How to Get Oil in Cities: Skylines?

Hello guys! We hope that your cities prosper and that your citizens are happy and satisfied with the quality of life in it. In the Cities: Skylines game, the goal is to build a city with all its segments and maintain its quality while simultaneously developing and raising money to expand it further. 

It seems challenging, but it really isn’t. It is necessary to observe citizens’ demands and adequately dispose of the budget, and our city will develop without any problems. This article will talk about oil – a necessary product for citizens. How to get oil, what it is for, and how to build the oil industry in Cities: Skylines, so keep reading.

Cities: Skylines is a city-building simulation game in which you play as the mayor of the city you are building yourself. You start from scratch, choose the map of the city you want to play in, build roads, residential, commercial, and industrial areas and wait for the citizens to start settling. After that, you have to organize jobs for them, educational institutions, health institutions, and much more that will enable them a quality life.

This game is available on the Steam platform in several versions. A classic PC version is available and a version for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4 game consoles.

After a bit of introduction, let’s go back to the article’s main topic – all about oil in Cities: Skylines.

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All About Oil in Cities: Skylines

Oil along with ore, forestry and fertile land is a fourth natural resource located in Cities: Skylines. On the map are areas rich in oil painted black, and you will find them using filters for natural resources. Petroleum and plastics are obtained from oil, so it is an extremely important natural resource for your citizens. Be careful, oil can be depleted so you have to manage its distribution well. Oil depletes in the industry very quickly, so take care when building the oil industry.

When you find an area black, it means that the area is rich in oil. It is necessary to build a district in that area, use a brush to paint an oil source, and mark it with a district. After marking the entire area, select the Oil industry. Thus the district will be exclusively tied to oil.

Then, you have to connect your new district with city roads. Build additional roads and connect the oil industry with important roads in the city so that the transport of goods can take place easily and quickly.

Be careful not to build an oil industry near the city center and residential zones. The oil industry pollutes the environment and thus impairs citizens’ quality of life. It also affects their health, and citizens can get sick and die. It is best to build industrial zones outside the city and connect them well so that the transport of goods can easily take place throughout the city. Except via roads, goods can be exported and imported via ships, planes or trains, as you wish.

Also, don’t forget to put landfills or incinerators in your industrial zone because garbage has to be collected and taken away, otherwise citizens can start leaving city facilities.

Furthermore, the oil industry must be connected to water pipes with a water source that supplies the rest of the city. Don’t forget to connect your new oil industry with a source of drinking and clean water.

Then, build a power source. These can be wind turbines, for example. Choose what suits you best at that moment as a source of electricity and connect the oil industry to electricity.

After these steps, watch the oil industry buildings rise and start oil refining. Firstly, extractor buildings will use natural resources under them to produce the raw material. Then, this raw material will be processed in processor buildings only after that are the goods created, which are then sold to customers in commercial zones.

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Using Oil as Power Source in Cities: Skylines?

It’s not impossible! When you reach Busy Town milestone your oil power plant will be unlocked. The oil power plant serves to power your city with energy, generating 120 megawatts. The cost of it is ₡ 50,000 and the weekly maintenance is ₡ 1,920.

The oil power plant uses natural oil and powers your city with power. It also creates heavy pollution. If you want to set up an oil power plant in your city you need to have an oil industry built in an area with an oil resource.

Can I Have Unlimited Oil in Cities: Skylines?

As we have already said, oil can be depleted, so the problem arises when there is a shortage of this natural resource. Fortunately, Cities: Skylines game developers have made an effort to create a mod that will save your industry immediately.

This mod is a built-in base game, and you can activate or deactivate it, depending on your preferences. It’s literally called “Unlimited Oil and Ore.” Make sure unlimited this mod is enabled at all times, or it will deplete quickly.

However, if you want to play without mod after you have exhausted the entire oil source, you will be able to import it. This is also not a bad option, but for your budget and public transport, it is much better to have your own natural resource that you can export and make more money.

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Final Thoughts

We hope you have a little better understanding of what natural resources are and how natural resources are exploited. Natural resources are an essential item of Cities: Skylines because they are part of the supply chain that serves to make money and progress the city.

So, find an area of your city that is rich in natural resources, black is oil, mark that area as a district and create an oil industry. After that, take care of the maintenance of the oil industry and be careful not to waste this valuable natural resource. Good luck!