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Building an Oil Base (step by step)

1. Find a spout/oil lake, Pump above it, Redstone Engine on the pump, lever. 2. Next to the pump: tanks (stacked) – or fluid pipes to your base. 3. Power the Refinery: at first 2–4 Stirling engines or combustion engines …

1. Find a spout/oil lake, Pump above it, Redstone Engine on the pump, lever.
2. Next to the pump: tanks (stacked) – or fluid pipes to your base.
3. Power the Refinery: at first 2–4 Stirling engines or combustion engines on oil.

4. Second pump on a 3×3 water pool, fluid pipes to the combustion engines (cooling).
5. Fuel from the refinery via a wooden fluid pipe into a tank, from there to the engines.
6. Once fuel flows: switch the engines to fuel – double power, a bucket lasts 21 min.

You find the same texts in game with /handbuch.

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