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GATE’s facility in Abiotic Factor offers numerous resources related to the Abiotic Factor, including various liquids. You’ll find standard drinking water, different acids, radioactive waste, water filled with alien fish, and the classic: oil.
Oil can be used to craft various useful items, such as the Chopinator, which is excellent for defending your base against enemies and hostile creatures, or a cart for transporting heavy materials between areas. As with other resources, you’ll need to scavenge what remains of GATE to find oil.
### Where to Find Oil
Oil is a key resource used in many crafting recipes. It can be found throughout GATE’s facilities, but the most common spots are the Office Sector and Manufacturing West.
A reliable early source is Bio Lab D on Level Two of the Office Sector, where oil often appears on the counters and inside cabinets on both sides of the room.
Note: Items in certain areas will eventually stop respawning unless you enable Simple Loot Respawning in your game’s sandbox settings.
Bio Lab D connects to the Locker Room, where oil can also be found inside lockers, on the floor near the lockers, or next to benches.
Other locations where you’re likely to find oil include:
– Executive Office area on Level Three
– Office rooms on Level Three
– Filing Cabinets on Levels Two and Three
– Shelves and filing cabinets in the Garage of Manufacturing West
– Kitchen counters and cabinets in break rooms
Toolboxes across the facility may also contain oil, with the Office Sector generally having higher chances. The Locker Room in the Security Office can also have oil.
### Alternatives to Oil
Since resources like oil aren’t infinite and eventually stop respawning in an area, you can find alternative sources of oil that work in the same way.
Fish Oil is the easiest renewable solution. You can use it in any recipe requiring oil, and there’s no limit to how many fish you can catch—there’s no cap on spawning.
To fish, you’ll need a fishing rod, which becomes available once you gather staplers and desk phones, needing just a few resources to craft at a workbench. The components are:
– Stapler (found on office desks or inside filing cabinets)
– Desk Phone (found on desks)
– Plastic Scrap (from binders, inside cabinets, or dropped from broken crates)
– Wood Planks (from breaking wooden crates or furniture like desks and coffee tables)
Fish can be caught in different bodies of liquid, such as the gym pool or radioactive waste in Manufacturing West. While fishing, bait can help increase your chances of catching fish instead of junk, though it’s not necessary.
Be cautious: fishing in radioactive waste exposes you to radiation and nearby enemies like Exor and Grunts, so protective gear is recommended.
### Butchering Fish
Once you catch a fish, such as a Moon Fish or Rad Fish, you’ll need to butcher it on the Fish Prepping side of the Chef’s Counter, a cooking station unlocked early in the game that requires four materials:
– Wood Plank (from broken crates or furniture)
– Power Supply Unit (from dismantling tower PCs)
– Metal Pipe (from wall pipes in storage areas)
– Metal Scrap (from lootables, dismantling metal items, or soda cans)
Place the Fish Prepping station near a power source, select the fish processing side, and use it to butcher your catch. Each fish yields Fish Oil and Fish Bones, along with raw fillets of the fish type. Depending on the fish, you may also get other resources — for example, Moon Fish can produce sugar crystals.
### What Is Oil Used For?
Oil appears in many crafting recipes, most notably in the Chopinator, which is essential for base defense and enemy management. It’s also needed for:
– Platform Carts to transport heavy loads over long distances
– Heaters to keep areas warm
– Levers that switch machines on and off
– Bionic Legs, a mid to late-game gear piece
Items crafted with oil require various resources, such as:
| Item | Resources Needed |
|——————|—————————————————————|
| Chopinator | Metal Scrap x4, Metal Pipe x1, Energy Brick x1, any Oil x1 |
| Platform Cart | Metal Scrap x4, Plastic Scrap x4, any Oil x1, Metal Pipe x3 |
| Heater | Coil x3, Case Fan x4, Pressure Gauge x1, any Oil x1 |
| Lever | Any Oil x1, Coil x1, Metal Scrap x2, Metal Pipe x1 |
| Bionic Legs | Jailbroken CPU x2, Tech Scrap x20, Refined Carbon x2, any Oil x4 |
Oil remains a critical resource throughout the game for crafting important devices and items necessary for progressing and defending your base.
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