Oil extraction

[Uncle Smurf]

Hi guys, Pain in the ♥♥♥ here again.

Im playing vanilla version now. Im wondering about pumpjacks, maybe im missing something.
There...is....not....enough...oil....

18 pumps with modules and surrounded by beacons won't pump more than enough for just one oil barrel assembly mach. and I literally just planted that oil station...

Is there a way of maximizing oil transport without building 10-20 stations all around the map? or should I just quit whining and get to work.

Im not planning to use any mods or commands btw. Thanks in advance :D


PS: Anyway of posting screenshots from the Steam client?

[Cycle_Of_Insanity]

If you look at the yield it shows the effectiveness of a deposit it gets to 10 the yield is basicly worthless and will pump very small amounts

[KatherineOfSky]

OP, you don't specify -- make sure you are using SPEED modules, (not productivity).

Oil is one of those things that I *highly* recommend setting in your mapgen settings to Big/Rich.

In my large base, I am tapping about 4 different fields... each with 60 oil patches... and it's *just* about enough. I'm afraid the answer is to just tap more oil fields, as well as putting productivity modules into your oil processing buildings, (refineries, chem plants, etc.).

Originally posted by Cycle_Of_Insanity:

If you look at the yield it shows the effectiveness of a deposit it gets to 10 the yield is basicly worthless and will pump very small amounts

Depleted fields are not worthless -- they are an infinite supply, even if they produce very little at a time. By surrounding a pumpjack with beacons, you can get up to ~ +700% production = 0.8 oil per second.

[Warlord]

I set my oil to big/rich. Ended up with a single field with 60 patches (under a biter nest because the game hates me) within radar range. The damned things ended up having between .4 and .8 yield. Whatever happened to having rich deposits that have 10+ yield and take forever to drain? Did they change the oil mechanics in a patch and I missed it? I haven't seen large patches for like half a year.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Warlord:

Did they change the oil mechanics in a patch and I missed it? I haven't seen large patches for like half a year.

Yes, they changed oil yields in 0.13. Apparently they are now "too dry", and will be changed again in 0.15.

[Uncle Smurf]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

Depleted fields are not worthless -- they are an infinite supply, even if they produce very little at a time. By surrounding a pumpjack with beacons, you can get up to ~ +700% production = 0.8 oil per second.

Thats nice, care to explain the layout plz? Ive 480 with 12 beacons and SM2

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Smurf Daddy:

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

Depleted fields are not worthless -- they are an infinite supply, even if they produce very little at a time. By surrounding a pumpjack with beacons, you can get up to ~ +700% production = 0.8 oil per second.

Thats nice, care to explain the layout plz? Ive 480 with 12 beacons and SM2

Speed Module 3s... why would you use 1s or 2s for anything?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=784675172

[Uncle Smurf]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

Originally posted by Smurf Daddy:

Thats nice, care to explain the layout plz? Ive 480 with 12 beacons and SM2

Speed Module 3s... why would you use 1s or 2s for anything?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=784675172

Cuz Im still on my way to space man :D Thanks btw

[brian_va]

can also use the bergius process mod, can then turn coal into oil. gives a new usefullness to coal in the later stages of the game. the mod simplifies it, but its mostly factual, so its not a total cheat.

[Uncle Smurf]

Originally posted by brian_va:

can also use the bergius process mod, can then turn coal into oil. gives a new usefullness to coal in the later stages of the game. the mod simplifies it, but its mostly factual, so its not a total cheat.

Good to know, Ill keep that on mind, now Im on an achievements run :D

[Titus Brutus Avituis]

well oil problems dont know if its a glitch whit my save or an update but my jack used to minimum give 0.1 now they all give 0.0 any idea's

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by XIII&USG Titus Brutus Avituis:

well oil problems dont know if its a glitch whit my save or an update but my jack used to minimum give 0.1 now they all give 0.0 any idea's

The devs talked about this wihen 0.13 came out in an FFF... IIRC, Some mods change the amounts of oil, and the display of the number was 0.0 because the new amount of oil was less than the threshold of the display, (possibly due to floor rounding?) Your wells aren't producing zero... it's just the way it displays.

(It's been a while since I read the FFF... )

[Titus Brutus Avituis]

never used a mod but good to know they still work