Start with the cell recipe
One Wing Cell (WingGlider_Fuel) requires 20 Crude Oil and 10 Mythical Wood (Wood_WorldTree), with 1,000,000 recorded crafting work in official 1.0.3.101283. Oil supply divided by 20 limits the cell budget before other oil use, provided wood and crafting capacity keep up.
For example, a supply of 100 oil/hour supports an oil budget of five cells/hour before other oil use. Measure your own flight consumption separately when deciding how many cells to reserve.
Nominal oil and cells in 1.0.3.101283
Both normal and high-pressure extractors use 150 automatic work per second, an 8,000-work cycle and one Crude Oil per completed cycle. Their native work-speed component rate is 1. At world WorkSpeedRate 1, continuous operation therefore gives 150 × 3,600 ÷ 8,000 = 67.5 oil/hour before research.
Mining4, Mining4_2 and Mining4_3 add 20%, 30% and 40% to extraction progress speed. Completed contributions add, so all three give a nominal 1.9 rate and 128.25 oil/hour. They change progress speed rather than oil yielded per cycle.
The table assumes continuous uptime, available power and output space, world WorkSpeedRate 1, and enough Mythical Wood and crafting capacity to use the oil. It is a nominal calculation from bound inputs, not measured production throughput.
| Completed oil research | Nominal oil/hour | Nominal cells/hour | Extractors for 10 cells/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 67.5 | 3.375 | 3 |
| First | 81 | 4.05 | 3 |
| First + second | 101.25 | 5.0625 | 2 |
| All three | 128.25 | 6.4125 | 2 |
Size a line with a buffer
For the nominal model above, use ceil(target cells/hour ÷ 3.375) before oil research, or divide by 6.4125 with all three oil research nodes. Ten cells/hour therefore needs three unresearched extractors or two fully researched extractors under those assumptions.
Allow a buffer for interrupted power, full output storage, other oil use and wood or crafting bottlenecks. These counts size the nominal oil supply; they do not establish a guaranteed uptime or generator count.
Normal versus high-pressure and power
Both extractor templates select the same OilPump product row, so both use the 150-work rate and 8,000-work cycle above. The normal extractor’s configured consumption is 2,000 native energy units per active second; high-pressure uses 3,000. The normal model uses the Crude Oil provider placement strategy, while high-pressure uses ground placement.
The three consumption research nodes total −20%, reducing these active loads to nominal 1,600 and 2,400. This reduction applies to the combined active-consumer draw. Energy-storage research totals +70% capacity and does not increase generation speed.
The normal generator has a native per-worker production factor of 1 and storage capacity of 250,000. The large generator’s factor is 3 and its capacity is 1,000,000; the separate electric storage also holds 1,000,000. Actual generation depends on the working Pals’ effective work speed, assignment and native integer conversion, with storage caps.
Charge the generators, enable the whole line and check stored energy through a full operating cycle. Include the rest of the base’s load when choosing staffing or another generator. Capacity and per-worker factors do not establish one universal generator count.
Historical reference model and the corrected input
The captured reference used 120 automatic work per second over 8,000 work, producing its 54-oil base model. That dated model and its original figures remain below for attribution. The official 1.0.3.101283 product table uses 150; use the current nominal table above for this fixed baseline.
The reference’s 54, 64.8, 81 and 102.6 oil/hour figures belong to its 120-work input. Its unresearched four-extractor example for ten cells/hour also belongs to that historical model. They are not interchangeable with the 150-work calculation.
| Research scenario | Reported oil/hour | Cells/hour from 20-oil recipe |
|---|---|---|
| None | 54 | 2.7 |
| First | 64.8 | 3.24 |
| First+second | 81 | 4.05 |
| All three | 102.6 | 5.13 |
Ten-minute audit
Record cells used in a real session, count oil/wood demand, check which extractor types are active, observe generator charge and maintain a travel reserve. This converts a memorable screenshot into a repeatable supply plan.