Crude Oil Extractor
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Crude Oil Extractor is a production structure which works as a facility for producing 
Crude Oil.
Acquisition
It's a tier 50 technology item and requires 2 technology points to unlock.
Crafting
| Material | Quantity |
|---|---|
 Pal Metal Ingot
|
250 |
 Circuit Board
|
50 |
| Output | Quantity |
 Crude Oil Extractor
|
1 |
Usage
It's built over an oil node. With a power supply, it's able to generate Crude Oil.
Oil Extractors require end-game levels of electricity. The crude oil drills are VERY THIRSTY for electricity. The extractor will happily drain all of your base's power, shutting down other facilities. Regular electric pals, on regular power generators will not keep up. Here are some tips for sustaining drills:
- Get Orserks. By the time you can unlock the oil drill, you should be geared enough to catch or breed Orserks. They spawn at the high level sanctuary no.3, and you're gonna need em.
- Build the Electric Pylon. This is the passive structure that improves electricity generation. It's passive buff will help a lot in the pursuit of sustaining extractors. It's not too expensive and is easy to build (at level 50). Do not forget the pylon!
- Build the Large Power Generator. It's more efficient but, more importantly, it allows 2 pals to work, where the regular generator only allows one. These Large Power Generators are pretty much required for oil drills. Electric Organs can be bought from a merchant in the Small Settlement, and this is much easier than farming them manually.
- The jump between level 3 and level 4 work suitability is HUGE. Orserks are level 4 for generating electricity by default, and can be condensed to Lvl 5. It is very much worth it to get that extra level, because the jump is BIG. My max rank Orserk powers 3 drills all by himself, and with nocturnal, always keeps them running. Which brings me to:
- "but I assigned 3 Grizzbolts to 3 regular power generators! That's not enough?" No, It's not. The oil extractor's power consumption is on a different scale than anything else in the game. It may be possible to power with lesser pals, but it would be really inefficient (I wanna test an army of Sparkits tho). It's endgame stuff, you gotta use endgame pals. If all you have are Lvl 3 Electric pals, make sure to use multiple big generators and the power pylon.
- Nocturnal is important. If the power generating pals go to sleep, the extractors will quickly drain all available power overnight and will shut down. Breeding Orserks with Nocturnal is the best- but I've seen some folks use enough Helzephyr Luxs to sustain 1 or 2 extractors. Not an ideal solution, but a decent one while you're working on making Orzerks. The extractors don't sleep and will run 24/7 if they have power.
- Alternatively: Kill Kikits. Is all this business of sustaining electricity just not for you? Go farm Kikits; they drop oil. They usually spawn in packs, and can be killed fairly easily. You can trample stunlock them to death if you really have to. If you're just trying to get enough oil to craft/build a specific thing, or don't have the resources and pals to have a fully sustained oil base- get some oil from kikits to hold you over.
Production Speed
As of release v0.3.5.57064:
One fully powered Crude Oil Extractor produces 1 unit of oil in 100 seconds (1 minute 40 seconds).
History
- 0.3.1.0
- Introduced.