Do you NEED oil to progress?

[Zordah]

New player on my first map here.
I have tech 1 and 2 all automated now and things seem to be going well (except for a biter attack that wiped half my base ).

I'm starting to find recipes that need plastic now which IIRC requires petroleum to produce.
Now I can only find 2 small spots of oil so far (about 81% full).

Will this be enough or is my progression stopped due to lack of nearby oil?

[Chthon]

You can never actually run out of oil, though you will eventually find your wells drawing only .1/s which is tiny when you need 10 cured to make 3 heavy, 3 light, and 4 methane (1:4.5:5.5 if you have advanced)

With 2 wells producing .2/s total, this means it will take 50 seconds to get even one oil production cycle going. Then you also consider it takes 3 methane to make 1 plastic or 1 sulfur, that's 1 every ~27 seconds. This can grind your whole factory to a halt really. (A Sulfuric acid takes 5 sulfur so that's ~136 seconds per 4.5 battery cycle) Batteries are used in blue bottles, so that's not many bottles at that point.

The moral is, you have ~1.6 crude per second, this is small already, and it'll just get smaller. Find more. I just wish there were tankers in vanilla.

[Teurlinx]

You can never actually run out of oil, though you will eventually find your wells drawing only .1/s which is tiny when you need 10 cured to make 3 heavy, 3 light, and 4 methane (1:4.5:5.5 if you have advanced)

With 2 wells producing .2/s total, this means it will take 50 seconds to get even one oil production cycle going. Then you also consider it takes 3 methane to make 1 plastic or 1 sulfur, that's 1 every ~27 seconds. This can grind your whole factory to a halt really. (A Sulfuric acid takes 5 sulfur so that's ~136 seconds per 4.5 battery cycle) Batteries are used in blue bottles, so that's not many bottles at that point.

The moral is, you have ~1.6 crude per second, this is small already, and it'll just get smaller. Find more. I just wish there were tankers in vanilla.

Well, we kinda have tankers. You can load the oil in barrels and then move them by train.

[Zordah]

Thanks for the reply. So it WILL work just very slowly after the reserves are used up - that's good to know.

I don't mind slow as long as I don't get overrun by biters

[Chthon]

Thanks for the reply. So it WILL work just very slowly after the reserves are used up - that's good to know.

I don't mind slow as long as I don't get overrun by biters

Don't worry, they only bite on Sundays.