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| Category | Cargo |
| Type | Other Cargo |
| Data ID | 102027 |
Fuel is considered a Misc Item in Sunless Sea. Fuel is a Cargo item and also the resource that makes your ship move. It can be bought or sold at Shops.
Item description[]
"Coal, dug from zee-cliffs or imported from Hell. "
Game note: If you run out of fuel, you will drift helplessly.
Obtaining[]
Fuel can be obtained in many interactions and events while playing the game.
| Item location | Interaction name | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naples | Purchase Fuel |
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| Share news from below |
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Interactions[]
Interactions in Brief[]
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| Interaction | Action | Result Type | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening a Cache of Curiosities | 'A stout crate' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| Opening a Cache of Curiosities | 'A tightly sealed crate' | Default / Challenge Fail | +7 |
| London! | 'Deliver Supplies for the Work' | Default / Challenge Fail | +10 |
| Frostfound | 'Take tea with the squatters at the dock' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Khan's Heart | 'Purchase Fuel at an outrageous price' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Kingeater's Castle | 'An act of burning faith' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Kingeater's Castle | 'An act of burning faith' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Kingeater's Castle | 'Allow the Gall-Eyed Engineer to go ashore' | Default / Challenge Fail | +5 |
| Wisdom | 'Let the Shady Cook go ashore' | Default / Challenge Fail | +5 |
| You've destroyed a Lifeberg | 'Concentrate on replenishing supplies' | Success | + 2+[d:5] |
| You've destroyed a Pirate Frigate | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Demeaux Island' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Gaider's Mourn' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Hunter's Keep' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Mt Palmerston' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Port Cecil' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Quaker's Haven' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Venderbight' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Whither' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Hunter's Keep's End' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Station III' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Abbey Rock' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Shepherd Isles: submit as unsubstantiated hearsay' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Godfall' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Pigmote Isle' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Chapel of Lights' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Avid Horizon' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Khan's Heart' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Uttershroom' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Iron Republic' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Iron Republic' | Rare Event | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Mangrove College' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Saviour's Rocks' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Saviour's Rocks' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Isle of Cats' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Visage' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Polythreme' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Empire of Hands' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Empire of Hands' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Empire of Hands' | Rare Event | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Port Carnelian' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Nuncio' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Frostfound' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Aestival' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Chelonate' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Codex' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Fathomking's Hold' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Grand Geode' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Khan's Shadow' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Wisdom' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Varchas' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Varchas' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Varchas' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Adam's Way' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Irem' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Kingeater's Castle' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Salt Lions' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Quaker's Haven' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Quaker's Haven' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Quaker's Haven' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Quaker's Haven' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Quaker's Haven' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Rosegate ' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Aigul' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Hideaway' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Dahut' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Gant Pole' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Nook' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Low Barnet' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Anthe' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Wrack' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'The Undercrow' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Scrimshander' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Aigul' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Shepherd Isles: submit as fact' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Admiralty Survey Office | 'Shepherd Isles: submit as fact' | Success | +1 |
| Beachcombing | 'The remnants of a shipwreck!' | Rare Event | + 2+[d:10] |
| Speak with the Irrepressible Cannoneer | 'Invite the Cannoneer to dine with you' | Requirement | ≥ 10 |
| Speak with the Irrepressible Cannoneer | 'Invite the Cannoneer to dine with you' | Default / Challenge Fail | -10 |
| Drydock | 'Visit the Admiralty fuel stores' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| Drydock | 'Visit the Admiralty fuel stores' | Success | +3 |
| A little gift | 'Accept the 'dispensation | Default / Challenge Fail | +10 |
| Home | 'Circle to try to pick him up' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Home | 'Circle to try to pick him up' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Home | 'Circle to try to pick him up' | Success | -1 |
| Pale Visitors | 'Drown out their song with the roar of the engines' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Pale Visitors | 'Drown out their song with the roar of the engines' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Souls delivered! | 'Accept payment' | Default / Challenge Fail | +5 |
| The House of the Question | 'Gain Stone's Attention' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The House of the Question | 'Gain Stone's Attention' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The House of the Question | 'Lift Stone's Curse' | Requirement | ≥ 7 |
| The House of the Question | 'Lift Stone's Curse' | Default / Challenge Fail | -7 |
| Hideaway | 'Begin the war for hearts and minds' | Requirement | ≥ 7 |
| Hideaway | 'Begin the war for hearts and minds' | Default / Challenge Fail | -7 |
| Avernus | 'To Naples' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Avernus | 'To Naples' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Avernus | 'To Naples' | Rare Event | -1 |
| Avernus | 'Return Below' | Requirement | ≥ 10 |
| Avernus | 'Return Below' | Default / Challenge Fail | -10 |
| Avernus | 'End your journey' | Requirement | ≤ 0 |
| Abbey Rock | 'Search the surroundings' | Rare Event | +5 |
| The Sprightly Visionary's Ambition | 'Supply his engines with Fuel' | Requirement | ≥ 7 |
| The Sprightly Visionary's Ambition | 'Supply his engines with Fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | -7 |
| Warm congratulations | 'Hand over the cargo' | Default / Challenge Fail | +3 |
| Warm congratulations | 'UNUSED - Hand over the cargo' | Default / Challenge Fail | +3 |
| Light-Ship | 'Purchase Fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Avid Horizon | 'Explore along the shoreline' | Rare Event | +3 |
| An Offer of Assistance | 'Salvage rights' | Default / Challenge Fail | +5 |
| The War for Hearts and Minds | 'Silence the Investigator's intrusive band' | Requirement | ≥ 5 |
| The War for Hearts and Minds | 'Silence the Investigator's intrusive band' | Default / Challenge Fail | -5 |
| The Cumaean Canal Staging Area | 'Travel to the Surface' | Requirement | ≥ 22 |
| The Cumaean Canal Staging Area | 'Travel to the Surface' | Default / Challenge Fail | -10 |
| In Naples | 'Purchase Fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| In Naples | 'Share news from below' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| In Naples | 'Return to Avernus' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| In Naples | 'Return to Avernus' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| In Naples | 'Sell your ship' | Requirement | ≤ 0 |
| In Naples | 'Carry cargoes around the Mediterranean' | Requirement | ≥ 10 |
| In Naples | 'Carry cargoes around the Mediterranean' | Default / Challenge Fail | -10 |
| In Naples | 'Carry cargoes around the Mediterranean' | Success | -10 |
| Outfitter | 'Highest-end equipment' | Default / Challenge Fail | +20 |
| A sudden calm | '"What now?"' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Finally, calm | '"What now?"' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Desperate Measures | 'Search your Supplies for something of use' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Desperate Measures | 'Make a sacrifice to Stone' | Rare Event | +1 |
| Desperate Measures | 'Make a sacrifice to Storm' | Default / Challenge Fail | + 1+[d:5] |
| Desperate Measures | 'Fire a distress flare' | Rare Event | + 1+[d:5] |
| Desperate Measures | 'A few last Supplies' | Success | +1 |
| The place that is no place | 'The High Gate' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The place that is no place | 'The High Gate' | Rare Event | -1 |
| Warm and wary congratulations | 'Hand over the cargo' | Default / Challenge Fail | +3 |
| Cavendish Abbey | 'Fuel for the Bee-Smokers' | Requirement | ≥ 5 |
| Cavendish Abbey | 'Fuel for the Bee-Smokers' | Default / Challenge Fail | -5 |
| The Throne-Cyst | 'Ask a boon of the King' | Rare Event | +5 |
| You've defeated a Pirate Frigate | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| You've destroyed a Crack Pirate Frigate | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| You've defeated a Crack Pirate Frigate | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| You've defeated a Tramp Steamer | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| You've defeated a Tramp Steamer | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Rare Event | + [d:2] |
| You've defeated a Merchant Cruiser | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| You've defeated a Merchant Cruiser | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Rare Event | + [d:2] |
| You've destroyed a Merchant Cruiser | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Default / Challenge Fail | + [d:2] |
| You've destroyed a Merchant Cruiser | 'Loot and scuttle her' | Rare Event | + [d:2] |
| The Zeppelin Under Construction | 'Contribute Fuel to the Zeppelin' | Requirement | ≥ 10 |
| The Zeppelin Under Construction | 'Contribute Fuel to the Zeppelin' | Default / Challenge Fail | -10 |
| The Salt Lions, after | 'Pick over the encampment' | Rare Event | + [d:2] |
| The Sun beneath the Sea | 'The light below' | Default / Challenge Fail | -3 |
| The Sun beneath the Sea | 'The light below' | Rare Event | -3 |
| The Mayor's Shack | 'Acquire emergency fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Mayor's Shack | 'Acquire emergency fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Mayor's Shack | 'Acquire emergency fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Mayor's Shack | 'Acquire emergency Fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Mayor's Shack | 'Acquire emergency fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Screaming Sage | 'Let it be so' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| By the Skin of your Teeth | 'Continue' | Default / Challenge Fail | +3 |
| Your Colony | 'Collect Fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | +30 |
| The Rat Ghetto | 'Smuggle fuel into the ghetto' | Requirement | ≥ 2 |
| The Rat Ghetto | 'Smuggle fuel into the ghetto' | Default / Challenge Fail | -2 |
| The Rat Ghetto | 'Smuggle fuel into the ghetto' | Rare Event | -2 |
| Open to the Public | 'How to Roll a Cigar' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Chapter II: Alike In Dignity | 'I sided with the Chief Engineer' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Chapter II: Alike In Dignity | 'I favoured the Seneschal' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Chapter IV: A Vital Enterprise | 'I offered my strategic assistance' | Success | +10 |
| Chapter IV: An Urgent Venture | 'I plotted to steal the Eye with cunning' | Success | +10 |
| Quaker's Haven | 'Buy Fuel from a dockside stall' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Congratulations are in Order | 'Hand over the Last Constable' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| Congratulations are in Order | 'Hand over the Last Constable's message' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| Congratulations are in Order | 'Relay the Drownie's message' | Default / Challenge Fail | +5 |
| A Remedy for the Cheery Man | 'Give him the restorative' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| A Remedy for the Cheery Man | 'Give him the cane' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| You have defeated a Wreckship | 'Send a boarding party' | Success | + [d:2] |
| You have defeated a Wreckship | 'Send a boarding party' | Rare Success | + [d:2] |
| Anthe | 'Share an enraging story you picked up in London' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Anthe | 'Stop by the Smokehouse' | Default / Challenge Fail | + 2+[d:5] |
| Anthe | 'Mingle with Hurriers, Getters and Thrusters' | Success | + [d:5] |
| The Escaped Composer | 'Sell your Drownie Hymn to the Composer' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| The Escaped Composer | 'Sell your Drownie Love-Song to the Composer' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Escaped Composer | 'Sell your Drownie Song in Counterpoint to the Composer' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Crushing Pressure | 'Surface!' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Crushing Pressure | 'Surface!' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Elbow Deep in the Nearly Dead | 'The beast moans its last' | Default / Challenge Fail | +3 |
| Elbow Deep in the Nearly Dead | 'End the beast's pain' | Default / Challenge Fail | +7 |
| You have defeated a Corsair Undergalley | 'Attempt to board the wreck ' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| You have defeated a Corsair Undergalley | 'Attempt to board the wreck ' | Success | + 1 + [d:2] |
| You have defeated a Corsair Undergalley | 'Negotiate a surrender ' | Success | + 1 + [d:2] |
| You have defeated a Corsair Undergalley | 'Negotiate a surrender ' | Rare Success | + 1 + [d:2] |
| You have defeated a Putterpony | 'Loot the Putterpony ' | Success | + [d:3] |
| Flourishing Zubmarine Shipwreck | 'crystal people ' | Default / Challenge Fail | +3 |
| Flourishing Zubmarine Shipwreck | 'crystal fugitives ' | Default / Challenge Fail | +3 |
| Salvage! | 'A heavy wooden crate' | Default / Challenge Fail | +2 |
| The Darkened Undercrow | 'Search for fuel and supplies' | Success | +1 |
| The Great Maw | 'Join some tooth miners' | Success | +2 |
| The Sun within the Sea | 'The surrounding light' | Default / Challenge Fail | -3 |
| The Sun within the Sea | 'The surrounding light' | Rare Event | -3 |
| The Sprightly Visionary's Ambition | 'Supply his engines with Fuel' | Requirement | ≥ 7 |
| The Sprightly Visionary's Ambition | 'Supply his engines with Fuel' | Default / Challenge Fail | -7 |
Interactions in Detail[]
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Usage[]
Fuel consumption is based on your fuel efficiency, engine power and having your ship lights on. The higher the efficiency and the lower the power, the less consumption.
Fuel gets consumed faster when the "Full Power!" mode is activated, by either pressing F on your keyboard or by clicking on the flame next to the fuel consumption blue bar, which will result in a higher speed but also higher Engine temperature.
In normal cruise, the equation for fuel consumption is as follows: (((Engine Power*0.0005)*(1-Fuel Efficiency))*Gear Speed)+Light = Fuel drain/s(in %)
Where:
- Gear Speed is 1 for half speed and 2 for full speed
- Light is 0 if off, 1 if on. (this means that the ship's light use 1% of fuel every second, regardless of your speed)
This means that:
- If you use the Compulsion (+3500) alone, you'll use 1.75%/s fuel at half speed w/lights off, 2.75%/s half speed w/lights on, 3.5%/s full speed w/lights off, and 4.5%/s full speed w/lights on.
- If you use the Fulgent Impeller (+5000, +50% efficiency) alone, you'll use 1.25%/s fuel at half speed w/lights off, 2.25%/s half speed w/lights on, 2.5%/s full speed w/lights off, and 3.5%/s full speed w/lights on.
In short, there is no additional efficiency to be had by choosing to go at half speed versus full speed. At half speed, with your prow lamp off, you will consume half as much fuel over time but take twice as long to cover the distance, consuming the same amount of fuel relative to distance. With your prow lamp on, you will actually lose more fuel relative to distance when travelling slowly (+57% with Compulsion, +80% with Fulgent Impeller). Also, because it takes you twice as long to travel anywhere, you will consume twice as many supplies to cover the same distance. Therefore, to save both on fuel and supplies, you should travel at full speed except when stealth or precise navigation are required (e.g., in combat, to avoid a collision, or to use your zee-bat). The obvious exception is Full Power!, which is clearly far less efficient and should be used only in emergencies.
Triggered Events[]
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| Story | Requirements | Type | Location |
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| A little gift |
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Story Event (Always :100%) | Fallen London |
| An Offer of Assistance |
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Story Event (Always :100%) | The Unterzee |
| Desperate Measures |
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Story Event (Always :100%) | Anywhere |
