Command to remove Crude Oil?

[NC16inthehouse]

I spawned too much crude oil and I don't know how to remove it.I tried the Wiki and changing the entity but to no avail.

[MalcolmCooks]

You should be able to use this command:

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/c for _,entity in pairs(game.local_player.surface.find_entities_filtered{
       area={{game.local_player.position.x-32, game.local_player.position.y-32},
           {game.local_player.position.x+32, game.local_player.position.y+32}},
           name="stone-rock"})
 do
   entity.destroy()
 end

but you will have to figure out what the name for the oil patches is and insert it instead of "stone-rock". Perhaps someone else knows?
If you make the player.position numbers large enough you can delete all oil patches in a very large area. However this won't prevent the game from generating crude oil in new areas so I suggest starting the map over with different resource gen settings. If you want to keep the same map then use the map exchange string

[prg]

Remove whatever you're pointing at:

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game.player.selected.destroy()

Remove half of the already generated oil:

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for chunk in game.local_player.surface.get_chunks() do
    oil_wells = game.local_player.surface.find_entities_filtered{name="crude-oil", area={{chunk.x*32, chunk.y*32}, {(chunk.x+1)*32, (chunk.y+1)*32}}}
    for _, v in pairs(oil_wells) do
        if math.random() > .5 then v.destroy() end
    end
end

Remove half of newly generated oil:

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_chunk_generated, function(event)
    oil_wells = event.surface.find_entities_filtered{name="crude-oil", area=event.area}
    for _, v in pairs(oil_wells) do
        if math.random() > .5 then v.destroy() end
    end
end)

[ssilk]

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