Not getting Oil

[Behemothrex]

I am trying to get crude oil, I found an oil patch and put a water pump on it but all I get is dirty water.

I was not in Red Sands so I move there and found a huge oil patch right next to a Oil Derick, but still no oil.

I am level 27 is there some hidden level cap, or something I am doing wrong? A bug?

Thanks.

[Lethallady]

Uh oh.... I haven't tried to get oil yet, but I picked my base location just for the oil patch I have in my territory.... I hope it works and you figure it out...

[ZombieWolf2113]

Originally posted by Behemothrex:

I am trying to get crude oil, I found an oil patch and put a water pump on it but all I get is dirty water.

I was not in Red Sands so I move there and found a huge oil patch right next to a Oil Derick, but still no oil.

I am level 27 is there some hidden level cap, or something I am doing wrong? A bug?

Thanks.

Go to red sands any where in red sands gives crude oil then you need a refiner its 10 crude oil to 1 portable fuel and then 10 portable fuel to 1 premium fuel

[Behemothrex]

Originally posted by Zombiekiller2113:

Originally posted by Behemothrex:

I am trying to get crude oil, I found an oil patch and put a water pump on it but all I get is dirty water.

I was not in Red Sands so I move there and found a huge oil patch right next to a Oil Derick, but still no oil.

I am level 27 is there some hidden level cap, or something I am doing wrong? A bug?

Thanks.

Go to red sands any where in red sands gives crude oil then you need a refiner its 10 crude oil to 1 portable fuel and then 10 portable fuel to 1 premium fuel

Initially I was not in Red Sands, but since I was not getting oil I moved there. I am literally right next to an oil derrick, and my water pump is in a patch of oil sand 50 feet wide. Still nothing. I have moved it to different locations inside the oil patch like 10 times, still nothing.

I am about ready to pull my remaining hair out.

[Kryzx]

Did you make a new water pump on the oil patch or is it one that was already built AFTER you moved your base to the oil patch?

I would try a new water pump to see if it fixes the problem. I currently have my base on an oil derick spot and I can't find a spot in my territory to pump dirty water anywhere despite not having an oil patch spot nearby lol.

[Hefutoxin]

I have a couple pumps in a small oil puddle in Red Sands. Pump says "dirty water" but the actual product is crude oil.

It could be a bug and the oil you see is not considered an oil spot.

[Confuoco]

rebuild pump

[Behemothrex]

The pump was built new once I moved my base, but I will destroy it and build it again just in case.

And Hefutoxin how do you know its oil if it says dirty water, are you able to refine it?

Thanks.

[Behemothrex]

Update: Well I moved my base right next to the Blackfell Oil Fields and sure enough I got crude, I move just north and got crude again, then I moved back to where I originally was, on a patch of ground that looked EXACTLY like the ones in Blackfell, dirty water.

So basically I guess you can't go by the black spots on the ground, you have to be very close to a major oil source. Kinda sucks because I found a nice spot for my base that wasn't crowded with 1000 other bases, guess I will have to join the condo association now.

[flackenstien]

Oil should be all over the map and not just in one area. EVERYONE has their house along this river, and any oil spot left untouched doesn't actually give oil.

90% of the map has no purpose once Red Sands is available.
Why can't we have the rest of the map opened, and give players more area to build.

[Behemothrex]

I finally gave up on getting oil. I moved my base way to the west in chalk peak, the one place to get polluted water for acid that didn't have 40 other bases. Hopefully in the future they expand resource locations, or introduce phasing so people are not stacked on top of each other.

[Death2Gnomes]

did you figure out how to get oil?