How to get oil shale without a desert.

[MrSantaMan]

Me and my friend are doing a wasteland only world. I know you can get some oil shale from pass and gas boxes and the little chem labs. Is there any pois or other notable ways to get it without having a desert.

[God Bless The Dead]

If it's gas you need, the trader sells that pretty much always, in massive stacks, I buy my gas, as I always have tons of tokens from quests and I am not a massive fan of mining.

You can look at it like this, rather than time spent mining and refining the shale into gas at the chem station, you can do a tier 5 or 6 in the same time and get a lot of tokens to buy a stack of gas etc.

[God Bless The Dead]

Also maybe put on chunk reset in the game settings, so cars will respawn, you can wrench them for some gas and they will respawn.

But honestly, I just do what I said above personally.

[MrSantaMan]

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

If it's gas you need, the trader sells that pretty much always, in massive stacks, I buy my gas, as I always have tons of tokens from quests and I am not a massive fan of mining.

You can look at it like this, rather than time spent mining and refining the shale into gas at the chem station, you can do a tier 5 or 6 in the same time and get a lot of tokens to buy a stack of gas etc.

Completely forgot to mention it. But there is also no trader. We have just been wrenching cars was hoping for an easier way but oh well.

[seven]

There are a few POIs that have some oil shale, like the large fuel depot type tank POI, but it's just small amounts. Whoever is wrenching cars could put more points in Salvage operations to increase yield. There's lots of cars spread across the wasteland. I was able to live there a long time just scrapping cars.

[God Bless The Dead]

Originally posted by MrSantaMan:

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

If it's gas you need, the trader sells that pretty much always, in massive stacks, I buy my gas, as I always have tons of tokens from quests and I am not a massive fan of mining.

You can look at it like this, rather than time spent mining and refining the shale into gas at the chem station, you can do a tier 5 or 6 in the same time and get a lot of tokens to buy a stack of gas etc.

Completely forgot to mention it. But there is also no trader. We have just been wrenching cars was hoping for an easier way but oh well.

There is some oil shale in some poi's like "Clunky Oil Company COC", also there is some gas there, maybe keep an eye out for it

Here is a video of the Clunky Oil Company poi
https://youtu.be/ZHf98LAkwRQ?si=_UJ0F0kPPGWyf_0S

[Desert Rat]

Originally posted by MrSantaMan:

Me and my friend are doing a wasteland only world. I know you can get some oil shale from pass and gas boxes and the little chem labs. Is there any pois or other notable ways to get it without having a desert.

I like the concept of a wasteland only map. I'm currently working on a desert world map. One of the things to be dealt with in those scenarios is balancing resources. If you do any modding, it's not that difficult to add oil shale to the wasteland biome. You could also go developer mode one time and add in some oil shale blocks in various places.

For future maps, you could use the Editor to create a custom POI that contains oil shale blocks, and add it to your map. Beyond that, the suggestions already offered in this thread are going to be your best bet for finding gasoline and shale.