Getting mid game Steel, Plastic & Cooling : Tutorial nuggets : Oxygen not included

After you sort out the early food and O2 you end up needing steel, ceramic and plastic. This all requires a cooling solution as well which requires steel and plastic. How do you get the required materials without having the materials you need to get them. The answer, dupes a bunch of heat into another biome.
This save had 1200kg steel and 200kg plastic so you can practice setting up your own industrial brick.
drive.google.com/open?id=1Uww...
This save has the cooling loop settings, don't put the temp lower than -3 or you might freeze the water in the pipes (There is some wiggle room if you want to experiment, aquatuner reduces the temp by -14 and polluted water freezes at about -20 so theoretically you could get set as low as -6)
drive.google.com/open?id=1bAP...

[@YadonTheCat]

"I finally got my head around this game", I said to myself like a fool

[@azametturan9843]

Wow your pfp is cute

[@austinclague480]

I said this to myself a couple years ago after playing for a few months I had no idea what I was talking about.

[@druminator3340]

This game is a constant state of "wtf is going on?!"

[@newCoCoY6]

I respect that this guy is able to talk fast while still being coherent. Makes the tutorial way shorter than normal for the same amount of information.

[@nivodeus]

Exactly. But if you saw some videos, there were some instances where he talked too fast, he confused himself and just gave up on it :). I always thought I have my video at 1.25x runspeed LOL

[@somedude5951]

@@nivodeus Agreed. The reason he makes his video's as short as possible, is why he wins the competition with other oni video's.

[@somedude5951]

@Split Dimension You can adjust the speed of video's on KZbin. Menu is behind the gear.

[@wesplybon9510]

Right? If you need a break, that's what the pause/rewind is for, otherwise, let the information flow!

[@larrylindgren9484]

But mostly he hurried through telling you to go watch someone else's video on how to do it. He knows what he's doing. Don't get me wrong. This is a guild how and what to do. That's what guilds are. . He should be showing you exactly what he put in the air making place. Not oh here it is now go watch this other guys video to see what I did. If this was a let's build. Fine. Be quick because it's just building a base. This is a guild. If not just make a guild telling you to what videos to watch. Is all he's done. This is a guild. It should be telling you the how and the why.

[@toddhahn6642]

"Give me one second while I sweep up this gunk." *Takes 5 cycles.*

[@smileybones9172]

19:45 "This is just a standard setup." Me, learning most of this first the first time: *begins hyperventilating*

[@FrancisJohnYT]

This has changed quite a bit since, they have put automation ports on liquid tanks so you can get similar results with far less effort.

[@happy_turtle]

The mid-game transition always felt like it had insurmounatble cyclical dependencies. Now they're simply surmountable cyclical dependencies!

[@maebeknot2145]

OMFG this is amazing. I've played over 900 hours since the launch of EA. Never got into the mid-game as defined in this video. I always found getting setup to make oil and plastics super complicated. Also never have used steal or steam turbines. This has made me not able to enjoy about half the content in-game. Thanks to this video I believe I'm ready to finally able to get past the mid-game hump!

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Welcome to the steel age, I think you will find more than half of the game is here. You can freeze or boil the map if you want, blot out the sun with rockets. Your next 900 hours are going to be a hell of a lot of fun.

[@OscarChabrand]

I'm glad I'm not the only slow learner here! Been playing for several hundred hours as well and barely now I have made it to cycle 200 relatively well, and am ready for plastic and steel manufacturing.

[@failedGraphics]

Same, I literally bought this game day one and have been playing it constantly since and ive never used plastic before. I like to take my time woth the game so i spend like 70 cycles getting set up but by then ive run out of water and food and the heat starts creeping in so instead of going mid game i just spend time fixing problems until ive decided I learned enough and start again.

[@vishensivparsad]

@@failedGraphics search for oni tutorial and see Francis' beginner guide for nifty tools. By this point you're probably past early game though lol

[@jonaut5705]

Yeah, same. Almost 300 hours and I only just realized that I shouldn't be just dumping dupes into the oil biome and hoping they survive.

[@alexanderharrison7421]

So essentially my problem for "The Learning Gap" is that I'm caring too much about the environment

[@FrancisJohnYT]

The environment is just resources that your dupes can't use yet. Mine it all :p

[@alexanderharrison7421]

Does being on Rime change anything

[@FrancisJohnYT]

@@alexanderharrison7421 Yes, it's easier. You can dump even more heat into the oil biome because it's so chilly and you don't even need atmo suits to gain access to it.

[@tristo99]

Split Dimension just spam deodorisers and dumb slime in an underwater storage bin look at his beginners guide he goes through almost everything

[@arandomharuhiist]

@Split Dimension slime is not a threat at all, i tore down 2 full slime biomes before getting exo suits and only 1 dupe caught slimelung. no medical beds or doctor dupes and they still recover in a couple cycles. didn't notice a bit of difference while they were sick. just keep the polluted water from falling into your clean water (don't combine it with your bathroom water either, that has food poisoning and slime biome doesn't)

[@maks4285]

This tutorial has been needed by someone for a long time. Thank you. I get stuck at about cycle 200 because I'm unsure how to handle heat and plastics.

[@Beregorn88]

2 words: glossy gecko

[@probablynotmyname8521]

I used to have similar problems then discovered that a single radiant pipe cooling loop powered by a steam turbine solves all the heat problems you will ever have for production. My current base has 2 oil refineries, 4 petroleum generators, 6 natural gas generators, a metal refinery, a polymer press and a rock crusher all being cooled by a single steam turbine and one cooling loop.

[@S_Black]

@@Beregorn88 I love glossy dreckos for some early plastic. Allows you to build things like liquid germ sensors and high pressure vents that don't need much of it

[@commonsense-og1gz]

@@probablynotmyname8521 and then you can build the mother of all cooling stations. 4 aquatuners and 5 steam turbines to direct cool the 180 F water to feed a large hydroponic garden.

[@TheBigEmstos]

its so funny how the other youtubers who play this game make such utterly worthless tutorials and miss such important basics like this video.

[@jaldarith]

THIS is the video I've been searching for. THANK YOU. I'm tired of videos that are titled "Let's make plastic" and it turns into a 40 minute tour of the happenings of the cycles, with no info on setting things up... Just making plastic from something they've already built.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Hope it helps. Remember once you get the refinery hooked up to a turbine you can run it all day and night and not worry about the heat. Make lots of steel.

[@jaldarith]

@@FrancisJohnYT That's the next hurdle. I have restarted my game eight times now. Each time I am understanding more and more about the game and its nuances, but I've never been able to progress past plastic and steel. Hopefully with your help on this video, I'll finally get it done!

[@S_Black]

Tip for super easy plastic: ranch glossy dreckos. This can be done very early and even if you take hundreds of cycles to get to where this video is just 8 dreckos give you tons of plastic. Enough for plastic ladders and transport tubes with still lots left over.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

@@S_Black I don't like that you have to keep them in hydrogen. To keep them in hydrogen and groomed you usually need atmo suits. If you have atmo suits why not setup oil?

[@S_Black]

There is oxygen at the bottom to grow the mealwood that they can dip into when they run out. An exosuit may be more efficient, but they can hold their breath for a bit. You only really need exosuits if you want to feed regular dreckos with upkeep free balm lily. Is it the most effective way to use dupe labor? Maybe not. But it's a nice trade off. Less power, heat and infrastructure, but there is a cost for it. Oil to plastics is a lot more complicated. At least for me. I eventually do it, but I really like the early plastic for things like certain sensors or high pressure vents.

[@Denso481]

You're fast becoming my favorite source for oni videos!

[@S_Black]

I really like that he focuses on practical solutions and builds instead of theory crafting, min/maxing and extreme designs. Way too little of that.

[@BC-kx6db]

Aaaannnnnd we’re back

[@jlu]

@@BC-kx6db with a quick tutorial on ..

[@markfisher696]

I'm late to this game, but this series is awesome. well paced, informative, funny at times (I'm looking at you pre-chill). Thankyou so much, it's massively opened the game for me.

[@JacobSReeds]

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks a ton! I've completely hollowed out a map from magma to space but trying to put this together safely has always been rough. I'll absolutely be incorporating these designs. Thanks again!

[@KaoVamp]

I really appreciate a tutorial like this. Thanks for making it Francis. Before watching this my stuff was downright scattered. Between this and petrol boiler I might just get to space.

[@wreckcelsior]

Another great nugget Francis... I especially like the "Here's one I made earlier" cooking show line. :) cheers mate.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I though I managed to sneak that one by, your showing your age just like me :)

[@TubeTAG]

This was an excellent tutorial! It covered the required concepts without delving too deep into secondary concerns (how cooling loops work, how to set up exo-suit docks, how steam turbines work, etc.) keeping the information concise and focused. When I initially saw the 20+ minute run time I was a little apprehensive but I never once was like, "Yeah, get on with it!" like I am with so many tutorials. Keeping a distinction between stream recordings and tutorials is a thing for me. I appreciate it a lot!

[@sephiroud84]

Almost a year old content and still so valid, ty! Heads up in case anyone fubars like I did. The temp on the Thermo Aquatuner is ABOVE 50F not Below 50F ^^. I kept freezing my pipes and breaking it. Took me a second to realize what I had done.

[@DoDoDoDo2540]

for me the magic number of temp on the Thermo Aquatuner is ABOVE -2C (28.4F).It's kept temp of pipes below -16C (freezing point is -20.6). So It's not freezing pipes and maximize cooling and energy gen.

[@willn8398]

Just got into the game - your tutorials are brill!!! This one is actually one of your best. Please keep them coming! Without doubt my #1 ONI KZbinr :)

[@pauldecker4630]

Thank you very much for this, having a cornerstone to start from is really nice. It's also nice to know roughly where the mid-game starts.

[@MrErock1000]

Even four years later these guides are excellent. Thank you for sharing.

[@Gruaiggorm]

These videos have been really helpful and they are making my experience that much better, thanks for taking the time.

[@lobstercat]

This guy is amazing, and he really helped me get started on all the basics of ONI.

[@ateszkid]

This is so helpful! I remember how confused I was when first started to implement machinery like press or refinery and I thought about these as very late-game material. Your tutorial can save colonies at the brink of a restart! :)))

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Would never have though to do this one it if not for some comment requests, judging by the comments I should have done this one a long time ago.

[@ateszkid]

@@FrancisJohnYT Yes, actually (for me) the most challenging was to pick up the thinking process you veterans have when planning for next steps. I mean, it was helpful to watch your expansion episode by episode but the struggle was to peek behind the curtains to find out why you started to develop in a certain way at that point in time. I don't know if I am understandable or not. It is good to see guides that say, hey if you have this and that, and you have opportunity X or Y than it is good to plan out this and that. This thinking process is very obvious for veterans and starts to become easier for me too, but first I was lost big time. Thanks again!

[@vulkandrache1928]

I think one of the big traps in this game and one of its big problems for beginners is that research is complete crap. Unless you start somewhere so starved of water that a beginner wouldnt get anywhere anyway you fly through the techtree and unlock stuff waaaayyyy before you are ready to use it.

[@let4be]

Restarts are cool, i've restarted hundreds of times - let me perfected my early and mid game. Just do what you enjoy ;) who cares, it's just a game for your amusement. Great game though!

[@OscarChabrand]

this videos are great, man. I like that your designs actually apply to real bases, I've seen lots of tutorials where people just use the debug mode and it's not so helpful for me, personally. I like doing things the hard way, no cheating!

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Hell yes, if you cheat it in then what value does it have? I get why people do it I just get more satisfaction out of doing it the hard way.

[@nique21nue]

I have now watched this a couple of times and cheered before I actually started to dare building a brick myself. Dude, you rock!

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Good luck.

[@emilyc9240]

This video is so great! I've played many bases but eventually quit them because i didnt know where to go after finish the early game and being stable and comfortable. Very well explained, ta.

[@robertwelch2843]

Just got this game and I'm absolutely loving it! One thing I've noticed on all these tutorials is how clean and efficient the bases are. My bases always seem to be scattered/patched together. I kind of enjoy the look of being scattered right up until my energy drops out and all my dupes starve to death :D

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I have been using the same base layout since almost the beginning, once you figure out what works for you most players stick with it.

[@mariesmith9508]

I suggest using salt water instead of polluted water, since the nearest water will evaporate before the polluted water, causing it to offgas if you are unlucky like me. Great tutorial! I've used it a couple times now and I believe I am getting the hang of it. Very helpful for learning mechanics of the game as well.

[@Firebuck]

Fantastic tutorial! Maybe I can finally get past the "oops I melted another base" part of the game. Thanks Francis!

[@mrfikss]

Great work again FJ. I really wish we could get more of these practical how-tos and less of the math crunching theorycrafting ONI tutorials. You've become my go-to guy for ONI help. Thanks a lot.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Glad you enjoy. That was the whole reason I started making these, did not like the tutorials out there.

[@YamaZombies]

I'm on cycle 819 and just starting to get into steel/plastic production properly, this is a great help thanks!

[@nathanc4183]

Thank you for this, I've just started thinking about the mid-game and how to get all that refined metal. I have it a bit easier since there's a huge glacier next to my base to dump all the heat into, but the general setup is very helpful.

[@FaithOriginalisme]

My second time building this, I've used your trick for automated liquid locks, and automated the filling of the aquatuner section.. Now I just gotta plan where things go, and dive into some petroleum boiling.. Your videos have been a great help into me understanding how to do things in this game. Thanks!

[@FrancisJohnYT]

This video was a topic someone suggested in the comments, has ended up being one of the most watched videos I have ever had. Who knew helping people out could feel so good.

[@mathiasv3673]

Thank you, I have been improving through this greatly.

[@TLangas]

What was holding me back, was the first step of acquiring the first batch of steel & plastic. I never knew what to do with all of the heat. You made it so simple. Do nothing. Just make the heat in a place that is already hot.

[@NameFirst834]

An oasis without gold amalgam literally doubles the time it takes to do anything industrial. Amazing tutorial as always 👌🏻

[@probablynotmyname8521]

It depends, if you have a supply of water at a reasonable temperature then you can get steel going very quickly.

[@mazfars]

Going back my ONI history, this video was the most important video I had ever seen for improving my game. Thanks.

[@lumen8341]

I can't emphasize enough how crazy it is that I can sit through every tutorial you make. Literally no one else has ever made it that easy for me. ❤ And enjoyable. You're the whole package!

[@FrancisJohnYT]

your going to make me blush :) Glad they helped.

[@TheDeadSource]

So, quite late to the party, but the amount of progress I was able to make just from you explaining the steps in this video is insane, so thank you so much.

[@Rin8Kin]

Exactly what i have been searching for - the raw starting ways to effectively produce the basis for further "clean" production.

[@christinac6991]

This clarified so much in simple enough fashion that I can build on the knowledge easily. Thank you so much for this!

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Glad to be of service.

[@FyouThatsMyName]

Been watching ton of vids on this game as I kept getting lost while playing. This was the most helpful.

[@soth1438]

Thank you a whole lot for these, I always enjoy your content. New and old!

[@legendarycheekymonkey]

This is the third time I've watched this video! It has helped me to get steel started so big thanks for that as I was getting stuck in the same place every playthrough. I dug into the oil biome and very luckily spotted a zombie plant before I dug through to it so keep an eye out for that people!

[@jameselliot1985]

This video is probably the most helpful video on any game I've ever played. Thank you.

[@asdfdfggfd]

Another fantastic episode, Unique and useful tutorial as well! I would make a kiln and start ceramic the instant I developed the technology.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I though of including ceramic (I usually spam the stuff straight away) but wanted to keep it simple. You can get an industrial brick up using just regular minerals, but yeah, ceramic would be better.

[@onlyme0349]

You're really good at sharing your experience in bite size packets, without melting my brain.

[@AdamRotering]

This is the exact point my bases end up getting messy and fail. Thank you for this

[@BlackOutkastMediaBroadcasting]

This video is easily the best ONI tutorial you've done. I figured out some of the stuff in this video in my last base playthrough, but that said, the mid-game hump is a real thing and this puts you into a prime position to jump into your endgame mode. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@MrNabows]

9:33 "We have atmo suits, so we don't give a...we don't care" LOL GJ on the tutorials, base building and ALSO keeping it family friendly!

[@Randoo1]

Absolutely phenomenal tutorial I was wondering what to do next with my base and I couldn't get around to doing it. This is will definitely help thank you

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Should have done this a while a go judging by the comments.

[@Randoo1]

@@FrancisJohnYT I just enjoy watching the crazy things you do I'm pretty new to the game so this is helpful. 😀

[@bengoodwin2141]

I never understood atmo-suits before just because they cost so much effort to recharge, this will really help

[@daimonos418]

I bought the game about 5 mins into this wonderful vid. Currently £13.41 _for the bundle_ on Steam in the sales. I've played lots of Factorio and Satisfactory but this fluids and thermodynamics view of the world is new and very appealing. I'm going to be coming back to this time and over again - there's so much to learn! Thanks again this is great. x

[@FrancisJohnYT]

This game also comes with a built in time warp, make sure you don't have anything time sensitive to do in the real world for the first week. Enjoy.

[@rl53]

Explained so well FJ, as with other people I've never made it this far & only just got to digging out the map to expand. The quirks make my brain hurt 🤣🤣

[@skijwalker5543]

Poluted waterland then regular water on top to make a vacume ..... Mind officially blown away ! Awesome tutorial 😃 thx

[@commonsense-og1gz]

you can make a vacuum, but i have never had problems with oxygen in it.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

@commonsense 200 it does not gum up the works at all?

[@commonsense-og1gz]

@@FrancisJohnYT i haven't had any trouble with my turbine from any air so far. i have had under temperature water damage my aquatuners so i installed a door on the side of the steam chamber, but the steam seems to overpower any air in the system.

[@braize6279]

Why is the layer of polluted water needed at the bottom of the steam turbine? What would happen if you used all clean water?

[@commonsense-og1gz]

@@braize6279 if you're asking about the water in the chamber with the aquatuner, he may have placed that there thinking that it would help exchange heat up until it flashes to steam. eventually pure water will be the only thing in that chamber, afterwards. the better choice would be to add petroleum, or crude oil due to the high temp threshold, and higher thermal conductivity, for distributing the heat to the steam above. if you are using just pure water, it will work as well. i have never had problems with just a steel aquatuner in pure steam.

[@K1NGJ1M]

Your videos are super helpful thank you so much for doing these tutorials you legend.

[@James-oj6ck]

Thanks for you videos and teaching. Today I made my first steel ever. It didn't go as easy as you show. My oil was over 140 degrees. I finally got a few ides and just repaired the Gold Amalgam pump to pump the crude oil to a storage container. I went through some repair costs, but the crude was at 130 by the time I was pumping into the container. I now have almost 1kg of steel and I'll probably make a steel pump and then start destroying some area to make my "Power Brick." I am starting to really enjoy solving the problems this game throws at me. Thanks again.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

140C oil, sounds like you might have an abyssalite break in the oil biome. Heat from the magma biome might be leaking it. You should explore the oil biome as a priority and find this abyssalite break if it exists and patch it up with insulated tiles. Also enjoy playing with steel, it gives you so many wonderful options.

[@James-oj6ck]

@@FrancisJohnYT I have molten lead. Petroleum pockets. Most tiles are at least 200 C. I will try to find it. I don't know if it is savable.

[@VD.....]

I was waiting for this video thank you very much amazing tutorial

[@gonzalonavarro9584]

Great tutorial Francis!

[@ar.nul.fo.]

You explain things so welll compared to anyone else

[@theonus_4483]

I just bought this game and haven’t played it yet. I only seen the early game until I watched this. I’m now terrified I’m never going to grasp this haha. Most of this went over my head. Hopefully after some play time it’ll make sense and I’ll re watch.

[@erikaadvisser]

Very good instructions, enjoyable to watch... thank you! One minor improvement I found is not to use poluted water for filling in the steam area, but some other liquid like salt water. The poluted water generated poluted oxygen. Salt water will still leave behind some gunk (salt) when converted to steam, but you are sure that 100% of your steam boiler area is filled with steam.

[@nadiadima9449]

Thank you so much! I have just seen my first steam turbine working and I feel so inspired, like the nice little nerd I am :D . Now I only need to figure out why mine is not at full capacity.

[@JustFeelingsCrafts]

Hi Francis, Can I use the same cooling loop from the refinery for the power plant? or do I need to create a separate cooling loop? Thanks!!!

[@JustFeelingsCrafts]

never mind. You said it can used the same loop at the very end of the video

[@HorzaPanda]

This is super useful. I've been producing steel for a while but I'm running into serious heat problems because I didn't know much about heat and set up something quick and messy. Going to have to make myself an industry block and tidy everything else in my complete hodge-podge mess of a base XD

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Be careful once you build your first you may find yourself developing a liking for it. My industrial bricks get bigger and sillier every time.

[@CeladonGames]

This video. I watched it every time one of my colonies reaches the hump. That's countless times so far. And then I always find an excuse to not go through with it and start a new colony. The layout not being right, not having enough space, and having to cut through annoying biomes to make up for that (namely the one with the dreckos, hate those with a burning passion), never having enough workforce to get it done in a timely fashion (mainly because I refuse to work with more than five or six dupes at a time), you name it. And then reminding myself that there's no shame in being 250 cycles in and not even having achieved a plastic press, especially with five dupes running on wheels because I had the brilliant idea of unlocking the sustainability achievement, of all things. Anyways, I'm going on a tangent. Your tutorial nuggets are invaluable for this not-so-noob-friendly game. If any, you make it look much simpler than my own experience suggests. To me this is all rocket science. Speaking of which, I'm dreading reaching the point where I have to tackle space. Anyways. I wonder how many hours you put into this game already. I'm betting somewhere in the thousands.

[@REGANELITE]

This video is super helpful for me thanks for the tips 👍🏻

[@nh4069]

I really appreciate you still coming back to comment and help viewers. I love this game. This is my first "try hard" playthrough and I'm having a blast! Do you think u will start a new playthrough in the near future?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Not in the near future, I'm holding out until they put out more content for it. But worst case if nothing shows up I'll have to have a look again in 6 months or so.

[@CaptainMisery86]

i like the analogy that this is like climbing a cliff and then jumping off

[@erikwibowo8596]

holy brain, how does people came up with this. great tutorial!

[@charliejulietdavies8715]

i'm so glad for the automation innovation update giving us tanks with automation output, so you don't have to build those contrived overflow sensors

[@Greippi10]

Does this tutorial predate that update? So basically I could just run the automation wire straight from the tanks to the refinery without a need for a sensor in the pipes? Also the way he does it here isn't he missing a not-gate? This way the refinery only activates when the pipe is full, no?

[@ragnr5761]

this is exactly the video i needed. thanks!

[@himmelsturmerIX]

After playing about 10 hours and browsing tutorial at youtube, I realized fallout shelter is more my speed.

[@dislikeme1626]

what an amazing guide ty sir

[@dakon2154]

I am at cycle 300 and still between early and mid game. Glad I am not the only one.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

There is no rush so long as you don't run out of something essential.

[@roojackaroo8517]

I feel like a rush too much, i set up plastics and refineries at cycle 70 on my base But to be fair, i needed cooling very fast, my starting biome was right on the edge of a steam vent, so the heat was creeping up

[@tiagopesce]

Done the "aggressive version" really neat, the dupes take kinda 50 cycles to finish all the digging, building, and setting up. the most annoying part is know what to do with all of that natural gas, since i already tapped a vent nearby and have 500t coal from the hatch-farming...

[@LittleMew133]

So my base is a literal sauna. And I have decided to get my dupes some help, and by help I mean me watching tutorials.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Yeah, I think it's part of the normal learning curve of ONI. Mess around for a bit, get a half decent colony, have your crops stifle from heat, starve, look up tutorials.

[@evelkenevel7948]

Thanks man i actually understood everything!!

[@mytiliss682]

I just make closed by waterlock vacuum chamber and spill some oil inside. Placing oil refinery and gas pump there both made of gold and they will never overheat unless you overheat oil above 120C and forget to change pipes to isolated ones. Doing same thing for polymer presses, most of structures just need to stay in liquid splash to stay cool. And most important, all that system self-powered by oil and gas generators, adding refinery will help a lot, thanks for vid. Before I usually was cooling water basin for it by placing small portions of ice inside, may be helpful if you running low on water.

[@HUNmerlin]

your vids are insanely good

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Thanks, this video is probably the most popular tutorial I have made and I only did it because someone suggested it.

[@Dredswich]

Thanks for the tutorial.

[@TheMindverse]

Thanks Francis for all the great videos you put out for ONI. You've helped me in so many ways. Love your accent! As a clueless American, I'm curious as to what "brick" means in your videos. I'm kind of assuming you mean a kind of foundational module for your base, but I could be wrong. And, I absolutely live for "aaaaaaaand we're back..." :)

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Brick is just a building block, could be an old red brick or a concrete brick. Most my of my designs in ONI end up brick shaped hence the unimaginative names.

[@d3viousdom854]

I forget how big the asteroids were in the original game. Spaced out Asteroids are Wayyyy smaller than the regular ONI ones.

[@Shapemyst]

Great tutorial!

[@brucebeastwood1924]

Really helpful video, not just this one, i had to use a few in conjuction to get to this, finally got it up and running, the 3 part newbie guide helped me figure that the lack of atmos suits was slowing alot of the progress down, so after finally learning that i should box my living area in and build suit docks i finally was able to demolish biomes instead of messing around carefully blocking gases etc. Also had to use the shorter tutorial about the research for getting to steam turbines never knew could just use a few weezeworts to give me enough radbolts to unlock the tech. But all in all i think one huge part of my mid game hump was just undervaluing atmos suits, the difference they make is ridiculous. The 3 part newbie series, the bit about radbolts and this should just make up one series, coz tied together it really gets you through, finally after stupid amounts of saves and restarts the game feels like its opening up 🤣

[@FrancisJohnYT]

The game is a bit of a tough nut to crack, the learning curve is pretty steep. But once you get past cooling the whole thing opens up.

[@brucebeastwood1924]

@@FrancisJohnYT Yeah it definitely is a tough one at times, so easy to just nuke your base. Every playthrough learn so many little things.

[@coffinboy4553]

Excellent this really changed my game. What should I do next?

[@FranticPedantic823]

Francis John: love the videos and the game. This is kind of an old video but i had a question. I am having trouble getting the steam up to temp (hovers around 250) - have I used incorrect materials somewhere or am I just not letting it run enough?

[@astrid2432]

wow, that was such a good tutorial. I'm with my ateria base at over 200 days and well, the only thing where I have problems is refined metall. I tried to make a good power/oxygen machine from the other big ONI-YTer, (it starts with B) and well, I set up everything, the only problem is, I need refined metal for the cables and the smart batteries. I started to make it, but I have cooling problems, I'm not so far like you, as I don't have atmo suits really, but well you helped me to get something to cool my metal refinery to get tons of refined alu. I already could set up the atmo suit production, for at least one or two suits, as I was lucky and got a few refined iron from the pod, A other question: I got from the pod 3 slickster eggs, I set up a small room for 2 and I pump all the Co2 from my energy room (1 coal, 2 wood) in that room, so I get some cruide oil and get some Co2 and heat away from my power room. So... was it good to build it already? I mean the slickers are at near/in my base, heated up from the hot Co2 out of the power room. (~60°). The grooming table is in the co2 max pressed room and it's quite hard to groom these cute things

[@FrancisJohnYT]

So long are you are producing enough CO2 to feed them, why not? More food and free CO2 disposal all in one package.

[@astrid2432]

@@FrancisJohnYT well I think not, as the power room gets too fast hot. I may can use from a other power room for oxygen/ energy and cooling instead a carbon skimmer to a gas pump. But my proplem is the heat. I want to keep the normal ones, but the room is too cool and I get only the slickster ho consume oxygen

[@jonathantio7531]

Cycle 279 now, time to make my mini industrial brick. Every time i've refined metals i've always just built a metal refinery and mass refined 99*100kg of xyz metals. Now i've got a better idea on how to begin and expand!

[@lulabyte]

does anyone else say "aaaaand we're back" with Francis at the beginning of all his videos?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

... I do

[@lulabyte]

@@FrancisJohnYT AHHHHHHHH 🤩

[@pronkel]

as always thanks for the video :)

[@FrancisJohnYT]

As always thanks for the thanks and always being nice enough to comment :)

[@renton1664]

Referring back to this after a break from playing. Near the end when you set up the oil refinery you add a liquid pipe element sensor. I can't think how this would be set up? If you select petroleum it is red constantly. What am I forgetting

[@baddrivingnyc]

For some reason my duplicants aren't emptying bottles of pwater into the aquatuner box (12:41). I have them set at 8 priority too. I have a pitcher filler in my pwater reservoir so I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong or if it's some kind of bug?

[@aaronjohnson2215]

Nice. Now tell me what do you feed your hatches as mine ate everything... And how do you get o much dirt for trees?

[@TheBushdoctor68]

Great stuff, as usual. One thing I don't fully understand, is why you dropped a layer of p-water in the cooler before adding clean water to push the gasses out - at 12:34 Why not just use clean water? I suspect it has something to do with the total amount... Because using only clean water would require a lot more kg's and puts too much in the cooler? (I'm figuring this out as I write this, apparently)... So, basically using p-water first, causes that only little clean water is needed to fill the entire cooler and drive the gasses out? Ohhhh it's a trick! :) Yea.. I think I've arrived... Gonna give it a shot. Thanks a lot for this series of videos man!

[@thegavsters]

Your videos have helped me so much recently with ONI and trying to understand how the games deals with things. I did notice when setting up the refinery that instead of using a liquid detector to turn off the refinery its possible to link the refinery to the storage with a an automation cable which turns it off when storage is full. I don't know if this was a feature added after you did this.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

That feature was added with the automation update, made things much simpler. The devs do pay attention and try and make things easier/better. I still remember when temperature sensors only went up to 300C before they realized we liked to play with magma :)

[@DerrickAnderson89]

That giant pile of boiling hot obsidian..... LOL

[@bpdlr]

PSA if no-one has previously commented on this but you can also deconstruct the windows and door in the Gravitas ruins at the top of the map to get 1800kg of steel if you want to get it earlier.

[@emdee1567]

It might be important to note that the automation wire needs to be routed elsewhere from the Liquid Pipe Thermo Sensor. Post Banhi's Automation Innovation Pack new setups the Reservoir will send a green signal so the Aquatuner runs forever causing freezing in the pipes.

[@flaviusgreen979x8]

what do i need to do can you please tell me?

[@flaviusgreen979x8]

pls?

[@emdee1567]

@@flaviusgreen979x8 reroute the Automation wire around the Res. I just went straight down.

[@TangySpiderLegs]

I ran the automation wire directly from the Temperature Sensor to the Aquatuner.

[@S_Black]

Thanks for the aquatuner setups. I'm a bit confused with the different versions though. So far I've seen three: 1.) Have the cooling loop run directly through the aqua tuner. Seems to be the most common and also seen here 2.) Your icebox design where you use a cold liquid as transfer medium 3.) Running the cooling loop into the steam chamber. Didn't know you can do that Are some of these better than others, or is it personal preference? For some easy steel you can also pump up some polluted water from a slime biome and dump the hot water right back into the pool. It's not a long term solution obviously, but it allows you to make some refined metal without advanced infrastructure

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Most of it is personal preference or just the demands of the situation. If I was doing a cool steam vent tamer I would not need a huge temp differential so 40C would be plenty cold, would not use the liquid tank to even temp and I'm not going very low temp. It would also be active very little but I would need a buffer so I would usually have a little tank of water to store the cooling between eruptions. This industrial brick cooling solution needed to cool multiple floors and at a steady rate so piped cooling was fine, I needed a fine margin of temp control as i wanted to go down to 10C or less so i stuck in a liquid tank for evening out the flow. So I suppose the short answer, they all have a use and it's usually down to convenience.

[@Mach3Maelstrom]

Been playing for a while. I've always set up Atmo Suits locally where they're needed, i.e. Steam Vents, Oil Biome Entrances, etc. Seeing your base Atmo Suit dock looks intriguing to test out instead. Do you recommend doing this Atmo Suit dock for all cases, or only for certain cases? If so, which cases?

[@indecisiverift]

if you have a good oxygen production solution, having one big bay of suits on the way out of the base just makes sense. The suits will automatically be filled up by a tiny percent of your o2 production and your dupes can be safe and snug anywhere they are outside the living area of your base. bonus: it makes not caring about random gasses and temps in the space outside your base a lot easier too ;)