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[Oxygen Not Included] Breath of Fresh Air! (DLC in Early Access)

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    So, I finally have enough materials to make a SPOM, based on this design:
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    I'm down one Wheezewort, but that should be okay, right?
    Only the Wheezewort description says they need Phosphorite, and I don't see how it's getting in there on that design. Is this an old version that wouldn't work anymore? Could I just add an airlock to that side to clear it up?
    (escaping hydrogen wouldn't be a problem, it'd just go to the top of the base and get pumped back to where I want it anyway)

    Yeah, it's old. Wheeseworts used to require no upkeep and be a planter box plant ala bluff briar, but they changed that with the release version.

    The newer version would IIRC have the wheeseworts on farm tiles with an auto sweeper right below. Since the phosporite is technically applied to the tile, rather than the plant, the sweeper can do the fertilizing from below in a place where dupes can load a storage container for phosporite.

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  • chrono_travellerchrono_traveller Registered User regular
    So, umm, pretty dumb question on my part, (been playing this awhile, but haven't gotten far enough to deal with transportation till recently), can sweepers actually deliver materials as well as pick them up? If so, how do you make them do that? I have set sweepers to pick up fertilizer from the refiners, but my dupes still need to supply the dirt and slime to make it work.

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    So, umm, pretty dumb question on my part, (been playing this awhile, but haven't gotten far enough to deal with transportation till recently), can sweepers actually deliver materials as well as pick them up? If so, how do you make them do that? I have set sweepers to pick up fertilizer from the refiners, but my dupes still need to supply the dirt and slime to make it work.

    It's generally done via priority and storage.

    If you have containers of dirt and slime set to priority, 4, lets say... and the refiner at priority 5, it should deliver from the storage to the refiner. Then a storage for the fertilizer at say, 6.

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    So, umm, pretty dumb question on my part, (been playing this awhile, but haven't gotten far enough to deal with transportation till recently), can sweepers actually deliver materials as well as pick them up? If so, how do you make them do that? I have set sweepers to pick up fertilizer from the refiners, but my dupes still need to supply the dirt and slime to make it work.

    Sweeper has to be in range of both a) the material and b) the tile the resource is actually applied to (usually the lowest center tile.)

    If the resource is being deliver by a receptacle or stored in a storage bin, then said storage needs to have a lower priority than the refinery. If it's something dropped to the ground by a chute then it should apply as soon as there is room for it.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    @Foefaller You'll find it amusing to know my current base is now so efficient i have near 400,000kcal of Frost burger stored up. and 191,00 kcal of Surf'n'turf (Which is my dupe's main diet).

    Please note i am not even actively farming lettuce or sleet weet - the gains on this are entirely passive from the map. and this is with 16 dupes chowing down. (Although only the operators are allowed Frost Burgers, everyone else gets Surf'n'Turf).

    Also, because i enjoy making you all look at my pretty, pretty base: Here it is in all it's glory currently, with multiple overlays.
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    Some cool stuff going on: SPOM is pumping chilled oxygen into the base. Conyvors are setup in such a way the vast majority of dropped items are collected and routed into the Quantum Storage Lock (Read: that tiny tile of water off to the left of the storagebase). Everything else is sorted, keeping eggs where they belong, coal to the coal plant, etcera.

    Cooling loop is up and running and doing it's job - well enough i've uninsulated the power plants to let the heat equalised through the base. They're actually cooler than chunks of the base as you can see! Probably going to expand the cooling loop, and have a dedicated power-plant loop, and a dedicated base cooling loop. Not to mention actually figuring out how to create a temperature feed for the aquatuner, so i can ensure that my base is being kept at a comfortable 21 degrees. (I should be able to do this using a liquid temp sensor, a liquid shut off, and setting the temp sensor to 35 so it routes 35 degree oil into the aquatuner, but not anything else, right?)

    The Base is decor-bomb'd to the nines, and the vast majority of it has positive decor, which is great. Pacu farming is running so well i have 3 pacu tanks - a breeding tank (The central reservoir), the drop tank (Bottom of the base, catches any incubated pacu who are not delivered to the breeding tank/any pacu i print off from the pod), and a tiny one tile tank in the egg room, which is just where pacu eggs that aren't being incubated hatch. This all passive pacu farming as well, other than the egg incubating - My game's bugged and is not using fish releases correctly, so i cannot keep the tank to a single pacu and feed. So they're just all wild instead, and who cares?

    On that note, all the incubators are setup and automated so they're super power efficient. 3 ranchers are handling all the ranches and the farming so well i occasionally get idle notifications from them. Probably time to figure out ranching other stuff! Maybe dense pufts to start stockpiling Oxylite?

    Next real goals are setting up a proper industrial refining zone, tweaking the cooling setup so it'll not end up freezing my base... and then? Then i think it's time to look towards SPAAAAAACE

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    I can't believe it took me 90 cycles to figure out I can use clock sensors to just make my own instant response switches.

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  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    So it appears that a chlorine room does not kill germs in a pipe.

    In the past this wasn't a big problem, since I can over come that by using more space to run several liquid containers and some manual dupe labour.

    However, in this lastest base I do not have a lot of dupes or space, so I need a small setup that automatically detects that all the germs are gone before decanting. This will also include the output from my bathroom, so regular inputs of germy water will happen.

    Any setups that seem like it'll work?

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    So it appears that a chlorine room does not kill germs in a pipe.

    In the past this wasn't a big problem, since I can over come that by using more space to run several liquid containers and some manual dupe labour.

    However, in this lastest base I do not have a lot of dupes or space, so I need a small setup that automatically detects that all the germs are gone before decanting. This will also include the output from my bathroom, so regular inputs of germy water will happen.

    Any setups that seem like it'll work?

    Set it up so that you prime the system with pure water first, that will fill the pipe leaving everything else in the reservoir to have their germs killed.

    The setup I've been using:

    https://youtu.be/W-1RG5T4KeM

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  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    get a chlorine room, and put in 2 water tanks (or air tanks). The chlorine will kill all the germs rather quickly
    get time sensors set up on the pipes.

    Day 1 you dump all water into tank A, release the water in tank B about 3hours into the following day
    Day 2 you dump all water into tank B, release the water in tank A about 3hours into the following day
    repeat

    or a 3tank setup to be absolutely sure (even though germs die super quick in chlorine)
    Day 1 dump into tank A, release tank B, tank C is sitting
    Day 2 dump into tank B, release tank C, tank A is sitting
    Day 3 dump into tank C, release tank A, tank B is sitting

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    What the hell is this someone managed to launch a rocket in 41 cycles:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHRWJH18kwQ
    Speedrunners are insane.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    get a chlorine room, and put in 2 water tanks (or air tanks). The chlorine will kill all the germs rather quickly
    get time sensors set up on the pipes.

    Day 1 you dump all water into tank A, release the water in tank B about 3hours into the following day
    Day 2 you dump all water into tank B, release the water in tank A about 3hours into the following day
    repeat

    or a 3tank setup to be absolutely sure (even though germs die super quick in chlorine)
    Day 1 dump into tank A, release tank B, tank C is sitting
    Day 2 dump into tank B, release tank C, tank A is sitting
    Day 3 dump into tank C, release tank A, tank B is sitting

    Another option is the spinner design - Use a germ sensor that links to a liquid shutoff. If germ count is above 0, the valve is disabled and the water is instead sent back to the start of the cycle.

    Honestly though, outside of water getting into your watercooler or your expresso machine, food poisoning germs arent any big deal in liquids - Zombie Spores would be an issue i imagine, maybe? I'm using a spinner to clean a polluted vent's output, but that's only because it's used to help feed my SPOM and i have no idea if you can aeroslize Food Poisoning germs like that. Though i know they can get airborne for sure (And even then, you can use stuff like Buddy Buds to help coutneract things).

    Honestly, germs in general seem kinda... toothless currently. I have more issues with Heatstroke and Hypothermia as sicknesses than anything from germs. (and that's just because there's been some issues in base layout)

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    get a chlorine room, and put in 2 water tanks (or air tanks). The chlorine will kill all the germs rather quickly
    get time sensors set up on the pipes.

    Day 1 you dump all water into tank A, release the water in tank B about 3hours into the following day
    Day 2 you dump all water into tank B, release the water in tank A about 3hours into the following day
    repeat

    or a 3tank setup to be absolutely sure (even though germs die super quick in chlorine)
    Day 1 dump into tank A, release tank B, tank C is sitting
    Day 2 dump into tank B, release tank C, tank A is sitting
    Day 3 dump into tank C, release tank A, tank B is sitting

    Just make sure you flush the system with germ free water first time, because no matter how close the shutoff are to the input/output of the tanks there will always be some water in pipes.

    Should only need it the very first time though, as long as the pipe into the reservoir is closed when it is draining and the shutoff occurs before it gets completely drained; any germs that get in are evenly distributed in all the water already inside. So the 20kg with 10,000 germs total stuck in the pipes will make the next 10kg that comes out have...20 germs, which is below the "dying off" limit and will almost certainly be germ free before it gets to the cooking/espresso water. This of course assumes you are running it through a sieve to get ordinary water first and not P.water where food poisoning multiplies.
    Honestly, germs in general seem kinda... toothless currently. I have more issues with Heatstroke and Hypothermia as sicknesses than anything from germs. (and that's just because there's been some issues in base layout)

    Feels kinda like an either-or thing for me, to be honest. Either you're really careful about exposure and cleanliness so your dupes never get sick, or you make a stockpile of medicine with a sick bay to insta-cure them when they get sick; doing one kinda negates the need of doing the other.

    Latter is usually how I deal with slimelung: rather than worry about making sure to limit the number of dupes or get super careful about P. oxygen, I just build a sick bay, skill up someone to run it, and make 4-5 medicine packs that can be applied immediately when they wake up with slimelung.

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    So I've been enjoying this game, but I think for my tastes I find it a bit too finicky and cluttered by mid-game. Like by the time I've unlocked maybe the 3rd tier of the techs, my space is so cluttered with all sorts of shit, and it takes ages for my dupes to get around, and so much of their time is spent doing basic maintenance (ie cooking, running algae to various oxygen thingies, etc.). But then also because the game is presented vertically (vs. isometric like in rimworld for example), in order to dig towards the resources you need, you're also having to build ladders everywhere, and the places you're digging have no oxygen so your dupes have to run in and out to get some breath. It really bogs down.

    Early game is super fun while you're setting up the basics, but I've felt I've needed to restart each game around the same point because I've made some error around the placement of rooms when I've unlocked a new tech, or I've run out of basic resources and it takes too long to dig up the new stuff if you haven't planned ahead for it. Basically the game hasn't really been new player friendly (although I did get the game shortly after early access, I haven't played much since then), because it kind of assumes you know what you need to succeed, but I've had to learn by trial and error, and by midgame I find it kind of exhausting. And part of this is because the early game concerns never really fade away. I'm still finding myself struggling to find the basic, early-game, necessities like food and water and oxygen in the midgame when I should be more worried about midgame stuff. I haven't found this to be the case in Rimworld, for example.

    As some quick examples. Sometimes I'll find random water or polluted water spills in the middle of my base and I have no idea where it came from. I have all these critters running around since they appear to offer some benefit, but I spent a bit of time unlocking the ranching tech only to find out I can't make use of it until I have plastics. And I can't have plastics until I have oil, and I have no idea where to find oil. You kind of have to micromanage cooking and feeding in the sense that if you set your guys to make infinite food, it makes too much, and if you don't do that, you run out of food too fast and have to periodically go back and set someone back to cooking. So I try doing things like just set them to make infinite liceloafs, which should regulate itself based on how much lice I grow, but then I constantly get error messages that I don't have enough resources to cook. But then on top of all this, I find the various systems a bit more complicated than necessary to be fun. Specifically power management. You kind of don't find out until mid game that you need to manage circuit load, and rewiring an entire base to compensate is painful. But then you probably also have to do that for gas and liquids as well.

    I think balance for new players would be helped if they reduced the amount of resources you need in terms of water and algae useage, but then slowed down tech research. Right now I can unlock so much tech before I can reasonably use it, and then I find myself struggling to figure out where to place the stuff. I mean I guess the game does a good job of being a puzzle, but too often I've found myself responding to problems or a crisis, but don't actually have room to build what I need to solve the crisis. I mean I do like games that can spiral out of control when you've planned wrong (like in banished or frostpunk), but I feel like in those games it's more obvious about what you did wrong and can adjust accordingly.

    Having said all that, I do think I'm making progress in terms of planning appropriately from game to game, but I just find the game throws so many systems at you all kind of at the same time. So you have this sort of linear progression in terms of difficulty in the early game, and then by mid-game it just skyrockets abruptly. I guess what I'm saying is that I think I'd enjoy the game more if the early-game issues became self-sufficient before moving on to mid-game concerns. Like while I'm figuring out how to move gas from this space to that space, to use it to fuel this system so that I can power this other element, I don't also want to still be worrying about food and oxygen in the oldest parts of my base.

    I'm going to keep at it for a bit though.

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Question about priorities: if I set the Egg Cracker to crack an egg type forever (priority 5), and there's an empty Incubator that wants the same egg type (priority 7), they're going to the incubators first, right?
    I'm trying to set up my ranches so they don't get cramped with eggs and stop laying.

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  • RendRend Registered User regular
    Yeah ONI is a pretty unique game in that its loop takes place over many, many restarted colonies.
    the places you're digging have no oxygen so your dupes have to run in and out to get some breath. It really bogs down.
    ...running algae to various oxygen thingies

    It sounds like you're not using electrolyzers. Two electrolyzers can outptu enough oxygen for more than 10 duplicants (more than 12 I'm pretty sure) with no issues. You just have to construct a room for them to operate in that can handle both the oxygen and the hydrogen. Also, be aware they generate heat and the air is a little hot, so at some point you'll need to deal with that.

    Hydrogen can go into a hydrogen generator to ease coal consumption, which is nice.

    The bonus to this is that since you'll make more oxygen than you need, after your base is filled up you can tap off of your ventilation ducts to bring some of that air down into strategically placed air rooms in your exploration shafts, giving your duplicants a place to stop and breathe so they don't have to run all the way back up to your base to get a lungful of air.
    I spent a bit of time unlocking the ranching tech only to find out I can't make use of it until I have plastics.

    Some creatures can only be caught with a plastic trap, but a lot of creatures can just be caught by hand. Hatches and dreckos come to mind, hatches being the kind of canonical first thing you want since they can turn raw minerals into coal by eating it, and coal is pretty good for power for a pretty long time.
    You kind of have to micromanage cooking and feeding in the sense that if you set your guys to make infinite food, it makes too much, and if you don't do that, you run out of food too fast and have to periodically go back and set someone back to cooking.
    water and algae useage

    One thing I might recommend is planting mealwood for your food. It provides -1 morale to eat, but morale is VERY easy to have a lot of early with just a few rooms (barracks, washroom, mess hall, etc) and mealwood requires only dirt and that's it. No water, very little time spent by duplicants maintaining the plants, etc. It's a perfect food source for MANY cycles, and will take a lot of load off of both your water and time usage. You don't have to cook it into liceloaf, just let them eat the meal lice.

    rewiring an entire base to compensate is painful
    Yeah it absolutely can be, but you touched on this: oxygen not included is a game that rewards you for failing to do something, then doing the really enjoyable early game with the thought of "okay I know how I failed last time, this time I'll do it right."

    Then you fail at something else, and restart again vowing to do that OTHER thing right.
    ONI at its heart is about players expanding too quickly and without appropriate planning (sometimes because of hubris, most often because of ignorance) and then realizing how much they have fucked up and restarting to hopefully fuck up less.

  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    So I've been enjoying this game, but I think for my tastes I find it a bit too finicky and cluttered by mid-game. Like by the time I've unlocked maybe the 3rd tier of the techs, my space is so cluttered with all sorts of shit, and it takes ages for my dupes to get around, and so much of their time is spent doing basic maintenance (ie cooking, running algae to various oxygen thingies, etc.). But then also because the game is presented vertically (vs. isometric like in rimworld for example), in order to dig towards the resources you need, you're also having to build ladders everywhere, and the places you're digging have no oxygen so your dupes have to run in and out to get some breath. It really bogs down.

    Early game is super fun while you're setting up the basics, but I've felt I've needed to restart each game around the same point because I've made some error around the placement of rooms when I've unlocked a new tech, or I've run out of basic resources and it takes too long to dig up the new stuff if you haven't planned ahead for it. Basically the game hasn't really been new player friendly (although I did get the game shortly after early access, I haven't played much since then), because it kind of assumes you know what you need to succeed, but I've had to learn by trial and error, and by midgame I find it kind of exhausting. And part of this is because the early game concerns never really fade away. I'm still finding myself struggling to find the basic, early-game, necessities like food and water and oxygen in the midgame when I should be more worried about midgame stuff. I haven't found this to be the case in Rimworld, for example.

    As some quick examples. Sometimes I'll find random water or polluted water spills in the middle of my base and I have no idea where it came from. I have all these critters running around since they appear to offer some benefit, but I spent a bit of time unlocking the ranching tech only to find out I can't make use of it until I have plastics. And I can't have plastics until I have oil, and I have no idea where to find oil. You kind of have to micromanage cooking and feeding in the sense that if you set your guys to make infinite food, it makes too much, and if you don't do that, you run out of food too fast and have to periodically go back and set someone back to cooking. So I try doing things like just set them to make infinite liceloafs, which should regulate itself based on how much lice I grow, but then I constantly get error messages that I don't have enough resources to cook. But then on top of all this, I find the various systems a bit more complicated than necessary to be fun. Specifically power management. You kind of don't find out until mid game that you need to manage circuit load, and rewiring an entire base to compensate is painful. But then you probably also have to do that for gas and liquids as well.

    I think balance for new players would be helped if they reduced the amount of resources you need in terms of water and algae useage, but then slowed down tech research. Right now I can unlock so much tech before I can reasonably use it, and then I find myself struggling to figure out where to place the stuff. I mean I guess the game does a good job of being a puzzle, but too often I've found myself responding to problems or a crisis, but don't actually have room to build what I need to solve the crisis. I mean I do like games that can spiral out of control when you've planned wrong (like in banished or frostpunk), but I feel like in those games it's more obvious about what you did wrong and can adjust accordingly.

    Having said all that, I do think I'm making progress in terms of planning appropriately from game to game, but I just find the game throws so many systems at you all kind of at the same time. So you have this sort of linear progression in terms of difficulty in the early game, and then by mid-game it just skyrockets abruptly. I guess what I'm saying is that I think I'd enjoy the game more if the early-game issues became self-sufficient before moving on to mid-game concerns. Like while I'm figuring out how to move gas from this space to that space, to use it to fuel this system so that I can power this other element, I don't also want to still be worrying about food and oxygen in the oldest parts of my base.

    I'm going to keep at it for a bit though.

    That's a great list, I felt the same way when starting out. ONI's biggest weaknesses, by far, are the lack of information at start and the amount of micro-management needed to keep all of your Base's systems running. These two items are purposeful, however, to force you to learn by hard, harsh experience what works and what doesn't. The good news is that most of these problems fix themselves over time as you slowly figure out what the heck is going on, so I'd recommend staying at the Easy setting for a while until you get some of the basics down.

    For example, I, too, wired everything with the basic cheap wiring at start, only to run into a Base full of sparking wires once the load increased; now I research Hi-Watt Wire as soon as I can and upgrade to it as my regular power carrier early on. I've also learned that you don't need that many Algae dispensers running, just one or two at start and then another to support whichever dig you are working on at the moment. Convert to Electrolyzers once you have a source of cool water for them and the Algae dispensers are not needed.

    Oil, in the basic world, is always down. Down, down, down, near the bottom, so just keep digging down and eventually you will find it.

  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    Good advice, thanks guys. Yeah things like the hi-watt wire is a good example. It's not clear to me when and why I need it. And until it is, I don't plan for it's use. I also didn't know I can't run it through wall tiles the way I can with regular wires, which means I either would have to destroy large parts of my base to accommodate the new wiring requirements, or start a new game. I find that more frustrating than fun.

    Good to know about electrolyzers. I started using one in my most recent base. But I don't know how much water I'll need to plan for to keep 2 running indefinitely. Should I be building a clean and polluted water reservoir? What do I do if water starts running low? Should I be pumping in new water from other water sources into my reservoir, or should I just be putting new water pumps and running them into my pipe network as I come across them?

    I'm also reading on the wiki that 4 mealwood plants will support 1 dupe. Is that cooked or uncooked? Should I be cooking? If not when is it worth switching to cooking?

    How do you guys plan new mineshafts? Yesterday I ran a ladder maybe 100 tiles deep and it took like 10+ cycles to dig that far because my dupes were so busy keeping the rest of the base running.

    I guess what I need to find out is if there's a way to set up my early based (food, water, oxygen, filtration) in such a way that if I decide to walk away from the computer for 2 hours will I come back to a dead base or an alive one? In more practical terms, can I set up my base to be self-sufficient such that I can start doing things like planning expansions, rooms, mineshafts, etc, without having to still micromanage survival? My expectation is that yes, there is, but I haven't been able to work it out yet.

  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    *snip*

    I'm going to keep at it for a bit though.

    I know that feel and I'm kinda neck deep in the game now. For me, I find it really helpful to see what more experienced people are doing so I found a really good tutorial on Youtube by a guy who walks you through the starting steps of a base after I messed up the first couple. Yeah, mystery and joy of exploration is gone, but I get to build a little watch and see the parts whir away which is more satisfying to me than cratering multiple colonies because I don't know what slime lung/food poisoning/morale is or how to deal with it.

    Episode 1 of the series sponsored by Klei. There's enough videos to get you to mid-game as he hasn't really gotten to advanced endgame items in his series yet.

    edit: for better or worse you really get the most out of your base by tearing stuff out and re-arranging it when you get new tech or better materials. It doesn't take that long once you get into it and get skilled up dupes who can build/walk faster than fresh ones

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  • RendRend Registered User regular
    -Yes, a reservoir for polluted and clean water.
    -My general strategy is to explore a bit around the base and find wherever polluted water seems most concentrated. Dig shafts such that water falls into the bottom-most of those big and little pools in the swamp biomes, and then pump in water from there to your polluted reservoir. I also tend to add a liquid shutoff connected to a sensor so that water only goes into the liquid output when there's space for it. Having too many liquid pumps is a drain on power so I generally try to consolidate downward in this way.

    -10 cycles for 100 tiles is actually not terrible in my experience, though you can speed it up by building fire poles and making sure the shaft is oxygenated with ventilation ducts and outputs.

    -Five mealwood plants per dupe enclosed in insulated tile, two electrolyzers, a decent reservoir of clean water and polluted water and a large reservoir of external polluted water to replenish your supply. 2-3 full stables of hatches for sustainable coal production, and I think you're okay. Early on, anyway. The more coal you need for power, the more hatches you need to make coal from sandstone and igneous rock, but the mealwood and electrolyzers are basically ready made and good for a long-ass time.

    If you can find a natural gas geyser to fuel a natural gas generator, that's awesome. Those are sick af. Also, do not underestimate the power of using an operator to tune up your generators using a power control station. 50% power efficiency from all of your fuel sources is nothing to sneeze at.

    Also, switch to cooking when you run into the need for good morale, or when you have an excess of stuff you need to cook, like extra critters or eggs. Don't cook junk like meal lice, only cook good stuff like barbecue or omelettes.

  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    which means I either would have to destroy large parts of my base to accommodate the new wiring requirements, or start a new game. I find that more frustrating than fun.

    Please note that there is a specific tile in the Power section, I forget what it's called, which can contain Hi-Watt Wire. So always build your rooms with a space for the Hi-Watt Wire to enter and leave or build in an extra floor or ceiling tile which will be replaced by the Fuse tile (I think that's what it is called).

    The Pro ONI people all seem to create one giant Clean Water and one giant Polluted Water reservoir, but I don't like doing that because putting all of my Clean Water in one basket makes it too easy to lose it through mistaken contamination. I prefer to have 3-4 small Clean Water reservoirs. Yes, your first priority should be finding a renewable source of Clean Water via a Cool Steam or Salt Water geyser or something similar, note that these may require some processing, such as converting Salt Water to Clean Water, and will almost always generate water at a very high temperature which you will need to find some way to cool down.

    I make all of my mineshafts three tiles across, because 3 tiles is the magic number for good air flow, and I'm careful to plan the route so that I don't accidentally hit a pocket of Slimelung or flood the shaft. You will always hit unbreathable air, so trying to avoid that is futile, which is why running power down the mineshaft as you go is wise so that you can place an Algae machine at intervals (you will likely only need to have one of them running at one time) to keep your Minions alive as they dig. I'd recommend fiddling with Minion priorities so that you have one or two dedicated Diggers to keep the shaft moving.

  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    Yeah it absolutely can be, but you touched on this: oxygen not included is a game that rewards you for failing to do something, then doing the really enjoyable early game with the thought of "okay I know how I failed last time, this time I'll do it right."

    That's very well put.

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    A good base in ONI is all about anticipating the next thing to be a problem, and solving it before it becomes one.
    Cleaning a flood of polluted water is way harder than setting up ways to collect, isolate and clean it as it's generated, and so on.

    The good thing is that deconstructing gives you all the materials back, so when it's time to rebuild your power network, you haven't lost anything besides time. It encourages you to build in steps, rather than just plan out your ultimate base first and end up running two lights via a transformer and heavi-network because you know you'll need them later.

    My approaches have been two or three coal power networks as needed (which tend to become a nest of wires and bridges to try and balance things), until I'm ready to move to renewable power (usually after I switch to electrolysers, or find a natural gas vent). Then I build a heavi cable loop on the outside of the base, and set up transformers on every floor.

    Plastics are a barrier, and if you find yourself running up against the need for them, that's probably the game telling you it's time to start digging down to find oil. That said, there's a lot you don't actually need them for.
    I keep feeling like I don't have what I need for atmo-suits, but I'm pretty sure I'm wrong.

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    Plastics are a barrier, and if you find yourself running up against the need for them, that's probably the game telling you it's time to start digging down to find oil. That said, there's a lot you don't actually need them for.

    Or it's time to start farming glossy dreckos. It's amazing how much they put out once you design their pens and just forget about them. I probably went overboard with them in my current game, but I've got 9 of them on the go and over 20 tonnes of plastic in storage after converting to plastic ladders, comfy beds and a small pneumatic tube run.

    Just be careful the first time you crack open an oil pocket since it will very likely be pressurized and will give you a nasty surprise if you're not quick or prepared.

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  • RendRend Registered User regular
    in my latest run i got a couple prints of slickster larva eggs and was like
    "Well I don't have plastics yet to transport slicksters, but I can design a stable for them and just hatch them inside"

    Now I have six slicksters which mix to fix my shit sitch for plastics.

  • BlazeFireBlazeFire Registered User regular
    --snip--
    I'm going to keep at it for a bit though.

    I'm with you. I also have a hang-up where looking at a tutorial or youtube vid of some super-optimized solution takes the fun out for me.

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Rend wrote: »
    in my latest run i got a couple prints of slickster larva eggs and was like
    "Well I don't have plastics yet to transport slicksters, but I can design a stable for them and just hatch them inside"

    Now I have six slicksters which mix to fix my shit sitch for plastics.

    Slicksters eat a lot of CO2. You might have trouble keeping 6 alive.

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  • RendRend Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Rend wrote: »
    in my latest run i got a couple prints of slickster larva eggs and was like
    "Well I don't have plastics yet to transport slicksters, but I can design a stable for them and just hatch them inside"

    Now I have six slicksters which mix to fix my shit sitch for plastics.

    Slicksters eat a lot of CO2. You might have trouble keeping 6 alive.

    Yeah, I uncovered a Co2 geyser but it might not be enough. Right now I'm pumping all my into tanks, including the Co2 from 3 coal generators and a natural gas generator, but we'll see how long it lasts. Wiki says they eat 20kg per day but as long as one is alive I should be ok

  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Good advice, thanks guys. Yeah things like the hi-watt wire is a good example. It's not clear to me when and why I need it. And until it is, I don't plan for it's use. I also didn't know I can't run it through wall tiles the way I can with regular wires, which means I either would have to destroy large parts of my base to accommodate the new wiring requirements, or start a new game. I find that more frustrating than fun.

    Good to know about electrolyzers. I started using one in my most recent base. But I don't know how much water I'll need to plan for to keep 2 running indefinitely. Should I be building a clean and polluted water reservoir? What do I do if water starts running low? Should I be pumping in new water from other water sources into my reservoir, or should I just be putting new water pumps and running them into my pipe network as I come across them?

    I'm also reading on the wiki that 4 mealwood plants will support 1 dupe. Is that cooked or uncooked? Should I be cooking? If not when is it worth switching to cooking?

    How do you guys plan new mineshafts? Yesterday I ran a ladder maybe 100 tiles deep and it took like 10+ cycles to dig that far because my dupes were so busy keeping the rest of the base running.

    I guess what I need to find out is if there's a way to set up my early based (food, water, oxygen, filtration) in such a way that if I decide to walk away from the computer for 2 hours will I come back to a dead base or an alive one? In more practical terms, can I set up my base to be self-sufficient such that I can start doing things like planning expansions, rooms, mineshafts, etc, without having to still micromanage survival? My expectation is that yes, there is, but I haven't been able to work it out yet.

    Heavy watt wiring is for when you have more than 1k watt of things you need powered at once. When you unlock it you should also get transformers, which will let you
    connect a normal wiring system to a heavy watt system without overloading anything in the former, regardless of how much power is running through the later. Generally, you replace the normal wiring around your generators with heavy watt, then connect them to however many transformers you need to distribute power. This lets you have a central power supply that can be easily expanded on as needed without having to worry about overloads or building on-the-spot power that dupes might not get to as often as you need them to. Eventually you will also unlock conductive wiring, which can take greater loads and, in the case of normal wiring, has no decor penalties.

    It's important to note with electrolyzers that they take a "lot" of water. Usually you stick to algae (in the normal starting biome) or oxyferns (in the forest biome; they take water too, but not as much per kg of oxygen as electrolyzers) until you can secure a larger/more sustainable source of water, usually starting with pumping any polluted water you find in slime biomes through a sieve and ending with a steam vent or water geyser. You absolutely want your P. water and regular water stored separately, because they are used in different applications and putting the wrong type of water into something will damage it (one exception is the water sieve, so you don't need to switch it out if you are pumping clean water in. Salt water or Brine on the other hand...) but as for germs, only water that need to be food poisoning free is the water the dupes use for cooking and breaks, and the only water that needs to be slimelung free is the water used for electrilyzers, anything else will either kill off the germs in the process or has zero effect. This does include toiletries, so with a sieve you can absolutely set up a closed system for your bathrooms that never needs any more water after the initial input (in fact, you'll need an escape valve to let water out, because dupes using lavatories produce more total water each time they go than what gets used, though this isnt very much compared to most things that use water)

    4 mealwood per dupe is raw. Cooked only requires 3, but also takes water, while growing mealwood and eating it without cooking only takes dirt, and you have to be stuck in the starting biome for a really long time before you run out of dirt. Cooking food from farming is usually held off untill you get water secured, because all domestically grown plant-based food other than raw mealwood will require it (if not in cooking then in irrigation; You might be able to get a lot of food from wild plants and avoid irrigating, but usually not a sustainable amount until after you're done worrying about water) though meat and eggs should always be cooked, and if you're on an asteroid with a rust biome you're not going to need water for oxygen anyway.

    So there are two ways to speed up digging up or down, from what I've been able to deduce. One is to set up dig orders on both sides of the shaft, with extra ladder tiles every 3 tiles going down or 4 going up. Otherwise, the dupes will build it by having only one go to dig and/or build a single ladder title, and then head back to base because another dupe nowhere close has claimed the job for the next tile. This can be fixed by enabling proximity in the priorities page, and/or setting it so only one dupe does digging and/or building before anything else, but making the shaft larger than 1 tile wide will also allow more than one dupe to work on it, while the extra ladder tiles to the side gives them something to stand on to dig out and build more than one ladder tile at once which (when going down) doesn't block their work. The other option, which requires no ladders, is a "Pendenko machine" layout, where you do a dig layout sort of like this:

    OXOX
    XXXX
    XOXO
    XXXX
    OXOX

    ...and so on, with the O's being the tiles you don't dig. This will create an array of blocks your dupes are able to climb and dig out without have to build any ladders when doing it, though it's very cumbersome for them and eventually something you'll want to replace with a ladder.

    As for sustainability with just the starting biome... not really? Well, the normal biome is not perpetually sustainable; eventually you'll run out of algae or water for oxygen and everyone suffocates. The Forest one *is* sustainable though, with ranching, clever use of pips to plant "wild" arbor trees and oxyfern where you want them in nice neat rows, and using petroleum generators running on ethanol made from lumber to produce P. Water... but can only really support 4 or 5 dupes (even if you don't plan on making it self-sustaining long run) or you'll go beyond what O2 you can reasonably produce and, again, run out of oxygen and everyone suffocates. (Fitting for a game called Oxygen Not Included) Eventually you need to breach other biomes for more algae, more water, or rust to either keep everyone breathing or supporting the O2 needs of more dupes... and thanks to RNG there isn't a 100% reliable rule of thumb as to when that comes. It is possible to make it sustainable after that at pretty much any size, however, once you find a geyser or vent with an output you can eventually turn into a significant source of clean water and/or oxygen, plus an acceptable way to deal with heat.

    Final piece of advice is this: everything can be deconstructed for 100% refund. Your layout when you first start your base will not be the same one you have when you are launching rockets into space, and trying to plan out how that final base would look from the very first cycle is madness. Don't be afraid to deconstruct entire rooms- including the walls, floor and ceiling- and replace it with something that would work better for what you need. Once you've found your renewable water/oxygen source, you pretty much have all the time in the world to get everything just right.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Polluted Oxygen vents; uses? Right now it feels like I'm best off leaving this thing buried.

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Rend wrote: »
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Rend wrote: »
    in my latest run i got a couple prints of slickster larva eggs and was like
    "Well I don't have plastics yet to transport slicksters, but I can design a stable for them and just hatch them inside"

    Now I have six slicksters which mix to fix my shit sitch for plastics.

    Slicksters eat a lot of CO2. You might have trouble keeping 6 alive.

    Yeah, I uncovered a Co2 geyser but it might not be enough. Right now I'm pumping all my into tanks, including the Co2 from 3 coal generators and a natural gas generator, but we'll see how long it lasts. Wiki says they eat 20kg per day but as long as one is alive I should be ok

    A single Petroleum generator generates a ton of CO2; usually enough to need its own carbon skimmer.

    Of course, if you can run enough petroleum generators to feed a stable of slicksters, you are making enough petroleum in general to not need said slicksters in the first place (unless you started with a forest biome and it's actually running off of ethanol.) Still, considering Carbon Skimmers produce nothing (same amount of water coming out as was pumped in, just polluted) hard to say no to a method of getting rid of CO2 that gives oil and food as well.

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  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2019
    klemming wrote: »
    Polluted Oxygen vents; uses? Right now it feels like I'm best off leaving this thing buried.

    Depends on what it is. Infected poluted oxygen vent releases slimelung infested poluted oxygen at 60ºC and has a lot of uses quite early in the game since cleaning it is easy.

    Hot poluted oxygen vent releases non-slimelung poluted oxygen at 500ºC which requires a tad more preperation before you uncover it.

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  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    When you're starting out, there's no real time limit for reaching milestones. Expanding to fast is usually more dangerous than expanding to slowly.

    Opening up more areas will stretch your O2 supply as it has to expand to fill in more space.

    For instance, in my most recent game I am at cycle 200, and have only uncovered a small section of the map. Haven't even reached the left/right sides and my O2 production is still algae farms.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    What are the easy cleaning options? The only one I can think of is deodorisers?

    I think this is a hot vent anyway, so that can just stay there for now.

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  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    What are the easy cleaning options? The only one I can think of is deodorisers?

    I think this is a hot vent anyway, so that can just stay there for now.

    Yup, deodorizers. Low tech, no special material, no power requirements, sand is plentiful, clay is useful, only uses resources on a need to basis.

    They are super OP, and I scatter them aorund my base willy nilly.

    Slimelung dies quickly in fresh air, so you just need to slow the airflow to your base and you have free air.

    Hot vents I never bother with, because by the time you have the ability to deal with it effectively, cooling is more important than even more O2.

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    What are the easy cleaning options? The only one I can think of is deodorisers?

    I think this is a hot vent anyway, so that can just stay there for now.

    I don't know if it is an easy option, but if you want to farm pufts they eat polluted oxygen and spit out clean oxygen and slime. I just started a puft ranch room and it looks like it will be a bit of a hassle since a floor full of polluted water doesn't produce enough polluted oxygen to feed one regular puft. I'm probably just missing something obvious in the setup.

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    klemming wrote: »
    What are the easy cleaning options? The only one I can think of is deodorisers?

    I think this is a hot vent anyway, so that can just stay there for now.

    Basically just that. Only other way IIRC it to make it cold enough to condense, which becomes liquid O2 that turns into regular O2 when if evaporates.

    It's worth noting that the 500C output of most hot gas vents is not actually as scary as it sounds for gases that stay as gases at room temperature, thanks the thermodynamic properties and simply the amount that gets expelled for those types of vents. That Hot P. Oxygen geyser you are afraid to dig up, according to the wiki, is generating on average only about 10% of the thermal energy per second it's erupting as the that cool Steam vent every map seems to have that is almost always unburied and ready to start erupting as soon as it's in view.

    You should just need a few tempshift plates to absorb some extra heat to keep the air pump below 75C, a thermo regulator or two to cool the air to livable temps before it reaches your base, and some wheeseworts to keep the regulators cool (or enough wheeseworts and metal ore for radiant vents to cool the air in a room that consists of only warts.)

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Anyway, in personal base update, I'm about to build my first rocket into space. It will actually be my first ever rocket- never really stuck with a base long enough to do so before- and I'm almost hoping something disastrous happens. I'm trying to avoid any cheesy "dome so massive it's past the point that buildings check to make sure they are have LoS into space" builds... and I am beginning to suspect it's not the immediate impact damage from meteors that makes people do it. Still, I think I can make something out of this for my MKI surface base; have the subsurface ocean biome, so I figure I'll use the petroleum I pumped up there for future jet suits in a cooling loop that will boil the salt water, giving me the steam I need for the starter rocket engine while hopefully keeping the upper parts of the silo the rocket is being built in below dupe-cooking temperatures. Once I can do something better, I'll just use it to keep the sealed part of the surface base cool while a build a second layer which, while it won't be so high I don't need to worry about automating bunker doors to use the telescope and solar panels, will at least keep a layer of vacuum between me and the regolith so it doesn't cook me.

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    How bad is it that I spent a dozen cycles dealing with brownouts by optimizing as much as I could with automation and priorities, including rebuilding a bunch of the lower part of the base to make sure dupes were wearing atmo suits for the oil refinery, only to remember than I had started hatch ranching recently and therefore can just build my way out of the problem with coal generators?

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  • RendRend Registered User regular
    Foefaller wrote: »
    How bad is it that I spent a dozen cycles dealing with brownouts by optimizing as much as I could with automation and priorities, including rebuilding a bunch of the lower part of the base to make sure dupes were wearing atmo suits for the oil refinery, only to remember than I had started hatch ranching recently and therefore can just build my way out of the problem with coal generators?

    I just set up my third hatch ranch, so now I should be feeding 29 of them, which in theory should get my coal power sustainable for the foreseeable future. As long as I keep mining igneous rock.

  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    So some things have started to click a little more for me now. Once you realize that 4 mealwood plants, otherwise untended will take care of a dupe, and you don't need oxygen dispensers on every floor, the game becomes a lot easier to manage. The other key is keeping your dupe population around 6 or 7. Things build slower but that doesn't really matter because you have more food and oxygen and water to go around.

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