Today’s game is Oxygen not Included. I hate a long day today and wanted something simplish to relax. That’s this.
I usually don’t get to get very far in this because the after mentioned simpleness can sometimes backfire and actually make it fairly hard. But despite that this I usually have a great time in this game.
One of the first things I set out to do on this save was make a water pump. Easy enough. I hit a roadblock though where I need to dig for it due to the nearest thing of water being underground.
This resulted in the second issue: There’s no oxygen down there. That means my workers will have to make repeat trips down there to dig, build the ladder, and climb up.
Once I got that out of the way, I started on the second part of my go to plan for this game: Tunneling to the top of the map for Solar Panels.
Admittedly this is probably where all my playthroughs fall apart. As all my little guys end up dying before I get there. And I’m not sure how to make enough oxygen and food to keep them alive. I’ll get there soon one day. I’m determined.
Anyways. I just wanted to make a brief detour and break that I thought would be a nice break. I would have actually done Jedi Survivor but I was about to crash and fall asleep for the first time in a long while, so this is a much appreciated break.
Simple?! I love this game and have hundreds of hours in it. It does start simple, but complexity ramps up mid game, fast. It’s a crude physics simulation and it will absolutely end your run.
Fair enough lol. I was on the verge of passing out while writing that so maybe not the most accurate choice of words. I very much had only the beginning of the game on my mind
That’s how they get ya. The early game is “oh cute little dupes just need some food and wash their hands!” then by the end you’re calculating heat transfer through various materials to build the ideal geothermal power plant.
I love this game, but I hate that the technical implementation is so bad that you have to factor cpu performance into pretty much every system you design. Half the forum posts about base design boil down to ‘Don’t do this, because it’ll kill your FPS’. And one of the most popular mods optimises performance so your game gets faster. You know it’s bad when mods increase your FPS instead of tanking it!
Factorio devs they definitely ain’t.
As all my little guys end up dying before I get there. And I’m not sure how to make enough oxygen and food to keep them alive
Coal power generators, mealwood farms.
Ah. That’s probably where I’m going wrong with my oxygen lmao. I try to over design it with a contraption that takes the CO2 from the coal farm, pumps it into an air tight room, then processes that into oxygen again and pumps that throughout my building. I’ll definitely try your suggestion next time. Maybe I’ll get further
By coal farm, do you mean a hatch ranch?
Yeah, don’t overthink it at the start. A single electrolyser just above your base, with a CO2 skimmer at the deepest part of your mining tunnels and a pump to remove H2 at the highest point, both manually activated, will last you a couple hundred cycles at least. Automate the skimmer, pump, and coal generator once you can to make your life easier. Then you have lots of time to focus on overengineering your life support systems while your dupes die of heatstroke :)
Thanks for reminding about this game. I was looking for something to play next week when the kids are with their grandma and i have a little bit more time available. I’ll most definitely give it a go around now.
Picked this game up a couple of days ago.
Here’s some tips I’ve been using myself:
P.S. Read unless you want to make your own mistakes
- Duplicants
Only pick duplicants when you actually need them. The best ones have a single stat. At first, you’ll need a digger, scientist, and constructor. You’ll basically want one for each job, depending on your priorities.
- Getting things done
Use priority tab. Have only one dedicated cook, the rest is based on skills.
Use scheduling tab. Duplicate existing schedule and shift it a bit. Make it so only half of your duplicates sleep or use the bathroom at a time.
- Power/Oxygen
Connect a wheel to 2 batteries, connect them to a single diffuser. This will be enough oxygen for a long while.
To deal with CO2, just dig down. It will sink to the bottom
- Food
Want food? Go digging. Want more food? Plant Mealwood on dedicated farming tiles. It doesn’t require much at all to grow.
- Germs
Make a dedicated bathroom. 4 toilets, 4 sinks. Make sure it fits one of the dedicated room sinks change the arrow so that duplicant only wash hands on their way out.
Separate everything into dedicated rooms for bonuses, btw.
- Water and pollution
Make 2 reservoirs. One for clean water, one for polluted in an enclosed environment. Clean polluted water with Water Sieve and polluted air from the reservoir with Deodoriser.
There’s also more advanced stuff like making chlorine rooms or liquid airlocks, but I haven’t gotten there myself yet.
I’ll save this for next time I play. It’ll definitely be helpful
Regarding the oxygen supply: I usually tunnel towards a colder area and build a self-powering oxygen machine there. It’s basically a room with electroylzers and gas pumps at the top and bottom (or a gas filter) to separate the oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen then goes to hydrogen generators, the oxygen is pumped into the base. Another important bit is to make sure the CO2 has a place to go (downward) before you can deal with it.
That’s basically the system I end up setting up. I think my main issue is I always run out of space for the CO2. I’ll move it downwards next time and try that. Maybe I’ll have better luck that way
SPOMs are pretty overkill for somebody at the point where OP is on the learning curve, though.