Getting mid game Steel, Plastic & Cooling : Tutorial nuggets : Oxygen not included 

"I finally got my head around this game", I said to myself like a fool

I respect that this guy is able to talk fast while still being coherent. Makes the tutorial way shorter than normal for the same amount of information.

"Give me one second while I sweep up this gunk." *Takes 5 cycles.*

19:45 "This is just a standard setup." Me, learning most of this first the first time: *begins hyperventilating*

OMFG this is amazing. I've played over 900 hours since the launch of EA. Never got into the mid-game as defined in this video. I always found getting setup to make oil and plastics super complicated. Also never have used steal or steam turbines. This has made me not able to enjoy about half the content in-game. Thanks to this video I believe I'm ready to finally able to get past the mid-game hump!

The mid-game transition always felt like it had insurmounatble cyclical dependencies. Now they're simply surmountable cyclical dependencies!

This tutorial has been needed by someone for a long time. Thank you. I get stuck at about cycle 200 because I'm unsure how to handle heat and plastics.

THIS is the video I've been searching for. THANK YOU. I'm tired of videos that are titled "Let's make plastic" and it turns into a 40 minute tour of the happenings of the cycles, with no info on setting things up... Just making plastic from something they've already built.

You're fast becoming my favorite source for oni videos!

So essentially my problem for "The Learning Gap" is that I'm caring too much about the environment

I'm late to this game, but this series is awesome. well paced, informative, funny at times (I'm looking at you pre-chill). Thankyou so much, it's massively opened the game for me.

Even four years later these guides are excellent. Thank you for sharing.

Another great nugget Francis... I especially like the "Here's one I made earlier" cooking show line. :) cheers mate.

I really appreciate a tutorial like this. Thanks for making it Francis. Before watching this my stuff was downright scattered. Between this and petrol boiler I might just get to space.

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks a ton! I've completely hollowed out a map from magma to space but trying to put this together safely has always been rough. I'll absolutely be incorporating these designs. Thanks again!

This was an excellent tutorial! It covered the required concepts without delving too deep into secondary concerns (how cooling loops work, how to set up exo-suit docks, how steam turbines work, etc.) keeping the information concise and focused. When I initially saw the 20+ minute run time I was a little apprehensive but I never once was like, "Yeah, get on with it!" like I am with so many tutorials. Keeping a distinction between stream recordings and tutorials is a thing for me. I appreciate it a lot!

Just got into the game - your tutorials are brill!!! This one is actually one of your best. Please keep them coming! Without doubt my #1 ONI RU-vidr :)

Thank you very much for this, having a cornerstone to start from is really nice. It's also nice to know roughly where the mid-game starts.

What was holding me back, was the first step of acquiring the first batch of steel & plastic. I never knew what to do with all of the heat. You made it so simple. Do nothing. Just make the heat in a place that is already hot.

These videos have been really helpful and they are making my experience that much better, thanks for taking the time.

Almost a year old content and still so valid, ty! Heads up in case anyone fubars like I did. The temp on the Thermo Aquatuner is ABOVE 50F not Below 50F ^^. I kept freezing my pipes and breaking it. Took me a second to realize what I had done.

This guy is amazing, and he really helped me get started on all the basics of ONI.

An oasis without gold amalgam literally doubles the time it takes to do anything industrial. Amazing tutorial as always 👌🏻

this videos are great, man. I like that your designs actually apply to real bases, I've seen lots of tutorials where people just use the debug mode and it's not so helpful for me, personally. I like doing things the hard way, no cheating!

This is so helpful! I remember how confused I was when first started to implement machinery like press or refinery and I thought about these as very late-game material. Your tutorial can save colonies at the brink of a restart! :)))

I suggest using salt water instead of polluted water, since the nearest water will evaporate before the polluted water, causing it to offgas if you are unlucky like me. Great tutorial! I've used it a couple times now and I believe I am getting the hang of it. Very helpful for learning mechanics of the game as well.

Great work again FJ. I really wish we could get more of these practical how-tos and less of the math crunching theorycrafting ONI tutorials. You've become my go-to guy for ONI help. Thanks a lot.

Just got this game and I'm absolutely loving it! One thing I've noticed on all these tutorials is how clean and efficient the bases are. My bases always seem to be scattered/patched together. I kind of enjoy the look of being scattered right up until my energy drops out and all my dupes starve to death :D

Fantastic tutorial! Maybe I can finally get past the "oops I melted another base" part of the game. Thanks Francis!

This video is so great! I've played many bases but eventually quit them because i didnt know where to go after finish the early game and being stable and comfortable. Very well explained, ta.

I can't emphasize enough how crazy it is that I can sit through every tutorial you make. Literally no one else has ever made it that easy for me. ❤ And enjoyable. You're the whole package!

I have now watched this a couple of times and cheered before I actually started to dare building a brick myself. Dude, you rock!

My second time building this, I've used your trick for automated liquid locks, and automated the filling of the aquatuner section.. Now I just gotta plan where things go, and dive into some petroleum boiling.. Your videos have been a great help into me understanding how to do things in this game. Thanks!

Going back my ONI history, this video was the most important video I had ever seen for improving my game. Thanks.

I'm on cycle 819 and just starting to get into steel/plastic production properly, this is a great help thanks!

Thank you for this, I've just started thinking about the mid-game and how to get all that refined metal. I have it a bit easier since there's a huge glacier next to my base to dump all the heat into, but the general setup is very helpful.

So, quite late to the party, but the amount of progress I was able to make just from you explaining the steps in this video is insane, so thank you so much.

You're really good at sharing your experience in bite size packets, without melting my brain.

9:33 "We have atmo suits, so we don't give a...we don't care" LOL GJ on the tutorials, base building and ALSO keeping it family friendly!

This is the exact point my bases end up getting messy and fail. Thank you for this

Been watching ton of vids on this game as I kept getting lost while playing. This was the most helpful.

I never understood atmo-suits before just because they cost so much effort to recharge, this will really help

Thank you, I have been improving through this greatly.

Exactly what i have been searching for - the raw starting ways to effectively produce the basis for further "clean" production.

This is the third time I've watched this video! It has helped me to get steel started so big thanks for that as I was getting stuck in the same place every playthrough. I dug into the oil biome and very luckily spotted a zombie plant before I dug through to it so keep an eye out for that people!

This video is probably the most helpful video on any game I've ever played. Thank you.

Thank you a whole lot for these, I always enjoy your content. New and old!

This clarified so much in simple enough fashion that I can build on the knowledge easily. Thank you so much for this!

Poluted waterland then regular water on top to make a vacume ..... Mind officially blown away ! Awesome tutorial 😃 thx

Another fantastic episode, Unique and useful tutorial as well! I would make a kiln and start ceramic the instant I developed the technology.

This video is easily the best ONI tutorial you've done. I figured out some of the stuff in this video in my last base playthrough, but that said, the mid-game hump is a real thing and this puts you into a prime position to jump into your endgame mode. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I bought the game about 5 mins into this wonderful vid. Currently £13.41 _for the bundle_ on Steam in the sales. I've played lots of Factorio and Satisfactory but this fluids and thermodynamics view of the world is new and very appealing. I'm going to be coming back to this time and over again - there's so much to learn! Thanks again this is great. x

Explained so well FJ, as with other people I've never made it this far & only just got to digging out the map to expand. The quirks make my brain hurt 🤣🤣

Very good instructions, enjoyable to watch... thank you! One minor improvement I found is not to use poluted water for filling in the steam area, but some other liquid like salt water. The poluted water generated poluted oxygen. Salt water will still leave behind some gunk (salt) when converted to steam, but you are sure that 100% of your steam boiler area is filled with steam.

Thanks for you videos and teaching. Today I made my first steel ever. It didn't go as easy as you show. My oil was over 140 degrees. I finally got a few ides and just repaired the Gold Amalgam pump to pump the crude oil to a storage container. I went through some repair costs, but the crude was at 130 by the time I was pumping into the container. I now have almost 1kg of steel and I'll probably make a steel pump and then start destroying some area to make my "Power Brick." I am starting to really enjoy solving the problems this game throws at me. Thanks again.

Great tutorial Francis!

Absolutely phenomenal tutorial I was wondering what to do next with my base and I couldn't get around to doing it. This is will definitely help thank you

Thank you so much! I have just seen my first steam turbine working and I feel so inspired, like the nice little nerd I am :D . Now I only need to figure out why mine is not at full capacity.

You explain things so welll compared to anyone else

I am at cycle 300 and still between early and mid game. Glad I am not the only one.

Your videos are super helpful thank you so much for doing these tutorials you legend.

This video. I watched it every time one of my colonies reaches the hump. That's countless times so far. And then I always find an excuse to not go through with it and start a new colony. The layout not being right, not having enough space, and having to cut through annoying biomes to make up for that (namely the one with the dreckos, hate those with a burning passion), never having enough workforce to get it done in a timely fashion (mainly because I refuse to work with more than five or six dupes at a time), you name it. And then reminding myself that there's no shame in being 250 cycles in and not even having achieved a plastic press, especially with five dupes running on wheels because I had the brilliant idea of unlocking the sustainability achievement, of all things. Anyways, I'm going on a tangent. Your tutorial nuggets are invaluable for this not-so-noob-friendly game. If any, you make it look much simpler than my own experience suggests. To me this is all rocket science. Speaking of which, I'm dreading reaching the point where I have to tackle space. Anyways. I wonder how many hours you put into this game already. I'm betting somewhere in the thousands.

This video is super helpful for me thanks for the tips 👍🏻

This is super useful. I've been producing steel for a while but I'm running into serious heat problems because I didn't know much about heat and set up something quick and messy. Going to have to make myself an industry block and tidy everything else in my complete hodge-podge mess of a base XD

i like the analogy that this is like climbing a cliff and then jumping off

I was waiting for this video thank you very much amazing tutorial

Done the "aggressive version" really neat, the dupes take kinda 50 cycles to finish all the digging, building, and setting up. the most annoying part is know what to do with all of that natural gas, since i already tapped a vent nearby and have 500t coal from the hatch-farming...

I just bought this game and haven’t played it yet. I only seen the early game until I watched this. I’m now terrified I’m never going to grasp this haha. Most of this went over my head. Hopefully after some play time it’ll make sense and I’ll re watch.

I really appreciate you still coming back to comment and help viewers. I love this game. This is my first "try hard" playthrough and I'm having a blast! Do you think u will start a new playthrough in the near future?

this is exactly the video i needed. thanks!

what an amazing guide ty sir

After playing about 10 hours and browsing tutorial at youtube, I realized fallout shelter is more my speed.

holy brain, how does people came up with this. great tutorial!

So my base is a literal sauna. And I have decided to get my dupes some help, and by help I mean me watching tutorials.

i'm so glad for the automation innovation update giving us tanks with automation output, so you don't have to build those contrived overflow sensors

Thanks for the tutorial.

Francis John: love the videos and the game. This is kind of an old video but i had a question. I am having trouble getting the steam up to temp (hovers around 250) - have I used incorrect materials somewhere or am I just not letting it run enough?

Great tutorial!

I just make closed by waterlock vacuum chamber and spill some oil inside. Placing oil refinery and gas pump there both made of gold and they will never overheat unless you overheat oil above 120C and forget to change pipes to isolated ones. Doing same thing for polymer presses, most of structures just need to stay in liquid splash to stay cool. And most important, all that system self-powered by oil and gas generators, adding refinery will help a lot, thanks for vid. Before I usually was cooling water basin for it by placing small portions of ice inside, may be helpful if you running low on water.

Thanks man i actually understood everything!!

Excellent this really changed my game. What should I do next?

your vids are insanely good

Hi Francis, Can I use the same cooling loop from the refinery for the power plant? or do I need to create a separate cooling loop? Thanks!!!

I forget how big the asteroids were in the original game. Spaced out Asteroids are Wayyyy smaller than the regular ONI ones.

Thanks Francis for all the great videos you put out for ONI. You've helped me in so many ways. Love your accent! As a clueless American, I'm curious as to what "brick" means in your videos. I'm kind of assuming you mean a kind of foundational module for your base, but I could be wrong. And, I absolutely live for "aaaaaaaand we're back..." :)

Did the polymer presses change since this video? I used this video to get my first industrial brick started (3 metal refineries, 2 polymer presses and 3 steam turbines) and everything works very well, except for the presses. They go from 25°C to 125°C in like 40 seconds, even with 10°C polluted water filled radiant cooling pipes behind them. I resorted to using a temperature sensor and manually control them with it for now.

wow, that was such a good tutorial. I'm with my ateria base at over 200 days and well, the only thing where I have problems is refined metall. I tried to make a good power/oxygen machine from the other big ONI-YTer, (it starts with B) and well, I set up everything, the only problem is, I need refined metal for the cables and the smart batteries. I started to make it, but I have cooling problems, I'm not so far like you, as I don't have atmo suits really, but well you helped me to get something to cool my metal refinery to get tons of refined alu. I already could set up the atmo suit production, for at least one or two suits, as I was lucky and got a few refined iron from the pod, A other question: I got from the pod 3 slickster eggs, I set up a small room for 2 and I pump all the Co2 from my energy room (1 coal, 2 wood) in that room, so I get some cruide oil and get some Co2 and heat away from my power room. So... was it good to build it already? I mean the slickers are at near/in my base, heated up from the hot Co2 out of the power room. (~60°). The grooming table is in the co2 max pressed room and it's quite hard to groom these cute things

Love these tutorials. Started playing Oni and I'm always nervous about drilling through Abyssalite. I'm afraid it's going to creep in heat into my base. Should I not worry about it?

Thanks for the aquatuner setups. I'm a bit confused with the different versions though. So far I've seen three: 1.) Have the cooling loop run directly through the aqua tuner. Seems to be the most common and also seen here 2.) Your icebox design where you use a cold liquid as transfer medium 3.) Running the cooling loop into the steam chamber. Didn't know you can do that Are some of these better than others, or is it personal preference? For some easy steel you can also pump up some polluted water from a slime biome and dump the hot water right back into the pool. It's not a long term solution obviously, but it allows you to make some refined metal without advanced infrastructure

Nice. Now tell me what do you feed your hatches as mine ate everything... And how do you get o much dirt for trees?

Love your videos! I’m having an issue with the liquid pipe element sensor and the oil refinery. The oil refinery is disabled from automation grid and the element sensor keeps in sending the red signal no mater what litris I choose. Any idea on what I might be doing wrong?

wonderful guide tbh but i have two questions, how do you refine glass inside that room and also, can you use crude oil or petroleum as your cooling loop ? i lack polluted water/water on my map

Your videos have helped me so much recently with ONI and trying to understand how the games deals with things. I did notice when setting up the refinery that instead of using a liquid detector to turn off the refinery its possible to link the refinery to the storage with a an automation cable which turns it off when storage is full. I don't know if this was a feature added after you did this.

Hey FJ, love your tutorials! They've really helped me out with getting further into the game. There's just one thing I don't quite get from this tutorial. And that's when you add the liquid element sensor at 19:55 and connect it to the oil refinery. I just can't to seem to make that work. For now I've just added a NOT gate in between, but I'm not sure if that's the way to solve this problem. Could you elaborate on how to make this part of automation work?

Referring back to this after a break from playing. Near the end when you set up the oil refinery you add a liquid pipe element sensor. I can't think how this would be set up? If you select petroleum it is red constantly. What am I forgetting

one thing that i tried your way that didnt work for me was sticking an element sensor on top of the petroleum reservoir tanks to stop petroleum production when full, it just kept stopping production as soon as a bubble of petroleum passed the pipe even though the tank was not full ,how exactly did you implement this. great tutorial BTW. thank you

Hi Francis, great vid thankyou, perfect for that mid game hump. Im not sure what I am doing wrong, but my pipe coming out of the Thermo A.Tuner keeps breaking. I was making it of Insulated Ingneous Rock and after breaking from contents being too cold, tried many others. The water is going into the loop at 21.5 deg and comes out the Tuner around -11.3. Arrrrgh so frustrating!! Thanks for your help Francis and nice icon. Cheers, Ala.

Cycle 279 now, time to make my mini industrial brick. Every time i've refined metals i've always just built a metal refinery and mass refined 99*100kg of xyz metals. Now i've got a better idea on how to begin and expand!

Late to the party here, I have one issue with the refineries. If I dont do a setup I seen where they add a shutoff valve to it. Eventually the petrol gets to hot and bursts a pipe for me. That shutoff valve would stop the petrol from going back to the refinery and forcing it to circulate in the steam longer till it cools down enough to run more steel.

Really helpful video, not just this one, i had to use a few in conjuction to get to this, finally got it up and running, the 3 part newbie guide helped me figure that the lack of atmos suits was slowing alot of the progress down, so after finally learning that i should box my living area in and build suit docks i finally was able to demolish biomes instead of messing around carefully blocking gases etc. Also had to use the shorter tutorial about the research for getting to steam turbines never knew could just use a few weezeworts to give me enough radbolts to unlock the tech. But all in all i think one huge part of my mid game hump was just undervaluing atmos suits, the difference they make is ridiculous. The 3 part newbie series, the bit about radbolts and this should just make up one series, coz tied together it really gets you through, finally after stupid amounts of saves and restarts the game feels like its opening up 🤣