Talk:Whale Oil/@comment-5872935-20130105195242

Nobody seems to be capabile of replacing an oil whale tank in the game except Corvo. Nor can anybody else disconnect a Whale Oil tank. However, enemy guards will try to run a tank to empty to get through a rewired wall of light.

Whale Oil tanks are good improvised weapons, and their explosions make noise. In my first playthrough I didn't realize the enemy couldn't simply reconnect the tanks to repair the drawbridge lights, so I threw them over the side. It alerted enemy guards.