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Research drilling. Build a resource console. Build an oil derrick over a patch of the black stuff, you can only see it with a working resource console on the map. Build a crude oil storage tank and pipe it to the derrick.
Important! The well needs to be drilled! this is a construction job that can be done by multiple colonists, click the derrick to see the progress, it requires steel as fuel during this phase..
Once the well is drilled you will see a pressure value falling quickly, this will slow down and provide a fairly constant rate, you can switch off the well to allow pressure to build back up again, it will also rise when there is no space left in your tanks.
Now you have a tank of the black stuff you need to refine it into chemfuel, research and build a crude cracker, and build fuel storage tanks, pipe everything together, then a crafter is required to man the resource console and then the cracker will start to produce fuel, adjust the power setting on the cracker to match your power and crude oil capacities. You can use the pump and siphon buildings, to pump or siphon chemfuel, into or out of the tanks, from there you can use chemfuel for anything that you normally would.
Now that you have a supply of chemfuel stored in tanks, you can start using it to produce materials. All of the refinery buildings require an adjacent unloading bay where it can dump the product to be stored or hauled away, the stockpile priority of these unloading bays can be changed. Autoclaves are manually loaded and unloaded by hand.
Synthylene is the first material available, it can be used to make anything that can be made from wood, its weak and light, so its great for furniture, internal doors and walls, and you can make fancy synthetic floors with it, and it can also be made in a selection of colours.
Synthread is the standard common sythread material found in Rimworld.
Synthamide is a synthetic fiber which is placed between devilstrand and hyperweave, it can be used to make clothes but is also used in the manufacture of composite material.
Synthamide Composite is a high strength building material, available in a selection of colours, which can be used to make any metallic buildings, it is made by combining Synthamide and Synthylene at a fabrication bench, to create uncured composite, which is then finished by curing in an autoclave with the desired colour.
Plasteel can be manufactured in the same way as synthamide composite, by setting an autoclave to plasteel curing mode.
You can build chemfuel power plants which pipe directly into the chemfuel storage tanks, these provide the same amount of power, and fuel burning rate, as 5 standard chemfuel generators, but in a smaller package and with no manual refuelling required, they are however quite noisy.
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