Oxygen Not Included - Tutorial Bites - Rocketry (Base Game)

[@noxzet]

Love this! I don't like tutorials that drag on with information that I won't remember and that go in details for things and builds I wanna figure out myself. But you just touch on everything essential briefly - and offer pointers to other vids for people who actually want them! Also thank you so much for still making a base game tutorial, these can be hard to come by after the DLC release.

[@biyancuh]

Thanks for this! I'm still on the base game and was really struggling to find a guide for rocketry specifically for the base game.

[@MooseRust]

Criminally underrated channel, great video

[@HilaryCheng]

I am playing the base game just for a while. I never thought it can launch a rocket. Wow

[@GCFungus]

Well hopefully this gives you the info you need to give it a try!

[@StainlessHelena]

Great tutorial! The sightseeing module could be buffed if its effect made dupes better or faster at creating dream journals, cutting down on the investment of dupes and ressources.

[@thyghostridder]

great video as always. wish something like this was around when i first started the game

[@Mark-pn9xy]

Great video. At the stage I was about to first attempt the rocketry part of the base game so most helpful.

[@GCFungus]

Glad to help - let me know how it goes!

[@DoNotComply2]

Good tutorial man nice and clear plus a calculator 👍

[@nikkiradanart]

Yet another informative video! Thank you GCFungus for the quality vids!

[@WorldWalker128]

Much appreciated. I've tried a bunch of different methods for generation of steam. Some work better than others. Anyway, it had never occurred to me to send solid cargo containers to gas giants. I simply thought that it wouldn't be compatible with it.

[@GCFungus]

Well it will only work after you've discovered the rare solids, but yes it's super helpful!

[@ares8357]

hey i found your channel really helpful when learning the game, and im wondering if you could make a guide about ranching?

[@GCFungus]

I'm glad to hear! My plan is to cover ranching and critters in their own series once I finish the tutorial bites, which hopefully won't be too far in the future now.

[@mickuijldert]

Hyperinformative as ever! 👍

[@Swcher]

Is there any way around the calculator? its been gonefor months

[@GCFungus]

I believe it should be coming back soon, but in the meantime Zari has implemented a version of it here which should still be useful: zari.rtk0.net/ProfessorOakshell/RocketCalc.html

[@Swcher]

@@GCFungusThanks!

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

Do you have any tips for calculating the fuel required without the use of that online calculator? It feels odd to me to use a third party tool without giving it a go myself first

[@GCFungus]

So I wasn't actually sure and there's very little information out there but I did find a steam discussion that seems to have the answer, and it's also quite clear why you can't really hand calculate it: "The nominal range (without mass penalty) is given by the fuel mass times the fuel efficiency times the oxidiser efficiency. Fuel efficiency is 40 km/kg for petroleum and 60 km/kg for liquid hydrogen. Oxidiser efficiency is 1.00 for oxylite and 1.33 (i.e. 133/100, not 4/3) for liquid oxygen. The mass penalty is either 1 km/kg or (mass/300)^3.2 km, whichever is greater. In both cases, the mass is the total mass (dry mass plus fuel plus oxidiser). The cross-over point is when the total mass is ~4009.5 kg (=300^(3.2/2.2)). In the former case, you have range = Mf*Ef*Eo-(Md+2*Mf) => Mf = (range+Md)/(Ef*Eo-2) where Mf = fuel mass, Md = dry mass, Ef = fuel efficiency, Eo = oxidiser efficiency. In the latter case, you have range = Mf*Ef*Eo-((Md+2*Mf)/300)^3.2 This doesn't have a closed-form solution; to find the fuel needed for a given range you need to solve the equation numerically (with Newton's method, bisection, etc)."

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

@@GCFungus thank you, appreciate your looking into my questions for me. I've got rocketry figured out now, just launched my first steamship to the carbon asteroid

[@tsyuoshimackay8833]

Please make a playthrough!

[@GCFungus]

I do have a couple of playthroughs in playlists, but they are all unedited VODs. I'm sticking with that at least until I finish the tutorial bites as I don't have time to edit down a playthrough into highlights otherwise.

[@Chris-iu7in]

does the steam generator still work? it says it needs to be fully submerged, 30kg is not enough.

[@GCFungus]

The staem generator works on tricking out the tepidizer as I explained in the Heating Tutorial Bite. If you use a temperature sensor set to green is BELOW the target temperature and then run an automation wire straight through a NOT gate (connecting both sides), it will cause it to flip rapidly and bypass the temperature and submerged restrictions.

[@benandvickyvlogs]

Is anyone else having issues with a steam engine + solid fuel thruster? I'm trying to reach 20K distance but it seems max steam and solid fuel won't even reach the 20K distance. Should I just switch to petroleum engine?

[@GCFungus]

A steam engine and solid fuel thruster should get to 20K, but I suspect you've fully fuelled the steam engine which has added too much weight to the rocket. You should need 590kg of steam and I wouldn't go much more than that. But you'll want the petroleum engine anyway to go further, so my advice would always be go straight to that and skip the booster anyway.

[@Rafpat1989]

Very nice job i see all your videos! I recently went from atmo to petroleum engine but i have issues. It seems like the rocket cant go many miles although it has 2-3 fuel tanks full of petroleum. Please help me with the setup of the rocket.

[@GCFungus]

Thanks for watching! If the fuel tanks are full then have you filled up the oxidizer tank too? They are filled 1:1, so you will need as much oxylite or liquid oxygen as you have fuel to get the maximum range out of the rocket.

[@kahlzun]

Do you still need to keep the telescope after you've discovered all the space locations?

[@GCFungus]

Annoyingly you do need a telescope somewhere to be able to access the starmap, but once all discovered you can place it anywhere and leave it unpowered.

[@NovaGirl8]

Will there be an updated tutorial for rocketry?

[@GCFungus]

I do want to go back and redo some of the older ones, but this one wasn't particularly one that I thought needed it. Are there specific things here that make you think it needs to be updated?

[@Schuljakov]

ONI Assistant Rocket Calculator: says "Application failed to respond"

[@GCFungus]

Yes the ONI assistant site is currently down, so you have to use the way-back machine or use this alternative site: zari.rtk0.net/ProfessorOakshell/RocketCalc.html

[@Schuljakov]

@@GCFungus thank you!

[@KyleHarmon-j3t]

Otto Creek

[@beekey9501]

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