how do you get oil in the snow biome?

[rorilla]

so i saw what im prety sure is oil in the ground in the snow biome, if this is indeed oil, how do you gather it? i just barely reached the point where i need oil so i don't know too much :P

[MarkusMG]

jump on an ankylo and smash those rocks. you'll get a lot

[Ssaph]

Or simply use a pickaxe :)

[rorilla]

thats the thing its not in rocks its in cracks running through the ground

[rorilla]

at least the oil ive seen by my base anyway

[wolfflow500]

I assume your using a regular stone pickaxe or stone hatchet, but only metal tools can efficiently gather oil. It only take about 2 metal to make the 1 metal ingot needed for the metal pick so its a worthy investment. After that you can get a much larger metal drop rate from most metal rocks :D. You always have the option to get a tamed mount though. Have fun.

[Yoth]

Dive down into the water. The is oil seeping from rocks on the bottom to the surface. You have to harvest those rocks with a metal(!) pickaxe.

[Ssaph]

Originally posted by aka_rorilla:

at least the oil ive seen by my base anyway

Ah ok, i havent seen that yet.
There are a lot of rocks around wich give oil. (tall black rocks)

[Greystar]

Originally posted by aka_rorilla:

at least the oil ive seen by my base anyway

That sounds more like graphics glitching to me, the ones I've seen are along the shoreline mostly and look like the normal Oil rocks for which you need an Anky or a Metal Pickaxe.

[Sminky]

they're tall black and balbus

[rorilla]

@wolfflow500 ive tried all the metal tools on it but nothing happens, im guessing now that it's probably just part of the biomes design like its tar or something

[Greystar]

Originally posted by Greystar:

Originally posted by aka_rorilla:

at least the oil ive seen by my base anyway

That sounds more like graphics glitching to me, the ones I've seen are along the shoreline mostly and look like the normal Oil rocks for which you need an Anky or a Metal Pickaxe.

Originally posted by aka_rorilla:

@wolfflow500 ive tried all the metal tools on it but nothing happens, im guessing now that it's probably just part of the biomes design like its tar or something

See Above statement.

[rorilla]

@jelle2403 I havent gone that far into the snow yet, what i saw just happened to be close to my base on the edge of the region

[rorilla]

and i mistook it for oil

[holden4ever]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=526712510

Those big rock formations are oil deposits.

[SoraCrunch]

Originally posted by holden4ever:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=526712510

Those big rock formations are oil deposits.

Nice wolf :)