Food Decay and Laboratory | Ultimate Beginner's Guide | Ep 5 | ONI

[@punkinpaiTV]

My little dupe is obsessed with this series, ever since he got ONI for his 8th birthday. He is learning a lot! Thanks for another great episode. 🎉

[@nonyabizness956]

I was just thinking what a good game this would be for kids to learn basic STEM stuff! Future engineer maybe 😂

[@5eunhye]

This comment is so cute !! Hope your dupe is still in love with the game :,)

[@warcanon9546]

Fun little tip for a glowstick buddy, pair them with a dupe that's Nyctophobic (require light to sleep) and they can sleep together. You won't need some other source of light, like a lamp, with this combination if the sleep next to each other and at the same time. Not perfect but an OK solution.

[@EchoRidgeGaming]

Brilliant idea.

[@ekimmak]

8:30 I've also found that dupes will actively avoid eating food that's closer to expiration time, which as a person, I can understand, but as a ten ton printing pod, it makes me very sad that they're being so wasteful.

[@joeblack4436]

Very good info for people starting to play the game. There's two things I want to throw in for consideration though. The first is tiles. It's such a good run speed bonus and it even improves decor. It does not take a lot of time to build compared to the compounding benefit you get from increased dupe movement speed over time. I really think it's best to just get them built and then bask in the increased efficiency from there on. And then that dupe, Mae, was an excellent pick in my opinion for a role that I always look out for early in my games. Life support, Tidying and Storing. AKA, the Janitor (barred from doing anything else, but doctoring on the off chance it's ever needed). See these, along with the supplying errand, can be very disruptive to base efficiency. Yet can be taken care of by a single dupe no problem. Disruptive, because dupes with say, a high cooking priority, will often disengage from their primary tasks and then, if they are not barred from the mentioned tasks, you can easily see them running across the entire map to do something like supply sandstone for a ladder being built out somewhere in the boonies, or picking up a wayward bit of coal from one side of the map to supply to a coal generator on the other side. I've seen dupes with critical responsibilities experience a second interruption in power to their workstation at the beginning of a cycle, and then waste an entire cycle doing something inane like that. Better to bar most dupes from these errands. You need at best one dupe that will when idle pick up any slack, like when the "Janitor" is ill. Which is usually my researcher, because you inevitably get periods where you're researching nothing. Needless to say it's worth thinking about the supplying errand priority too. Especially once you can start building auto sweepers to automagically supply buildings. The more dupes you have, the crazier it can get. For "The Janitor" The higher the dupe's strength, the better. Far better yet to have that dupe be a decorator which tends to be a crucial, but very intermittent responsibility. And germ resistant AND super productive! (10% chance to complete a long task instantly... cleaning outhouses... Decorating...) A good, good fit for such a role. And in return you get a tidy base with high decor and efficient errands. It's create and forget. The benefit just slowly accrues.

[@BouncingTribbles]

I love specialists. At least in the early and mid game. That 12 to agriculture means I ban everyone else (with no points) from farming, same thing with cooking, researching, and ranching. If I have 3 people who can do each job I can put one of them on each shift. This game is amazing, and your videos are wonderful

[@XtianApi]

Series is great

[@sechi7239]

Just build two refrigerators next to each other in the CO2 pit, one which is powered and one which is unpowered, and place all the muckroot in the latter. That way you save power AND have a centralized storage for the dupes to retrieve everything edible from.

[@MeHaveDonuts]

12:45 You can also remove the polluted dirt from the storage for a second by unselecting it then disinfect it with your spray by pressing I. This will destroy about 90% of the germs on the dirt and helps to let the dirt lose all of its germs much faster.

[@onetwo3763]

For laboratory my advice is to use area around printing pod, you can fit small and big science station, it will be covered with free light always an it will count towards room bonus.

[@hoember1379]

I use (mostly) printing pod light to BB farm in early game. (Agriculture give a nice farmtile too.)

[@Maathlife]

You're amazing, Echo! I've been playing the game since it's release, and I think I've never liked ONI content as I like yours. And I think it's specially awesome the fact that you're teaching new players the 101 of the game (which by the way I struggled A LOT back in 2018 to learn stuff), even though the game is "sort of old" already. I've discovered you with the Max Diff challenge, and loved every single series I've already watched. And even though I already know ONI 101, this ONI University is an amazing series. Thank you for your work and effort! 💚

[@salemprompthous3820]

In regards to food storage, I prefer having a small nook with a ration box near the mess/great hall, and set it to only contain foods that won't spoil (like muckroot and nutrient bars). They won't care about any oxygen or temperature, and won't take up space in a building requiring power (as the 120w for cooling down 45kg of muckroot is a bit of a waste) Then again, I've got more than 5000 hours in the game, which is a lot of time to develop some habits, while this series is more for those who are new to the game. Keep up RNGesus' good work @Echo, Randy's got nothin' on you ❤🤣

[@monkeytime9851]

This was an excellent series. It explained a few small things I was not aware of after thoudsands of hours of playing the game.

[@igorcorti6364]

So happy I found this series!

[@EchoRidgeGaming]

I am glad you did too. Thank you.

[@G33KST4R]

Excellent series! Still new to ONI and I'm learning so much. 2:59 - The best advice I got on digging was to build the ladder scaffolding on a priority higher than the dig command (i use 4 and 5). This way no matter what they will build their "escape tile" first.

[@kks_grandma182]

21:17 Little Echo looks like he needs something to do. :-) I am loving this series. I hope you will continue it past the basics because my biggest problem is all of the more complicated equipment.

[@EchoRidgeGaming]

I think we will be going until we hit space research.

[@kks_grandma182]

@@EchoRidgeGaming That sounds like pretty much all of it. 🙂

[@kitten2781]

I have already learned how many mistakes I've made just by watching these great videos! Not sure if you will touch on them later, but a couple questions: You leave the natural floor in place and only fill in where buried treasure was, or holes. Why is that? Is there a benefit to keeping the natural floor? Thank you!!

[@Eladelia]

Very clearly and gently explained as always!

[@phatbman]

I always learn something new from these videos!

[@catherinerenwick2391]

Love your content Echo, especially how you go through the math so that we don't have to 😂 First time I am commenting. For the algorithm!

[@EchoRidgeGaming]

Thank you for the compliment and the comment!

[@larkendelvie]

Amazing detailed explanations -- I love the fact that you just got to Advanced Research.

[@Lixmage]

Hi Echo, I do not know if you are a teacher in real life, but you sure as hell could be. This series is absolutely fantastic. You got a new subscriber and a like on all these tutorial videos. Keep it up!

[@allinmatache1235]

I'm happy to be welcomed back to Echo Ridge Gaming

[@gavinanderson7623]

Thank you for being so thorough!

[@theFangspeed01]

Dude... glad to see you still playing this game, i first saw your vid a few days the spaceout dlc came out... You have been teaching me to play the game, n glad to see all the new challenges and this updated beginner guide Right now im installing the game just because i miss this game, this is one of my favourite game

[@yaroslavbozhdynsky]

9:25 wonder when will they fix it. If You chose all than all of the new discoveries should be also checked, but if You only selected one option, even if it was the only option, it should remain as the only option. It sould be fixed by devs.

[@Reach3DPrinters]

learning more every episode. Thanks

[@mitchellbrian2585]

Being the 667th like, I have saved you from sin. (Enjoying this series. I put about 100 hours into the game before, and never quite completed a playthrough despite learning a lot. This series so far although has been stuff I mostly know..has pointed out a lot of little things I looked over - excited to see it through to the end!)

[@BouncingTribbles]

PSA: don't just destroy the second ration box, build a new one next to the carbon dioxide pit. It's a perfect transition to two fridges. Since muckroot and ration bars don't go off you won't waste space that would be better used by meal lice. In the long run I always put a ration box at the back of my kitchen

[@TheAngryForest]

Good morning Echo! Thanks for another helpful video.

[@trashpanda9433]

I cant wait for the beginners basic liquid hydrogen setup

[@GustavoQueirozReader]

I've played ONI for a while now, even though is great watching you!

[@dr.placebo]

Enjoy the series man!

[@callum105]

i made the mistake of making the thing that turns polluted dirt into polluted air instead of building the compost heap on like cycle 4, so i just started again

[@mogzthedog]

Thanks for explaining this like im a 5 year old. Its what i needed.

[@weltraumvogel2]

Did I miss the part where you warn people to NOT use compost while they're still at mealwood? Food-poisened polluted dirt becomes poisened dirt, which leads to poisened meallice? Or did they change that?

[@YuubiTimberwolf]

Wait, rotten food turns into polluted dirt? I didn't knew that, so you could use it to fuel a sublimation station, feed Puffs, get Slime, make Algea ans feed Pacu, completing the cycle of to get better food or food overall Wonder whats the math for that setup lol

[@Melancholy_Chill]

I wonder, does Glow Stick dupes count as light sourse? Or do they give themselves lit workplace buff? It might help building less power consuming laboratory

[@EchoRidgeGaming]

This is a great question. Going to need to do some testing for sure.

[@Paikis]

They do count as a light source and they do give themselves the lot work space buff

[@koliksalah5278]

i always love your content, it is hard maintain all dupe but you keep it simple like 5 meal lice for 1 dupe. too bad im waiting max achievement series, it's okay since the other achivement would give you a headache like taming moomoo and etc. but since it's you, it will be very tremendous interesting. i hope you will make some tutorial for taming all vent, geyser and volcano. automatic farm and barn design. including too maintaining surplus oksigen. i hope you good, thanks for the content

[@jhonatangelb13]

why does everyone use 2 doors to close a room?

[@Kr0noZ]

These doors allow gas exchange while walls do not, and also 1 cheap door covers 2 tiles of height whereas 2 tiles of wall take more total resources. You can fix the gas flow with airflow tiles but 1) they are research locked and 2) very expensive by comparison. I like proper walls better though because unlike doors they can be insulated or special materials (lead metal tiles for rad shielding or copper metal tiles to help a heating setup or fancy carpet for decor etc.). That said, these are mid - late game and you want to save on stuff early on.

[@jhonatangelb13]

@@Kr0noZ Thanks for sharing.

[@mattparsons946]

ONI OSHA

[@Hanmacx]

Rotten Food is just future oxygen

[@Hanmacx]

You need to dig the latter shaft to let the air flow

[@possdoesstuff]

ngl for polluted dirt and water i just throw it into a little room with a liquid lock, stops it from getting into the colony

[@Youmu_Konpaku_]

Enjoyable

[@PGMP2007]

5 ! Lets goooooo

[@corbin1680]

I'm sad the timestamps are no more

[@ancientbunny3375]

Hi Echo

[@EchoRidgeGaming]

Hi!

[@Theeee4526]

12:02 hiii Pei

[@march15th]

uh oh, who left this comment lying right here?