Oil Scanner
Handheld FE-powered prospecting tool that points to the nearest oil. Released in ZalienFuel 0.3.0.
An electric prospecting tool that points to the nearest oil with a compass-style needle on its screen.
Item id zalienfuel:oil_scanner, stack size 1, battery only (FE).
Modes
| Mode | Screen | Finds | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedrock Deposit | green | TFMG oil deposits on the bedrock floor (TFMG pumpjack) | reservoir units |
| Oil Chunk | amber | Create Diesel Generators oil chunks (Diesel Generators pumpjack). Computed from the world seed, so it works even in unexplored terrain | mB, or infinite |
| Oil Lake / Spring | blue | Source blocks of oil that any fluid pump can pull: ZalienFuel crude oil, plus the oil of PneumaticCraft, Oritech and TFMG for terrain generated before the update | source blocks x 1000 mB (a lower bound for unloaded terrain) |
Only modes whose mod is installed are offered.
Using it
- Shift + right-click changes the mode (the action bar shows its name).
- Right-click scans. The nearest target within the radius is stored on the item and the needle points at it, like a compass.
- The action bar shows e.g.
Oil Chunk: 143 m NE · 52 000 mB(distance, direction, amount) and keeps the distance up to date while you hold the scanner. - Found: close to the target (within 8 blocks; in the target chunk for Oil Chunk) the screen shows a pulsing target, the scanner pings and the remaining amount is read live.
- A scanner whose battery is too low for a scan shows a red battery on its screen.
The scan never generates or loads chunks. It works through the chunks nearest first, a little each tick (server time cap in the config), reads already saved but unloaded chunks from disk in the background, and remembers those results for a minute, so a repeated scan is nearly free. Ungenerated terrain cannot be searched (except Oil Chunk, which is a formula): the scanner then reports nothing in range, explore and try again. Bedrock Deposit and Oil Lake / Spring work in every dimension that has such oil; in practice that is the Overworld.
Energy
| Battery | 100 000 FE |
| Cost per scan | 2000 FE |
| Range | 256 blocks (m) |
| Charging | any FE charger, e.g. the Create Crafts & Additions charging station; the item bar and tooltip show the charge |
All of it is configurable, see the configuration keys scannerEnergyCapacity,
scannerEnergyPerScan, scannerRadius, scannerBudgetMs, scannerCacheSeconds, scannerLakeBlocks, scannerLakeMinY.
Keep scannerEnergyCapacity the same on the server and the clients.
Crafting
Crafted in the Create Mechanical Crafter (empty battery). Two variants exist, depending on which capacitor your pack has: Create Crafts & Additions or TFMG. Both give the same item.
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IIIIIIIQ
KQII
CQCI
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- Q Quartz
- I Invar ingot
- K Compass
- C Capacitor (Create Crafts & Additions)
- P Copper plate (Create copper sheet)
Quartz, compass and invar are matched by common tags (c:gems/quartz, c:ingots/invar, c:plates/copper), so any mod's
equivalent works. Quartz and compass icons above are simplified stand-ins.
Admin
/zalienfuel scan <mode> [x z] runs a scan with no FE cost, see Admin commands.