Fracking Tower
The Hydraulic Fracking Tower is an oil extracting machine that is capable of extracting crude oil from bedrock oil deposits infinitely when provided with fracking solution and power. It is also capable of extracting crude oil from deposits at a 10x multiplier, but still requiring fracking solution to operate, which make this not usually preferred.
Crafting
The hydraulic fracking tower can be made in an assembly machine with the following recipe:
| Details | Recipe |
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| Hydraulic Fracking Tower Duration: 30.0s |
     
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Locating Bedrock Oil
Bedrock oil deposits are crude oil deposits which can never be depleted. Deposits can be located by the presence of dead and oily dirt on the surface. A survey scanner or a Neutrino Lens linked to a satellite with a depth-resource scanning module may also be used to find these deposits.
Usage
Once the hydraulic fracking tower drills to a bedrock or standard oil deposit and it is provided with fracking solution and power, it will begin to extract oil from the deposit.
The tower can be easily made self-sustaining via various methods to produce sulfur and petroleum gas. Notable methods of sulfur positive production include:
Coking 
sour gas to produce sulfur.
Hydrotreating various products.
Refining regular 
crude oil for sulfuric byproduct
| Speed Upgrade Level | Overdrive Upgrade Level | Crude Oil Production / mB/s | Average Natural Gas Production / mB/s | Power Consumption / kHE/ s | Fracking Solution Consumption / mB/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 100 | 60 | 100 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 150 | 90 | 125 | 15 |
| 2 | 0 | 200 | 120 | 150 | 20 |
| 3 | 0 | 400 | 240 | 175 | 40 |
| 3 | 1 | 1,000 | 600 | 350 | 100 |
| 3 | 2 | 2,000 | 1200 | 525 | 200 |
| 3 | 3 | 2,000 | 1200 | 700 | 200 |
Note that in the above table, speed 3 overdrive 3 does not yield more crude oil per second than speed 3 overdrive 2. This is because at the latter upgrade level, the fracking tower reaches a rate of oil extraction of once per tick and thus cannot extract any faster.
Pollution
Every time oil is extracted, a grass, stone, or dirt block that is exposed to the sky is selected by a normal distribution and converted into a dead or oily version of itself. These block variations can support mustard willows but will kill any other plants on them and are affected by gravity like sand or gravel.
The normal distribution that is used to calculate which blocks are chosen uses a standard deviation of 75, meaning that 68.26% of affected blocks will be within a 75 radius circle around the tower, 95.44% will be in a 150 radius circle, and 99.72% will be in a 225 radius circle. Effectively, this means that the fracking tower by default has a pollution radius of 300 blocks after which point any polluted blocks will be extremely rare.