How to create fuel?

[Bjorn Ironside]

I used up all the fuel I could find in the fallen wreckage. What do I do now?

I'll piss in the bottles

[Cotaks]

piss is no fuel haha.

make more at the workbench if you have it unlocked

[morph113]

I haven't played since early access release, but I remember there were 2 different recipes I believe to make fuel. One was from animal fat or whatever it's called. The other one was with a fermentation barrel via insect meat or something. Like 50 insect meat = 1 fuel or with a breakthrough research it was like 25 insect meat = 1 fuel. Or actually I think the insect meat thing was a breakthrough research by itself so you may or may not get this recipe.

[JeanDeaux]

Since the pet update, my favorite method is to use manure to make fuel with. You will first need to Observe the (Ulfen) droppings to unlock the recipe and then it's just collecting all that stuff. You can make fuel early game if you make that research a priority. You can either "use" manure you find dropped in the wild or if you tame a few Ulfen's then your survivors will collect the droppings from tamed Ulfen automatically.

Else you can craft fuel at a worktable using animal fats & grains (corn or wheat). As Moprh stated, there's also a recipe turn create fats from bugs. I believe there is also another recipe that will convert alien meat directly to fuel, but that takes like 50 units of alien meat.

[Bjørn]

A quick way to make fuel now after the animal taming update is to first have a survivor analyze some manure from the animals grazing in the area, then you'll unlock making fuel from manure. You can gather 'free' manure from then on, or tame the animals (never tried myself) and 'harvest' it that way.

It will take a few days after starting the game for the first piles of manure start to show up, but using this method it's possible to start fuel production very early.

Edit: Lol sorry I've had this thread open for a while, and didn't see JeanDeaux' post until now :o)

[Bjorn Ironside]

Thanks! I will make fuel with piss

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by JeanDeaux:

...As Moprh stated, there's also a recipe turn create fats from bugs. I believe there is also another recipe that will convert alien meat directly to fuel, but that takes like 50 units of alien meat.

This is absolutely the best way to make fuel; the recipe is called "fuel fermentation," and has to be researched. This is one of the break-through research items, and I wouldn't play unless that research was available. The fermentation uses 50 insect meat to make 20 fuels. Both work-bench methods -- vegetable oil (or animal fat)-to-fuel and poop-to-fuel -- produce only 10 fuels per crafting session, and of course require someone there doing the crafting, much more labor intensive than "handling" a fermentation barrel.

[Handbanana]

Fastest and easiest way now is to just find manure and research it then you can just craft fuel on a workbench.

Animal fat to fuel is possible also but not great.

Fuel fermentation is considered one of the best breakthroughs as its basically passive fuel production even though its quite slow overall.

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by Handbanana:

Fastest and easiest way now is to just find manure and research it then you can just craft fuel on a workbench.

Animal fat to fuel is possible also but not great.

Fuel fermentation is considered one of the best breakthroughs as its basically passive fuel production even though its quite slow overall.

But you end up with way more fuel with fuel fermentation than with poop-to-fuel on the work bench. You will have hundreds of insect meats after your first couple of attacks, and it is relatively simple and non-labor intensive to handle the fermentation barrels necessary to produce fuel. If you're relying on the poop-to-fuel method, then just watch your crafter scrounge around each time to accumulate enough manure to craft the fuel, and then wait until the fuel is finally crafted. His output will be 10 fuels, and in that time you can have 5-6 fermentation barrels complete their operation and will have over 100 fuels.

I usually don't even bother with the "balloon optimization" research, because I usually have 1200 - 1500 cans of fuel on the shelves so 15 or 30 to fuel the balloon doesn't make that much difference.

[Gandi]

Tylko które x działań odblokowuje fermentację paliwa?

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by Gandi:

Tylko które x działań odblokowuje fermentację paliwa?

You observe manure and then the option to craft fuel will be unlocked at the workbench.

Obserwujesz obornik, a następnie na stole warsztatowym odblokowuje się opcja wytworzenia paliwa. google translate

[jamesglen7]

Workbench to craft fuel first and add fermentation barrels for more fuel... you're going to need it. Watch your refrigerated storage space when manure stacks up. Tamed Ulfren can provide all the manure you can handle if you keep them fed.