Psych0P3nguin Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 So I see all gas veins have the collector on them. And on official I used to do a lot of asking if I could take gas balls from people's collectors, until I realized they all say "Go ahead, we don't use them. They're worthless." 3 hours of farming Gas Balls and Green Gems by myself and I have filled up 3 Generators to max 4 more to half. If you had a tribe doing a run a day, you could easily fill generators and have plenty extra. So my question is, why do people think that this is a worthless way to farm gasoline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brayn Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 If you farmed trilobites on the blue side of the swamp river for 3 hours you'd be able to fill 20 generators from all the oil collected and just need to use 1 reaper. The gas ball/green gem conversion needs to be doubled or tripled to make it viable. Doing the gas ball/green gem method, you need to farm gems with an anky or doedic, cart the massive amount of weight back to base, move that weight around into chem benches multiple times plus use a drake to efficiently collect enough gas balls. Putting 40 items into the chem bench to get 5 gasoline is ridiculously stingy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorium Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 They probably don't craft element. They are very useful, however you don't need much of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todgins Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 5 hours ago, Psych0P3nguin said: So I see all gas veins have the collector on them. And on official I used to do a lot of asking if I could take gas balls from people's collectors, until I realized they all say "Go ahead, we don't use them. They're worthless." 3 hours of farming Gas Balls and Green Gems by myself and I have filled up 3 Generators to max 4 more to half. If you had a tribe doing a run a day, you could easily fill generators and have plenty extra. So my question is, why do people think that this is a worthless way to farm gasoline? Because 10 minutes on the surface for oil nets you about the same/more They only stack to 10, but you need 20, 50, or more to craft anything so they are annoying to store unless you have a dedicated "gas ball storage" dino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfishrob Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 hazmat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjsechrest Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Yeah on ab you need to get tek gen. 3 element on max range for 24 hours that's 21 element a week easily done in 20 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todgins Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 On 01/02/2018 at 2:33 AM, Mjsechrest said: Yeah on ab you need to get tek gen. 3 element on max range for 24 hours that's 21 element a week easily done in 20 minutes Max range really that low consumption? 1.0x range is about 1 element per 16 hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz2014 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Who uses gasoline? We have an emergency (best be a fkin emergency too) genetator that has never run except like day 1. Tek gens are much easier and quicker to farm for / run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janexlolz Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 4 hours ago, Haz2014 said: Who uses gasoline? We have an emergency (best be a fkin emergency too) genetator that has never run except like day 1. Tek gens are much easier and quicker to farm for / run. So what is your element consumption? Same as it shows in ark wiki? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjsechrest Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 7 hours ago, Janexlolz said: So what is your element consumption? Same as it shows in ark wiki? We had to increase our range a bit to cover another turret tower but we are running a tek gen at 8.6 range and only uses about 4 element a day (to be honest more like 3 1/2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz2014 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 On 02/02/2018 at 5:53 AM, Janexlolz said: So what is your element consumption? Same as it shows in ark wiki? On max range i think its approximately 12per day? Probably slightly less but Its very little upkeep for a large tribe honestly. We are currently running 4 generators on max to power our area completely (the range is huge... highly recommend building the generators off the floor, approx 8-10 walls high so you can also build towers that will be powered) Tek troughs are life also. Gg wildcard, so glad you made tek relevant finally. Boss fights sucked, glad i got all the engrams before Abb.. wont be going back ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chazz Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 I love gas balls, cant get enough. Making Haz suits with dura 400+ costs quite a bit for a tribe with 10+ members. Plus we use element on the drakes to knock out the crabs on the go. Gas balls are very usable but I don't convert them into gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janexlolz Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 On 2/3/2018 at 12:09 PM, Haz2014 said: On max range i think its approximately 12per day? Probably slightly less but Its very little upkeep for a large tribe honestly. We are currently running 4 generators on max to power our area completely (the range is huge... highly recommend building the generators off the floor, approx 8-10 walls high so you can also build towers that will be powered) Tek troughs are life also. Gg wildcard, so glad you made tek relevant finally. Boss fights sucked, glad i got all the engrams before Abb.. wont be going back ? I did some testing. I have one turret tower that is 3x3 foundations and 9 wall high with hatchframes that goes outwards as far as possible. If I place tek generator in middle of the tower in all axis(x,y and z) then I can power it with 2.8 range and it consumes 1 element in 11h and 15minutes. I tested max range as well and it did consume 1 element shard every 2 minutes and 40 seconds which would be 1 element every 4h and 26. minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordRingser Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 thats killing me often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz2014 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 On 06/02/2018 at 11:36 AM, Janexlolz said: I did some testing. I have one turret tower that is 3x3 foundations and 9 wall high with hatchframes that goes outwards as far as possible. If I place tek generator in middle of the tower in all axis(x,y and z) then I can power it with 2.8 range and it consumes 1 element in 11h and 15minutes. I tested max range as well and it did consume 1 element shard every 2 minutes and 40 seconds which would be 1 element every 4h and 26. minutes Wow alot less than i thought. Been putting like 30 ele in at a time and its lasting a while.. Thanks for the info was that tested on official or sp/player dedi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabele Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Early game the farm is real though. The fact that they only stack up to 10 per slot is such a waste i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janexlolz Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 On 2/9/2018 at 1:47 AM, Haz2014 said: Wow alot less than i thought. Been putting like 30 ele in at a time and its lasting a while.. Thanks for the info was that tested on official or sp/player dedi? Official PS4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz2014 Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 On 10/02/2018 at 1:16 AM, Sabele said: Early game the farm is real though. The fact that they only stack up to 10 per slot is such a waste i think. 100% agree... no need for them to do that as it is very easy to get a replicator up and running on aberration so all bps are easily crafted anyway mays well let us use fabricator... (wish the reppy could be powered by a tek gen also) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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