Crude Oil

Crude Oil is a semi-rare mid-game resource found in the world. It is refined in Refineries into Plastic, Rubber and Fuel, whilst producing the Heavy Oil Residue and Polymer Resin byproducts. It is a fluid resource obtained from resource nodes, and is extracted using Oil Extractors instead of Miners. It can be transported via Pipelines, be packaged for conveyor transportation or be transported via trains.

Obtaining[]

Resource acquisition[]

Crude Oil can be extracted from Crude Oil resource nodes using Oil Extractors. It cannot be mined manually. The default extraction rates are as follows:

Node purity	m³/min at 100%	m³/min at 250%
Impure	60	150
Normal	120	300
Pure	240	600

This leads to the following total availability on the map:

Node purity	Number of nodes	Mining rate	Mining rate at 250 %
Impure	10	600	1,500
Normal	12	1,440	3,600
Pure	8	1,920	4,800
Total	30	3,960	9,900

Crude Oil can also be extracted from Resource Wells using Resource Well Extractors, which spread over 2 clusters. The default extraction rates are as follows:

Node purity	m³/min at 100%	m³/min at 250%
Impure	30	75
Normal	60	150
Pure	120	300

This means the following amount of Crude Oil is available:

Node purity	Number of nodes	Mining rate	Mining rate at 250 %
Impure	6	180	450
Normal	3	180	450
Pure	3	360	900
Total	12	720	1,800

By combining the output of both methods, the max extraction rate is 11700 m³/min.

Extraction energy[]

It takes about 33.32 MJ to extract 1 m³ of Crude Oil, assuming it is extracted from both Oil nodes and Resource Wells. Further reading: Extraction energy

Crafting[]

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Crude Oil													Oil Extractor 1 sec	2 × Crude Oil 120 / min 20 MJ/item		Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Unpackage Oil	2 × Packaged Oil 60 / min												Packager 2 sec	2 × Crude Oil 60 / min 10 MJ/item	2 × Empty Canister 60 / min 10 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Alternative Fluid Transport

Usage[]

Crafting[]

Recipe	Ingredients		Building	Products		Prerequisites
Fuel	6 × Crude Oil 60 / min		Refinery 6 sec	4 × Fuel 40 / min 45 MJ/item	3 × Polymer Resin 30 / min 60 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Packaged Oil	2 × Crude Oil 30 / min	2 × Empty Canister 30 / min	Packager 4 sec	2 × Packaged Oil 30 / min 20 MJ/item		Tier 5 - Alternative Fluid Transport
Plastic	3 × Crude Oil 30 / min		Refinery 6 sec	2 × Plastic 20 / min 90 MJ/item	1 × Heavy Oil Residue 10 / min 180 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Rubber	3 × Crude Oil 30 / min		Refinery 6 sec	2 × Rubber 20 / min 90 MJ/item	2 × Heavy Oil Residue 20 / min 90 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Heavy Oil Residue Alternate	3 × Crude Oil 30 / min		Refinery 6 sec	4 × Heavy Oil Residue 40 / min 45 MJ/item	2 × Polymer Resin 20 / min 90 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Polymer Resin Alternate	6 × Crude Oil 60 / min		Refinery 6 sec	13 × Polymer Resin 130 / min 13.85 MJ/item	2 × Heavy Oil Residue 20 / min 90 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing

Tips[]

The following Alternate Recipes can be used to notably increase efficiency of petrochemical productions:

Combined with Packaged Water, Unpackage Fuel, Residual Plastic or Residual Rubber, a closed-loop production of Plastic without any waste can be formed, potentially increasing the Crude Oil to Plastic conversion ratio to 300%. The same applies to Rubber. Empty Canisters are reused and recycled in the loop.

Gallery[]

Four oil nodes near each other
Build this temporary setup to get the first 200 Plastic, then dismantle the Refineries.
A closed-loop petrochemical setup with Plastic, Rubber, and Fuel as final products with no byproduct utilizing alternate recipes.

History[]

Patch 0.4.0.0: Now extractible from Resource Wells
Patch 0.3:
- Now a fluid
- Can no longer be brought by Lizard Doggos
- Can no longer be obtained by cutting down specific plants with the Chainsaw
- Crude Oil blobs occasionally found in foliage now result in No item in foliage
Unknown patch before Patch 0.1: No longer possible to be mined by hand
Patch Closed Alpha 4: Mesh updated