Technology · Item

Tar

Black, sticky and waterproof: asphalt for roads, insulation for cables, and fuel.

In the game

A quarter block of bitumen (16 voxels) alone at the grid gives 2 tar; the refinery gives one with each run of fractions.

Asphalt (gravel, sand and tar: 32 voxels of road), the large power cable (2 tar for 4) and the insulation of small cables; it burns in a furnace.

Tar is the oil you can have before any refinery: bitumen seeps give it with a pickaxe.

The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).

Bitumen: dig a quarter block (16 voxels) of the black bitumen that seeps above oil, and put it alone in the grid: 2 tar.
Refinery: each run of fractions gives 1 tar.

Asphalt: gravel, sand and tar give 32 voxels of asphalt, for roads.
Cables: 2 tar (or plastic) and 8 copper wires make 4 large power cables at the Metal mill; tar is also an insulation for small power and signal cables.
Fuel: it burns in a furnace.

Black and sticky, from oil or wood: asphalt, waterproofing.

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A sub-action of the step Refinery: not needed to go on, but counted in your progress.