Passive Acid, Oil & Stardust Farm | Once Human

[@JGStone]

Already knew about all those farms, but just wanted to quickly say: Props to you for stating something very important just at the beginning of the video and not sending new players on a hopeful journey just to notice the production rates. Saying that this can't compare to normal farming and is more off a little sidehustle. Cause the video I saw when I was lvl 25 just had the typical clickbait and send me on journey of 4 hours just finding a spot and building it all up, just to notice how little I get from it and break it all down again and move back. The next day, a friend ingame invited me to a refinery and dropped me some chops. Since then, I have always had around 2k acid lying around. Especially seeing the power consumption of all those farms, they are more of an endgame addon. So, thank you that you didn't choose to waste new players' time with delusions.

[@JGStone]

5:59 Also, guess who chose that perk, couldn't figure out how it works, figured it wouldn't be isefull anyway and rerolled it....😅

[@RealMrKraken]

Thanks! Yeah, I saw a fair few of those pop-up in the time it took me from science to actually recording/editing the final. Passive should never, in any game, in any way match active and I felt it was important to make it clear right out of the gate.

[@a1tung]

IF you're familiar to MMOs, you'd know for a fact ACTIVE action beats PASSIVE action. So yeah, to people who are builders and spend 95% of our time in-game in our base looking to build something rather than stuck in a dungeon somewhere, this works for us. To everyone their own fun. New players should try whatever that floats their boat without us directing where they should go. I am sure they searched up this video anyway.

[@richardcraniums3273]

Another tip, idk if it’s been posted in the comments already but if you press “L” while in build menu it will hide all pipes and wires. This is great for me because I have a spider web in my base lol.

[@RealMrKraken]

L hides a lot of crimes haha

[@CK-hp2tv]

L only hides it for you everybody else still sees that mess, which is why i actually organize my wires and pipes, the terminals exist for that reason

[@Gebunator]

One little funfact: You can have the small pump work just like wire conduit if you don't power it up. Very useful for cutting down amount of pipes leading to a watertank that act as a distributor since you can have multiple ground pumps/collectors hooked to one small pump and then just one pipe attaching to it a watertank Anywho, good stuff right there! TL:DR -> UNPOWERED small pump is a conduit to pipes. Gravity applied.

[@RealMrKraken]

Well now, this can get pinned. Great tip!

[@Cicadicsaint204]

So I won't put power to the pump for it to work like a conduit? Asking for clarity

[@53r0th]

​@@Cicadicsaint204you could just use gravity here aswell if you dont want to spend more power.

[@madknox4666]

Bad tip since small water pump uses power, you can use gravity for this with 0 power usage at all, Water pump higher than water tank water tank higher than osmosis osmosis higher than last water tank for acid droppoff and you got a free water running system

[@Gebunator]

@@madknox4666 I think you read in a hurry. UNPOWERED small pump acts like a conduit -> lets you have more pipe connections to tank. Yes, gravity will be a thing when the pump is unpowered.

[@notsibb]

3:33 No , it's not RNG. It's based on whatever you get first. If you extract oil first, then you'll get polluted water second and vice versa. It's A-B-A-B sequence.

[@RealMrKraken]

Thanks, I completely spaced on leaving that in, this is what happens when I free-fly the record and don't stick to a script. I end up using the wrong bit of waffle!

[@78Pants]

just in time for me starting to look for acid actively :)

[@RealMrKraken]

If you need peppercorns to make deviated chops, I might know a guy 👀

[@Channel-cy4lh]

Great video! The timing is perfect for me as I've just realised the bottlenecks that come from not having ample amounts of these things (especially acid). Subscribed, and looking forward to more!

[@RealMrKraken]

Thanks! Honestly once you get over that hump, you'll have more than enough to last out

[@DaddyDragon]

Everything is so level and same height! My OCD approves! 😂🤣 Been struggling getting all my stuff even, it's a nightmare building in this game!

[@RealMrKraken]

It's even more level and aligned now, the gaps bugged me. The build system is very much a challenge

[@a1tung]

@@RealMrKraken Most of us builders have OCD, just at different levels. You will get there, just need patience and a little more experience.

[@smackeddie3826]

Haven't seen any one talking about this but I was doing it myself last night... I ended up near the 1st Silo, and in the red barn just up the road from it there was a low Level 5 spawner type enemy...I had a pocket full of deviated preserved meat chops which give a 50% acid yield boost from Deviants. It is seemingly an INFINITE number of enemies that those things spawn, so you can guess what I then did for the next 30 mins 🤣

[@toyatodoroki3]

Great video, this is complicated stuff but maybe one day I will figure it out instead of having to fight a bunch of bad guys just to get 100 acid in 10 minutes lol

[@RealMrKraken]

Passive should never match active though, but it's a nice bonus

[@SomaBT]

This amazing guide is underrated.

[@RealMrKraken]

Thank you, although I can't complain at the numbers or love it's received!

[@dokutah2480]

I have a hive member with battery to stardust, acid to fuel. Literally the best combo. All we need to do is live in a polluted zone!

[@vishal0001_]

It is a memetic specialization. I have that, stardust water pump, 1 battery for 80source

[@joerahmat5726]

How you turn acid to fuel?

[@vishal0001_]

@@joerahmat5726 pump - impure acid - acid Stardust pump - battery - stardust source - Water pump - crude oil - raw fuel

[@dokutah2480]

@@joerahmat5726 another memetic specialization called the super refinery

[@TTVKinnas]

thank you, best acid tutorial out there! A++

[@RealMrKraken]

Thank you!

[@toksford4276]

Again useful info, gotta be quick though on those choice spots for building I guess.

[@RealMrKraken]

There's enough worlds per server to have a fighting chance at Blackfell Oilfields, but there's other oil patches in pollution. Just gets awkward if you're in a hive

[@outreachtom]

@@RealMrKrakenwhere at? I think black fell is the only place.

[@Shaabhekh]

Wish the connection points for pipes were more readily visible/identifiable; would have saved me a good bit of time last night when i was doing my base plumbing, lol

[@RealMrKraken]

Wiring/plumbing in general could be much nicer. I'd also love some logic gate systems

[@jaregon12]

Looks like just the thing for me to set up and go while i'm at work. since me and my group are at aluminem and tungsten i've started burning a fair bit of acid in the process. so getting more would be nice.

[@RealMrKraken]

Top tip with that, don't make more aluminium than you need at the time. It's uses are actually quite limited compared to tungsten

[@leemontime]

Thanks! I learned a lot of small stuff that wasnt functioning for me properly. Too many commenters saying it's not worth it, but that wasn't the point of the video and you even explained its a slow process..sigh lol

[@RealMrKraken]

Glad it helped! I'd rather have my base producing than doing nothing with the available power whilst I'm off doing other stuff!

[@DKGaming4Life]

4 acid per 20 mins? its okay i guess.... meanwhile you get like 3 acid for a normal monster kill.... but i guess its okay when your offline

[@RealMrKraken]

Yeah, this is never going to top active farming, but it certainly doesn't hurt!

[@ThePteropterus]

You see this comment on every one of these videos. Why not make it? Sure, grinding mobs makes more than farming, but you can grind and farm at the same time. You don't have to pick one.

[@RealMrKraken]

Exactly, the more you can have stuff happening at your base without you doing anything/much, the better! From deviants to this

[@Smithy250]

Depends what point in the game you’re at. End game is 5 per kill lol

[@DKGaming4Life]

@@Smithy250 lvl 52 monsters dropped 3 when i checked

[@azoth._.]

You've earned your 60th subscriber with this video :D

[@RealMrKraken]

Thank you! Given how I went to sleep with 20 odd, I think the same may be true for a lot of people by the time this video stops getting slid into people's browsing 🤣

[@z_yurii_v8364]

Hello ! I myself am a real firefighter in Russia and I really want to build myself a fireman’s set) good luck to you!

[@RealMrKraken]

Thanks, you too!

[@nykeeayl]

great video bro dont understand too much english but anyways i could understand you because of your easy explanation

[@RealMrKraken]

That's aweseome to hear, thanks and you're most welcome!

[@psychxx7146]

Bro…at one point, I SWEAR that impure acid flew from the pipe to a water barrel. Idk WHAT happened but I swear it did and never again. But man, I want to think it did not, but it DID

[@BigBambuu22]

Yea Stuff deff travels upstream randomly.

[@DRACrY]

How to remove pipes like you did in 02:53, when it is already placed?

[@RealMrKraken]

Same way you would anything else, 'R' when highlighted. It can be a bit finicky to highlight the pipe, but you notice it change from opaque

[@DRACrY]

@@RealMrKraken Thanks for the Impromptu reply! Appreciate it.

[@Seoyuko3]

How did you get the Bed in the start of the video?

[@RealMrKraken]

I think it was the first epic furniture I got from the Designer's Workstation

[@davidmultan5357]

Ok, so water goes from 5 pumps to upper tank, from there to osmosis machine, output from osmosis machine ends up in lower tank. But why connect directly input and output tanks as well?

[@RealMrKraken]

The I/O containers aren't linked together

[@vincentproud6589]

Are there any non-Blackfell spots that have both oil and pollution?

[@RealMrKraken]

I've been keeping a lookout but not seen any so far. Hopefully knowing what to look for will help when the map shifts

[@arawn2636]

hahah, good luck, i've been searching for days

[@vladizarth6926]

make the same best here, i got 2 osmosis, 10 water pump, 4 oil refinery and 1 super refinery (im still filled with rage that super refinery doesnt accept crude oil) and 3 brewery. my osmosis convert 1 slot of polluted water and 3 slot of dirty water

[@RealMrKraken]

Not able to pipe or super-refine is the biggest pain!

[@night1218]

how much impure acid u get a day? i have similar with 9 water pumps

[@vladizarth6926]

@@night1218 changed my system to be like @OnceKraken, but i use 16 water pump 2 osmosis, 1 pure water, 1 impure acid (i got 8 deviant generator with 8 eels) i think i got 200ish acid if im not wrong a day

[@ForOneNature]

VERY cool, thank you

[@RealMrKraken]

You're very welcome, thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!

[@zeynepkazdal4631]

I just did as you said in the video but i also get sea waters as well from the pumps which turn into the purified water even tho i didnt put my pumps in the water rather than ground. Do you know why it pumps sea water? Or is it normal to pump sea water with polluted water?

[@RealMrKraken]

THat's normal, like with mine bring up oil and polluted, because of the area you are in it will bring up sea water and polluted

[@zeynepkazdal4631]

@@RealMrKraken Thank you for your vids and answers. 2 quick questions as well then, 1: When i am not in game the items that on the storages doesnt move to the purifier from water tanks. Is it also normal? I have to move them manually by dragging them. 2: Can i add you as friend in game?

[@FlameBeast25]

I have watched like 10 videos on acid farm and still can't get it to work, gonna need to have someone do it for me :/

[@RealMrKraken]

If you're in my discord, you could screenshare in voice channel I'll see if I can help out remotely. Hopefully timezones align

[@courtnie97]

My question is: How do you stop or slow down the amount of sea water you are getting so it doesnt clog up the purifier?

[@RealMrKraken]

Unfortunately, I've not encountered this problem, hopefully someone else in the comments can help you out

[@juandrewilliams2675]

This is definitely not worth it.tried this and it takes forever.rather just do the activity in Blackfell oil fields with the access cards.I jumped to 2000 acid and 200 barrels of premium feul in a few hours.

[@RealMrKraken]

It's not about passive vs active farming, it's about using that otherwise wasted energy when you're away from the base

[@BADXALBI]

Why doesnt the impure acid drop down in my barrel like pure water?

[@RealMrKraken]

THAT'S the question. I suspect it's probably because it was initially just solids that were meant to be in the ingredients slot, and they added impure acid later but didn't add logic to allow it to flow

[@barticasun]

Great video thanks for posting. Do you know if dmg is causes to a base or desks inside when in a polluted zone? Thanks

[@RealMrKraken]

I've not had any damage to structures just from being in the polluted zone. Did someone else do the build/object placement in your territory?

[@barticasun]

@@RealMrKraken thanks for coming back to me. Nah I was doing some due diligence before moving to an available pollution zone 😎

[@RealMrKraken]

Ahah! No problem at all

[@barticasun]

@@RealMrKraken I didn’t realise rain water collector also collects polluted water. Found out by accident so now have 20….also the water purifier converts it to impure acid for 6w power but takes about twice as long as osmosis unit.

[@cherrypoptart2001]

I just realize how badly RNG screwed me with my perks . I dont got the perk to turn gold and silver ores into ingots and neither do i have the perk to help craft stardust. I hope there will be another way to obtain the perk reset coupons than the weekly challenges milestones

[@RealMrKraken]

The new update includes memetic fragments, for more of a chance to get the specialisations. I too got pretty shafted on my rolls. There is a food, NOT from memetic specialisation that you can make to sell at vendors

[@captainmaggi]

Can you get both oil and polluted water from the same area? How does that work? I placed my pumps and they only get oil and no dirty or polluted water

[@k3Fallen]

@@captainmaggi oil comes from the black ground oil areas. This paired with being in a pollution zone will give you oil and polluted water from the pump in an ABABAB fashion. Polluted water>purifier>impure acid>barrel>acid. If you have a pump in the ground in a polluted no oil zone it will give you polluted water and dirty water in ABABAB fashion. If you have the pump in water in a pollution zone it will do the same but in ~3:1 ratio dirty:polluted water.

[@captainmaggi]

@@k3Fallen thank you for the elaborate reply, that cleared my doubts.

[@Grandline_Boosters]

you are my fevorite now

[@RealMrKraken]

Thanks!

[@GamersAnonimusPlay]

Map Location Blackheart Region (6394,2035) Check Out

[@airaneon]

Are you able to extract oil and acid there?

[@archiex6359]

Just a quick question. I was wondering if I should switch servers to a more populated area as I think it might benefit being in groups and helping each other out. My server I am on now is small and hardly anyone on. I have probably only had 4 hours on the server I am on now. Hard choice if I should switch.

[@RealMrKraken]

With the quantity of memetic specialisations, it certainly helps to be in a group. Its a hard one to give advice on to be honest, as we're close to seasonal shift, either jump to a fresher server that's a bit further back on the phases or make some friends to go into the next season with

[@archiex6359]

@@RealMrKraken ok thanks 👍

[@melvinfeenstra7037]

i am on that excact part where he build, only gettin poluted water, no oil

[@RealMrKraken]

It can be funky sometimes. I'll log in to purified water being in my collection tank despite there only being polluted and oil in "the table"

[@a1tung]

It's hilarious to see active acid gatherers coming to a passive acid farming video just to trash talk how such passive setup sucks. Stick to your weapons/mods video so you can farm faster than watching this. 1. Automated farms like this are meant to generate Acid, Oil, Ores and Plants PASSIVELY while you're afk or doing other stuff 2. It is meant to SUPPLEMENT and will never beat active farming. Like how Time Deposits in your bank will never beat active employment salary - But that doesn't stop you from putting your money to work for you. 3. A little extra doesn't hurt. An additional 1,000 acid (approximately) per day on a normal setup will lead to 60,000 additional acids per season, who can complain? Numbers like this quickly add up. 4. Ask yourself, what's your base doing for you besides powering up your 50 fridge units? Your base is practically your FREE SLAVE. Make it WORK for you! And lastly, STOP telling us per monster drops 3 Acid per kill. We already know that.

[@hotslice1811]

Do the top water barrels feed into the bottom right water barrel?

[@RealMrKraken]

They feed into the purifier. The bottom right is just to elevate the top right for gravity

[@celeste579]

I have 6 pumps and it seems my luck is horrible, im getting 5x more dirty water than polluted water

[@RealMrKraken]

That sounds normal. Dirty will draw more, like polluted draws more than crude oil.

[@gibsonbrillantes316]

Can u manually gather polluted water?

[@Phyr123]

Yes, in polluted areas

[@markbolen9701]

How to remove pipe? or unattach the pipe

[@RealMrKraken]

Same as any other, look at it and make sure it's highlighted and press 'R' by default

[@NorrisOwO]

If my friend has the stardust water pump and he comes over to build me a couple, will I be able convert battery into stardust? Or do I have to also have it unlocked?

[@RealMrKraken]

You absolutely can, this is one of the best parts about being in a hive/having friends on same server. They can build their specialisation given utilities and you can use them!

[@isaacx593]

Dude, thats my game name lol

[@RealMrKraken]

"Passive Acid, Oil & Stardust" is a very odd game name

[@kerchooosteoporosis1363]

me and my friends are going to lock down blackfell on as many worlds as possible on this next wipe to maximize fun and experience we were late to the party this time.

[@nullfield6514]

placed my base near a polluted zone and I keep getting dragged into dungeon events now

[@gd_media]

Yo question. I got the perk for the stardust waterpump and crafting acid using stardust. But the pulp won’t do shit unless i put a battery inside even connected to electricty and hoses it doesn’t pump anything else. It gathers 80 stardust per battery. And i need basically the same amount of acid to make the battery in the first place. So it feels totally useless to me. Am I doing something wrong?

[@RealMrKraken]

No, unfortunately that's how it works. The initial tooltip for it is a bit misleading, or they changed the way the pump works and forgot to update it. The acid -> battery -> stardust isn't designed to be used with the stardust -> acid, you'll always end up with a negative from that.

[@DrDildoRespect]

It is totally useless considering you will have to farming electronic parts for all those batteries. Such a terrible use of resource those batteries are.

[@gd_media]

@@RealMrKraken Gotchu! it makes sense now, so farm the acid from the pumps and make batteries out of that to get stardust. Thanks for the help

[@RealMrKraken]

@@gd_media No worries!

[@Snerra01]

around the 3:20 mark what are u using the water tank on the bottom right?

[@RealMrKraken]

That's just to elevate the other collector tank

[@Snerra01]

@@RealMrKraken oooh okay i figured haha thanks for the response

[@digibluez]

is there a map to see spots for oil+polluted water at one spot?

[@RealMrKraken]

Not that I've seen, I might put one together later and put it up on the subreddit/in my discord

[@SuperSundaeTV]

Do we get more crude oil if we build on top of the black oily ground?

[@RealMrKraken]

Not that I've noticed, but I've not done that particular bit of science [yet]

[@sirpugalot5946]

Can you use stardust water pumps for this?

[@RealMrKraken]

Sadly not, the tooltip for them is very misleading. You can only convert batteries with the stardust pumps

[@geraldstover]

Well, the setup was helpful. Just not the location...because there isn't a spot on 1-15 available D:

[@markshumaker4135]

what about the stardust mining rig?

[@RealMrKraken]

Sounds like another memetic specialisation I didn't get, or anyone in my hive

[@markshumaker4135]

@@RealMrKraken stardust mining rig... i set it up by the ocean but all it wants to get is salt an sulfur lolmao i guess i gotta take it to a polluted area but im tired of moving an i dont think the yellow trucks would count as a hone to put it on lol . there is also one that turns star ore into stardust... didnt see that one though ..... coinicidentally any issues with getting starcrom? i did the base defense thing an it gave me nothing even though it said 0 of 40 times tried.... was pissed

[@riskid1484]

why i just getting pure water in last water tank not the impure acid

[@SilerDriz_1]

great video but its not helping because its crowded at blackfel

[@RealMrKraken]

At this point it doesn't surprise me, hopefully the next part of the map will have a few more options!

[@philippkastner7476]

is there any other location with oil and acid ?

[@kwt__rwaished1644]

how to get the impure acid?

[@RealMrKraken]

Polluted water > Osmosis purifier > Impure Acid

[@Ramschat]

Soooo step 1: win the base location lottery or you're out of luck. Oil + pollution areas are only enough for 1% of players or so.

[@mforbes5110]

@@Ramschat but we're talking oil "and" acid here, that's the top ten percent of one percent 👍 meanwhile I've got to figure out why pumps pumping crude when it should be pumping impure acid. 🤔

[@evvortex47]

how u put all the dirty water in water tank just in one second?

[@DKGaming4Life]

He put one stack in and then pressed H

[@RealMrKraken]

Exactly this ^

[@evvortex47]

@@DKGaming4Life thanks

[@EmilioPerezGlez]

where did u get that bed?

[@RealMrKraken]

It was the first Rare formula I got from the furniture bench if I remember correctly

[@Jackal84066]

lol is anyone else like me and they work very hard to stay at home and be lazy when it comes to setting up farms?

[@TheAderwolf]

oh damn i had that stardust pump... i didnt take it... fuck me

[@RealMrKraken]

It's no great loss, honestly I took it, put one pump down and then re-rolled that specialisation

[@codegiver60]

Hating getting through a video to hear "if you were lucky enough to get..." when I wasn't lol

[@RealMrKraken]

Neither was I! I got someone to place one for me

[@codegiver60]

@@RealMrKraken I feel like I got shafted on my specializations this season.

[@RealMrKraken]

@@codegiver60 I ended up taking most of the defensive ones as I too got options I'd never use 🤣

[@psychxx7146]

Getting the pumps aligned is the most annoying part of ANY acid farm design

[@RealMrKraken]

Absolutely, I've just given the pumphouse a refresh whilst doing base rebuild, much more satisfying now haha

[@Snerra01]

@@RealMrKraken no kidding man. watching the video and how neat ur setup was makes me want to completely overhaul my base

[@RealMrKraken]

It didn't start neat when doing the science lol. It's now in it's final form, just need to get some more furniture formulae and then I'll do the base tour video

[@jmbrady1]

it sucks that this is one of the only locations you can do this at

[@RealMrKraken]

Yeah, we'll see what the next area brings... 🤞

[@Deadpool25K78]

I will pass.

[@TheeAthis]

Seriously tho.....resetting this stuff every 6 weeks renders it pretty pointless.....at this point it's best to just play the game. They really need to change their game model.....

[@bigcrashg]

ngl this is just not worth it for acid. 140 watts of power. your whole base is going to rely on acid production. blackfell is one of the easiet acid farms with the deviated chops. can get a 100+ in a 30 minute sweep. best thing to take from here is pushing for deviated chops recipe and farming.

[@RealMrKraken]

No, it will never top active farming, but you do get acid AND oil. What else would you be using all the power for? All you need is a switch to go from production to defence for the once-a-week purification.

[@plazmica0323]

What i hate about this game is how poorly everything is explained. I didnt even know you could "brew" acid in a brewing barrel, heck it doesnt even show what ratio you need or what you get after what time before you input resources in it and memorise it like school homework. Rushed, unfinished game ...

[@Way2go926]

Lmao i still dont get why man likes to play female chars.. seriously?

[@RealMrKraken]

In this case because the male characters have very effeminate features anyway and their cosmetics are trash. In most games I have a male character

[@FlorianTV93]

You are faker Stardust is not for farming in water pump.

[@RealMrKraken]

Well, it's a shame you think that. Because It's a memetic specialisation, as shown in the video