About cleaning all the Oil?

[topshoulder]

If I clean all the Oil (Elderich Black Tar?), can I still acquire the black stuff for upgrades and items?

[Punkachuros]

Yep, just need to "fail" catching a fish to get some
EDIT : on the DLC fishes

[bsg_joel]

If there's no oil left on the map, you can't acquire the items. But you can always talk to The Foreman and he'll spawn more.

[𝕾𝖆𝖙𝖆𝖓]

Oh so the sludge will go away again? That's such good news! Almost stopped playing it because it's ruining the environment for me. Kinda why I stopped playing WoW with the Cataclysm addon.

[RCMidas]

You can use the siphon trawler to clear it all up. It's not going to go away by itself.

[topshoulder]

Originally posted by bsg_joel:

If there's no oil left on the map, you can't acquire the items. But you can always talk to The Foreman and he'll spawn more.

Thank you, I didn't expect the develop team responded. Can I ask one more question? What is the black oil thing really? Is it actually the blood of the elderich god who sleep in the deep sea?

[Kablamity]

i cleaned it all up, talked to the Foreman, and now i have to clean up more
(that's great though if you need more splashes or canisters! or maybe you're like me and added a bunch of trawler chips to your siphon and ended up buried beneath your hoard of dark canisters)

[Vesperas]

Originally posted by topshoulder:

Originally posted by bsg_joel:

If there's no oil left on the map, you can't acquire the items. But you can always talk to The Foreman and he'll spawn more.

Thank you, I didn't expect the develop team responded. Can I ask one more question? What is the black oil thing really? Is it actually the blood of the elderich god who sleep in the deep sea?

While that's certainly implied, it seems that it was intentionally left up to interpretation.

I'm not so sure it's meant to be an elderich god, but seeing the developers pairing the two monsters together in Dredge was especially interesting to me because it helps to illuminate and bring attention to the much older stories, themes and the monsters that H.P. Lovecraft ripped-off was inspired by. In this case, namely that of Scylla and Charybdis.

[RottingGem]

Oh thank you!! I realized when i only had one spot left on the map that maybe I had screwed myself over XD Glad to know there is a way to spawn more!