Oil Drilling Skill Book

Hidden/Research

Notes

The Oil Drilling Skill Book is a research item created at a Research Table, allowing any player to produce unlimited Oil Drilling skill scrolls by right-clicking the book. Learning the Oil Drilling specialty is required for extracting crude oil, a key step in advancing to combustion engines, plastics, and high-tier industrial power — but it also introduces significant pollution. Because Oil Drilling is a tier‑4 specialty, the star cost to learn it is high and increases further with each other specialty you already know, so plan your specialization path accordingly.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Agriculture Research Paper Advanced	10	item
Geology Research Paper Modern	10	item
Dendrology Research Paper Modern	10	item
Engineering Research Paper Modern	10	item
Basic Research	15	category
Advanced Research	10	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	≈ 1.04
Garbage	≈ 0.52

Approximate — a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	6000 calories
Craft time	30 min
Throughput	≈ 2 Oil Drilling Skill Book / hour (base)

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 5120× Cotton Boll
• 3837.5× Limestone
• 3400× Natural Fiber (any)
• 2000× Huckleberries
• 964.63× Wood (any)
• 843.75× Cement
• 750× Palm Log
• 750× Shale
• 748.93× Iron Ore
• 720× Flax Stem
• 711.97× Silica (any)
• 501.41× Clay
• 450× Hewn Log (any)
• 400× Electronic Scrap
• 352.5× Crushed Limestone
• 300× Rock (any)
• 120× Mortared Stone (any)
• 100× Crop Seed (any)
• 100× Lumber (any)
• 100× Raw Food (any)
• 93.75× Quicklime
• 75× Wood Board (any)
• 60× Medium Carcass (any)
• 60× Oil (any)
• 50× Fertilizer Filler (any)
• 40× Hare Carcass
• 20× Bison Carcass
• 15× Basic Research (any)
• 10× Advanced Research (any)
• 6.25× Rebar

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Product
• Skill Books

Obtained from

• Oil Drilling Skill Book

See also

Advanced Baking Skill BookAdvanced Cooking Skill BookAdvanced Masonry Skill BookAdvanced Smelting Skill BookBaking Skill BookBasic Engineering Skill Book

Black ink seeps from the binding like crude promise. Whoever reads it learns the language of buried oceans.