Crude Oil

Crude Oil is a semi-rare mid-game resource found in the world. It is refined in Refineries into Plastic, Rubber and Fuel, whilst producing the Heavy Oil Residue and Polymer Resin byproducts. It is a fluid resource obtained from resource nodes, and is extracted using Oil Extractors instead of Miners. It can be transported via Pipelines, be packaged for conveyor transportation or be transported via trains.
== Obtaining ==
=== Resource acquisition ===
Crude Oil can be extracted from Crude Oil resource nodes using Oil Extractors. It cannot be mined manually. The default extraction rates are as follows:
Node purity	at 100%	at 250%
Impure 	60 	150
Normal 	120 	300
Pure 	240 	600
This leads to the following total availability on the map:
Crude Oil can also be extracted from Resource Wells using Resource Well Extractors, which spread over 2 clusters. The default extraction rates are as follows:
Node purity	at 100%	at 250%
Impure 	30 	75
Normal 	60 	150
Pure 	120 	300
This means the following amount of Crude Oil is available:
By combining the output of both methods, the max extraction rate is 11700 .
=== Extraction energy ===
It takes about MJ to extract 1 m of Crude Oil, assuming it is extracted from both Oil nodes and Resource Wells. Further reading: Extraction energy
=== Crafting ===
== Usage ==
=== Crafting ===
== Tips ==
The following Alternate Recipes can be used to notably increase efficiency of petrochemical productions:
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Combined with Packaged Water, Unpackage Fuel, Residual Plastic or Residual Rubber, a closed-loop production of Plastic without any waste can be formed, potentially increasing the Crude Oil to Plastic conversion ratio to 300%. The same applies to Rubber. Empty Canisters are reused and recycled in the loop.
== Gallery ==
File:Oil Nodes.jpg|Four oil nodes near each other
File:Bootstrap plastic schematic.png|Build this temporary setup to get the first 200 Plastic, then dismantle the Refineries.
File:Petrochemical.png|A closed-loop petrochemical setup with Plastic, Rubber, and Fuel as final products with no byproduct utilizing alternate recipes.
== History ==
* Patch 0.4.0.0: Now extractible from Resource Wells
* Patch 0.3: 
** Now a fluid
** Can no longer be brought by Lizard Doggos
** Can no longer be obtained by cutting down specific plants with the Chainsaw
** Crude Oil blobs occasionally found in foliage now result in No item in foliage
* Unknown patch before Patch 0.1: No longer possible to be mined by hand
* Patch Closed Alpha 4: Mesh updated
== See also ==
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== External link ==
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCm0H_4YnE Video guide on turning 300 Crude Oil into 900 Plastic.
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