Better Fuel

TLC for fuel related aspects of Ark adding new options and functionality for various fuel in the game.

Seed Oil:

A new craftable Oil variant made by grinding Seeds (mix/match any type) in the Mortar and Pestle (or Chemistry Bench for better yield). It is unlocked at level 6 (same as Motar and Pestle) giving an alternative (or supplemental) method to obtaining Oil in the early game on any map.

This was also designed to finally make the Iguanadon's special ability to convert Berries/Crops into their seeds useful other than the typical one time usage when a tribe wants to build a bigger greenhouse and then after neglected. Now the Iguanadon is king of passive Oil production (looking at you Dung Beetle)! Speaking of, see more details about Better Fuel's sibling mod "Better Bugs" below to learn how these make a great pair.

Crafting Info -

• Mortar and Pestle: 10 Seeds + 20 Fiber = 1 Seed Oil
• Chemistry Bench: 40 Seeds + 80 Fiber = 6 Seed Oil (1.5x efficiency gain)

Bulk Batch Info -

• Mortar and Pestle [24 available slots] : 1400 Seeds [14 slots] + 2800 Fiber [~10 slots] = 140 Seed Oil
• Chemistry Bench [100 available slots] : 6000 Seeds [60 slots] + 12000 Fiber [40 slots] = 900 Seed Oil

Propellant:

Adds an alternative recipe for Propellant that requires regular Sap instead of Cactus Sap - This is in addition to the vanilla one so that server admins can choose to have both available or disable either depending on the map's available resources.

Spawn Codes/etc.:

• cheat gfi SeedOil 100 0 0
• cheat gfi Propellant_BetterFuel 100 0 0

Future Plans for this Mod:

• The next version will attempt to make all oil types (Oil, Squid Oil, Seed Oil) as acceptable fuel for Wall/Standing Torches (initial idea is to have it last squarely between Spark Powder and Angler Gel for longevity)
• Ongoing - making more fuel available to more structures/crafting recipes, especially for items previously tied to DLC in ASE; such as allowing regular (tree) Sap as an alternative to Cactus Sap when crafting Propellant.

Sibling Mod Info:

This mod was developed along-side its sibling mods Better Bugs and Better Minerals -

• Better Bugs gives the Dung Beetle some TLC - most relevant to this mod, it changes the Oil byproduct of producing Fertilizer to Sulfur which works well with Better Fuel since Better Fuel migrates the role of Oil production to the Iguanadon which can better serve the early game.
• Better Minerals adds methods to obtain Raw Salt, Sand, and Silicate (alternative to Silica Pearls normally found on the Extinction map) on maps that lack those resource nodes without the need of a map extension. You can evaporate water in a Cooking Pot/Industrial Cooker, pulverize Crystal ("Silica Quartz") into Sand in the Industrial Grinder, and refine Sand ("Silicon Dioxide") into Silicate at a Forge/Industrial Forge.

For more details, check out the mod links above

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