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Crashlander: Square One
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Alu Feb 21, 2024 @ 10:59am
No oil ponds
I went around everywhere in the map looking for oil ponds, but found none. Many desert bioms, some even quite big, but not one single oil pond. Can it be that I am just so unlucky, how does the generation algorithm work? Wanted to make a base in a decent spot...

The idea of the chemicals in the basement of the HQ is great, I went once with a pump, a chest, a switch and some scrap wood to make a little frame, and I got so much chemicals that I still have some left from that single time... could be great, if there was oil somewhere in a fixed place as well, to avoid having to fight like that!

I finished the main quest and most of the side quests, went electric with the generator to avoid the gas that I couldn't find...

I had and still have a lot of fun!! This mod gave new life to ScrapMechanic, that is always fun, but otherwise dead in its development.

Great ideas, keep it up guys!!!
Last edited by Alu; Feb 21, 2024 @ 11:16am
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electrodoc68 Feb 21, 2024 @ 2:19pm 
Look for one typing

/fly 10

in the chat window

my character begins to drown so I also have to type

/god

too.

type

/fly 0
to cancel fly mode and

/god
again to cancel invincibility.

You'll be able to fly around to see desert biomes to check out.
if you don't use /god in conjunction with /fly 10 then don't forget to /fly 0 near the ground otherwise..

Splat..!!
Last edited by electrodoc68; Feb 21, 2024 @ 2:31pm
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electrodoc68 Feb 22, 2024 @ 9:54am 
If no oil fields it's an extremely rare RNG map generation problem and I've seen commands for world generating but I've not got a clue how / if these can even operate in an established world with player built buildings etc.

So in that respect it would unfortunately be a new game then an instant /fly to check your worlds oil pond spawn.

There's usually a common spawn near Bills house in a close by desert area you have to be almost on top of it to notice it and TBH I found one on top of a hill half way between Bills & HQ before I found the one ~300 meters away from Bills.
Last edited by electrodoc68; Feb 22, 2024 @ 9:55am
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GreyBeard512 Feb 23, 2024 @ 9:03pm 
Kosmo (YouTuber) did a tour of the desert by Bill's just to show us there is no oil pond there in his game. So not everyone gets that oil pond.

I thought there was a way in the procedural map generator to specify at least one oil pond. But it might be a long way away, on the edge of the map.
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Alu Feb 24, 2024 @ 1:36am 
Hey guys, tahnks for your hints.

I had the exact same thoughts about the map generation issue, and I got no answers yet either. But it seems there's no "guarantee" that all the (necessary) elements are present.

I went flying around all the way to explore, no results (and yes, you need /god because flying is using the swimming trick).

I tried also an other world and went around and found some oil, so it seems I was simply damn unlucky.

I am not sure if I would like to start over, having finished almost everything... if I knew that this was the case, I would have done the pre-exploring step before to do anything... but maybe I could do some improvements in a new world, now that I know what to aim. Could be nice to be able to "transfer" the achievents and the inventory, maybe it's even possible...
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