Petrol

A dark, glistening patch of earth on the surface: a field lies below. Roughly one chunk in ninety carries one, more in deserts, badlands, swamps and oceans.

A field holds 60 to 400 buckets of crude. When it runs dry, the patch dries with it.

Set over a field, the beam nods and crude flows through the pipes to the distillation column.

Set it anywhere: it goes down one block a second to bedrock, and the console tells how far it got. No surface stain needed: if the chunk holds oil, it pumps it from the bottom into its tank. Otherwise the hole is dry.

On the way down it spots deep hot water: the screen gives its height. Take the rig down and set a geothermal generator (MoreIndustry: Workshop) in its place.

Crude comes out of the flange at the end of the tank, or by bucket.

Crude oil, as it comes out of the pumpjack.

Crude splits into three cuts: diesel, naphtha and gasoline.

Each output has a purge button: off, purge the excess above 85%, or purge everything. You don't need everything at once.

Gasoline and diesel run the MoreTransport motorbikes and jet skis, and the marble mod's saw and jackhammer.

Naphtha goes to the steam cracker.

Naphtha and water, four heat stages: an ethylene-propylene mix.

It separates the cracker's mix into ethylene and propylene.

Propylene becomes polypropylene pellets, which drop into a bin: catch them by hand or with a hopper.

Ethylene becomes polyethylene profiles.

Pellets become polypropylene parts.

Profiles become polyethylene parts.

One polyethylene part gives four pots. MoreFood's sauce bottles are filled in them.

For building. They come back apart into their parts.

They carry fluids from machine to machine: plain, windowed to see what runs inside, or hazard-striped. Other mods' pipes plug in too.

25 buckets, one fluid at a time, with a window you can read from across the room.

The same, for pellets.

The highway pump, two blocks wide, four nozzles: two gasoline, two diesel. Inlets are at the back; it needs power.

Take a nozzle: it stays tied by its hose (six blocks). Click a vehicle: it plugs into the filler cap, and the pump fills it by itself until full. Click its hook to take it back.

A bucket of gasoline or diesel to carry around. It fuels every vehicle of every mod that runs on gasoline.

This book. A book and some coal make another one.