Telescopes, Space Scanners, Regolith management & Solar : Tutorial Nuggets : Oxygen Not Included 

Damn i nailed the order without even knowing this tutorial: -build the observatory below the ground -remove the observatory -forget the observatory -build a solar farm underground -build the rocket -get power up there -get a cooling system running because the power converter keeps melting -scrap said system and just move the converter into the isolated control room -almost asphixiate my colony -save my colony by building a second oxygen plant within 5 cycles with yellow alert -almost run out of power because the generators weren't refilled for 5 cycles -build the antenna as a deco object -run out of coal -wait its cycle 300 why am i still only using coal

I honestly can never thank you enough for this series of tutorials, I have fallen in love with this game in a major way and I absolutely could not have progressed as far as I have without your help! If I might be so bold as to make a request, I would love a tutorial of setting up a power brick to go along well with my industrial brick. May your whiskey be smooth and potent!

I looked for exactly that. thank you! So... i destroy everything ... for the 5th time and this time it'll work.

glad we're back

Another mod recommendation - “No Manual Delivery”. It adds the “allow manual use” checkbox to EVERYTHING. I grabbed it at first because I wanted to do a lot of regolith collection and dupes occasionally got caught in the loop you’re talking about. But it’s amazing for stuff like mass moving resources and general automation. For me it’s the same level of “this should be part of the base game” that the building range mod is.

Another amazing tutorial. Your Mid-Game hump tutorial helped me get to space, and now with this tutorial I should be able to conquer it!

Space mechanics are so fun to manage! Can wait for Klei to rework the whole thing

I can’t describe how much I needed this

“There’s been whole maths... done on this.” Francis John 2020.

Glad you made an update video to space tackling. I honestly find it unnecessarily complicated how the scanners work, especially since scanner range and telescope range aren't shown in-game for some absurd reason. But alas, that's ONI for you. Also, that Regolith collection system seems like a perfect fit to use a Sweepy in, if Sweepy actually had a decent carry weight. They really need a buff.

The timing of this couldnt be better. Just started looking into space stuff and ive been looking for a comprehensive vid for a while. Thank you!

As someone who is about to do space for the first time I can really appreciate the 'dumb' methodes you've listed. Space is the biggest hump/learningcliff by far after the early game. Perhaps even more then the early game...

I thought I knew space backwards and forwards (mostly from your last tutorial on the topic over a year ago now), but still learned something new.

tbh my biggest takeaway from this video is that you don't need an aquatuner for the mining laser cooling loop. A self-cooled steam gen setup is apparently enough on its own. Free energy, too.

You are a literal life saver, I was just about starting to consider space in my current "first decent" playthrough. Thanks!

perfect timing on this video. thanks for the great tutorial. answered basically all my wtf is happening questions.

Tackling space is the only time I've felt overwhelmed in this game.. ever.. so thanks for this tutorial

Something that I didn't properly notice watching this video at first: the mention that regolith cools down the sweepers and dispensers. This is very important, as if your setup (as did mine) has one of them protected from regolith, it will never have any way to cool down and will break eventually. By the way space in this game is kind of the point where you discover *everything* needs to dump its heat somewhere somehow. Thanks for the very helpful video!

I love your talking speed. Much more information input per second. It´s like reading. Tutorial is also great.

Thank you so much for the video, I cannot find any other video that explained as well as you do. Really needed this before I started space venturing!

Aaah the space . . . The most painfull biome to fix mistakes . . .Thank you very much

Very useful info as usual! Thanks! If I may add something... one scanner (at 100% quality) alone has a detecting range of 34s-200s. 2s out of 166s, or 1/84 chance of failure. Now that might be small enough, but, you can improve it with a second scanner, even with 0% quality. That's because it shares the same detect range. So, the chance of both scanners missing the shower is 1/7056. For a starting minimal seutp it's more than enough, you might not need to extend the miner/bunker setup over the 2nd scanner, just place it far away enough from the 1st not to interfere with it. I always put a buffer gate after the not gate. Usually set at min range - 40s (of course for 2 scanners up). This way I maximize energy production by solar panels. It serves almost no purpose if you don't do solar. That said, w/o solar you open the doors only for the telescope, or do the bunker trick you showed at the start. You don't need doors. I won't touch rockets because it's a subject on its own. I don't understand what you mean by 2 scanner being better that 6. The two scanners setup can (and will) detect meteors when far away, even @199s possibly. The bunker doors close, and they sit there waiting for the shower to start, and they may loose the signal. The chances of both of them loosing the signal at the same time, causing the doors to reopen is greater than the chance of 6 scanners loosing it. If you do use a buffer gate, with 2 still you can't close the doors too late, leaving a much larger window for failure. The 6 scanners setup is safer, if you add the buffer gate set at 160s, you have very small 4s window (you could reduce it even further), and all 6 of them have to loose the signal in those 4s. One thing you could have addressed is power distribution. You can't power a full setup with 2kw wires, you need transformers (which need to be cooled etc.) Of course if you have solar panels you have battery banks but they are not necessarily in space.

Watching this at 1.75x speed is very amusing. And still, I can understand everything, so kudos!

FJ, king of how to do stuff in Oxygen Not Included.

This is really helpful considering I just breached the surface in my game.

you did explain all the stuff that some of us that have 1000 plus hours have discover ( painfully ) during several runs. I might use this video to show people in the forums asking noob questions all the time

I been into space for a while on multiple maps. But I still got some new tips. Thanks

Love your stuff FJ, you've saved so many of my bases

Visually, glass is transparent to us. But a telescope needs the upmost optical care to work, and RF waves have a hard time penetrating through a different refractive material and still give you the same result. Thus it actually makes sense that glass doesn’t work to me in either case.

31 seconds later, I see this. First time for me: First. Hollaaaaaa! Also. Francis, you are the king!I loved your minibase thingie! Your vids are even more interesting than the game, keep it up!!!

You're like the Scott Manley of Oni

Perfect timing. Excellent content. Very concise, good demonstrations, good explanations. Only things this is missing is the savegame file in the description ;) (These have helped me a bunch in the past actually, hope you'll put it up)

oh my goodness THANK YOU!!!!!! I just started playing ONI a few weeks ago and have become absolutely obsessed with it, but my space systems have been super trial-by-error for the most part, your videos help SOO MUCH!!!!!!!! Can't wait to get my first rocket launching!

BTW I just wanted to say I have been experimenting with your design and it's quite possible using a few tricks to have steel autosweepers. It means you're gonna need more than one steam turbine and you will have to actively loop your petroleum loop to cool the autosweepers and the bunker doors. It actually works better if you divide into smaller loops and if you use Naphta instead of petroleum. The fun part is you end up producing a lot more power thanks to the steam turbines.

This is great! Even though I have 200 hours in the game (well... that's probably not much by your standards) I didn't know half the things you explained. I was still trying to use CO2 to cool space setups, but this is much simpler! And the fact that regolith eventually gets knocked off the top of the C miners... that's just going to make collecting stuff SO. MUCH. EASIER.

I'm using 100% network quality in my game. I have a filter for 130 seconds, then a buffer for 50 seconds. This seems to prevent the issue with the doors re-opening immediately after closing. I also have a few regolith cruncher doors set up.

Thanks man, I really needed this, I didnt know how scanners worked

If you use thermium you could use a sweepe to move the regolith to one end than a sweeper to move it in to an automated despencer

if you have perfect scanner quality, all you need would be a Buffer gate followed by a filter gate. The combined time should be enough so that the meteor shower has begun.

that's what I was waiting for.

Great info as always Francis. It's all amazingly helpful. Probably not the best place for this but would appreciate you doing a filler video for mods that you run on most play throughs. Still looking for some of the good QOL ones.

yeah, when you have a place that can stuck a dup the dups will find a way to get there and get stuck, when you are building or digging large areas is a good idea to have plenty of ladders to keep them safe, you can deconstruct it after you are done.

Great vid only 1 thing missing, the use of space scanners to detect incoming rockets. Would really appreciate a tutorial on this aspect as I have seen people putting them under bunker tiles etc and just wondered what the best positioning is for them. Great snippet about the cooling of the miners though, that one caught me out so is defo essential tip. Use your vids often in my playthroughs, loads of good info in them, keep up the good work.

My setup was a telescope, one bunker door and a manual switch :)

Francis you might consider redoing an advanced temperature control system for your tutorial nuggets playlist. Personally I do have the information already figured out because I’ve been playing and watching you play for a long time, but it took a bit of learning. (I’m talking about highly refined temperature control systems here. For instance my automatic sleet wheat/thimble reed/arbor tree/etc farms are controlled by temperature control systems that operate at exact temperatures. There is not even one degree of variation. I’m not sure, but I think some people might really benefit from this kind of information).

i've build this setup before using one of your older video's. Its quite time consuming and I had some issues with powering the doors (not making them steel and they melt) but after everything was made out of steel it has worked wonders for me. I'm stuck with a ton of regolith now. I would really appreciate if you would make tutorial video on a regolith melter. I was looking at one of your older vids but just got lost in the process.

Yay more ONI!! Loved baby base sir!!

Just made it to space, closed off the top of the map with bunker tiles (will replace as needed with bunker doors) and so I started checking out this video. However it seems the latest update changed some of this? Is there a new setup that works better or more compactly?

I was expecting a jumpscare near the end but only got disappointed xD

27:33 Missing the save game in the description.

Me caveman. Me disassemble and reassemble auto miners to remove heats

Glad you are going back to doing these type of videos. Its always interesting to see how others manage various "obstacles" of the game. And to see the most "efficient" way :P If you lack ideas for themes, i would like to see series broken down into: Elements (sand, rocks, liquids, gasses): What are its uses etc.. Reactions: Hows does each element react and/or work with other type of elements. ie. burn polluted water and get? etc. Maybe do a low material series, where the above is shown? anyway, i really like your ONI content. Sadly i am over Rimworld myself, after countless hours and beating the game brutally :P

Now that Conduction panels are in the game, it should be far easier to cool the autosweeper setup. probably still need steel for them, but way better than needing thermium.

very handy tutorial^^

Holy chocolate I'm sort of early! Hi there fellow ONI and FJ fans! I hope your day is good.

as always thanks for the video :)

Thanks!!

Love this!

Your assertion that you don't want 100% network scan is incorrect. You can connect all the output signals together in such a way that the doors close when one detects. Then you use some combination of automation to delay closing as well as the re-opening. It helps for power failures too.

great video

I really love and enjoy your videos and all, but is this tutorial really necessary when space is going to be revamped in like a month?

using gate is also good

Finally.

I comment to help statistics

Instead of using miners, what about using horizontal mechanical airlocks to open and close to crush the fallen regolith? I've been doing that for my bases and it's power free and faster and required no cooling. Each open/close breaks one layer. You do need automation to setup the open/close cycles though.

So consensus is either 2 or 6 scanners. I personally like 6 and automate with timers for maximum precision.

Oh did they add those vision tiles to the space stuff? Oh a mod. Anyway. I didn't expect the line of sight to be centered on the edge of the telescope.

Excellent content as usual Mr. Francis. Are there any bits that have been outdated since introduction of Spaced out / Radiation / update changes ?

Yay an oni video!

I kinda disagree that you should build a batterie box to complement your solar panels. Batterie boxes take a lot of metal to build for relatively little energy storage. I think of solar panels as a way to complement whathever other energy source I was using before. I can just use coal or natural gas or whathever whenever the sun is not shining. If I can rely on the sun 2/3 of the time, then it still means I use 2/3 less fuel.

cool

regolith keeps breaking the wireing in the doors, do i have to spend a never ending amount of steel to keep them going?

Thanks for uploading. I got the opportunity to view a rocket launch in 2018. Memorable experience. I uploaded a pretty fun video of the trip to my channel.

These four things are the simplest technology.

i like your bild but what about a conveyor dor system at 19:00, where each dor in sequence will close after the next(delay filter) pushing the regolith (after its been broken up) in a direction. it requires no power, has no mass limit, can run during the night, and will not overheat so you don't need thermeum .

I think we can add an OR gate, so that if one of the 2 scanners detects the meteor, the door would close, without having both of them needing to send the green signal. right?

A little late to the video but can't you have mesh tiles above the scan area of the scanners and just never worry about the metors? Or does that still block view because it can't see the top of the map at all?

Francis, you are not cooling the auto-sweeper. It will overheat. I also wondering if there is someway we reduce the amount of energy this layouts demand.

Regarding additional scanners beyond 2, why not put in a buffer gate, filter gate and buffer gate to make sure the bunker doors open and close when needed?

Is a sweepy a good option for collecting the regolith?

Why not just leave the regolith where it is? Also, what does the regolith have to do with slowing your computer down (if your CPU is weak)? Lastly, if my computer CPU is not very good, what is the most processor heavy stuff in the game that I can control and maybe speed up dawn screen freeze. Thank you!

I have built the robo miners in the past and they work great. In my current build the petro that i use to cool the miners will not drop from broken pipes..and if i try to empty the pipe it falls as if it were moped up. did something get changed or am i missing something?

Jfc what a nightmare space is

Hey! Thanks for the tutorial, perfect timing since I was going to tap into space for the first time :) however, I do have a question about the number and arrangement of scanners. So 6 scanners allow the earliest detection of meteor showers, right? So why only use 2? Another question is why is stacking the scanners 15 tiles apart bad?

It might take the robo miners to take several hundred cycles to heat up.. But it takes several seconds if the regolith piles against it and transfers heat..

why does no one analyze the destination? i build a telescope, supplied it with oxygen, power, and it has 55% visibility, but no one wants to analyze it(i have field research of coarse)

In some of your playthroughs I've seen you tuck in a corner and wall in the space scanner you use for the rocket silo doors. Does this by any chance also work for the space scanner exploit you mentioned?

Thx!

What can airflow and mesh tiles be used in space? do they allow leakage of material in space or can I use them to airflow between rooms with back wall when building things in space? I like the DLC when it comes to space since you can better upgrade to alternative energy without things crashing those solar panels.

Hi there great video. I really appreciate it. I try this build. Works great so far. However there's slight problem. When the debris is too much collected on top of the bunker door. And when the door release it. Some of them still manage to pile on top of the miner. The miner couldnt mine it fast enough and get entombed. So dupes still have to come and help and repair. Is this avoidable?

Finally!!

hmm. last dispencer. why not make it into a conveyer deposit? to transport iron, gold and stuff? then everything is out of the way it's should be ok. no interference :)

Id like to now see a tutorial for options to take care of regolith. I mean ALL the possible options... Thank you for this update but i seems a bit... redundant, cos rockets and asteroid top is gonna get an update which will likely mess things up, again :P

Hi Francis, would you consider doing a supplement to this video explaining exactly how the automation between the scanners and the bunker doors actually works? I have been using last year's video and I am almost finished the setup. I have found comments to this new video talking about getting the automation to work but it still isn't very clear to me. These are some of the questions I had. 1. Since the latest that 2 scanners would detect the meteor shower is 67 seconds will I want to build in a delay of 28 seconds so that they start shutting 39 seconds before the shower or do the scanners delay sending the signal to the bunker doors themselves? 2. Related to that question, if the scanners detected the shower immediately (200 seconds out) are they going to (a) Start closing immediately, or start closing after 28 seconds( if I have installed a buffer) and (b) if they have closed after my 28 second buffer leaving approximately 134 seconds left to go until the shower, will the bunker doors remain closed until the shower is finished or will the scanners loose contact due to the closed doors and signal the doors to re-open? And finally (3). What does change in order for the scanners to signal the doors to re-open? Is it (a) once they failed to detect the signal due to the bunkers doors being closed, or (b) is there a set period of time that they close for (which would cause a problem if they detect early). As you can tell.... I'm confused.... This is about my 6th attempt at a colony and my first attempt to get into space.... and I am going to succeed darn it!! I was very depressed to read that they are about to redo space in a months time. If the changes are radical I will be wanting to restart with a whole new colony. Waah!! My seed SNDST-A-1270186283-WSF (the easy asteroid) is really good as it has 2 natural gas geysers side by side quite close to your initial base as well as a hydrogen vent, iron volcano and 2 polluted water vents on the map. Probably the reason I have actually made it this far as power and water supply have been so easy! Love your videos. They have been very helpful to me. Obsessed with this game....

Woot.

Have you tried Factorio? I feel that is a good game for you

Nice :)

You know what would be awesome? A tutorial about Jet suits. I see you don't use them... why?

Weird, my doors don't auto reopen -.- i came here to see what i am doing wrong. Automation wire to NOT gate to doors. Radars detect, close doors, then doors stay closed forever. How do you get them to auto reopen without a timer? hummm

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