What is oil drilling rig?

The Oil Drilling Rig is a multiblock machine added by GregTech 5 Unofficial, used to pump oil or natural gas. Oil can be refined into plastics to use as crafting components, and both oil and natural gas may be refined into fuels for gas turbines or diesel generators. Build Solid Steel Casings...

How does a mining rig work?

When the mining pipe cannot extend any further, the rig will begin to pump any oil or gas found and place it in its Output Hatch. Each oil source covers an area 96x96 blocks in size, which is exactly 6x6 chunks. Oil sources do not overlap. The amount of oil in each oil source is chosen pseudo-randomly using its position.

How does a drilling rig work?

The drill will dig down, extending its mining pipe until it reaches bedrock, or until it reaches the void beneath a void world. When the mining pipe cannot extend any further, the rig will begin to pump any oil or gas found and place it in its Output Hatch. Each oil source covers an area 96x96 blocks in size, which is exactly 6x6 chunks.

What happens if a drilling rig is depleted?

After one chunk is depleted, the Drilling Rig may be moved to another chunk within the 6x6 oil source to resume drilling at the original base rate. Initially, the only way to find an oil source is to build a Drilling Rig, let it run until it reaches bedrock, and see what is in its output hatch.

How do you use a drill rig?

The Drilling Rig must be provided with Mining Pipes in the controller block's top-right invisible slot to function. To easily place the pipes in this slot, shift-click on them from the inventory. The drill will dig down, extending its mining pipe until it reaches bedrock, or until it reaches the void beneath a void world.

What is the base rate of a drilling rig?

The rate varies between 1-625L, weighted toward smaller rates (half of the usable sources will have rates of 65L or less, and only 18% of them will have rates of 300L or more). The base rate is the amount extracted by a Drilling Rig during each processing cycle. The duration of the Rig's cycle depends on its voltage tier.