Oil/Gas/Fluid Drilling Rig: Difference between revisions

=== Prospecting for Fluids ===

Like [[Ore Generation]], fluids are placed during [[World Generation]] on a predefined grid and unknown to the player until prospected for, using the [[Seismic Prospector]] or hand-held [[Prospector's Scanner]]s on bedrock. The each oil field is a group of 8x8 chunks with no offset and the same fluid - if using portable scanners that need access to bedrock, dig down at the corner of four fields for best efficiency. Any chunk 200L+ is considered good; theoretical maximum is ~750 and most chunks will have 50 or less.

* Further Reading: [[Oil Generation]]

The only thing that determines the area from which an oil rig pumps is which chunk it's placed in, relative to the oil field. The exact position of the drill in the chunk never matters. There is no way to let one drill extract form multiple oil fields or non-aligned chunks at the same time. Press F9 twice to see chunk borders.

* T1 rig always pumps only from the single chunk it's placed in.

* T2 rig draws from a 2x2 chunk area, aligned with the edges of the oil field.

* T3 rig pumps a 4x4 chunk quadrant, aligned to the oil field.

* T4 rig pumps the entire oil field it's placed in.