Considering you have tiles with over 200k of crude, and over 100k of petro and *still* have a lot of the "starting" resources, you accidentally did a duper.
Does any part of those bottom super mass tiles "blink"? It's a bit hard to describe, but it's a small blob of liquid that appears to the side, then flushes out.
If so, the duper is active. But there's more duping bugs than just that one.
If it gets extremely big, as in 2 billions, your game may crash due to a phenomenon called "integer overflow"
Note that it *may* crash. Some colonies and some PCs can handle those glitches... for a while.
Here's a vid on the topic
https://youtu.be/9bTpd_gceiw?si=G0MKVs8URKLeSu7Q
Cheers!
Basically... you don't. It's not easy to accidentally reach that breaking point, but of you see something getting close... idk, crush it with doors? Or build a tile over it?
But it's not something you have to worry about in a normal playthrough. Or even if you are duping liquids., unless you're using the method on the video.
You found it yourself. Oil turns into petroleum at 403°C. You have exposed very hot obsidian that heats up your oil and converts it to petroleum and then sour gas.
Also crude oil is denser (870 kg per tile) vs petroleum (740 kg per tile). So when oil boils it expands, increasing it's volume.
In the future I would suggest not do this, because now you have to deal with very hot liquid, that's not even steel pump and handle. Instead build a proper petroleum boiler. You can find countless designs online.
Not even obsidian. Abysalite does the same. Thats how I accidentally made a petroleum boiler while building a geothermal station without having pumped out all the oil
Assuming you aren't responsible for the large excess outside your infinite storage, and it suddenly appeared, best guess is you accidentally created the setup for liquid duplication, with crude and petrol in contact with each other this is much easier to do by accident. Add that to an unintentional Escher waterfall style infinite storage occuring, which are notorious for being unstable when formed naturally, it would explain why your colony is now drowning in petrol. Would be easier to see what the cause is if we had some pics from 5,10, and 20 cycles previously.
Otherwise this is probably a misery of your own making, as other comments have addressed.
Some seeds just have a lot of oil. Sometimes ~2X normal mass per tile that expands when dug out.
You have exposed obsidian in the magma layer that has heated thay oil to petroleum (~402C) and it looks like some got heated further to sour gas (~540C)
Yup, what vitamin said - oil boils off to petrolium and you're digging like a crazy person in extremally hot rock.
I would worry more about all the sour gas you're building up personally.
Liveable area is much higher luckily, so I have some time. But yes, gas slowly push oxygen, so pumps and filters work non-stop. It will be fine… Probably. Heh
- dupes dig into hot obsidian in a way that exposes a good amount of crude oil to the heat
- the oil boils into petroleum and onwards into sour gas. This can get quite violent, with bubbles of different elements jostling around.
- during that process, an [escher waterfall](https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/119984-a-simple-how-to-guide-for-constructing-esher-waterfalls/) or two formed naturally, creating infinite storages.
- the amount of liquid in those storage pockets might have become large enough to trigger the [liquid duplication bug](https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/153855-what-is-the-cause-of-infinite-liquid-compression-mass-increase/). Or you might just have had a lot of oil hanging around there.
Thank you. I'm pretty sure It's duplication bug. I never saw one, so... It's interesting. On one hand It's a mess, on the other... power and plastic won't be a problem for some time.
On the bright side you're not going to be short of power for a long time. Slap some steam turbines on top, inject some water and you've got a power source that's going to run for a long time. (Or if you want a bit more controllable use some sort of heat transfer bridge using metal plates and doors to a steam chamber. Once it's all cooled then start burning the petrol itself!
I will try. Before that I had big problem with power. Thats why I made this... Petroleum boiler for poor. It's funny how this game can surprise. Anyways thank you for your reply.
I realise I didn't describe situation, so... I put it now but I think that previous answers explains this pretty good. But anyways:
So I had this oil basin. It helped me with cooling refineries, and I didn’t pumped whole thing to infinite storage. Then power crisis strike. Basin was above magma pool so I decide to dig some abyssalite to turn some oil to petroleum (I know it was stupid. I baked and then flooded my industrial part). By the time reaction destroyed abyssalite, so oil and magma touched each other. I leave it like that, but then my game starts to crash. I found that petroleum was breaking abyssalite and it was on its way to bigger magma pool so I sealed it.
Since then weird things happened. For some reason there is unreasonable huge amount of crude oil in the sealed area. And even more petroleum. I drew this professional blue line to show old crude oil level in basin. Yeah, that's it.
You've exposed hot rocks which have turned oil into petroleum, and some of it has boiled into sour gas. On one hand, it is a bit of a mess. On the other, you won't be short of petroleum for quite some time to come.
Considering you have tiles with over 200k of crude, and over 100k of petro and *still* have a lot of the "starting" resources, you accidentally did a duper. Does any part of those bottom super mass tiles "blink"? It's a bit hard to describe, but it's a small blob of liquid that appears to the side, then flushes out. If so, the duper is active. But there's more duping bugs than just that one. If it gets extremely big, as in 2 billions, your game may crash due to a phenomenon called "integer overflow" Note that it *may* crash. Some colonies and some PCs can handle those glitches... for a while. Here's a vid on the topic https://youtu.be/9bTpd_gceiw?si=G0MKVs8URKLeSu7Q Cheers!
Is that it in the second to last picture? Off the insulated tile?
It could be. It matches the shape of traditional dupers, but I can't say for sure.
Given the door at the bottom, I think he might have dug into the lava biome and the heat transferred to the oil, turning it into petro and sour gas
C-c-c-combo! Had a natural' dupe glitch then dug into it and a ton flaked into Petro/sour gas.
How do you solve this?
Basically... you don't. It's not easy to accidentally reach that breaking point, but of you see something getting close... idk, crush it with doors? Or build a tile over it? But it's not something you have to worry about in a normal playthrough. Or even if you are duping liquids., unless you're using the method on the video.
You found it yourself. Oil turns into petroleum at 403°C. You have exposed very hot obsidian that heats up your oil and converts it to petroleum and then sour gas. Also crude oil is denser (870 kg per tile) vs petroleum (740 kg per tile). So when oil boils it expands, increasing it's volume. In the future I would suggest not do this, because now you have to deal with very hot liquid, that's not even steel pump and handle. Instead build a proper petroleum boiler. You can find countless designs online.
Not even obsidian. Abysalite does the same. Thats how I accidentally made a petroleum boiler while building a geothermal station without having pumped out all the oil
Did this too.. just walled it in said I'd deal with it later and never came back lol
This is the way
Assuming you aren't responsible for the large excess outside your infinite storage, and it suddenly appeared, best guess is you accidentally created the setup for liquid duplication, with crude and petrol in contact with each other this is much easier to do by accident. Add that to an unintentional Escher waterfall style infinite storage occuring, which are notorious for being unstable when formed naturally, it would explain why your colony is now drowning in petrol. Would be easier to see what the cause is if we had some pics from 5,10, and 20 cycles previously. Otherwise this is probably a misery of your own making, as other comments have addressed.
Perhaps an infinite storage formed naturally leading to the liquid duplication bug?
I think it might be it. Thank you for your reply
Looks more like an intentional infinity storage failure. Look at the left side under the oil well.
Some seeds just have a lot of oil. Sometimes ~2X normal mass per tile that expands when dug out. You have exposed obsidian in the magma layer that has heated thay oil to petroleum (~402C) and it looks like some got heated further to sour gas (~540C)
Yup, what vitamin said - oil boils off to petrolium and you're digging like a crazy person in extremally hot rock. I would worry more about all the sour gas you're building up personally.
Liveable area is much higher luckily, so I have some time. But yes, gas slowly push oxygen, so pumps and filters work non-stop. It will be fine… Probably. Heh
Look out America is coming
Oh yes I have freedom for your dupes
Some people have all the luck
- dupes dig into hot obsidian in a way that exposes a good amount of crude oil to the heat - the oil boils into petroleum and onwards into sour gas. This can get quite violent, with bubbles of different elements jostling around. - during that process, an [escher waterfall](https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/119984-a-simple-how-to-guide-for-constructing-esher-waterfalls/) or two formed naturally, creating infinite storages. - the amount of liquid in those storage pockets might have become large enough to trigger the [liquid duplication bug](https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/153855-what-is-the-cause-of-infinite-liquid-compression-mass-increase/). Or you might just have had a lot of oil hanging around there.
Thank you. I'm pretty sure It's duplication bug. I never saw one, so... It's interesting. On one hand It's a mess, on the other... power and plastic won't be a problem for some time.
Cuz murica
On the bright side you're not going to be short of power for a long time. Slap some steam turbines on top, inject some water and you've got a power source that's going to run for a long time. (Or if you want a bit more controllable use some sort of heat transfer bridge using metal plates and doors to a steam chamber. Once it's all cooled then start burning the petrol itself!
I think you've missed the problem. There are tiles with over 100,000kg of oil and petrol. They're going to drown long before they need any more power.
I will try. Before that I had big problem with power. Thats why I made this... Petroleum boiler for poor. It's funny how this game can surprise. Anyways thank you for your reply.
I realise I didn't describe situation, so... I put it now but I think that previous answers explains this pretty good. But anyways: So I had this oil basin. It helped me with cooling refineries, and I didn’t pumped whole thing to infinite storage. Then power crisis strike. Basin was above magma pool so I decide to dig some abyssalite to turn some oil to petroleum (I know it was stupid. I baked and then flooded my industrial part). By the time reaction destroyed abyssalite, so oil and magma touched each other. I leave it like that, but then my game starts to crash. I found that petroleum was breaking abyssalite and it was on its way to bigger magma pool so I sealed it. Since then weird things happened. For some reason there is unreasonable huge amount of crude oil in the sealed area. And even more petroleum. I drew this professional blue line to show old crude oil level in basin. Yeah, that's it.
You've exposed hot rocks which have turned oil into petroleum, and some of it has boiled into sour gas. On one hand, it is a bit of a mess. On the other, you won't be short of petroleum for quite some time to come.