Pneumatic Fracking Machine

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Tired of fighting the vanilla pump to squeeze enough oil out of a node? Pneumatic Fracking Machine gives you three purpose-built extractors that pump dramatically more oil than anything in the base game: perfect for feeding a serious fuel or plastic factory.

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Each machine drives pressurised air deep into the deposit to force out far more oil than a standard pump ever could. You unlock them one at a time as your factory grows, so there is always an upgrade waiting when you are ready to scale up.

| Machine | Oil per Minute (pure node) | Power | |---------|---------------------------|-------| | Mk1 Pneumatic Fracking Machine | 240 m³/min | 80 MW | | Mk2 Pneumatic Fracking Machine | 480 m³/min | 65 MW | | Mk3 Pneumatic Fracking Machine | 960 m³/min | 100 MW |

• Output automatically adjusts to the node's richness: normal and impure nodes produce less, pure nodes give the full rate shown above
• All machines connect straight into your existing pipeline network, no special pipes needed
• Unlocked gradually through the M.A.M. or HUB milestones so they slot naturally into your progression

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Because the machines pump air into the ground to push oil out, the oil that comes up contains dissolved gases, so it arrives as Aerated Crude Oil rather than plain Crude Oil. Before you can use it in any normal recipe, you just run it through a refinery to vent the gas.

• Drop the Aerated Crude Oil into a refinery and out comes regular Crude Oil: nothing else required, no extra ingredients
• There are two conversion recipes: one sized for the Mk1 and Mk2 flow rates, and a higher-capacity variant to keep up with the Mk3's larger output
• After that single step the oil is identical to anything drilled the normal way, so your existing fuel, plastic, and rubber lines carry on without any changes

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