OMG!

[NathanG]

So on a private server we just started a new world, go out about a hundred blocks, and this is what we find. :O

View from on top of the church -

 

[ICountFrom0]

Next thing you know old Jed's a millionaire....

 

[Poppycocks]

What you should do is install UgoCraft and use that to build one of those big old Oil pumps, just for the look of it.

 

[NathanG]

I am just still in awe, that's the biggest one I've ever seen. I wonder how lucky we are to find one of those near spawn. xD

 

[lazaruz76]

I have seen some big oil spawn in ssp but... HOLY SH**!!!! :O :O :O

 

[Poppycocks]

Yeah, damn, enough to make StalinJr a capitalist.

 

[NathanG]

Yea, I think we're set for...life.

 

[Abdiel]

I hate to disappoint you, but this is just a normal-sized oil well that happened to generate atop a tree. The oil flows down the leaves and spreads over a large area. Inside the pillar there is only a one block thick column of oil source blocks.

 

[NathanG]

I hate to disappoint you, but this is just a normal-sized oil well that happened to generate atop a tree. The oil flows down the leaves and spreads over a large area. Inside the pillar there is only a one block thick column of oil source blocks.

Yeah, we figured this out a few minutes after the post. D:

 

[Guswut]

Yeah, we figured this out a few minutes after the post. D:

Although the height of the well should mean that it is fairly large. Go check out the oil bulb, as it is also a good way to find good resources.

 

[Quesenek]

Yeah the oil geyser's in those forests are really deceiving. I had one taller than that that went all the way to bedrock in my last world it was crazy.

 

[Abdiel]

The height is counted from the highest top-most solid block. And for some reason EBXL leaves are considered solid. So the geyser is only a couple blocks tall.

 

[Guswut]

The height is counted from the highest top-most solid block. And for some reason EBXL leaves are considered solid. So the geyser is only a couple blocks tall.

Ah, ouch. On the bright side, easy oil to start with so an easy power source.