Do gas stations have limited fuel now?

[Cheezeburger]

I was reading through the 41.78 patch notes and saw this
- Right-clicking on a fuel pump in debug mode will display the amount of fuel in the pump in the right-click context menu.

Did a prior patch update gas stations to have limited fuel and I missed it?

[derp12332112]

Ye, they should have limited fuel now; Its BASICALLY limitless, because I highly doubt you'll ever manage to use more than what you will ever need, but they're technically limited now.

[ipsos]

They already had limited fuel, it was just an enormous amount that you wouldn't realistically ever empty.

[Greb]

They always had limited fuel although I think there's a sandbox setting to make it unlimited? Not sure. There's definitely settings that go from "low" to "max" starting fuel in the tanks, though. Not sure what the default setting is.

Never actually tested it myself, but I wonder how many cans of gasoline you could pull out of a gas station set to "Full" - I've never known them to run out, we've never set them on high or anything.

New setting for extremely low fuel, should be fun. Is there a random setting? I feel like there should be a random setting if there isn't. The amount of fuel across every station in the game wouldn't be uniform, right?

[hardy_conrad]

The host of the multiplayer server I'm on recently had the fun idea of setting gas station fuel to zero. In what I am sure is an entirely unrelated issue, the average number of players on at once went from 15 to 2...

[Death]

Originally posted by ipsos:

They already had limited fuel, it was just an enormous amount that you wouldn't realistically ever empty.

Originally posted by Greb:

They always had limited fuel although I think there's a sandbox setting to make it unlimited? Not sure. There's definitely settings that go from "low" to "max" starting fuel in the tanks, though. Not sure what the default setting is.

Never actually tested it myself, but I wonder how many cans of gasoline you could pull out of a gas station set to "Full" - I've never known them to run out, we've never set them on high or anything.

New setting for extremely low fuel, should be fun. Is there a random setting? I feel like there should be a random setting if there isn't. The amount of fuel across every station in the game wouldn't be uniform, right?

That isn't true. They were unlimited as recently as build 40. I'm pretty sure it was one of the updates for 41 that brought a limited amount of fuel.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Death:

Originally posted by ipsos:

They already had limited fuel, it was just an enormous amount that you wouldn't realistically ever empty.

Originally posted by Greb:

They always had limited fuel although I think there's a sandbox setting to make it unlimited? Not sure. There's definitely settings that go from "low" to "max" starting fuel in the tanks, though. Not sure what the default setting is.

Never actually tested it myself, but I wonder how many cans of gasoline you could pull out of a gas station set to "Full" - I've never known them to run out, we've never set them on high or anything.

New setting for extremely low fuel, should be fun. Is there a random setting? I feel like there should be a random setting if there isn't. The amount of fuel across every station in the game wouldn't be uniform, right?

That isn't true. They were unlimited as recently as build 40. I'm pretty sure it was one of the updates for 41 that brought a limited amount of fuel.

Yep it was somewhere around the 41.5x patches if i recall well. (It was asked to be limited if i recall well on the forum.)

[Another Mother's Son]

Originally posted by derp12332112:

Ye, they should have limited fuel now; Its BASICALLY limitless, because I highly doubt you'll ever manage to use more than what you will ever need, but they're technically limited now.

This could be a bigger deal in MP as factions start to bogart resources. A couple tanker trucks should be able to empty a small station. Then you have to go to Gas Town and barter for petrol, so start collecting those animal print bra & panties!

[Shinoskay]

gas pumps have always had a limit

[Another Mother's Son]

I'd love to see a biofuel mod. Every Spiffo's should have a grease barrel by the trash bins. Lye from camp fires and Disinfectant could make a usable dieselish something

[Another Mother's Son]

And you get glycerin to make Paper Street Soap Company soap!

[Vintorez]

I'd like to see an implementation of wood gas production like from that Long Term Survival mod. It would act as a renewable replacement to gasoline at the cost of faster degradation, maybe with a more expensive/slower production method to purify it to remove the penalty, and/ or have skill requirements to modify generators and engines to run on wood gas. Just like the mod it would be a neat long term survival mechanic.

Even when it's not always realistically necessary, I always like it when resources in survival games, especially important ones like gas in PZ, have some sort of sustainable method to never run out. It would be especially interesting in long term multiplayer games where a person or group could specialize in providing the server with high quality gas and the modifications to run on it.

[Death]

Originally posted by John:

gas pumps have always had a limit

Wrong. It definitely happened in build 41. Here's a dev blog where they make mention that gas stations would no longer have infinite fuel.

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2021/04/home-on-the-range/

[Another Mother's Son]

Originally posted by Death:

Originally posted by John:

gas pumps have always had a limit

Wrong. It definitely happened in build 41. Here's a dev blog where they make mention that gas stations would no longer have infinite fuel.

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2021/04/home-on-the-range/

Nice job. You win

[Another Mother's Son]

Originally posted by Vintorez:

I'd like to see an implementation of wood gas production

I just saw my first video of a homemade gasifier in action! This would be amazing late game. Some anti-Stardew Lorax hellscape where you just raise trees to burn them...