LF Desert Planet Oil Rig/Station

I'm looking for inspiration.

Anyone out there have an Oil Station set up on a desert planet?
Can I see it?

I want to build one for my narrative, but I can't seem to come to any decent designs for it.

 

Well, that depend what your looking for. A small station just for extraction or a large oil refinery with a hidden base with a dark secret? I could try building either.

 

I wasn't really asking anyone to build anything.

I just thought if someone had any history of trying to build an oil station they could pop it in here and show me.
If it was big or small didn't matter, because in my imagination it was already built.

I saw some cool stuff in SivCorp's thread - particularly the Lunar Base and the Fueling Station.
Those are quite big. I think mine will be much smaller.

 

Well, you ignited my creational spark so I'm now likely to try making something. I'll let you know the result.

 

Awesome. I can't wait.

 

I'll try building something as well, but I'm not the best at building things.

 

Every noticed how awesome Frackin' universe is for diversity, but how annoying it is when looking for a specific biome?

I have a general concept, I just need a proper planet now.

 

It's ready!

The entrance! Not much to say here.


Here's the main extractor with the oil tank. (Sorry for the lil image merge)


Oil.


The processing plant.


Finally, the exit, same as the entrance.

 

Yeah. I love Frack Uni because I just want to be surprised when I go to a new system.
But yes it can be a pain when you want to find something specific.

I love your design. It's real close to the simplistic oil rig I imagined. Including the tank!
I need some of that pipe. ; ;

Thanks so much for putting that together.
I had this stilted-platform station in mind, but I couldn't conceptualize what else to do with it.

 

To be honest, I mostly spawned all of this using /admin and /spawnitem. The pipe's code is heavypipe.

http://starbounditems.herokuapp.com/ is a great way to get the codes.

 

Yeah. I am aware of how to do it. I appreciate the "heavypipe" instruction because finding what an item is called is a chore.

I'm really trying not to. It's pretty difficult to make cool looking stuff like this though without it.
Gathering all the resources that you can't make (for whatever reason) or pixel printing them is a tedious pain in the current economy.

Anyway, there are some characters I have no problem tweaking them to get what they need for a build, but this particular guy is doing it the old fashioned way.

 

I'm not sure you can get craft everything, but most of it come from USCM prisons.

 

I believe a mod in the serious modpack gives you the ability to make pipe.... blockstation maybe? I've started using the serious modpack for the great level of detail one can build with. And frakin universe is awsome, I agree.

Inspiration wise, it looks like you have already looked into my fueling station

I haven't done an oil station yet.... but when I do, I'll make sure I post it for ya!


We need pumps...

 

I think the pipe might be from the sewers. Either that or it's also from prison.

 

It looks like you can craft the pipes out of copper in the Nightly now. That's good news.
It doesn't exactly help me out in Stable right now, but it's nice to see its on the horizon.

Yes. Pumps are sorely needed.

 

I know its not a desert oil plant, but perhaps it can be of some inspiration anyway.

 

Well, ultimately I want to build an Erchius station.
Since steel requires oil and the Erchius station (imo) requires steel, it was a logical first step.

Fortunately the game itself provides a fairly decent blueprint for how Erchius stations will look.
However, I will be keeping your build and SivCorp's build in mind proceeding with mining stations.

Right now everything I make is out of wood cause its the easiest renewable resource to gather without modding or /admin
... but wooden everything gets old as I'm sure most builders are aware.
I'm already heavily modded, though, so I'm not against the mod or mods Siv suggested. I am looking into it currently.

 

-sends SCVs to collect gas-

The major problem for non-wooden structures is that other resources are "limited". You can't reliably make a mine that will continuously produces ore. There is a mod called farmable ore or something that allows it though, if it's still working in the current build.

One thing I just realized though. Teleporters now allows us to make a system-wide base.

 

What do you mean?

 

It's possible to place teleporters to going from one place to the other (i think), so you build a main base on a luch planet, a fuel station on a moon and so on and place teleporters in each of them.