Better Oil Production

Vanilla pumpjacks sip. Yours should gush.

Tired of carpeting half a continent in pumpjacks just to keep your plastic lines fed? Better Oil Production gives crude extraction a proper upgrade path — a full ladder of stronger pumpjacks — and, with Space Age, lets you refine asteroids into oil and rain it down from orbit.

Scale your oil from early-game trickle to industrial firehose.

⛏️ Three Pumpjacks, Three Playstyles

The vanilla pumpjack retires. Three purpose-built replacements take over as your tech climbs:

• Better Pumpjack — your bread-and-butter upgrade. Double the oil, same footprint, unlocked right after Advanced Oil Processing.
• Better Pumpjack Mk2 — the industrial monster. 4× extraction for when one patch has to feed your mall, science stack, and rocket-fuel line all at once.
• Eco-Friendly Pumpjack — the long game. Slower, but a built-in +20% productivity bonus and depletion slowed to a crawl squeeze far more total oil from a patch and keep precious fields alive for hundreds of hours.

🚀 Space Age: Oil from Asteroids

No crude on your planet? Make it in orbit.

Build a dedicated mining platform that grinds carbonic asteroids into Hydrocarbon Chunks, fuses them with water-ice into dense Synthetic Crude, and drops it planet-side — where a jet of steam liquefies each unit into a flood of crude oil.

Carbonic Asteroid → Hydrocarbon Chunks → Synthetic Crude → 💧 1,800 Crude Oil

• One Synthetic Crude → 1,800 crude oil.
• Each cargo pod delivers roughly 360,000 crude oil per drop — a single modest platform can keep an entire oil-less world (Fulgora, Vulcanus, Gleba) swimming in petroleum.
• Only need petroleum gas? A second recipe liquefies Synthetic Crude straight into ~990 petroleum gas, skipping the refinery entirely.
• The planet-side step mirrors vanilla Coal Liquefaction (solid carbon + steam → oil), so it feels right at home in the Fluids tab.

🔧 Blueprint-safe: the chunk-yielding crush is its own dedicated recipe — the vanilla carbonic crushing recipe is never modified, so your existing crusher blueprints and other space mods/planets (e.g. Muluna) keep working exactly as before.

🤝 Compatibility

• Space Age — pumpjacks restricted to atmosphere-bearing planets, with heating energy for cold worlds like Aquilo. Higher tiers gate behind space-tier science.
• Krastorio 2 — fully compatible; recipes and stats adapt to K2 materials and finite-oil balance.
• Space Exploration — higher-tier techs use se-rocket-science-pack.

📦 Dependencies

• Required: Factorio >= 2.0.2
• Optional: Space Age >= 2.0.2 (unlocks the full asteroid-to-oil chain)
• Optional: Krastorio 2 · Space Exploration · Better Energy Production

Drill harder. Drill smarter. Or just drop oil from space. 🛰️