Safest ways to get fuel?

[Timeternal]

mining for fuel on moons gives me anxiety because of the monsters that come for you after a while :(

[kbrayaquar7]

That's the only place to mine fuel. There are mods that help (there's one to remove the ghost, there's another to make the ghost killable) There's also Gaymonsterdad's Resource extractor mod... which can exttract erchius from moondust, moonrock, and moonstone... mining of which does not summon the ghost. Course the extractor requires durasteel... which is higher end than you can get at that point in the game, but /admin fixes that. Alternately you can buy erchius fuel (in liquid form) for 5gp ea at Infinity Express (at the outpost). That's entirely no risk, and you can farm stuff to sell easily. Or just mine a bunch of copper ore and iron ore on your starting planet and sell it.

[^^o^^ BatCat]

Safest way.. is not be greedy.!

Get SOME and put it in the ship. Then go back. Rince and repeat.

It chases you based on what you have collected.
A little practice and experimentation will tell you how much "some" is.
When skills improve, take "some more".. heh.

[SilverAgeFan]

IMO, by far the safest way to get fuel is not to mine it but to go to enemy and friendly ships in a star system that is of your current or 1 above mech level. Check every container on the ship. Can usually get 25-125 fuel per instance. Plus you get mech parts, plans, and cool ship blocks for building with.

[MysticMalevolence]

The safest way in the early game is to simply buy fuel from the Outpost. There is a 0% chance of death while doing this.

Alternatively, you can get fuel from raiding pirate ships with your mech. This is a bit more dangerous, and very very slow on the fuel gain, but you don't need to deal with the ghost and you'll have more fun doing it; it should get you to the next star and enough cash to buy more.

In the late game, it is possible to terraform a moon to no longer be a moon, leaving the fuel unprotected.

Or just use mods to remove the dumb ghost.

[l0rd_samuel]

You can just run around the planet instead of digging in. Everytime you see something, you drill down and get it and then continue in the same direction. You are always moving away from the ghost this way without being blocked by terrain and can always warp up.

Mining Upgrades, Tech and a grapling hook help you manuevering the caves, put some moonblocks in the quickbar to get platforms for free while you are mining.

You can scout yourself a route without collecting any fuel and prepare a quick exit route that has lots of it on the way.

[Chances]

If you're running Frackin Universe, there's also an EPP you can craft that will require some exploring, but well worth it, as it makes you undetectable to the creature and some air.

[Spitfyre37]

I always dig down until I find a large pit of Liquid Erchius. Then I backtrack and dig a massive tunnel straight up to the surface. Then, fill up your block inventory with individual blocks. Mine all of the liquid, and then, when you're ready to go, remove one block from your inventory, collect all the Erchius just sitting on the ground, and then climb up out of the hole as quickly as possible.

[daistn]

I mine my liquid Fuel on ocean plaents... less hassle and its all free :)

[Spitfyre37]

Originally posted by daist'n:

I mine my liquid Fuel on ocean plaents... less hassle and its all free :)

wait, what? how?? HAVE I BEEN DOING THINGS THE HARD WAY ALL THIS TIME?!

[jimbobslimbob]

Make yourself an automated fuel diluter on an ocean planet - you will never have to mine for it ever again! This does NOT even require mods.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1399444917

...by letting water in slowly to mix with fuel and then store it in a tank. You can do the same thing with poison, oil and healing water. Poison and healing water are much easier to dilute though, and can be done very quickly.

It can also be done at any time in the game, as soon as you access ocean planets.

I say "dilute"... but what actually happens is the water turns INTO fuel, diluting doesn't actually occur at all.

[Spitfyre37]

Holy-- Well I guess I know what I'm doing next!

[jimbobslimbob]

Awesome, have fun! I ended up making a huge refinery for fuel, oil, poison and healing water on one planet. You will never run out ever again.

[Spitfyre37]

Originally posted by jimbobslimbob:

Awesome, have fun! I ended up making a huge refinery for fuel, oil, poison and healing water on one planet. You will never run out ever again.

Thanks!

[MortVent]

I turned a water world into a huge factory for fuel/healing water/oil/etc

The fun part was modifying the system to use oil to mass produce lava as well.

[Spitfyre37]

Originally posted by MortVent:

I turned a water world into a huge factory for fuel/healing water/oil/etc

The fun part was modifying the system to use oil to mass produce lava as well.

Hey, can I ask you a question? How did you get the oil to replicate? I'm trying to do a factory (you had a good idea there!) but the oil refuses to replicate. I'm using the same method I used to replicate Erchius, but the oil just continues to spill over as water. Any tips?