Oxygen Not Included: Top 10 Tips for New Players

[@PyrokineticFire1]

i always suggest: use sandbox mode! don't lose a base because of overheat, suffocation, or starvation. turn on sandbox, spawn in what you need & keep going. just try to learn what can fix that problem and fix it sooner next time.

[@Magnet_MD]

Not a bad idea, really. I think a lot of people feel defeated once they see the base starting to crumble and just give up. This is good advice though, and I had never thought about it this way to be honest.

[@maks4285]

Great video. The tip at the end may be the most important. Newbies need to hear that the simplest solutions still work and not to feel pressured to do complex stuff they see in tutorials.

[@brendenhawley2225]

I do not play this game because I look a the complex stuff and go "I doubt i am that smart"

[@richardhands904]

@@brendenhawley2225 Play it, normally If I suck at a game / fail I usually quit. However failing in the game isn't so bad. You don't get that sense of fuck this.

[@zmonkey111]

@@brendenhawley2225 I've played this game for 2 days. As I play, I doubt I am that smart...and I prove it every time.

[@chakrawirawan6515]

@@zmonkey111 😆🤣

[@majs85]

I dont feel the pressure to build complex stuff, I just dont have brain capacity to create simple solutions. And every time i try something I fail horibly, that's why I look up for tutorials... and still fail. But i love this game, that's why im still coming back and Play:)

[@shades1756]

I like how "your coffee machine may not work" can lead to your colony's demise. lol

[@Magnet_MD]

It'd be a disaster! Don't even try it! Hide your children!

[@Krsitof]

it is possible tho, maybe thats what gives them enough morale and if its not working then the morale goes below morale need which couses stress, and a binge eater or a destructive can ruin the colony, either by eating all the food or breaking an important thing.

[@jimmyganja9909]

yeah, but I feel that

[@zenon1o15]

If coffee was suddenly unavailable, our society would fall, straight up

[@evansloane4261]

My colony is falling apart, and I think I know why. I HAVEN'T REASERCHED COFFIE YET!

[@TheUltimateBastich]

My buddy said it the best. This game is just like Constructor/Mob Rule series. Every solution creates another problem, but oh boy it's so satisfying when everyone runs correctly. Love it.

[@DRY411S]

This channel has inspired me to pick up this game and try it again after several frustrated failed attempts. Your recent walkthrough tutorial is very helpful in that regard. Thank You. From that tutorial, I would add maybe tip 0. You can survive without needing water for several cycles. I hadn't realised that the outhouses don't use water, and that wash basins really aren't necessary.

[@Magnet_MD]

Yeah, for sure! Running out of water was the biggest reason I'd die when I was a new player.

[@Laezar1]

Accepting less duplicant is the tip that improved my colonies the most. Another benefit is that you get to be a lot more picky with your duplicants and only have high quality dupes. You also get the care packages which does add up over time (typically the extra algae is quite significant if you don't have a lot of dupes).

[@Tamizushi]

Manual generators never completely stop being useful. You don't generally want to keep relying only on them for power as the game progresses because your dupes have better things to do. But then again, sometimes your dupes don't have better things to do: keeping a bunch of manual generators on priority 1 or 2 means that your dupes will have something marginally more productive to do than idling.

[@ed_goblin]

That's a good tip!

[@LucyTheBox]

When you started with don't get too many duplicants. I rolled my eyes, thinking to myself "oh, it's another video with all this obvious lowhanging fruit" But I quickly changed that thought, before you even moved on to tip 2. You gave a lot of extra info, and I even learned things when I already followed the general message of the tip. Very well made video!

[@Vuralomer]

This channel is a hidden gem.

[@MrYulcha]

Yes and Yes

[@noname-eo1he]

Yes

[@aseroxd]

Saw all the complex builds out there but I didn't exactly have the smarts to replicate them. Pretty much gave up on the game until now. So thanks for all the great tips!

[@BlackxesWasTaken]

Fun fact: In the german translation, the manual generator is called "Hamsterrad" .. which means literally hamsterwheel.. you sir are correct with your "miss" naming :D

[@Magnet_MD]

Hahahaha, that's awesome! See? I was somehow, technically, unintentionally correct!

[@k.h.8440]

There’s a German translation? I didn’t see that in the game. Thought I had to go with a bit of extra challenge with English.

[@alexanderweber5635]

​@@k.h.8440enter game. shift + tab. click wrench down you screen. (welcome to workshop) look for search bar. tap in "german" or Deustch. enter the on you think is better. subscribe. reset game. go to mods. enable. enjoy.

[@straef1042]

Great vid! I like how you basically introduce the right mindset, rather than specific examples you expect people to follow, like a lot of other videos out there.

[@PreacherwithoutaPulpit]

I don't know if you still check comments from time to time as I just watched your farewell video from over a year ago. In that video you said you didn't think you were very entertaining and I have to respectfully disagree. I find your content both extremely entertaining and useful and I truly hope you're doing well enjoying life filled to the fullest with love, happiness and success... God Bless...

[@LucyTheBox]

As a beginner myself, one tip I'd like to give to other beginners is: use waterlocks. At first, when I needed a specific gas in a room, I'd just place a normal airlock and use pumps to filter the gas I needed. However, every time a duplicant entered the room, oxygen (and potentially other gasses) would come in, so I had to reactivate my gas pumps every single cycle, wasting quite a lot of time. On a related note: avoid gassy duplicants. Sure, you can use the gas they create for power. But honestly, they're more trouble than they're worth, especially for beginners. They'd go into my waterlocked rooms, fart and all my efforts to get a specific gas seperated goes to waste

[@emiktra7929]

Use water locks and atmo-suits if you want to keep gasses seperated

[@ollllj]

have a colony powered only by natural gass and treadmilling of fartting duplicants!

[@LucyTheBox]

@@ollllj again, isn't exactly something a beginner should be doing, though I have to admit that it is quite a fun way to play

[@TheTundraTerror]

>enters hydrogen gas chamber >blasts rancid ass gas >refuse to elaborate >leaves

[@zeanomourph1]

0:28 it was at this moment that I realised you can use airlocks horizontally. I've been playing for 32 hours.

[@dionemartins0212]

I wanted to just skip around, but the jokes about "duplicants going in magma pools" and stuff were so relatable and well delivered Just came to this video for a quick tutorial, but you're real charismatic, so I'm sticking around

[@UNPSC-0]

I just wanna say to you, if your alive, I’d your not even conscious, if your up in heaven, or just gave up on YT, that you are the sole reason I continued playing ONI. I love your vids so much, your voice is so calming to listen to while you explain all sorts of amazing machines I never would of even thought of as a new player. I still am blown away since I continue to struggle, but your tips have helped so much, that I just wanted to say that, Your an amazing guy who deserved way more subscribers, and I hope one day I get a notification telling me that you posted again (:

[@PaulLipiec]

Thank you! Recently I started playing ONI and went online searching for some good tutorials. Most of them are very complex but your explanation is very clear and easy to follow.

[@bananaspetrocks6698]

Love your sense of humour, nicely made video using the game music for each section. "Magnet"ic!! :)

[@dr.raybright2184]

I love how we don’t remove the ration box beside the printer since Day 1.

[@saint3106]

One of those rare KZbin videos where I have zero objections or questions after watching. Well made + entertaining, thanks.

[@atlas2296]

Tip 11: Dont be afraid to start using different tools at your disposal. I avoided Shipping and Automation early on because I thought it was too complicated, but as I started to use it I realized its actually very simple and a lot of important builds can be simplified with automation such as geyser taming

[@Beef1188]

#10 got me convinced that you know what you're talking about.

[@reignathousandyears9850]

I bought this game today. I'm about to start playing it now after watching your video. Thank you for taking the time to make this video, it was really well done.

[@fastfiddler1625]

I already have like 60 hours in the game. But this was still useful. I think this game is really a hidden gem. This game is like factorio and rimworld combined... Sort of.

[@zenon1o15]

Currently I am at the point in my ONI career where heat kills my crops and my power grid keeps failing. But im getting there! Thanks for the advice and excellent tutorials!!!

[@ashescloud8548]

I've played this game for more days than I care to admit, and have yet to get to rockets (one day) very entertaining video, looking forwards to seeing what else you got :)

[@robinvandenbos2079]

thank you for tip 10, i've really been struggling trying to follow some "introduction" tutorials to the letter even though I can think of other, less confusing, ways to do things

[@DrMcFly28]

Those are actually good tips. One lousy thing about getting late to the party is getting overwhelmed by all the options, going to YT for some tips, and then seeing hiperoptimized semi-exploity solutions which people perfected for months during hundreds and hundreds hours of gameplay. You don't need ultracompact SPOMs or automated hatch killing pools to be successful in this game, yet many videos make it seems as if it's the only way to play. Simple tips should be everything new players need, and all the complex stuff is best learned organically through gameplay.

[@Magnet_MD]

I totally agree, and that's the whole spirit of my channel. This game has an odd dynamic where it LOOKS really casual and approachable, but is actually incredibly complicated. It's a great game, there are just a lot of learning curves and I'm doing my best to smooth them out :D

[@DRY411S]

Another lousy thing is that all the YT channels that show these late game features, but I never get past coal power, because coal or algae or clean water or dirt (or oxygen) run out. I think I must play too conservatively.

[@Firebuck]

Hi Magnet -- new subscriber here, and I'm leaving this comment here since it was the first of your videos I watched. I've watched a few others now too, including cooling and the entire power video. And then I went and did it! Tamed my first ever geyser - the new sulfur geyser. I've tried and failed in the past, not really understanding the game mechanics despite having a decent grasp of real life thermodynamics. Your tips about buildings and materials, and practical advice about different approaches and why you'd choose them -- that stuff is pure gold. Thanks!

[@Magnet_MD]

You're very welcome! I appreciate the kind words and I'm glad that you're making progress! I haven't even seen the sulfur geyser yet, hahaha, so you beat me to that!

[@Firebuck]

@@Magnet_MD It's not a very hot geyser (165c) and the SHC of sulfur is low (0.7) so it was pretty easy to ship out sulfur at a ranch-friendly temperature. Gold amalgam was enough; the plastic for the steam turbine was the only thing requiring industry. I woke up this morning thinking, hmmm bet I can skip that too. The same asteroid has lots of ethanol. Put my cooling tank up in the space biome and let the very cold temps do all the cooling work for now.

[@Magnet_MD]

@@Firebuck Dang, I need to get further in my DLC run... been spending all my energy making tutorials for base game recently. I'm gonna get caught up!

[@wyldcat9396]

This is so underrated more people need to see this. Subscribe

[@sachathibault9002]

The perfect video for new players, my top tier list.

[@TokiDesha]

The solution with ice is genius! Thanks dude)

[@HTETyt]

The ice in the water thing blew my mind. I've never thought of it in the game at all.

[@jamilzulqiful5435]

It doesnt really work tbh I tried it. Like the amount of work and micro needed is simply not worth it. It could work for a small beginning colony but later on not at all

[@Magnet_MD]

Meh, I do it most of my runs. Once you're ranching heavily you don't even need to cool water anymore anyway (you can just live off pure barbecue), so, I dunno, I think it's pretty good.

[@VesnaVK]

@@jamilzulqiful5435 right, small beginning colony, that's the point. It's genius.

[@LordofLamps]

This is such a great channel and good content! I just started playing the game and it's pretty daunting to start out, but your beginner tips and guides to how to start up things and manage where gases/heat producing machines should go has helped me out a lot. Thank you for making good videos

[@Magnet_MD]

You're welcome, thanks for the kind words!

[@TheIceThorn]

in few words: ONI is like being an ICT technician in Italy: simple solutions until they fall apart due they've major flaws or are unsustainable. :| Yeah, that's my job sadly -_-

[@Feversome]

Just bought it on Steam while it's on sale and this vid helped greatly, can't believe you don't have more subs!

[@Magnet_MD]

Thanks, I hope you have a good time with it!

[@kinoko6096]

I just got Oxy a few days ago and although my first colony seems to be doing okay, these were really helpful! Thank you!!

[@Magnet_MD]

You're welcome! Hope you have fun with it!

[@tommyjnich]

as someone who has been struggling a bit with this game and every video ive found seemed to point at complex solutions I have wasted alot of time and runs trying to build perfect oxygen machines and other contraptions and huge reserves different types of liquids and other big base designs because I saw it on other peoples finished maps and thought "oh that looks cool and seems easy" but I think you are right its time to get back to the basics and focus on each need as it comes

[@Magnet_MD]

For sure! I think it'll always make things harder if you're learning the game and being told to do very complex things. Let me know if you have any specific questions!

[@astrid2432]

my journey; it took me like from the first update in early access (agriculture) like 3 or 4 months (oil/ job update) to have a base, who have a good start like having enough food and oxygen. well I still didn't finish a run, as I still failure to get oil xD but I think ONI is a lot about try and error. like you start a base and after 30cycles it starts to get out of hands and all die as there are too stressful you start a new one and think more and so further

[@Magnet_MD]

Agreed, and that's why I liked it! There are a lot of people that get stuck in the game and can't progress anymore, and that's moreso who I'm trying to help out.

[@araeswhiteflag]

"once youre comfortable with simple solutions, find ways to add complexity when you think it's necessary" - how to do lean software development lol

[@Birchie84]

It was refreshing listening to you with the jokes and memes, all that aside good job on the vid definitely helped me organised my thoughts and play pattern.

[@Goremize]

Its actually kind funny how a colony of 4 can do better then a colony of 20 early/mid game, need like no oxygen, no food. Especially helpful on the arbor maps, get enough for wild oxyferns to keep up with and your set to do whatever you want, it just takes a lot longer. Also, Twinkletoes power!

[@glassofwater4216]

Nice video mate. Really useful and professional. Well presented.

[@jessegifford7913]

Store all your food in CO2 and it will never go bad and you won't need to waste power on refrigerators. Also, using pips to plant "organic" farms gives you free (if slow) sources of food.

[@Magnet_MD]

For sure, the pips can be very useful in the early game! The CO2 food storage is definitely an option early game, but it doesn't kill germs on food. The refrigerator (and I only use one) only requires 120W, which is not a super significant amount of power consumption once you are on stronger sources of power.

[@alphtheor.879]

Ive been playing for awhile, and these tips are still helpful, thanks.

[@larrylindgren9484]

1 Don't hire more Dupes just because. 2 If you need a Dupe don't hire it if it doesn't fit your needs skill wise. It's a waste of time. You'll guy the right Dupe wait for it. 3 Don't take Dupes with bad stats they can kill you like a Dupe who could fall asleep and dies off in some far off spot. 4 Dig. When you think you should do something else dig, dig, dig anyway. Never stop digging unless the map says to stop. Like a pool of something hot you can't dig through without suits. 5 Don't grow crops that cost water unless they are the only crops you have. 6 mealwood. Grow it in the early game. It costs dirt. Everyone has dirt. 7 Don't cook mealwood with the micro musher it's costs water which makes it bad. It's also a total waste of time and water 8 Store nature gas from a geyser when you aren't using it. It wastes gas having a geyser over pressure and stops. 9 Build your rooms. The morale bonus that seem small are great to have. Especially in the early game. 10 Use the priority system. Setup right things get done. Which means you don't need 100 Dupes. Watching people have to set every thing to 9 to get it done means they aren't use the system the game gives you right. Yes this would be 11 but.... Ranch. Ranch, Ranch Hatches are the best food you can have. They make BBQ. They eat rock you have 1000s of tons of. And they make coal. Lot's of coal. I played a map where I had no coal for a long time anywhere close to me. I ranched and ended up once I found some with 200 tons of coal just from ranching. I've ended runs with 1000 of tons of coal mostly from hatches. You can even make rock if you wanted to. You can never run out of rock. So hatches are good forever. If you don't switch over to Shove Voles in the later game.

[@kreyzgr5167]

Also there is no need for a refrigerator. Dig down and place your rations box there. Fill it up with co2 or whatever its called and later change it to chlorine and it wont spoil

[@Notllamalord]

They fixed this 😂

[@holmiumNZ]

Nice tips, thanks. Just wondering, you mentioned that running out of water/dirt can be a issue in the early game. Could you explain how to get dirt later on and how to manage oxygen generation if you run out of algae? I'm guessing its something to do with splitting water to hydrogen/oxygen?

[@Magnet_MD]

By later stages of the game, ideally you shouldn't need to use dirt for anything if you're on more sophisticated bathrooms and food. Generating oxygen from water is the long-term solution, and you'll use electrolyzers for that. I'll make tutorials on both food and oxygen in the near future, since they are both very critical systems!

[@sorengiese7716]

A good guide with great humor!

[@gram.]

Thanks for the tips, hope u continue to grow, all the best.

[@fuzzy-02]

This felt like a documentary about wildlife with that transition music😂

[@irineras]

Thank you, very useful tips!

[@Magnet_MD]

You're welcome!

[@BartRuijter]

Nice video Magnet! Funny and helpful

[@lokinakor1]

Using the priority tab, put !! alert on any unknown vent/volcano monument to learn what it is without digging... it is in the top left tabs.

[@xarm9506]

This channel is gold

[@callimeldrum9230]

I'm a big fan of Oxygen Not Included and I consider myself a novice to intermediate player. I can get through the early game stages fine, explore the map, build the essentials, but it's really the transition into mid game that trips me up. If you haven't ready done so, could you make a mid game tutorial?

[@Magnet_MD]

I do have a walkthrough series so you skip through those until you find the areas that you are struggling with. The midgame is a little weird to define for me, I always consider it when I either get renewable water going, or when I get access to oil. What are you struggling with specifically? Like, what makes you eventually restart?

[@callimeldrum9230]

@@Magnet_MD usually it's running out of water and temperature control. Like my base usually gets too hot. Also I tend to build up a lot of CO2 and don't really know how to get rid of it all

[@Magnet_MD]

@@callimeldrum9230 Gotcha. Yeah, I have a walkthrough that talks about how to deal with all of that stuff. I'll put the idea for "how to get past the midgame" on my list of videos to make and make it at some point, but it may be a couple of weeks before I can get to it (got other videos in the way).

[@callimeldrum9230]

@@Magnet_MD ok that would be great :) I started watching you beginner walkthrough on Terra and your guide on cooling and it has been very helpful for the time being. I look forward to seeing new videos you come up with!

[@Magnet_MD]

@@callimeldrum9230 Thanks, I hope the other videos are helpful!

[@hbarudi]

To me, best to go for achievements in the game but I struggle a lot on carnivore due to lots of meat food required for just short time of 100 cycles. Going on no sweat mode and regularly I go for 21 dupes and in spaced out I make the 22nd be from the frozen friend on the second world. I would like to be able to get carnivore, locavore, super sustainable (no fossil energy until making lots of power), nature reserve (build 4 of those rooms and then can remove 3 and keep last one for next achievement in this list), and get a room build one of each of the possible rooms in the colony (the most difficult one is the bedroom since I need access to fossil energy and plastic).

[@thesageofgames1871]

So, something that I have been trying for air mixture control is a specialized room into which all the gases in the game can be pumped into (except oxygen where the local gas extraction system permits) and then using an array of filters, the non-breathable gases are sent to specific areas where they are useful. (CO2 to a room that turns it into polluted water, which then gets filtered into normal water) Natural Gas and Hydrogen into gas tanks where they can be utilized, and so on. The thing that I have a hard time deciding is do i build each section of my base in a way that allows it to be isolated behind airlocks, decompressed completely(usually i use this when unbreathable gases get to be so much that O2 diffusers wont work because pressure is already high) and then diffusers to fill the space with pure O2 once the decompression is complete. Or do i design a whole other system.

[@Magnet_MD]

I've never needed to do something like this before - I usually just set pumps up at the bottom of my base (since that's usually where all of the junk gasses go), and pump out everything except oxygen and polluted oxygen. CO2 could only be turned into oil/petroleum at very slow rates, and Chlorine has very specific use cases that you can usually control with bleach stone that you find around the map. This idea might be neat to try, but I've never needed something specifically like this before.

[@thesageofgames1871]

@@Magnet_MD I'm only on my fourth play through myself right now. I mainly came up with this system as a way to collect natural gas, which sits between the CO2 and O2 layers and Hydrogen when it collects at various top points in my base to fuel power systems. I have yet to find any naturally occurring oil wells on the Terra style asteroids. Since this asteroid seed im on seems to have a bit more copper than others i played on, i've been working on making the base more condusive to natural air circulation and pressure equalization. The system i mentioned earlier with the isolation and decompression setup is more suited for environments where copper needs to be reserved for power systems as much as possible, therefore when pressure gets to the point that O2 generating methods are useless, but the majority of gases are not breathable, just decompress the area, putting the O2 back into the area, and send the other gases somewhere else. Once the pressure drops, the Diffusers and electrolyzers will begin working again. On my third play through i prototyped this system for use in a crew barracks of sorts that was near the top of my base, where i assigned all the frequent flatulators to sleep. Now when the isolation system is inactive, the airlocks are kept open to allow air circulation, but the natural gas would not descend below the rest of the bases O2 layer. The diffusers also refused to work as the air pressure was, at the time, 1100g. Basically the purpose of the system in that particular case was that when those dupes were on their work shift, the barracks would be empty. Then it could be decompressed, the natural gas sent to the power plant that was using it, and the diffusers in the barracks fired right back up. Once the process was done, I shut the pumps off, opened the isolation doors, and those dupes went to bed in a 2 story complex that was full of fresh air. Though to be fair, this space DID have to be decompressed and refreshed every other cycle.

[@Manuela_Wagner]

"Keep it simple" -Flexes the most insane build I have ever seen.

[@darthvegan]

Great tips, and fantastic editing! Thanks for putting this together!

[@Magnet_MD]

No problem, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Those 20-ish years of video editing have come in handy :)

[@Ally123234]

For new players :O I just wanted to know how to get rid of all these bottles of polluted water Great video

[@Magnet_MD]

You can use a bottle emptier and dump it into a pit, or you can just leave it out and get free oxygen! The polluted oxygen it puts off may perpetuate germs and stuff, so you can clean the polluted oxygen with deodorizers :)

[@yotamadi5394]

Great video! I learnd a lot!

[@datbarricade9995]

Me at every start of a new run: Try to keep things simple. Me at cycle 80 with stressed dupes and the URGENT need for a proper bathroom for moral: NOO i can't deconstruct my latrines yet because my fully automated chlorine gas water treatment plant is not running because I still need to research the automation tree up to the point of basically rocketry for it to work!!! ...or is it just me?

[@joeyb3721]

For bathroom just sieve the polluted water back to clean water and direct back to bathrooms. You can ignore germs that way. All excess polluted water send to timble reed plants. As for moral. Try building a great hall. Can be done very early and give masive boost to moral. Just needs a random plant for decor and a water drink rec building thingy.

[@datbarricade9995]

@@joeyb3721 Haha thank you, I appreciate your help, but I am heading towards 500 hours in ONI myself. A few hundred hours ago I build the simple bathroom setup without disinfecting the water, but I really really really hate to build something to rip it out later. So usually I leave them in until I have the final layout for the center of my base. My biggest problem right now is that I become impatient or too ambitious...

[@gallantblues5328]

The coffee comment got me. I know someone who was in the military and considered it mission critical or whatever they say to have coffee in the office at all times.

[@Magnet_MD]

A lack of coffee is serious business.

[@HelloFellowMellowMarshmallow]

On the contrary, I found this tutorial to be a lot more complicated and intimidating than the ones I initially watched. I think it has something to do with everything going on the screen. If anything, this might be a tips and tricks tutorial for intermediates who already have significantly more hours than day 1 players.

[@tomorrowisyesterday3215]

My God i buy this game today, and just searching at KZbin how to make toilets. And watch this one.. make my small brain hurt

[@Magnet_MD]

It's a big game! Hope you have fun with it :)

[@marcusbighouse]

You said you had around 50 runs before first victory. That made me more confort. I'm on my 1st run, where I constantly wanted to give up for not knowing what to do. I'm around cycle 130 now and my base is a huge mess. But I don't want to start a new one. I want to save the map. But it's sooo fuc**** hard! I have 6 rooms full of sage hatchs and still they don't produce enough coal for 6 generators... My dupes dont clean, dont sweep, even with emergency priority... and starve even with lots of food around. It's... ungly

[@Magnet_MD]

Yep, it happens! It's a hard game, and it took me a long time to figure out enough things so I could stabilize into the mid and late game.

[@jackdouble8399]

Nice video, I guess I'll give another try to the game now

[@grayface8459]

Hey! You did a great job with these. I wondered if you had any tutorials on power generation? I didn't see any on your channel

[@Magnet_MD]

Oh boy, just you wait for this. It'll be out in the next day or so. It's rendering right now ;)

[@grayface8459]

@@Magnet_MD YASSS! Thank you. I've been struggling with this game on and off, and i've really appreciated your breakdowns haha. ;)

[@Magnet_MD]

@@grayface8459 No problem at all, I'm glad they are helping! Just plan out about... 2.5 hours for the power video. It'll be huge!

[@lannydragonlover]

Would you say it's better to keep trying with a base, even though your early game set up wasn't the best?

[@LunaWitcher]

wow, someone with the exact question as me, in the exact same time. Good to see I'm not the only one that feels the need to ditch a base if it isn't very good.

[@Magnet_MD]

It depends on how bad it is. I think the only reasons a base would be truly dead is if your base is entirely overheated, you have way too many dupes (and don't want to kill some of them off), or if you're out of water/oxygen.

[@lannydragonlover]

@@Magnet_MD It feels like I've built myself into a corner - there's not space to build anything, since it would disrupt another system or break up a room that is keeping my base alive. :( I've decided to restart and hopefully I'll be able to do it better this time! These tips are golden!

[@Magnet_MD]

@@lannydragonlover There have been videos in the past of players that will resurrect "lost" bases... maybe I'll have to try one of those sometime and see if I can fix it up ;)

[@esb422]

My second base ever, I decided I would not restart unless every duplicant died and I got an official "Game Over." You'd be surprised at how hardy your dupes are and how many "canaries in the coal mine" you'll have to warn you of bad stuff. Heat is a good example: it's viewed as the slow, unexpected death sentence, but often that's from your food dying. You should see your plants stifle long before you actually run out of food and your dupes begin to starve, which gives you time to add ice plates behind them while you come up with a more automated solution. Half the fun of the game is creating a simple system, realizing it broke, and going in to fix it and figure out how to prevent it from breaking again. This is where the complexity of most systems comes from, and there's nothing like figuring it out for yourself. There's definitely stuff that's complicated and necessary (Aquatuner/Steam Engine Cooling loop was my biggest hurdle so far), but trying things out for yourself first, then going to outside sources for help teaches me way more than simply "copy-and-paste."

[@jacquelinesebring8753]

Any chance you could do the different ways of getting plastic? Would be helpful to me, if you covered it in one of your other tutorials I’m sorry I haven’t watched them all yet. Love the videos keep up the awesome work!!!

[@liquidminds]

Imho, the biggest mistake early on is underestimating how many values affect your success. The way different materials behave and how important that is for all of the builds is something you usually learn the hard way. Even simple solutions can take days until you figure them out on your own, so "try to understand how things work" is probably 90% of learning the game. Simple mistakes like "Heat = Energy => More Heat = More Energy" are easy to make....

[@anthonygorham5299]

I redownloaded the game after like 5 years. I got mad cuz all my people started peeing and puking everywhere, and when u tried to clean it they puked over top of it… but so far I just got a carbon skimmer hooked up and now knowing there’s a sandbox I’m gonna play around with plumbing and all of it. Lots to go around in this game lol.

[@tomoliop]

Decent tips, thanks!

[@creepergamerkid8031]

What I do with duplicates if get one duplicate for every profession like excavating and doctoring, to a max of 10 early on. I am still new but I find this most effective. IF I find I cannot support more duplicates I get resources. Edit: Oh yes coffee, the essentials.

[@williknie9165]

Great video !

[@Endio_Star]

Thanks! This was helpful.

[@Magnet_MD]

Glad to hear it!

[@thebulletkin8393]

I sometimes see the complex things people make in this game and feel like it's too complicated for me to understand. Would you say that it's a better idea to figure things out myself across many runs or watch some tutorials?

[@Magnet_MD]

I personally learned through trial and error, and rarely got discouraged because I knew there was always something I could improve and try differently. Watching a ton of videos may not keep things in perspective, cause a lot of videos are just about doing silly stuff just for the sake of doing it. I'd say it's up to you, but definitely try to keep things simple when you play.

[@thebulletkin8393]

@@Magnet_MD I’ll go with the trial and error approach. Playing a save and figuring some useful technique to manage something is satisfying and I think even if it took many runs I’d feel more accomplished with that method

[@LunaWitcher]

Ok, I really like the tips, but I need someone to like fully hold my hand through this game, any suggestions?

[@Magnet_MD]

I have a walkthrough series that I put together that shows progression at all different phases - that might be worth checking out!

[@LunaWitcher]

@@Magnet_MD Thanks, I will!

[@Razorsharp-ts1kk]

My first playthrough I did so many things wrong I got to cycle 100 and just gave up. On my second playthrough I did things wrong also but still improved so much from before.

[@roma7631]

Thank you buddy =) helpful

[@Magnet_MD]

No worries, glad you enjoyed it!

[@UlyssesK402]

No dupes were harmed in the making of this, right? That aside, this was entertaining to watch, even after having already played the game for almost a year at this point.

[@Magnet_MD]

They were sandbox spawned dupes, they don't count, right?

[@UlyssesK402]

@@Magnet_MD Actually, now I'm not sure.

[@iver1343]

But, how to deal with all of these tonns of chlorine surrounding my base and my oxygen production facility on cycle 150? It takes all the space

[@Magnet_MD]

You'll want a ventilation system that can get rid of all the useless gasses. Dig to the space biome and blow them out!

[@iver1343]

@AKUJIRULE How? I know only chlorine rooms and even then it only needs a small amount of chlorine

[@TheTundraTerror]

Don't be afraid to reload a save. Sometimes, shit happens. Be aware of where mined resources are going to fall.

[@CzechSlovakiaBros]

how in the hell this has only 80k views ? this is way too funny and usefull , lets share this dude guys ^_^

[@roceythecatbg2846]

My base would probably prosper if it wasn't for one thing- SLIMELUNG!

[@zanmaru139]

Can't speak for 6 months ago but they nerfed germs into the ground

[@elliotyoung8760]

I love this game, but I am really just going by trial and error no matter how much I read up on the wiki or Reddit/steam threads. I have about 60hrs in the game and my first colony died from starvation due to too many dupes. my second colony suffocated because I had to turn to wood burning for power and I didn't know how to manage the carbon dioxide. now on my third and current colony, I have pretty much unlimited power and water until 60 more cycles when the natural gas vent goes dormant, but I am having a hard time managing temperature. I have a wall of granite thermal tiles so very little external heat but I can't figure out a reliable way to cool down everything that is heating up my base from the inside. Here is to trial and error, and the inevitability of the death of my colony by being cooked alive in their own base that is pretty much just an oven.

[@Magnet_MD]

Hahaha, yeah, it's a hard game! Good luck!

[@foreverjune8]

Coffe machine stops working: *DEATH*

[@Magnet_MD]

I mean... yeah man, it's game over right there.

[@simulatethat6099]

Good stuff but a self contained bathroom loop is extremely simple. It should be number one on the list of things a newer player should learn to do. It involves one extra building and a little additional knowledge about pipe routing. (routing the excess pH2O or excess H2O somewhere)

[@rannvamacdonaldarnskov4794]

The selfsustaining bathroom loop has honestly been the saviour for me because i run out of water (woops research rushing!)

[@overdramaticpan]

Hi! Question, can I get a map download for a fully vacuumed map with a dupe in the corner? (So it doesn't say Colony Lost.) I keep trying to make one myself, but whenever I delete the Gravitas Shipping Container it crashes my game and deletes all autosaves on that save.

[@dafneperez9586]

I came from don't starve bought the game and only played it like 5 times because i got overwhelmed at the amount of task you need to do

[@Magnet_MD]

Yep, I think a lot of people are in that same position. It's a good game, just takes a little while to learn the mechanics :)

[@bhabeshtalukdar5605]

Keep things simple 👌

[@seerserric]

Can confirm: Losing coffee has destroyed a colony of mine

[@lazilyymade]

So in my first few playthroughs a few years ago I pretty much did the opposite of almost all of this and wondered why my colonies went down in flames every time.

[@Magnet_MD]

Hahaha, in flames you say? That must have been pretty crazy!

[@lazilyymade]

@@Magnet_MD Temperature really was a killer, I used insulation in literally all the wrong places up til the 13th run 😅

[@Magnet_MD]

@@lazilyymade Ya know what, I did the same thing. I am someday going to back and try to look at all of those failed runs, so I can revive them and try to win by starting out with a really busted base.

[@susheemayo9348]

Tip #10 is the best. Sometimes you just dont realize

[@chrisbryden6921]

Why do you put the liquid pipes above the flooring? why not just run it through the floor?

[@NekuSebas]

6:10 New Duplicant Ready!

[@kwad9145]

I have ruined my runs 30 times and I have not yet built a functional rocket. I've hit a brick wall and each of my colonies keep on dying in early to mid game. Any help?

[@kleanthispapadopoulos2555]

That prison killed me..