are toggled ON, then fuel will go into the Spaceship first until it does not need any more fuel of that type (after which the rest will go into the Fuel Tank until it reaches its total capacity).
  • As of Version 1.28, Fueling Limits can now be set for individual egg types, replacing the "fuel dump" feature. When a limit for an egg type is set to below the current number of that egg type, you can choose to dump the excess or keep it. The limit for an egg type will be kept even when that egg type is used up, except when the limit was set to 0 (to prevent a situation where you can't add any of an egg type to the Fuel Tank nor change the Fueling Limit for that egg type).
  • If your Fuel Tank contains multiple types of fuel needed for your current Spaceship, only one type of fuel will flow at a time. (In other words, the game doesn't allow each of the types to flow at the max output rate or even at a partial output rate.)
    • The order of fueling will match the order in which the fuel types are displayed: your current farm's egg type first, followed by the other eggs in the order in which they were unlocked.
  • If your tank contains the same type of Egg as your farm (and you need this as fuel for your current Spaceship), both your tank's maximum output rate and your farm's output rate will contribute to the fueling rate of the Spaceship.
    • This could actually make fueling take longer, as your Fuel Tank won't be able to contribute any other relevant fuel it contains until you meet the quota for the fuel that matches the current farm. For this reason, you might consider dumping all stored fuel that matches your current farm and toggling the tank to Output Only until your last batch of Ships before you need to switch eggs to gain more of the other type of fuel.

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Old Strategies[]

The strategies below are outdated and may not work with the current version of the game. For example, many were written before the Atreggies Henliner was added or before the Tank sliders existed. Some also rely on an old feature that let players remove half of the Tank’s contents — this is no longer possible. Unless you have a specific reason to use one of these older strategies, it's best to stick with the updated strategy above.

This section will outline fueling strategies for Extended Henerprises with both the 100T and 500T tank. These strategies were taken from this post on the main Egg, Inc. discord server. Each strategy will also credit its individual creator.

These tanks may also work for the new Atreggies Henliner anyway, they will simply last half as long.

100T Tank[]

Simple[]

Original author unknown, found in the Cluckingham Palace Co-op group discord.

  • 14T Tachyon
  • 42T Dilithium
  • 42T Antimatter
  • Sit on Dark Matter
  • Multiply amounts by 2 for 200T tank, 3 for 300T tank, etc. For 500T tank, you can fuel an extra exhen so add another 1t Tachyon and 3T of Dilithium and Dark Matter.

This will last months without needing to do anything ever. If you need to prestige for SE, just finish on dark matter for your final leg.

1-4-7 Exhen[]

By @joe__ (166602878503485440)

Refill once every 3 days with negative brain required.

  • Refuel precisely every three ships: if you launch your three exthens at the same time, you have 3 days to refuel.
  • No rounding issues as is the norm: you always have 1 trillion of each egg in your tank
  • A refueling rule that is painfully simple: if you hit 1T, 4T, or 7T, you max out your tank with that egg. You've already memorized it.
  • Infinite chicken heavy launches whenever double capacity turns up, because you have a separate stash of 6 trillion Rocket Fuel Eggs.

The initial tank setup we'll achieve this with is:

Repeating Pattern:

Repeating Pattern:

How to achieve said tank:

  1. Max out your tank with Tachyon, then halve the amount twice
  2. Fuel and abandon 6 extended henerprises to discard 6T Tachyon Eggs
  3. Fill your tank with Dilithium Eggs
  4. Fuel and abandon 8 short henerprises to discard 16T dilithium eggs
  5. Fill your fuel tank with Dark Matter
  6. Fuel and abandon 14 short henerprises
  7. Fill your tank with Antimatter
  8. Fuel and abandon 2 standard voyeggers
  9. Fill your tank with Rocket Fuel

Again - you refuel 30T eggs every 3 days which can be done passively without boosting, you get exthens on tap every 3 days if you do refill properly and can also launch unlimited chicken heavies with the rocket fuel eggs!

Switch on Weekends[]

By @pianoman24 (358769030204751874)

  • 6T Tachyon
  • 54T Dilithium
  • 36T Antimatter
  • 4T Dark Matter

This tank setup allows you to fuel 6 rockets per week and _switch your tank only once per weekend (during prestige events) for at least 10 weeks straight! The beauty of this is you only have to switch your farm when you would want to switch it anyway to prestige and you don't have to think about it during the week. This setup was found by painstakingly searching through every mathematically unique setup and ranking them based on multiple variables. Trust me, this is the best out there.

NOTE: This only works if you have most of the FTL improvements epic research (the one that makes the later missions take less time.) Otherwise each 6-mission set takes longer than a week.

Here are three rules-of-thumb to follow:

  • 1. Launch no more than 6 rockets on a single farm. 2. After the 6th launch...
  • 2a) IF you cannot fuel another 1-3-3-3 ship, THEN begin fueling before moving to next farm
  • 2b) ELSE move immediately to next farm without beginning to fuel next rocket
  • 3. When you switch farms, always switch to the egg type that can fuel the least amount of missions. (Obviously, right?)

IMPORTANT: On the 5th week, when you are on the dark matter egg farm, fill up and abandon one short voyegger mission. This will ensure you have enough fuel to get through week 7. Trust me.

And that’s it! Following those steps will bring you 11 care-free weeks of exhen cycling! If you are willing to switch your farm twice on a weekend instead of just once, you can get even farther than 10 weeks. Info will be posted on the Google Sheet soon!

Eggcelent No Brain Exhen Cycle (ENBEC)[]

By @creadeyh (146263952085614592)

ENBEC Cycle

ENBEC Cycle

Once you have this cycle set up, the only rules to follow are:

  • If you have 1T Tachyon left in the tank, switch to Tachyon farm
  • If you have 3T or less of Dilithium, Antimatter or Dark matter, switch to that farm

This allows you to have your tank fueling activated all the time and easily see when you have to switch farm. Since you always have at least 1T eggs left, it's also rounding-proof !

To kickstart the cycle (disable tank fueling before removing eggs):

  • Fill the tank with Antimatter
  • Remove 50%
  • Fill the tank with Darkmatter
  • Switch to a Tachyon farm
  • Fuel and abort 4 short henerprises
  • Fill the tank with Tachyon
  • Repeatedly remove 50% Tachyon until you have 1T
  • Fuel and abort 2 short henerprises
  • Fill the tank with Dilithium
  • Switch to a Tachyon farm, activate tank fueling and start launching exhens!

Note: I ended up with 30 different valid cycles. I arbitrarily picked the satisfying 5 which fuel Tachyon -> Dilithium -> Antimatter -> Dark Matter, in that order, then picked the one which seemed the easiest to kickstart

10/40/50 Slider Exhen[]

By @jhalcyon (184063956539670528)

  • Works for all tank sizes of 100T or more using the same setup and fueling cycle - bigger tank just means more ships per farm.
  • No counting ships; your tank tells you when to switch.
  • Goes through the eggs in value order for the simplest transitions between farms.
  • Repeats infinitely.
  • Rounding-safe; always has at least 1T extra of each egg.
  • Can be modified to add other fuels for short chicken heavy's or ASC in place of excess eggs while cycling, especially on larger fuel tanks
  • Doesn't get messed up by sending short henerprises for dubcaps in the middle

Setup

  1. Fill your tank with 10% Dilithium, 40% Antimatter, and 50% Dark Matter using the sliders.
  2. Prestige and build a tachyon farm
  3. Set your sliders for Dilithium, Antimatter, and Dark Matter to 50% of your tank (the same as the amount of Dark Matter you filled in step 1) and your slider for Tachyon to half of that.
  4. Turn on Fueling and tanking and start launching hens.

Once you're up and running, switch to the next egg when your tank doesn't fill up all the way because of the slider cap.

The cycle will run Tachyon -> Dilithium -> Antimatter -> Dark Matter and the next egg will also be the one that you have the least of.

Google Spreadsheet with tabs showing exact setups and cycles for each tank size can be found here

500T Tank[]

Simple[]

Original author unknown. The person who is writing this found it from the Cluckingham Palace Co-op group discord.

  • 71T Tachyon
  • 213T Dilithium
  • 213T Antimatter
  • Sit on Dark Matter

This will last months without needing to do anything ever. If you need to prestige for SE, just finish on dark matter for your final leg.

Exhen/Rocket Fuel Cycling[]

By @joe__ (166602878503485440)

Benefits compared to other methods:

  • 7T Rocket Fuel in the tank at all times, so you can run unlimited chicken heavies without breaking the cycle
  • You only ever need to switch egg in multiples of 3 exthens, so your launches are always together

Initial tank setup:

  • 7T Rocket Fuel, 12T Tachyon, 117T Dilithium, 153T Antimatter, 211T Dark Matter, which then cycles as follows

Joefueltank500t

In this case you're always running a multiple of 3 exthens before switching farm and as many as 9 sets - 27 exthens - without switching egg. Refill when you get to 3T or less Tachyon, or 9T or less of any other egg (i.e. cannot run another full set without rounding errors) Tank setup is as follows:

  1. Fill Dark Matter then halve it
  2. Fill and abandon 4 exthens
  3. Fill Dilithium
  4. Fill and abandon 2 Exthens
  5. Fill Tachyon
  6. Run 1 short Voyegger and 1 standard Henerprise, discarding 0T/4T/3T respectively
  7. Fill Rocket Fuel
  8. Run 6 standard Henerprises discarding 0T/0T/18T/18T of the above
  9. Halve Dilithium
  10. Finally fill up Antimatter

Eggcelent No Brain Exhen Cycle (ENBEC)[]

By @creadeyh (146263952085614592)

Once you have this cycle set up, the only rules to follow are:

  • if you have 1T Tachyon left in the tank, switch to Tachyon farm
  • if you have 3T or less of Dilithium, Antimatter or Darkmatter, switch to that farm

This allows you to have your tank fueling activated all the time and easily see when you have to switch farm. Since you always have at least 1T eggs left, it's also rounding-proof!

To kickstart the cycle:

  • Fill the tank with Dilithium
  • Switch to a Dark Matter farm
  • Remove 50% Dilithium
  • Fuel and abort 1 short Henerprise
  • Switch to a Tachyon farm
  • Fuel and abort 1 short Henerprise
  • Switch to an Antimatter farm
  • Remove 50% Tachyon and 50% Dark Matter
  • Fuel and abort 6 standard Henerprises
  • Remove 50% Dilithium 2 times
  • Fuel and abort 1 short Henerprise

The cycle (180 exhens launches and 2 prestiges) looks like this:

Enbec500

Once-Per-Monthish Exhen[]

By @adriannosaurus (396329932004786198)

  • 49T Tachyon
  • 145T Dilithium
  • 145T Antimatter
  • 145T Dark Matter

To scale it up or down to different fuel tank quantities, simply multiply the numbers by 0.2 (100T tank), 0.4 (200T tank), 0.6 (300T tank), or 0.8 (400T tank).

Advantages

  • This leaves room for 16T whatever else, likely rocket fuel eggs for dubcaps if you feel like running those
  • It does not matter what egg your home farm is on

Disadvantages

  • Lasts for only 48 cycles

4-Months Fueling[]

By @annmar9700 (1023092974005002331)

138 Exhens (and 7 other hens) per prestige, no effort fuel cycling.  Nearly 4 months of fuel.

  1. Start on Tachyon 0/39.6/168.6/291.6
  2. Launch exhen 1-13
  3. Start fueling exhen 14
  4. Move to Dilithium
  5. Launch exhen 14-56
  6. Start fueling exhen 57
  7. Move to Anti-Matter
  8. Launch exhen 57-97 & 5 shorthens (for tank balancing)
  9. Start fueling exhen 98
  10. Move to Dark Matter
  11. Launch exhens 98-137 & 2 standardhens (for tank balancing)
  12. Start fueling exhen 138
  13. Move to Tachyon
  14. Launch exhen 138
  15. You are at 0/39.6/168.6/291.6 – go back to step 1.

Note, you don't really need the "0.6" - it's just buffer fuel.

If you want to prestige for SE, fine, just go back to whatever fuel you were on when finished and your cycle should be uninterrupted.

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