How to Get Past the Mid-Game in Oxygen Not Included

[@Magnet_MD]

Notes and Corrections: - 18:30 Should read "Above" 500g and "Above" 400g. This has been blurred for now.

[@SussyManToes]

you shud do a face reveal, ive been watchin for a couple yrs now ever since i got oni and it became one of my fav games so id luv to see a face reveal of the person who has helped me complete the game!! Much luv

[@АртемИванов-ю8ъ]

You actually inspired me to go past early mid-game. I have 150 hours so far and never made it past digging oil biom and setting up spom. Thanks to you im now dedicated to finishing my current save.

[@Magnet_MD]

Awesome, you're gonna get there!

[@adetia9]

Just want to echo this. I scrapped the stupid hard game I started with and I’m cruising towards the finish line in the base game and have learned so much!

[@dean4939]

@@adetia9 hard games force you to learn game mechanics, typically cooling is the first killer of a base. either too cold or too hot for sustainable food production.

[@imthejuggernautbitch7142]

I just have a bunch of sour gas by day 100 and id just give up 😂

[@NauticaB]

me too😅

[@JeysieC]

You inspired me to finally try to seriously push through a game of ONI to completion versus having restart-itis. Here's to me finally trying to make a real cooling loop without murdering my base!

[@Magnet_MD]

You're gonna do it!

[@altaem9152]

You've inspired me to stick with my longest running base. Never built a rocket previously, and now I'm attempting liquid hydrogen. Primary power is still hamster wheels.

[@Magnet_MD]

Hahaha, nice! I was doing a challenge a long time ago (that I never finished) where my only power source was hamster wheels. Maybe I should revive that...

[@waveclaw]

@@Magnet_MD If you follow people like Francis John, or way back in the day brothgar, the Hamster wheel power system never really goes out of fashion. Early game it is your choice for squeezing power out of dupes. Late game it is your choice for squeezing athletics out of dupes so they can wear atmo suits without imitating a turtle with depression. Building a gym of wheels is a significant optimization once you have dupes largely doing tasks in steam rooms of hot equipment or building in space or long runs through non-oxygen environments at the bottom of the map. It is one case where you'd not use smart batteries or automation. You'd probably just run a room of wheels powering lights uselessly. Lock the doors to force new trainees to exclusively run on the wheels until they have enough athletics to overcome the massive penalty of a suit.

[@altaem9152]

@@Magnet_MD Cycle 970. Rocket has been launched. Expect to complete all the other achievements by cycle 1000. I'll then send you my abomination of a base.

[@altaem9152]

@@waveclaw Thank right, no one is allowed anywhere unless they have 24 athletics.

[@grantwithers]

Hamster wheels are confirmed the best power generation in the game imo

[@RoozleDoozle-9210]

For naming, I call everything that is that tall coral looking thing a vent, everything that is small and short like cool slush geysers, guysers, and everything that has the sprite of metal volcanoes, volcanoes.

[@anibarukyouran1145]

This is the part where most of players give up, most of the concepts and mechanics become overwelming for most and watching a base fall after 100+ cycles is beyond demoralizing. I remember happen to me last year and I stopped playing for months, I eventually return and persevered and ONI has become literally my most played game ever ^^ now days my colonies usually reach over 1000+ cycles before i get bored and start a new one in a new biome or some crazy project comes to my mind wich requiere start over (that's for me the reason why i haven't finished the game XD)

[@Magnet_MD]

It's a steep learning curve for sure! I personally don't mind failing a LOT before I'm able to succeed even once. I have to imagine 15 or so of my bases failed before I finished one.

[@plasma800]

You’re really bringing it, Magnet! Thank you. Keep it up.

[@plasma800]

It’s like you’re reading my mail.. this is always where I become stuck… at cooling. But dang it, I’m going to make that tear this time. If you want a messy mid game save game, I presently have one for you to study/use.

[@Magnet_MD]

Hahaha, I hope the cooling overview is helpful!

[@UlyssesK402]

Magnets attract metal, "bringing them together." Looks like somebody's living up to their channel namesake.

[@theegodkingmammz1595]

Whered you go man? You dropped off the face of the earth!

[@amazingkool]

7:50 I love this edit. I think I'll start my run for the cause here when the next video comes out, I'm currently preoccupied with some other completely unrelated games, but the itch is coming on, I can feel it

[@Magnet_MD]

I know the feeling! And thanks!

[@jjrulez1596]

felt, although im playing satisfactory, which imo is tangentially related (am i using that right? idk, related cause factory game, and imo ONI is a factory game, just different with its own quirks, and sich, but like, overarching genre)

[@amazingkool]

@@Magnet_MD Update I was a liar and started a save and progressed it a little past where this video covers within a month of the video going up. I'll almost certainly pick up the save again when the next video comes out (seriously no rush, take your time), and then I'm looking forward to picking up some of the dlc's at the next steam sale after that!

[@madieladi]

Videos like these are what got me into oni, im about 300 hours in and loving the complexity of the mechanics in this game, hopefully ill be done my achievements soon, thank you magnet

[@Magnet_MD]

Thank you! Hope you're having fun :)

[@phatman398]

I accept your challenge. I always got stuck with heat issues in the mid game but this time I will prevail

[@thejoshernut]

Okay Magnet. I had gotten bored with ONI about a month or 2 ago. But I sat down the last 2 days and finally "beat the game." Only because you asked. I didn't bother to clean up my pipes or power lines so there's spaghetti everywhere. But its done! Got Home Sweet Home achievement on complete accident too lol.

[@Magnet_MD]

YESSS! Well done!

[@fruity4820]

I already completed the game and survived 3000+ cycles, but i still love watching toturials like this since every once in a while i come across a new way to do things i havent seen or thought of. I never thought about making a main pool that all the cooling loops go though, i dont know if its better than the way i do cooling at the late game (which is making local steam turbine rooms everywhere i need an aquatuner and then passing the coolent direcrly through it), but i can add it to my library of knowlege

[@Magnet_MD]

That definitely works! I've always centralized it for at least cooling food, power, oxygen and a few other things, but extra setups for a metal volcano or something definitely are more useful with their own aquatuner.

[@octavio9941]

I'm still a newb in ONI (little over 70h) and I barely scratched the surface. I'm about to start my fisrt natural gas setup but I think I would have given up if it wasn't for your tutorials, so thanks a lot!

[@SjaduK]

What a guide. Extremely informative, well executed and precise!

[@Eldalion99999]

Extremly good structured tutorial, to the point with nice visuals. Looking forward to next one.

[@zackbot_]

I have have over 1000 hours in this game and almost every achievement, yet I still enjoy watching these tutorial videos for some reason. good luck to all the newer players entering the late game!

[@adetia9]

im further then ive ever gotten by far, and i'm getting much more comfortable with the aquatuner/steam turbine setup having messed it in every possible way i'm pretty sure LOL!!! I'm breaking into rockettttsssssss - nothing will stop me from completing now, thanks largely to your videos, but also your personal replies to me on so many of your videos!!! You are a champion!! :)

[@Magnet_MD]

Nicely done! You're gonna get it soon!

[@datsawesome3241]

I abosltly love this series. I'm doing my part. And loving the game.

[@RoozleDoozle-9210]

11:58 and this here is the basis for a sauna / industrial brick. Those are basically what this is but just larger steam rooms to allow more equipment inside.

[@TR0YtheMAN]

Thank you for this! Been stuck right at the crossing point of early to mid game and the other video helped. I will say the only thing was I like the format of the first one this one seemed off just enough. However, I am sure this one will help me get through the mid game as well.

[@ar00k23]

Those videos you made inspired me to play oni again. I even made my first industrial brick with steam

[@Magnet_MD]

Nicely done!

[@scottwhitlock8559]

This video inspired me to actually "finish" the game by both sending a dupe into the temporal tear, and by building a monument. Thanks!

[@moarsaur]

I was a serial colony-starter before I watched this video: almost 700 hours without ever getting much past cycle 300. The main thing I took away from it was just to go back to Terra in the base game and git'er done. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm c. 630, stable plastic, stable steel, just broke through to space. Ice cooling, berry sludge and more automated shipping were all key to making it happen -- thank you!

[@imazined]

Bristle Berries and also Sleet Wheat don't require cold water to grow. What stifles them is the heat escaping the hydroponics. It's far more efficient to cool the plants than the irrigation water. I met so many players that got stuck on the idea they need cool water despite already having steam turbines. The only use case for cold usage water after steam turbines is toilet water for SO rockets.

[@Magnet_MD]

True, you can feed it warmer water, but it still does take some kind of cooling to keep the plants safe, and will likely cause other heat spill around the base. I think it's just overall easier to feed cool water and get the idea that having cool water is a valuable resource, and if you manage to sneak around the temperature requirements, then more power to you :)

[@imazined]

@@Magnet_MD we're playing the game probably quite different. I use usually the 95C of steam turbines and geysers as coolant in granite pipes outside of sealed areas.

[@sarpbilgesenkardesler7434]

Yay! My beloved youtuber whose videos I cant help myself binge-watch yet I have nothing to learn from is back😂

[@uther10]

Thank you for the Heavy Cooling setup. Exactly what I need at this moment in my base! Been using Floxes and Bammoths right now and its getting kinda Interesting to say the least.

[@Magnet_MD]

You're welcome and good luck! Also, youtube is suggesting auto-comments for me to post, which I never use, but this one was what popped up for your comment and it made me laugh because it makes no sense: "Floxes and Bammoths are a fun way to cool off, but you can get that temperature even lower with some heavy cooling." ...Right

[@sesei2149]

2:53 fun fact about natural gas geysers: in the old versions of the game (pre 1.0) there were no vents but only geysers. natural gas and steam were the only resource that came out of a geyser (i'm not really sure about that tho, my ONI knowledge back then was fairly limited as i didn't have a powerful enough laptop that could let me play past the early game.) new geysers and vents were introduced much later and they never changed its name. old steam and ng geysers had also different artworks. they looked like water vents just with different colors (steam had the same color of today's water geyser, natural gas was orange)

[@hail_2_u321]

They need to update this. Now i'm cursed with knowledge.

[@kspec2001]

thank you for making this series. I can tell you put a lot of work into this. its appreciated!

[@Snowy84557]

Just got The Great Escape achievement. Thanks for the help along the way

[@andreyoliveira9904]

After so many years playing this game (since Early Access) I finally got to finish it thanks to this series!!

[@Magnet_MD]

Nicely done! Congrats!

[@Petardo_Dilos]

I was so stressed for the entirety of the week because this quest of yours was until January 1st. I was trying to maintain the colony look, functionality, while progressing as fast as possible.

[@mrchimico89]

Awesome guide as usual. I learned so much stuff thanks to you! looking forward to the next one as mid to late game is the thing I struggle the most!

[@28pinkdancer]

its funny to see electrolyzer setups in this video because for me, a SPOM is an early game build; usually one of the first large builds that I complete on any colony. the "Rodriguez" is ultimately what inspired me to try out this game for myself after only watching gameplay on youtube. the build is so beautiful and can be scaled in both directions from the "full Rodriguez". i also just love that the community adopted the build as the quintessential SPOM and named it after the person who came up with it. i always start with a half or quarter Rodriguez and to me it's just an absolutely mandatory part of any playthrough. building one myself from scratch taught me a lot about how the mechanics of the game work as well really looking forward to the geysers and vents videos!

[@arkansasorigami83]

This series inspired me to do a non moded run to the finish... mod or no modes i havent passed through the rift and have very little space travel expeience. Hope to change all that and post you my map.. cycle 97 currently with 8 dups.

[@jimberry7385]

I'm saving this series for posterity and rewatches.

[@themysteriousguy3784]

Thanks to you Magnet, I was able to get The Great Escape!

[@jacckkaboii3528]

This game is very hard in some ways but I enjoy the challenge, I hope to get past the mid game but it’s a constant struggle. I really appreciate this post as it’s very helpful to players such as myself who understand a lot of the core concepts, but haven’t been able to piece everything together and also find an efficient way to properly setup our bases.

[@Magnet_MD]

You're gonna get past it! It can be a bit of a struggle for sure, but I bet you can do it :)

[@KaLeXo27]

Thank you so much for your work man! Idea you might like, you taught me that we can and should rename our minions. And since then, I use Dr. Aba for the best in medecine, Pr. Something for the science one, Operator Mika, Chef Lorenzo for the cook etc. It makes me feel closer to the crew than the name of the category only 😂

[@kennyholmes5196]

For those of you who use the Ceres DLC: You don't have to worry about oil for plastic-making, as you can instead use Nectar as a feedstock liquid for the Polymer Press, meaning that you merely have to get a few bon-bon trees tapped; you don't even need any fancy tech, as the pipes can just be hooked directly into the trunk, same as how Spigot Seals do it. The same caveats as with petroleum still apply, though, as far as I'm aware.

[@WoAzMM]

Wild ranched Bonbon trees at the top of the map are an infinite source of nectar -> plastic.

[@thomass2935]

Thanks again, Magnet!

[@tarsis6123]

Thanks Magnet. I have about a thousand hours in ONI, and you still teach me things. I personally falter at oil/petroleum (I end up just using them as coolants or liquid locks) and rocketry. I've always ranched dreckos for food, fiber, and plastic, so I've never felt any petroleum crunch. I unlock rockets, but I have only built one or two. The building inside capsules just steals any joy I get from playing. I always feel like I'm trying to micro who can go in a rocket, or who can get out, or who was supposed to be in it anyway. Assuming I get one built. Then trying to get things to be ready for launch all at the same time? It feels like work, and not play, and I don't know why. I need a be better way to handle the minutiae of rocketry.

[@Magnet_MD]

That's fair. It also sounds like you're playing Spaced Out, and the rocketry there is a lot more complicated than the base game. Maybe the base game would be better since there's no rocket interiors or anything?

[@tarsis6123]

@@Magnet_MD Perhaps. Or, maybe, I'll just keep watching you and find a solution I like! Please carry on with your good works.

[@haroldparsons9727]

Thanks to your inspiration and help, and a lot of other creator's as well, I have completed the temparal rift in my first world. Next up im trying a forest start. Lol

[@Kiwigirl-m4u]

Thanks to your videos I finally breached the temporal tear! I'm terrible at this game but I love it😊

[@Magnet_MD]

Congratulations! You're definitely not terrible at it if you made it that far!

[@Seplechura]

Loving these videos. I'm waiting eagerly for the third video.

[@Seplechura]

I'm very close to beating the game. I got my monument made and I've been sending my Petrol rocket out and now to get resources to make supercoolant to make liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Then I'm sending a rocket to the temporal tear and finally sending you my save file. Thanks for the help. I would love to see a part 3 to this series.

[@bdgr3d]

I did it, after 2 years finally made it to the temporal tear, thanks for inspiring me to do it

[@Magnet_MD]

Nicely done! Congrats!

[@Hedning1390]

I got the great escape in 2020. Glad to see this game is still going strong on youtube. I don't like several of the advice in this video though. -The hot water geysers should not be avoided until you have cooling. The water at the start will not be hotter than the minimum temperature of an electrolyzer due to the environment surrounding them cooling them down for a good while. So as long as you use them for oxygen the above 30 temperatures literally don't matter. -Don't vent the refinery coolant to space. Put it back in the pool and just close the pool off when it's too hot. That water will be useful to have later. Also venting to space requires you to get to space, which is a long dig. You shouldn't delay steel that long. -Atmo suits give +10 to digging. This perk doesn't make them a must have, but is probably more important than the environmental protection. -In the base game you do not need atmo suits to get a lot of the oil. There are many pressurized pockets which when dug into will force themselves up into the colder biomes above. Just dig a narrow tunnel down and the oil will come to you. -Your coolant room uses way too much water. Not good for a tutorial aimed at beginners. Show small setups that take little investment to get going. -Open air electrolyzers require no more cooling than closed. Instead of piping the oxygen through your coolant room, pipe anything across both the coolant room and the oxygen. -Hydrogen and recycling the heat from the metal refinery is a very strong combination, especially if tuned up in the power plant room. A hydrogen vent is completely superfluous as it produces about the same as a single electrolyzer. You can use this combo until you need the hydrogen for hydrogen rockets, or keep using them and make more hydrogen for the rocket.

[@justasharksurfing]

Magnet!!!!! I just saw my youtube gaming recap, apparently i am your top 0.1% watcher, and have watched 27x as much as average viewer, Damn, at first it was about the tutorials and fun challenges why i watched the videos, but then i just played your videos every night while sleeping and it is the best melody to sleep to!!!!!

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

Well, then, you didn't really watch it, did you? Lol 😉

[@neilssman]

i was VERY desperate for a video like this!!!

[@WannaKnowAll]

I have 1600 hours and am missing two achievements. This is the run! I am going for it and this video is helping!

[@markchupp4277]

Nice summary and very helpful.

[@Seplechura]

I beat the game and sent you my save file but it's been sad to see you haven't posted a video in 4 months.

[@Eraseri]

Thanks a lot for the video! I have completed everything described in the video in few saves already. It is actually the step after this that is most challenging to me! I have done only a little rocketry and its quite a tricky one to tackle. There are quite many guides to that already but somehow I'm stuck. Especially the part of making a rocket into a place where it is not hit by meteors. Also rocket interiors have developed quite much since the new storage.

[@Magnet_MD]

It will be covered soon!

[@StillLifewithEyeglasses]

I have played over 500 hours in this game and have never made it past the early mid-game, mostly because I don't know what to do next or I end up overheating the base as I try to move forward. These tips will make it easier to finish the game. Thanks!

[@Magnet_MD]

You're welcome, good luck!

[@lenderian]

I just recently got the totally sustainable achievement i will say that going that route on volcania is a pretty good way to do it and heat never really became a problem because you are forced to avoid using a lot of heat generators although things are very slow till you get ahold of a steam turbine or cool salt slush geyser to start your steel production to allow you to make some geothermal plants

[@kevinfrank5857]

Been watching for around 3 weeks now, and I've NEVER got as far as I have in this game up until recently (with your help of course). But I find myself wanting to restart shortly after oil processing just because I end up having problems that I shouldn't have at that stage in the game. Probably 5th attempt atm. Come to find out I'm on cycle 400 something and start running out of resources, (damn hatches eating all my sandstone and sedimentary rock). I refuse to give up tho! Thanks for the help!!

[@jimmyit]

I really enjoy your ONI videos. I usually play along your videos to learn when I go. Have you considered making videos on the Mind Over Magic game? I would love that. Or RimWorld, that would be also awesome! Anyway thank you for your videos! It helps me a lot!

[@JackJester21]

10:45 this is one of the scariest and biggest steps I feel I need to master. Really looking forward to the more in depth look

[@JeysieC]

Yup, same. I'm at the point where I can pretty reliably keep food, air, and water going (especially since I like to run only a few dupes; I find 4-5 is pretty much perfect skill-wise), but cooling loop is my bane.

[@JackJester21]

@JeysieC I've safely worked my way up to about a dozen dupes but that's running them off of mealwood which I've gotten the impression is kinda weak

[@JeysieC]

@@JackJester21 It's not weak if it works! That said, there's higher quality options it's not too hard to set up. Dreckos are probably the best meat option (though hatches are good early on when you need the coal), while once you get the hang of pip planting the berry sludge option is great.

[@JackJester21]

@JeysieC tried using pips to make a nature reserve once. Probably could've watched a tutorial. 😆

[@JeysieC]

@@JackJester21 The simplest trick is: Get a decently long line of natural tiles. Put an enclosed room around it (with any doors set to Auto) to make sure your pip stays put to plant. Then replace every other tile with your fave tile material, leaving every other tile leftover as natural tiles. Then cover every natural tile with a ladder right above it except the one farthest on the right. Put a pip and your desired seeds in the room. Whenever the pip plants something, deconstruct the ladder next to the left. Keep going until the whole line is planted.

[@Keyce0013]

I solve heat issues by playing on the ice biome, though I instead have problems due to lack of heating... Go figure. This was an interesting video to watch and I look forward to seeing your build designs in other videos!

[@leetustainify]

enjoying this series even though I went through the tear ages ago. I always pick up new tips or see designs i want to try out

[@Indeeeex]

For steel production, I personally use the water from my electrolyzer and loop it until it reaches above 60°C, then i delete the heat by turning it into oxygen :) On Frosty DLC, i do the same with nectar before turning it into plastic

[@actepukc]

Great video! As a non-native English speaker, for me, it’s all the same - gAyZer or Vent. But the real secret is . . . pressure! Oh, and I finally made it to the bottom of the map. Now I’ll need to start a new game (because I forgot what I was doing last, lol). Hopefully, I can launch a rocket this time! But maybe after your next video! 😄 Also, just a small suggestion-maybe adding a border or increasing the contrast on the text would make it easier to read against the busy background. The shadow is good, but a little more clarity would help! 😅 Ref: 21:26 - 21:36 And please, for the love of all things good (and my sanity 😅), start adding cards to this video for your older related videos! I know it might take a minute in YT Studio, but it’d be super helpful instead of making us rely on YT search. 😅 All misspellings and errors are totally intentional! 😄

[@Magnet_MD]

Oh right, I meant to add the cards to this video. I'll get on it in a bit!

[@actepukc]

@@Magnet_MD Lol, I actually checked the previous video as well, and yep, those cards are still... missing in action 😄 No worries, though-I'll just keep guessing which video you're talking about! Keep up the great content-together, we’ll get that 1.4% achievement number up!

[@kevinzieglarski]

I am exited for the video after midgame ❤

[@hausclarke20]

Love your videos. I have 1500 hours in this game and i am not in that 1.4%. Thank you for the motivation to push through.

[@Magnet_MD]

Let's go! You're gonna do it!

[@oliverfoxi]

Hey dude. What about let's play with the new bionic pack? Haven't seen you for a while

[@HamzaSeyar]

Thanks!!

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

Hey man at 19:50 and thereabouts where you've got the timer set up to deal with very tiny packets on the rail not changing temperature. There's an alternate solution I've discovered where you can place one of those rail meters just after the conveyor loader and fix the automation so it resets itself. The rail meter will not allow a packet to be created unless it's at least one gram, which is just big enough to assure that temperature change will happen. And it gives you the ability to meter your packet size, if you ever wanted to send out less than 20 kilos per packet for some reason. I used this technique on an iron volcano and ship out the iron in 5 kilo blocks just because I can

[@Magnet_MD]

Interesting, never thought of it that way but it's a good idea!

[@rannvamacdonaldarnskov4794]

Welp, maybe this will finally get me out in space. Taking on the challenge!

[@junypir]

I'm working on it, thanks to you.

[@lukeivey2464]

3:18 gold amalgam structures add 50 degree more to overheat buff so you don’t need steel for this

[@creeperlolthetrouble]

or the hot polluted water gets pumped into an insulated pool instead of into space. It can be cooled by warming a slush geyser which is necessary anyway to warm it since refining it into water requires warming it anyway.

[@ThaoTran-ze9hv]

I really need the heavy-duty cooling guide vid now, one of my last few tasks …

[@RobertDeCaire]

Eventually I'd like to see a "early game in X biome" series to provide some insight into the adjustments that need to be made in each asteroid.

[@Magnet_MD]

That's a good idea! I'll throw it on the list :)

[@alanlerin8048]

a noob's advice here: if you really need to domesticate a naturla gas chamber but you dont have steel, you can use a gas pump and a tempshift plate to pump the gas(both need gold amalgam), it will eventually breake, but it will allow you to get the gas

[@thefactorymustgrowlarger3947]

This, or add some form of semi-permanent cooling loop. Gas geysers and vents usually don't produce that much heat energy, so are often easy enough to cool to a safe temperature if you leave a little bit of space between the source and the pump

[@dean4939]

You mentioned it just a little regarding food types with Berry sludge being a shelf stable food source with a decent morale boost. What you missed was a review of necessary morale in late game and using various " furniture" or foods to increase morale / decor so you can get your dupes trained into many areas without getting stressed out. There's also the "priorities" of Dupes and scheduling. You should address, sleep/ shower / rest /downtime work, What's the bare minimum to avoid dupes sleeping on the floors? Also, with longer travel times at later in game they need adjusted schedules to account for that. you didn't mention what your 4th power source (geothermal) recommended battery settings should be set at? Overall nice video. Great editing BTW.

[@Magnet_MD]

Thanks! I agree, I could have covered that but I don't know if there's a single solution for it. I think I'll save it for a separate video.

[@spacered2346]

You inspired me to play oxygen again

[@Magnet_MD]

Welcome back!

[@ricardobermudez1279]

I really love this tutorials, great help. I was doing so well in first one but I'm having a temp issue due to prob a coolnsteam vent in the door of my base and cooling with ice is not working, it smelt soooo quick.

[@Magnet_MD]

Yeah, I'd probably just wall it off so it doesn't erupt anymore. Those can be a lot of trouble otherwise!

[@Withernall]

Watching this video is rekindling my desire to get back into the game and doing a legit playthrough (As this video series intends!), but I notice that I drop the ball in a rush to get slush geyser cooling without really making sure the rest of the systems are sustainable and effcient. I basically ignore the "ice-cooling" solution completely in the pursuit of producing enough steel to make an aqua-tuner and shoddily setting that up. At the expense of making food production other than bristle blossom. So, this has been a good few videos!

[@aegilmoth]

Dumping hot polluted water into an ice biome is good too. Melts the ice to give the full water ammount.

[@Felinaro]

I dont quite understand heat exchange of liquid reservoirs. There are 3 entities there: reservoir itself, liquid it contains, and outside environment. As I can see reservoir is almost (or completely?) not thermally interacting with its content (weirdly), thats why your setup at 8:06 works ( if there are heat interaction between reservoir and liquid, then solution cant be permanent, so how it works?). But both reservoir and its liquid do interacts with environment (liquid weirdly interacts with environment directly, bypassing the container?) but quite slowly (or not?). So it looks like design at 11:23 and 22:04 relies mostly on radiant pipes, not on reservoirs. Moreover - I dont understand the need of these reservoirs, beside of some averaging the flow temperature, but they are probably redundant, since thermally-controlled valves are doing the same task...

[@Magnet_MD]

You're right, it does rely almost entirely the radiant pipes. You can place the reservoirs on metal tiles to have the liquid inside interact faster with surrounding temperatures, but ultimately the radiant pipes do most of the heavy lifting, since it distributes the temperature among many tiles instead of just 1. Ultimately if you're short on refined metal, you could make a more efficient setup with metal tiles underneath and not use radiant pipes, I just don't consider it a particularly rare resource once metal volcanoes are captured. You could definitely create a loop with other mechanisms, the reservoir is just convienient to fill up and then use the contents later, and it can handle a large buffer of extra liquid in case you expand or contract the connected pipes at any time.

[@Felinaro]

I've conducted some experiments, and indeed: seems like liquid reservoir does not interact with its contents at all. Contents slowly interacts with environment (+tile under tile of attention) directly, bypassing the reservoir itself. But then reservoir interacts with this environment. So if reservoir is in vacuum, stands on insulated tiles, it can hold liquid of any temperature without any problems.

[@johnpork417]

For the natural gas geysers, just use tempshift plate👌. Literally impossible to overheat your gas pump

[@Nassifeh]

Now that I've finally finished this, can I offer one little piece of feedback? The text onscreen is great for a quick reference for more technical things like automation, but when you use it to replace narration, it's not ideal. It's fine when used sparingly, and it's not the end of the world, I'd just rather hear you explain this stuff than read it, personally!

[@killerforever1386]

what everyone sees: useful tips to play Oxygen not included what I sees: ways to heat up my laptop (The last full achievement world I had was a space out, it was lagging so much I ended abandoning it right after I got the last achievement )

[@maxiais1912]

I'm new at this game and I was having fun with the game till I saw this video 🤣 Don't get me wrong thank you for the very detailed and resumed explanation, great job, but oh my lord, this is looking like a full time job. I think things should still work in our own way, but from what I've seen here, we really need to follow an almost strict line if we want to survive. It looks like this is not just being more efficient, it looks like it really needs to be this way.

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

It is a good baseline that works repeatedly. It's not baking a cake from scratch though, you can fudge on a LOT of things and be fine.

[@maxiais1912]

@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489 Oh ok, I guess I'll discover it soon enough 😅 For now, everything has been working just fine, probably not the most efficient way, but it works. Really love the game, and I hope it gives me creativity enough to get things done in my own way if you know what I mean .

[@Valchrist1313]

You really don't need steal to tap a natural gas vent. It will last for hundreds of cycles just with gold amalgam, especially if you leave some natural terrain as a heat sink. If you're really worried, just run a cooling loop through. It won't take much at all for such a valuable early-game power (and water) source.

[@MacManChomp]

Quick note on the number of steam turbines you use, I believe, and will test tomorrow to make sure, that an aquatuner cooling polluted water puts out almost exactly 2/3 of the heat that a self cooled steam turbine can handle. Hopefully that can help give an idea of how many steam turbines you need.

[@UlyssesK402]

20:32 Perhaps this is true in circumstances where the Power Control Station isn't used. However, I have something I'd like to say. I'm someone who uses the Power Control Station to boost my generators, including the Hydrogen Generators in my SPOMs. Earlier in my current run, I hooked up my Hydrogen Generators to my primary power grid, with the idea that they would *supplement* my power production. Perhaps because of the Power Control Station, these two Hydrogen Generators took after Napoleon when he was deployed as a diversion and *became* my primary power production. To put it in perspective, I was using the carbon dioxide from my Natural Gas Generator to produce soda. When my SPOM was put into action, my soda machines stopped working due to a carbon dioxide shortage. To this day, four tuned Hydrogen Generators that are part of SPOM setups remain my primary power source for my current run, with Natural Gas Generators *supporting* the excess weight. You don't have to change your mind about the Power Control Station because of this, but it's something to consider, because holy heck did they make Hydrogen a viable power source *when Electrolyzers are used in SPOMs.* Not even Hydras, but *SPOMs.*

[@Magnet_MD]

You're right, power control stations are a really good addition. I tend to not use them unless I feel the resource trade is worthwhile, because of how much duplicant time they use up. I will be mentioning them in the next video though, thank you for reminding me

[@TheSimpleGamer42]

I want to see the next one e. I’m great up to having to get to other planets. I’ve never really done that.

[@encyrpticcodes8035]

I have almost 800 hours in ONI, and still, i am just now realising that i have been rushing things too much. At my avrage colony i get to space travel at around cycle 150, but still, even when i have multiple planets, my automation systems are really terrible.

[@deniz_dee]

I'm in a similar boat, I've been scared of going into space because I haven't managed proper sustainability, but now I see I seriously have been rushing things too much. Power is a pretty huge limiter in my usual colonies. I ran out of dirt in my starting asteroid for a change in my current playthrough because I thought it's better to start ranching shove voles before getting sleet wheat production stable.

[@Magnet_MD]

I think it's a common scenario! There's not a lot of things that will naturally pace you through the game, so breaking out and getting into the scarier areas are definitely something you can do, but probably shouldn't until you're ready :)

[@bennnie-u8y]

Can't wait for the late game video :)

[@Magnet_MD]

I'm working on it! Sorry, it's taking me forever to finish

[@sylviabernard7405]

I've played over 600+ hours, but I'm stuck with making rocket. This video made me wanna playing ONI again 😂 Hopefully, I could reach the end game this time.

[@Hanmacx]

Sage Hatch can be self sustainable using polluted dirt

[@FlameKoRn]

Hey Magnet, thanks for your videos, its great to have a structure and a plan on how to go about. Before I just used to create stuff then get stuck. Now I know what I need to advance. I see that in this video you dont want to use the metal refiniry so much. However you have many things that require refined metals. Do you usually just go scrounging for these in the map? My biggest difficulty entering mid game and getting ready for it is the lack of metals, gold is low and have very few iron

[@TNT-h1w]

Early game the setup can be hard but as soon as you can Don’t cool the metal refinery’s always use the heat they generarte to make tons of electricity it’s not too hard either use petroleum as a coolant and after say making steel pass it through a a steam room where it will heat up the water and steam for your turbines while cooling the petroleum for further use, it’s just a huge waste to deal with the heat instead of using it

[@the_potato_herald]

if you’re up for it, i would love a video on mid game dupe and schedules and priorities. i found plenty on starting dupes, but other than that, they only say “don’t take too many”. how do i monitor them in a smart way to see if some jobs are not getting done? how many of each role i need? how much morale is realistic to get to?

[@mr.daddynormal3255]

Good day Magnet, first and foremost great vids. Enjoy watching them! I do have some issues that i can't seem to resolve during my runtrough. In my cooling room (same as yours) I have constant blocks forming and that is blocking my automation, is it because my water is too cool? (current -1°C) During your runtrough campaign on OXY Space Out (2024) you said that having more water due to the ice melting, but since my water is below melting degree i assume i need to warm it up a bit somehow? I am also running out of water, using the water from the refineries for now and wil use it for the Geyser in the future as I need more and more.

[@Magnet_MD]

Yep, it will start to freeze if you get it too low. You can probably set it to around 10C if you're using water as the coolant, and that should be plenty. if you're playing in the Frosty DLC or if you need it colder for some reason, you'll wanna use something other than water as the coolant so it won't freeze. Ethanol is a good one if you need a wider temperature range.

[@Pulse_kS]

really glad to find this series, hoping I can step up to the challenge of getting a completion. I'm currently in an approx. cycle 400 game, where I'm just starting to make setups out across the map, rather than clumped in my home base (just set up a power spine on the far right edge, and am now migrating all my power generation over there) - Not quite at rocketry yet, but I'm taking things slow and steady. I'll get there eventually! One problem I'm finding is that I keep getting "long commutes" warnings each cycle, with travel time upwards of 50% on most days, going over 60% whenever I task work out near my power spine. What would you say is a good way to mitigate this? Is high travel time a major issue? Perhaps I need to increase my duplicant count? (been running with 8 dupes up until recently, but now that I've set up private bedrooms I'm increasing to 12)

[@Magnet_MD]

That will naturally happen as you expand outward. I'd say shipping stuff to the middle of your base, keeping all of the production and living areas near each other, and using materials that are near where you're building, those kinds of things will help reduce travel time. But if you're expanding on the edge of the base, sometimes there's no way to get around how far they need to travel to do stuff.

[@midnigh7x]

11:00 What is the point to submerging the liquid resovoirs in the heavy duty cooling build?

[@aquaboy12]

May we please get a video on shipping?