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Is it possible for making locomotive able to hold liquid? I'm trying to make locomotive that works by consuming oil.

I've been asking for support for this to be possible since version 0.10.x.

I'm thinking of making invisible fluid wagon or storage tank as a proxy for the locomotives, then update remaining energy on the locos according to how much liquid left in the tank. Liquid wagon has better refuelling animation but the game doesn't allow me to place them overlapping with the loco no matter what. If I set the proxy fluid wagon collision_mask = {} then the game just crashed whenever another train part overlaps with the fluid wagon.

Definitely needs to be added. Some maps have sparse crude oil spots.

Why not use a tank as proxy?
Maybe you can reuse some stuff from the railtanker mod.

Or just burn barrels with oil...

I basically see fuel blocks as... a cube shaped bottle of oil. Because, that's basically what it is in where it is used.

Well, I want to make something entirely different gameplay wise, so making oil barrels have fuel value doesn't really seems all that different from vanilla.