Oil Veins are one item that separates Scorched Earth from The Island in Ark Survival Ascended. In this guide, you’ll learn how to find and harvest Oil Veins in Ark Survival Ascended Scorched Earth.
Where to find all Oil Veins’ coordinates in ASA Scorched Earth
There are 22 Oil Veins in Ark Survival Ascended Scorched Earth. While looking for all the Scorched Earth Artifacts, keep your eyes peeled for Oil Veins. Here are all the Oil Vein coordinates in Ark Survival Ascended Scorched Earth. Use the image above to help guide yourself to the Oil Vein locations. Black dots represent one Oil Vein and the blue dots mark areas with two Oil Veins.
If you want to make your search for Oil Veins easier, I recommend using the fly cheat. This console command makes locating Oil Veins much easier. Simply fly around and look for rocks with black ooze around them. These are Oil Veins.
How to use Oil Veins in ASA Scorched Earth
The only way to use Oil Veins in Ark Survival Ascended Scorched Earth is to place Oil Pumps on top of them. Oil Pumps can be found in blue, purple, and red Supply Crates, or unlocked at level 60 with 24 Engram Points. They won’t help you find all the Scorched Earth Artifacts, but they are helpful in other ways.
Once you’ve created an Oil Pump, place it on top of an Oil Vein. It’ll extract one unit of Oil every 20 seconds and takes around 28 hours to fill up. This isn’t the only way to get Oil in Scorched Earth but it is the safest and the fastest.
All Oil crafting options in ASA Scorched Earth
You can make all kinds of great things with Oil. If you have a Refining Forge or Industrial Forge, you can make Gasoline which can then be used to run machines. You need Oil to craft all the following items in Ark Survival Ascended Scorched Earth:
- Absorbent Substrate
- Cooked Meat Jerky
- Cryopod
- Fabricator
- Gasoline
- Grenade
- Homing Underwater Mine
- Industrial Cooker
- Industrial Forge
- Industrial Grill
- Industrial Grinder
- Jar of Pitch
- Mobile: Marble Half Paver
- Mobile: Marble Paver
- Prime Meat Jerky
- Propellant
- Re-Fertilizer
- Silencer Attachment
- Soap
- Spray Painter
- Tripwire Alarm Trap
- Unassembled Enforcer
- Unassembled TEK Hover Skiff
- Vault
Now that you know how to find and use Oil Veins in Ark Survival Ascended Scorched Earth, you should master taming a Fasolasuchus.
