Question about crude oil.

[NOOBSURVIVES YT]

Crude oil production is too slow, the machine works really slow as well. Does adding more power generator helps increase the speed of machine.?
Can't even craft palsteel or use things from the update because they need crude oil.

[SMUUTI]

No. You would have to have multible bases near the oil wells

[AquaX]

ATM there is no way to increase the rate in which crude oil is produced from the machines.

The best way I found around this only works if your solo or in private server. Reduce the timer for the meteor/supply time so it constantly drops them. The supply crates always have oil in it along other goodies.

[Shrub]

You gotta walk away and focus on something else while it produces.

Presuming you're on normal settings, there should be plenty of tasks left like leveling --> catching pals, gathering the extra materials you'll need with palsteel if you hadn't yet, tending to your breeding farms, collecting parts, or some other sub-objective in your base productive or non-productive like schematics.

You can increase production by moving more bases onto more oil pits. This might sound like a POTA, but it would also grant your main oil time for production.

The initial start to oil is slow, but you typically don't need a ton after the immediate builds so its not a big deal. It'll be interesting to see how they adjust production times or methods of obtaining oil in the future, although I think they should add a production increase slider on world settings and call it a day. People don't want to wait, they shouldn't have to. Even if I disagree :P

Bonus theory: Maybe if you had a 4 star katress you could clean oil rig soldiers who drop oil for more loot. Soldiers are normal type so they should boon from Kat's partner ability. Cranked up spawn rates and a rocket launcher, GG scoop the loot

[Teratus]

It is pretty slow... and most build spots only have 1 node to build on in the first place.
Don't think i've seen any spots that have more than 2 oil nodes.

I've build on one with 2 nodes, set up a "production" base there so it's essentially farming resources passively and where all my production lines are.
But the Oil is slow to gather up, i've still not made much Plasteel either, and most of what I have made was gathered from supply drops.

It has slowed me down somewhat as I am in endgame atm but i'm playing on custom settings that are closer to hard mode, like catch rate etc because I don't want the game to be too easy.
So I need to make a bunch of those highest tier spheres and armour before I can go catch the legendary bosses, my current armour despite being legendary quality isn't good enough and neither are legendary spheres.

I'll get there eventually.. just need to wait on all that oil to get drilled up first.
Until then i'm going to focus on breeding, I've got some good Pals atm but I want to start exploring and looting that Oil Rig.
So I gotta breed a decent swimmer/water Pal to get over there.. my go to flier can't get there.

[Yal]

If you're playing singleplayer you can change the world settings to allow for up to 10 bases, I ended up doing that to speed up the grind. (It's still a pretty big endeavor to build all the infrastructure you need though - one big generator per oil pump, and enough food production to keep two high tier electric pals happy for each generator)

[NOOBSURVIVES YT]

Originally posted by Yal:

If you're playing singleplayer you can change the world settings to allow for up to 10 bases, I ended up doing that to speed up the grind. (It's still a pretty big endeavor to build all the infrastructure you need though - one big generator per oil pump, and enough food production to keep two high tier electric pals happy for each generator)

changed the world settings for supply drops, that was much easier. Maybe if they improved the schematics drop for things that require crude oil and pal steel, i would actually need that much oil.

[Shrub]

Originally posted by Yal:

... and enough food production to keep two high tier electric pals happy for each generator)

If you're at this point in the game, sell your legendary spheres for your food products. At most, a couple lettuce farms will do. It should take no time at all to prep 1000+ grilled lamball. The legendary spheres should be able to pay for all their own mats + lamball meat, if not the lettuce. I've never bothered to buy lettuce long-term.

Grilled Lamball is one of the best food item you can make pre-hunting and the last update made it beyond easy to mass-produce. It served me all through end-game.

[Teratus]

I make salads for them, few tomato and lettuce farms is all you need to cover their food cost.

I've got two bases atm with around 40-50 Pals in both and one base as 3 tomato and 3 lettuce farms, the other has no food production at all.

The one base with farms is producing enough tomato and lettuce to make enough salad to over provide for both bases.
I can probably add another base with another 50 Pals going and still be making enough salad to have all 3 gradually building up a surplus XD

[Azi]

Make sure you are using the Large Power Generators and you need at least 2 at 3 Generating Electricity work that are nocturnal or Dark type. Honestly, I would use one of these per oil deposit... otherwise the power might just go out if something happens and it can take a while for them to get it back up to speed.

These machines take more power than you think but produce a lot when you can leave them on. Get yourself an Orserk or other high rank electric pal early, here's breeding spoilers:

4-5 rank Orserk = Grizzbolt + Relaxaurus
3-4 rank Grizzbolt = Mossanda + Rayhound
3-4 rank Mossanda Lux = Grizzbolt + Mossanda
3-4 rank Relaxaurus Lux = Relaxaurus + Sparkit
3-4 rank Helzephyr Lux = Helzephyr + Beakon

Helzephyr Lux is already Dark type and so can be more productive below Orserk with good breeding, but they are quite large and I cannot recommend them. Remember, Pals rank up their 'Work Suitability' rank at max condensation and you can 'upcycle' this condensation to another of it's type with better passives through breeding, so you won't lose out on condensing early and swapping out when you get the right pal hatched.

This also lets you breed traits up when you get the next 'puzzle piece' for breeding Orserk (I've never caught a decent wild one, it's only good to get for Lord of Lightning), and hopefully all the good traits you get funnel into the perfect Orserk. I have 4 Orserk with Nocturnal, Artisan, Work Slave, and Lucky which I chose over Serious because my oil base is left with a skeleton crew of very few workers to defend themselves; they power 2 Large Power Generators that fuel 2 Crude Oil Extractors and I'm honestly wondering what I should do with all my extra oil.

Edit: I can tell in my current setup I will not need all 4 Orserks when I get them all to max condensation, I will likely be removing 2 and storing them for other projects. When all Orserks are well bred, you may only need 3 for 2 Large Power Generators, but I still suggest a backup (and they can empty the oil into a chest, so why not throw a 4th in?)

[NOOBSURVIVES YT]

Originally posted by brokenbutfree.thi:

Make sure you are using the Large Power Generators and you need at least 2 at 3 Generating Electricity work that are nocturnal or Dark type. Honestly, I would use one of these per oil deposit... otherwise the power might just go out if something happens and it can take a while for them to get it back up to speed.

These machines take more power than you think but produce a lot when you can leave them on. Get yourself an Orserk or other high rank electric pal early, here's breeding spoilers:

4-5 rank Orserk = Grizzbolt + Relaxaurus
3-4 rank Grizzbolt = Mossanda + Rayhound
3-4 rank Mossanda Lux = Grizzbolt + Mossanda
3-4 rank Relaxaurus Lux = Relaxaurus + Sparkit
3-4 rank Helzephyr Lux = Helzephyr + Beakon

Helzephyr Lux is already Dark type and so can be more productive below Orserk with good breeding, but they are quite large and I cannot recommend them. Remember, Pals rank up their 'Work Suitability' rank at max condensation and you can 'upcycle' this condensation to another of it's type with better passives through breeding, so you won't lose out on condensing early and swapping out when you get the right pal hatched.

This also lets you breed traits up when you get the next 'puzzle piece' for breeding Orserk (I've never caught a decent wild one, it's only good to get for Lord of Lightning), and hopefully all the good traits you get funnel into the perfect Orserk. I have 4 Orserk with Nocturnal, Artisan, Work Slave, and Lucky which I chose over Serious because my oil base is left with a skeleton crew of very few workers to defend themselves; they power 2 Large Power Generators that fuel 2 Crude Oil Extractors and I'm honestly wondering what I should do with all my extra oil.

Edit: I can tell in my current setup I will not need all 4 Orserks when I get them all to max condensation, I will likely be removing 2 and storing them for other projects. When all Orserks are well bred, you may only need 3 for 2 Large Power Generators, but I still suggest a backup (and they can empty the oil into a chest, so why not throw a 4th in?)

I have one helzephyr lux and one orserk each for both power generators and 2 lux on standby for night shift. i made a mining base for everything but things would be more useful if i could actually find any schematics. After recent update i can't find any schematic above level 50 in the world and have to go to Oil rig.

[JackieTheDemon]

Every base spot on the new Island has 2 oil deposits.

Move all your bases over there, supply with 6 (2 per base) Orserks and you will be good.

Oil rig chest has 100+ oil in it.

[Azi]

Originally posted by NOOBSURVIVES YT:

I have one helzephyr lux and one orserk each for both power generators and 2 lux on standby for night shift. i made a mining base for everything but things would be more useful if i could actually find any schematics. After recent update i can't find any schematic above level 50 in the world and have to go to Oil rig.

Yeah, my current game life has become running eggs from my bases to my egg room, raid the oil rig, kill a couple bosses/do chores irl, hatch eggs, wash, rinse, repeat and only break when I teleport and a meteor/supply drop lands or someone invades (usually Rayne Syndicate, so I assume you get more invaders dependent on who you attacked recently, which is smart if that's actually the case).

I'm hoping we get another update introducing at least 1 more faction main base like the oil rig for schematics. I'm hoping to see a sword upgrade, maybe for the new faction, the Moonflowers, so we can get a variant schematics like with the Quad Missile Launcher because a katana would be amazing.

I'm pretty sure they intend on releasing new land masses in a full circle around the world tree eventually, so I suspect we'll get more like the oil rig. I also suspect eventually not all the land masses will always be available (and might even sink below sea-level occasionally) so I think we'll have better alternatives for getting each schematic eventually from unique boss fights and places like the oil rig will just be a supplemental way of farming. We just have to wait for more content to come out and until then farm the oil rig.

Once you get used to where all 4 big chests can spawn and where most of the small chests are, you can get the big chest and a good 6-8 normal chests that can also drop most of the schematics in under 5 minute runs. Get a Jetragon, and a few sturdy pals that can guard your back while you open chests, and for sure a Dogen. Speed works better than disarming all the turrets and lasers because the enemy keeps respawning anyways. As long as you keep moving, they all have about as good of aim as a stormtrooper and it's only their pals you need to deal with quickly. AoE Pal moves deal with bigger groups as they cluster up while chasing you.

[Ethanol]

Ignore every suggestion, just mass capture Kikit with Ultraspheres, and start butchering them for them sweet sweet oil.

Be sure to spend a little time max out your capture rate, too, unless you want to burn off your Legendary Palspheres.

[Teratus]

Originally posted by Ethanol:

Ignore every suggestion, just mass capture Kikit with Ultraspheres, and start butchering them for them sweet sweet oil. :love_seagull:

Good idea, going to try this tomorrow.

I've hit the point where I just need craptons of Oil to progress and no matter what I do I can't seem to get enough of the stuff..

It's taking forever to gear myself for hard bosses and it's the only thing I have left to do now.

[JackieTheDemon]

Originally posted by Teratus:

Originally posted by Ethanol:

Ignore every suggestion, just mass capture Kikit with Ultraspheres, and start butchering them for them sweet sweet oil. :love_seagull:

Good idea, going to try this tomorrow.

I've hit the point where I just need craptons of Oil to progress and no matter what I do I can't seem to get enough of the stuff..

It's taking forever to gear myself for hard bosses and it's the only thing I have left to do now.

Do not do this. It is not a guaranteed drop from the Kikits, build bases on the new island, they have 2 oil deposits per base-building spot.