Hazeron Starship – How to Find Oil

There are a few things you may try to help you locate some oil if you’re having problems finding some.

Tips for Finding Oil

Things That Require Oil

First let’s look at what you can’t create:

• All vehicles, except space rockets and sailboats.
  • They either require oil for construction or for fuel
  • Space Rockets can be constructed using fertilizer instead of oil.
  • Sailboats can be constructed completely from things foraged from the environment.
• EV suits.
• Spacecraft.
• Airport Radar.
• Harsh environment city.
  • This means that any non-habitable world is out of the question.

Tips

Increase Resource View Range

1. Open the Settings (Shift+F12) window.
2. Go to the Render tab.
3. Increase the Rock View Range slider to maximum.

This will not have any effect until you move far enough to cause the rock icons to be regenerated. Then you will see the resource icons much farther away.

Remove Foliage

If the area is heavily forested, the foliage will be hiding rocks. Using the Defoliate Area landscaping tool can reveal these hidden rocks and some of them might be oil.

Check Other Resource Zones

Explore your home world. Most people have a lot more time than they think to get to know their world.

1. Your home world can have up to four resource zones in which to explore for natural resources
2. Amount and quality of natural resources varies in each zone. A resource that is rare in one zone could be abundant in the next
3. Resource zone divisions are marked on the map as grey longitude (vertical) lines
4. The distance between resource zones is shorter as you get closer to the poles. It takes much longer to circumnavigate the globe at the equator than at 60°N or 60°S

Use a Sailboat

The sailboat is one of the few vehicles you can build and use without oil.

1. Get in your Sailboat. You can operate the sailboat from either of the back two positions.
2. Go to top-down view.
3. Zoom out to get a good view.
4. Set resource overlay to show stone so it’s easier to see your detection range.
5. Raise the sail and start sailing alone the coast.

Use a Space Rocket

The space rocket is one of the few vehicles you can build and use without oil.

1. Buy some units of hydrogen for extra fuel.
2. Get in your space rocket.
3. Go to top-down view.
4. Zoom all the way in.
5. Set resource overlay to show stone so it’s easier to see your detection range.
6. Start your Space Rocket and start flying around.
   • Height: 500-1000.
   • Speed: 50-70.
7. Using the top-down view, point your camera down at the ground while you fly.

Check Other Worlds

There is always a chance that there is a second habitable or semi-habitable world in a solar system.

1. Check the F7 “System” tab for the worlds available in your starting system.
2. If there are any Outer, Inner or a second Habitable planet or titan, fly there in a space rocket and try to set up a little colony.
   • Most Outer and Inner worlds are semi-habitable and should not require building blueprints with life support.
3. Construct an airport terminal on the world and on your homeworld to form a trade connection.

Visit Other Solar Systems

If all else fails, you can still look to the stars. While a space rocket is low-tech, it is capable of deadheading to other solar systems. This would be the hardest thing to try, but it is possible. This will take a while, and require precision as you can easily miss the star of the target system and shoot past into deep space.

Things of note:

• Navigating the stars without a navigation systems takes practice. Requires charting the stars and comparing them with the star map. The system map will also show your relative location.
• Travel time while deadheading is roughly 10 minutes per parsec plus 20 minutes.
• Bring extra hydrogen for fuel.
• You won’t know if a solar system contains habitable worlds until you are at least half way there.
• Avoid any solar system with a supergiant sun, celestial black hole, or neutron star as a space rocket cannot escape their gravity.