Oil

Oil is a dark liquid found naturally in pools around the world and can also be produced from an Oil Fabricator. The primary use of oil is as a low grade fuel for Combustion Engines. It can also be refined into higher-grade FuelFuel, which is more efficient.

It can be manually transported using a bucket, or transported automatically by using a Pump, Engine and Waterproof Pipes.



Oil Spawns
Finding Oil can be difficult due to its rarity but can easily be found, via the minimap, in both the ocean and the desert. It comes in the form of small, medium and large oil deposits. Massive oil spawns do occur, however it is extremely rare.


 * Small oil deposits contain up to 16 buckets of oil and are "common" in the desert biome, having a 3% chance of generating there. Large deserts usually contain several of these. Naturally_Spawned_SugarCane_next_to_Oil.png


 * Medium oil deposits consist of an oil bubble which center is located between depth 20 and 30. They can be spotted from the surface through an oil deposit looking like a regular deposit, except that it can be located on any biome, and contain a chimney going from236px-Medium_oildeposit.png the actual bubble up to a geyser when reaching the air.Medium oil deposits contain between 100 to 1,000 buckets of oil.


 * Just like a medium oil deposit, they consist of an oil bubble which center is located between depth 20 and 30. They can be spotted from the surface through an oil deposit looking like a regular deposit, except that it can be located on any biome, and contain a chimney going from the actual bubble up to a geyser when reaching the air. large deposits can contain over 8000 buckets of oil

When pumping oil in the ocean, be aware that you will have to block off water source blocks to prevent them from interfering with your pump (you can easily do this with sand or cobblestone).



Extracting the Oil
When oil has been found, you can use a bucket to gather it, but using a Pump for medium and large deposits is highly recommended. The pump will allow you to pipe out the oil via waterproof pipes to a tank, refinery, or combustion engine. While you can fuel combustion engines directly from the pump, it is highly inefficient, as refined oil will give a much better return on length of use per bucket.

Refining Oil
To refine oil into fuel, it must be run through an Oil Refinery. This must be powered by an engine, conductive pipes or through the use of an Energy Link. From the refinery, fuel may be placed into a storage tank using waterproof pipes.

Trivia

 * Sugar Cane will treat oil as water and will allow it to grow.
 * Oil will also hydrate farmland, tested.
 * Though oil acts like water (It even makes blue water parcticles) You can't use any of the "Infinite water" techniques on oil.

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