Exploration
The Last Caretaker Black Vein Station: Location, Oil Pump and Locked Room
Short answer: Black Vein Station is an oil rig at sea, at map coordinates 49, -70; power Navigation Beacon 15 to show it on your map. Its built-in pump gives you oil, and two petrol and two diesel tanks are already there for refining.
Game version: Early Access, Update 6 (October 19, 2026); location data from game 0.8.5 listings, setup tips from December 2025 to January 2026
Where Black Vein Station Is
Where is Black Vein Station?
Black Vein Station is an oil rig at sea, at map coordinates 49, -70.
Power Navigation Beacon 15 to reveal Black Vein Station on the map.
See also: interactive map
What enemies are at Black Vein Station?
The wiki lists Green and Orange Cocoons, Green Crawlers, Mosquitoes, Pink and Red Slimes and an Arch Angel at the station.
Not confirmed yet
See also: combat guide
What paint is at Black Vein Station?
2 paints are here: Drowned city (5 cans) and Sunburst panel (5 cans).
With the paint cans in your inventory, use the Customization Table on the boat’s bridge: it is on your left as you come in, next to the phone.
See also: paint finder for all 37 paints
Oil Pump and Fuel Setup
How do you get oil at Black Vein Station?
Black Vein Station has an oil pump, so you can collect oil there.
Two petrol tanks and two diesel tanks are already built at the station.
The wiki says the pump needs only power and somewhere to store oil, and that it can stop now and then even when the oil containers are not full.
Not confirmed yet
Keep the oil line closed from pump to tank: an open hose end anywhere on the line spills the oil into the sea. Open ports on connectors do not leak.
Not confirmed yet
See also: every oil source
What is the best Black Vein setup?
There are two ways to run it: pump the crude oil into tanks on your boat and refine it somewhere else, or put a Distillation Tower up on the rig itself and pipe the diesel and petrol down to the boat.
Feed oil and electricity into a Distillation Tower to produce both diesel and petrol.
The Distillation Tower is listed at skill level 20.
See also: Distillation Tower guide
Why does the Distillation Tower stop?
The tower makes far more diesel than petrol, about 10 to 1, and stops as soon as either side is full. Give both outputs enough tanks, or unplug the side you have too much of.
Both diesel and petrol outlets need somewhere for their output to go. If either side fills up, the Distillation Tower stops; check both output connections and their available storage.
See also: fuel storage containers
How do you power the station?
The wiki recommends building at least one Medium Battery and a Solar Panel on the rig, because the elevator draws a lot of power.
Not confirmed yet
You can run power cables straight down the lift, fixing the connectors to its metal back and bending the cable away from the lift at the top and bottom.
Not confirmed yet
See also: power grid guide
Locked Room and Hidden Room
How do you open the locked room at Black Vein Station?
One room on the main level stays locked even when the whole station is powered. Get in from below: go down the stairs at the side of that building into the small rooms underneath and climb up through a hole in the ceiling.
See also: security levels and locked doors




