Hatch Ranching Tutorial | Oxygen Not Included

From sage to stone, a guide to everything you need to know to get started with hatch ranching.
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[@EzAzAbc]

8.5 hatches per generator my dudes! If you get stone hatchlings and use a volcano to your advantage to feed the hatches, you could essentially have infinite food + coal

[@jangohemmes352]

You can orient your ranches vertically to not need any oddly shaped sectioned off ranches. Your hatches are always close to the grooming station just the same

[@beekey9501]

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[@goatman86]

Don't forget to hide your conveyor rails in walls, floors or even doors. That way eggs count as "out of the room" and will minimise time critters have cramped debuff on them

[@taylors4243]

The problem letting critters run around is that you wont be able to use a drop off once there are 20 critters over the entire open map

[@mr_penguins380]

the maths are too nerdy

[@jackarmitage141]

Just Binge watched your max difficulty playthrough and your 150 dupe playthrough, moving onto your colonization playthrough. Man its addicting.

[@kainenmoscato2564]

I love going hatches early game! for some reason stables still still count with industrial buildings inside. I usually stick my coal generators in the big empty spaces, and becomes a space for most of my stations too, with 3 stables. The powered stuff will eventually need cooling, but hopefully by that time you’re on to bigger and better power sources.

[@fuhrab]

I always throw my mealwood farms in my hatch ranches so not using the door + tile barrier isn't a good option. That's just my thing - with so many ways to play this game, it's great they added another option with the grooming queue.

[@biomorphic]

Just started to play this game. I killed 2 communities, the third one was on the blank of extinction but a dupe saved the day, and now I have 4 and I was able to grow food. Now I am learning ho to address gas and animals. This game is a full time job!

[@mernymernesto9775]

I have over a thousand hours in this game and the bit with the ration box and a single hatch being fed the sedimentary rock is just brilliant, I never thought of that.

[@yowanehaku8725]

when most of guide are late-game/optimal, new players tend to get overwhelm and/or become indicisive during cycle 30-50 (when getting access to refined material, and more stuff) whether they should do something right away, or wait a little longer to do optimal one.

[@salemprompthous3820]

With the 25x4 tile ranch, and filling in with a door and two tiles: remove the tiles, and place a pneumatic door horizontally above the feeders. This'll increase the gasflow through the ranch (not being blocked by a solid tile, and having a 4tile high area to move, same principle as the 3tile wide ladder/firepole row), and the room won't look asymmetrical due to a corner tile in one end, for those who like that. (This is something I got from the comments section in one of @Francis John's videos a while back. Can't remember who said it, but I've been doing this ever since, as I do enjoy the look of a more symmetrical room)

[@MrKalidascopeEyes]

Remember the extra room space can be used for storage, power systems, and any other misc room you may want. Stables are very lenient on the extra furniture and equipment. So you could have your coal generators in the same room. If built vertically you could give multiple entries to the stable leaving easy access or routing around your base. Kind like slicksters in hot boxes.

[@DRY411S]

This is the best ONI hatching tutorial on KZbin by far. Thank you for taking the time to make it.

[@huldu]

This is so insanely helpful! Like someone pointed out most other guides have really complex setups that make no sense and you(new player) don't understand what is going on.

[@zBrain0]

This is by far the best tutorial I've seen on this topic. Very thorough and yet to the point.

[@santiagodejesusamill9504]

I love your tutorials! They're so thorough but never tedious and that's an impressive balance to strike.

[@Kuggar]

Your tutorials are so comprehensive. Love it!

[@fruitbatcat]

Excellent tutorial, covering all angles, been playing for years and still learned something while being entertained at the same time.