Axe or Pick

[CrystalArmature]

Is an axe or pick better for harvesting oil off of trilobites? I'm not to the level where I'll need oil any time soon, but I don't really have the guts to go underwater, mostly because it's just terrifying and that it would be extremely hazardous.

[Shifty76]

You can get oil from surface rocks in the snow biome. I'd lean towards hatchet, but the amount you get is barely worth the effort.

[CrystalArmature]

Originally posted by Shifty76:

You can get oil from surface rocks in the snow biome. I'd lean towards hatchet, but the amount you get is barely worth the effort.

Snow biome as well, it's really hazardous to a person at my level.

[MortVent]

If you can tame a carnivore.... use it. The wolf, raptor , kitty, and trex/sarco are the ones I recomend

[Thanatos]

If you have points in Oxygen and Stamina, the water is easy. Just tame a mega or ichy and go diving.

[HawthornThistleberry]

And to answer the original question, pick.

[Urazz]

Diving with a sarco, ichy, or megladon is a safer bet for getting oil than going to the northern biome at lower levels I think.

[Dracul]

You can also look for shallow or only a few meters down oil nodes. Putter along with a raft with a bed on it only thing you need to risk losing is your pick, jump in look around, no sharks in sight (or more importantly, freakin piranha) swim down hack away swim back up. Store your oil ina crate, rinse repeat till your content or your little heart can take no more suspense of 'wailing on a oil node , knowing jaws is approaching quietly'.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=640437062

[Stomatopoda]

Originally posted by Dracul:

You can also look for shallow or only a few meters down oil nodes. Putter along with a raft with a bed on it only thing you need to risk losing is your pick, jump in look around, no sharks in sight (or more importantly, freakin piranha) swim down hack away swim back up. Store your oil ina crate, rinse repeat till your content or your little heart can take no more suspense of 'wailing on a oil node , knowing jaws is approaching quietly'.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=640437062

You hate pirahna, huh?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=632044900

[squireoftim]

Trilos can be harvested along the south eastern shore in shallow water-I use a rex but a raptor would do. The wiki says hatchets harvest chitin, picks get you oil.

[Stomatopoda]

Pick gets primary resource, Hatchet gets secondary. Thus when you harvest an oil node you should use a pick (as Oil = Primary and Stones = Secondary), and when harvesting Trilobites you should use a Hatchet (Meat = Primary and Chitin/Oil/Pearls = Secondary).

[drazan]

Originally posted by Dracul:

You can also look for shallow or only a few meters down oil nodes. Putter along with a raft with a bed on it only thing you need to risk losing is your pick, jump in look around, no sharks in sight (or more importantly, freakin piranha) swim down hack away swim back up. Store your oil ina crate, rinse repeat till your content or your little heart can take no more suspense of 'wailing on a oil node , knowing jaws is approaching quietly'.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=640437062

look wild megas with saddle..oh wait

[Grandmastersexsay]

Pteranodon, snow biome, pick.