Auto Hatch Ranch Oxygen Not Included | ONI Tutorial 

Thanks so much! I’m overwhelmed by the response so far. I have a few more already in the works!

@@engineertroy_ Please make a straightforward SPOM tutorial. I feel like all the tutorials I see are so complicated and require some super niche bug or plant that I never have.

I'm currently working on one! Hoping to finish it soon.

Thanks!

Thanks! You too!

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment!

Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you found the hatch ranch design helpful for your next base.

Thanks! More guides are in the works!

Awesome, glad it was helpful! I'll make sure to keep the guides coming. Thanks for the comment!

Haha, good catch!

Thanks a bunch for watching! Glad you liked it!

Glad you found this build useful. Thank you for the comment!

Ah, I see what you’re saying. That could also tighten up the incubator room and increase the storage area size. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks for watching! And the comment!

Glad you like it. Thanks for the comment!

Glad you like it! Thanks for the comment!

Nice! Thanks for watching. Let me know how it goes!

You are correct! I included in the drecko farm I built recently. I’ll have to revisit this soon.

Thanks! Yes, it was heavily inspired by your design. Thanks for the inspiration and the comment!

As a newbie I think this is my favourite part of the ONI community, people building on others work over years. It's very cool being able to see the history of a design, and knowing this won't be the final version!

That's a great idea. Very efficient use of the space!

I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thank you!

Thanks!

What a great comment! You made my day. Thanks for the sub!!!!

Same! Though I don't use them for long. Thanks for the comment!

Oh man, that’s a great idea! I would want to change the pneumatic door to another airlock and put some sort carbon dioxide catch in there. It would also need a cooling loop at some point? Very interesting and inspiring. Thanks for the suggestions!

​@@engineertroy_ Fair points. I usually have my ranches in an atmo-suit area so will usually just ignore the heat and CO².

Sounds like it may help getting the Job Suitability achievement also.

Great solutions and tips! Thanks for the comment!

Nice! Let me know how it goes!

All great tips! -Yeah, I learned my lesson on using cycle sensors for incubators. I used the timer similar to what you described in my new setup in the Incubation Automation video. Now set my timers to 600s(the time the buff lasts) and 75s active. -I haven’t worked with the condos much yet but I’ll have to look into it soon. - Yes, it just barely covers hatch replacement. There is room for a second incubator but I fear the logic to control hatchling delivery would get a lot more complicated. Thanks for the comment!

Nice! You can disable or remove the drops once everything is setup to prevent that. Glad you liked it!

Then you could remove the second critter sensor and the second sweeper from the left.

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Great idea! Thanks for the comment!

Same here when I saw it in similar design on steam. Another commenter linked to it if your curious. Thanks for the comment!

Yes! Sounds like a lot of meat!

Thanks! Look forward to seeing it!

I think its auto filtering the link comment I've tried to post twice!

@@CasualGuidesRS3 I was looking and I don't think you can do that anymore in a comment.

@engineertroy_ Is there a way to send to you?

@@CasualGuidesRS3 Not currently, sorry!

Thanks! 1. That’s just how mechanized airlocks work. 2. Each critter requires a certain amount of space in order to not be cramped. You can make that space whatever shape you want but some are better than others. I like to put farm plots in the empty space. 3. Attacking them works. Having your rancher move them to a pool of water to drown would work also. I made a something like this in my Carnivore achievement tutorial video. How that helps!

​@@engineertroy_ yes, I get how this works now, maybe I can actually not starve my dupes early game!

That could work! However, I think it may be redundant due to the fact that in this particular build the airlock underneath the pneumatic drop door in the incubation room should never allow overcrowding in the ranches and the sweeper within range of the incubator should never allow an egg to put in it making sure there is never a critter backup. That means all the eggs should evolve into meat in the evolution chamber up top and the meat will be swept onto the rail and to your kitchen or food storage area. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks! Glad you like it. Appreciate the comment!

Yup, you’re absolutely correct! Thanks for the comment!

I used to put farm plots there but I wonder if something else would better suit that space. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks! Yeah, I have a particular drecko ranch setup I like to add on top of this ranch stack during my playthroughs and it is definitely for early game plastic. I already have the next few videos in the works but I'll do my best in adding it to the list of upcoming content. Thanks for the comment!

Hatches should fall through an open mechanized airlock IF they are already falling however they will not fall through one if they are walking across it. Hope that helps!

the ribbons make my brain melt haha

Hey, thanks for the suggestion! I'll work on putting on together. Right now I have a couple of videos in the works so it may be a few weeks.

I’m not going anywhere you blew me away and actually earned my sub keep it up, you’re killin it

Thanks! That means a lot!

Wait... the moment I posted this comment, I suddenly remembered. Was it from Metal Slug?

It’s the Wilhelm scream. It’s a common Easter egg in the film industry.

This build was intentionally designed assuming all hatches would be the same type. Otherwise it could potentially be far more complicated. It can be challenging restocking multiple types to different ranches since there is no real way for a critter sensor to distinguish between them. One strategy would be to fill the top ranch first and work your way down the stack changing what you are incubating as you change rooms. This would still get tricky when they started needing replacement hatches. Also the feed system is designed for one type of food so that may get tricky as well. I personally don’t ranch sages but I do like to fill the bottom room with smooth hatches to get the ‘Down the Hatch’ achievement. I do this with 100% dupe labor after the top farms are full.

Yes, you could have multiple incubators. Adding another sweeper to the incubator room and setting the additional incubators to a higher priority should make the sweeper load them with the egg from the lowest priority and the sweeper in the evolution area should keep replacing it until they are all full. The only problem is that adding more incubators to this room would cause the hatchling delivery automation work incorrectly. Hopefully I understood your question correctly and that my response helps!

Definitely! I disabled mine in the video but forgot to mention it.

@@engineertroy_ I don’t know if by putting one in the growing room, the auto sweeper will empty the incubator. Also, I think (but not sure) that you need 2 incubators for 3 hatches ranch. I’ll definitely try your design :)

@@sylvaincoulonges8288Three ranches will require 24 hatches every 100 cycles therefore you will need 100/24 = 4.166 or roughly 1 hatch every 4 cycles which is how long it takes to incubate a lullabied egg. The first hatch replacement cycle may be rough, especially if the hatches are very close in age but it should even out starting with the second replacement cycle if you let the incubator do it's thing. Let me know if you find anything new or to the contrary. Thanks!

@@engineertroy_ yeah, you’re right, an incubator can support 25 hatches :)

I believe that this is because hatches can walk over an open airlock as if it’s a solid tile (the same way that dupes can). But an open door will simply not stop the hatch that was squeezed out by the pneumatic door causing it to fall through

@@xenosai371 so the solution is already taking this into account... I'll make some tests

Yes. Let me know if you find anything interesting!

@@xenosai371 works exactly as you said, dont prevent a falling critter to fall but still a floor for the critters in the room

Great suggestion. Thanks for the comment!

I convert them over to stone hatches and feed them igneous rock which there is usually a ton of toward the bottom of the Terran asteroid. An infinite source is a volcano which produces igneous when the magma is cooled. Hope that helps!

Disabling or removing the critter drop offs. I forgot to mention it in the video. 🤦‍♂️

@@engineertroy_ oh that makes more sense! It’s probably worth making one in the incubator room so you can start the next egg right away.

Good idea! I was trying to remove as much duplicant labor as possible. I may revisit this soon as I have a few ideas to fully fully automate it. 😂

@@engineertroy_ you could unpower and never lullaby the incubator and use the not gate automation to handle an autosweeper feeding it, it would require another incubator or two to maintain more ranches but it’s probably possible.

They can only drop critters if the critter is already falling and the airlock is open. That first upgrade with airlock floors will only drop eggs since the critter are already standing on them. Hope that helps. Thanks for the comment!

@@engineertroy_ thanks man!

I would check the settings on the critter sensors and the automation circuit. I suspect something is set incorrectly. Let me know if that helps!

@@engineertroy_ Just want to be clear. I've set all hatch room critter sensors to 'above 7 hatches' and the critter drop off to 8. The doors are open, so the logic is working, except the critters are not falling. I even pushed the door+block further to expose the whole door, but they don't fall.

If I'm not mistaken, you are saying they are not falling through the mechanized door underneath the pneumatic door in the incubation room? Is that mechanized door open? Is the pneumatic door opening when there is a hatch inside the incubation room and then closing on it once it walks onto that door? I know it is frustrating when things don't work as expected and for that I am sorry. It may help to go back through the video again but I'll do my best to help diagnose it with you.

A critter will leave the incubator on their own once they become adults. You can remove or disable the critter drop offs in each ranch once everything is built to prevent duplicants from getting an errand. Hope that helps!

@@engineertroy_ ahh I see! Thank you so much! Still new to the game!

If you put a critter drop off in the incubator room, set to all and max number of critters, your ranchers will come, take the critter out of the incubator, and plop it on the floor, allowing another egg to be loaded and the critter to wander into the dropper.

I appreciate your suggestion! I'll definitely consider adding a text and image-based guide in the future but probably not for the time being. Sorry!

Pretty sure it still works the way I explained in the video. Not unless there was a patch in the last few days as I am currently using this setup in my let’s play series.

The door should open in each ranch if it’s critter sensor is set to critters only and above 7. The door stops a falling hatch if the ranch is low but allows it to pass through if it is full. Hope this helps. Thanks for the comment!

@@engineertroy_tôi sẽ đặt trường hợp phòng dưới cùng có 7 sinh vậy phòng thứ 1 và 2 có đủ 8 sinh vật làm sao để sinh vật đc thả xuống phòng dưới cùng

If the first and second have 8 the airlocks in those rooms should be open. This will allow a hatch to fall past these floors all the way down to the bottom ranch. If they are not open something is wrong with the critter sensor settings or the automation wiring connecting it to the airlock for that room.

Check the overlays toward the end of the video. I made a overlay chapter in the video for quick reference.

Oh, nvm, totally missed the part with the air locks. Clever design!

Thanks!

Sorry my pacing wasn't right for you. Thanks for the feedback!

Oops! It appears I missed something in the video. The left one in each ranch is for eggs and meat. I added the one on the right for coal and forgot to explain it. Thanks for catching it!

@@engineertroy_ well I guess my question is won’t one loader load the appropriate item into different loaders? Or maybe it’s a range issue?

Loaders or sweepers? After reading your comment several times it sounds like your asking why there are so many sweepers when one can cover multiple loaders. Evolution Sweepers: The right most evolution sweeper is turned off when a critter hatches in the incubation room so it would be unable to load meat when off. It's sole purpose is to cover the incubator but it can and will sweep meat while on. But you're right if your intuition tells you the left evolution sweeper seems redundant. It could be removed and the right most could be sufficient, however if your ranches are ever full and an egg hatches on it's own(which is a real possibility) that sweeper wouldn't operate until a vacancy occurred and the critter drop let it leave. Again, this seems fringe to me but exactly why I elected to have two sweepers here. (This is something else I notice while reviewing the video for this comment) Storage Sweepers: Another one that may be confusing is the second one from the left in the storage area. This sweeper overlaps a storage bin the first will fill. I have the left most bins set to a priority of 1 and the right bins covered by the second are set to 2(except the bin covered by both which is still set to 1). This will cause the second sweeper fill the rightmost bins with material from the overlapping bin as well as the loader. The loader for the feed system is set to priority 3. Hopefully that helps. Sorry for the confusion!

@@engineertroy_ interesting thanks

Lol

That's a great solution. Thanks for the comment!

Yeah, things get complex rather quickly. But that’s what I love about it. Thanks for the comment!

@@engineertroy_ man, sometimes I have to stop playing because I'm 30 minutes trinking of the best design for a solution, so many variables... Amazing video by the way, I gonna try it

Thanks so much! So glad you like it. Let me know how your build goes!

Does the vertical pneumatic door in the incubator room close once the hatch is inside it?

They only pass through the airlocks when they are already falling otherwise all the hatches would end up in the bottom ranch. The next hatch from the incubator room should fall all the way down through all the open airlocks. I hope that answers your question.

@@engineertroy_ After i wrote this comment i waited to see if a hatcling falls from incubator room to the bottom room and it does! Thanks for the explanation. Also can I ask what do you suggest for feeding hatches ? After like 15-20 cycle of feeding them sedimentary rock they started pooping stone hatch eggs. I've looked through some forums and people also suggest using stone hatches since it's easier to find things to feed them. Do you have any thoughts about this ?

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Oops! Yeah, that’s one of those tricks that isn’t obvious at first. You’re exactly right; The use tile of all buildings is the one under the mouse during placement and needs to be in range of your sweepers to work. I too wish more buildings could be flipped for that reason. Thanks for giving it a go and letting us know how it turned out!

Yes, however it is heavily influenced by a couple of designs I’ve seen other people make, namely the on posted on steam. Thanks for the comment!