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Tuco

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So normally in these games a lot of people who get into the details of the mechanics spend a lot of time in sandbox mode to try out new designs. I never did that because I mostly liked to play in the game and do the trial and error ingame. This is in fact the first of these types of games I've tested my designs in sandbox mode. The usage of dupes to build is soooo slow and having to do shit like carve out a room with tiles using a liquid lock takes so long that you really don't want to mess it up.

Behold, my second aquatuner design.

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If any Oni newbs like myself read this and wonder why I have two bridges, read this thread and weep for these busted ass mechanics: Aquatuner Coolant Bypass



If you see any major flaws in my design, please silently smugly smile and wait for the update where I run into problems.

Now I need to scrounge up 1200 steel got damn
 

sakkath

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If Oni newbs like myself read this and wonder why I have two bridges, read this thread and weep for these busted ass mechanics: Aquatuner Coolant Bypass
Nowhere near as busted as some of the other entertaining interactions you can encounter in ONI. I prefer to think if them as intended game mechanics! It just makes it more fun!
 

Tuco

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Day 333, integrated my second aquatuner. It takes sooo long to create these vacuum-reliant builds. Next I'm going to make a pacu farm since my dupes are tired of eating mush fry.

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And the beautiful blue pipes of cooling.

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I see how it is. "no hints!" then goes and reads the official forums for advanced cheats and builds.
 
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sakkath

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I mean you can tell just by looking at his base that he's not following guides 😂

Also there's some pretty fast ways of vacuuming out rooms for builds.
 

Tuco

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I see how it is. "no hints!" then goes and reads the official forums for advanced cheats and builds.
I know you're joking but I really enjoy going into the early to mid game into these games super blind and even basic hints about things kinda ruins it. Once I try out a few ideas I've come up with myself I also enjoy reading about how it's properly done and bringing those ideas into my strugglebus base.

It's kinda like an RPG where you get your ass kicked in the beginning because you're learning the mechanics, then later it's sooo satisfying to git gud. If I don't get to experience being bad, I don't enjoy being good.
 
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Chris

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Day 333, integrated my second aquatuner. It takes sooo long to create these vacuum-reliant builds. Next I'm going to make a pacu farm since my dupes are tired of eating mush fry.

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And the beautiful blue pipes of cooling.

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9 dupes, 3 toilets, 1 sink. Wat. You realise 2/3rds of them won't wash their hands after shitting?

I'm just pushing from 8 to 16 dupes, I have 8 toilets and 8 sinks.

I had to restart due to heat death a few days ago, one thing I learned is that gas transfers heat the best, so giant empty uninsulated rooms with vents seems bad.
 

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This my filtration system for toxic water

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Dump it in a pit and rely on c02 to disinfect
 

Tuco

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9 dupes, 3 toilets, 1 sink. Wat. You realise 2/3rds of them won't wash their hands after shitting?

I'm just pushing from 8 to 16 dupes, I have 8 toilets and 8 sinks.

I had to restart due to heat death a few days ago, one thing I learned is that gas transfers heat the best, so giant empty uninsulated rooms with vents seems bad.
No wonder my dupes are constantly getting food poisoning.
 
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sakkath

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Gas transfers heat quickly due to the low density of the tiles. That's one reason not to excavate unnecessarily as all of the tiles you delete could have absorbed incoming heat.
 
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sakkath

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I've been playing on the semi new asteroid/biome Ceres that came with the Frosty Planet Pack DLC. It introduces another endless material loop that I've been running for over 1000 cycles now smooth as butter.
Phosphorite -> Pikeapple -> Floxes -> Wood -> Ethanol -> Plume Squash -> Bammoth -> Phosphorite.
Produces excess of most products as well as side products of clay, reed fibers & meat.
Whole area has to be kept cold as the plants require -15c or colder. Luckily that is easy with the new Nectar liquid which was introduced in the same DLC, which has the same TC as water and almost the same SHC too, but has a liquid range of -82c to 160c. An extremely strong and flexible coolant until you can get supercoolant.
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Tuco

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Day 610, I've almost got all my metal volcanos tamed. I've got a few Pacu fish farms, a few Hatch farms and got enough sulfur to bring back my favorite animal, the Sweedles. I recently discovered a cold slush volcano that I'm using to cool all my metals before bringing them to my base, though I keep them in the steam room until they hit 150C. I built a transit tube superhighway going around the map. I'm still at 10 duplicants and it feels like enough dupes for me.

I've got a few more things I want to do in this map before going to the next asteroid.

I'm enjoying the game but I wish I had a mod that made building require less attention. Ex: Letting dupes build at 1+ greater distances, through 1x walls, be able to leap 1 block higher, etc. I guess I'm not used to having to solve the puzzle of building things. Ex: my gold volcano in the top right is in an ice biome and I have to warm it up before I can use it.

Day 610 - Volcano by jimmyw404, on Flickr

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sakkath

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There are mods that do that but yeah being able to actually build things is one of the challenges in the game. Playing ONI in sandbox mode where you can place buildings without needing dupes is drastically easier.
 

Chris

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Day 610, I've almost got all my metal volcanos tamed. I've got a few Pacu fish farms, a few Hatch farms and got enough sulfur to bring back my favorite animal, the Sweedles. I recently discovered a cold slush volcano that I'm using to cool all my metals before bringing them to my base, though I keep them in the steam room until they hit 150C. I built a transit tube superhighway going around the map. I'm still at 10 duplicants and it feels like enough dupes for me.

I've got a few more things I want to do in this map before going to the next asteroid.

I'm enjoying the game but I wish I had a mod that made building require less attention. Ex: Letting dupes build at 1+ greater distances, through 1x walls, be able to leap 1 block higher, etc. I guess I'm not used to having to solve the puzzle of building things. Ex: my gold volcano in the top right is in an ice biome and I have to warm it up before I can use it.

Day 610 - Volcano by jimmyw404, on Flickr

Full Res: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54331529027_bbee3a969f_o.jpg
How are you still fucking up toilets?

2 toilets and 1 sink in main bathroom, dupes washing their hands on the way in. Same in hospital but there's a door that allows them to leave without washing.

I really hope I missed something here. Just make 4 toilets, 4 sinks in a max 64 tile room, wash on way out, door is by the sinks. Getting the pipes/water in/out is the hard bit, no reason not to make 4 of each?

But then you have plastic, which otherwise puts you way ahead of me.
 

Tuco

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How are you still fucking up toilets?

2 toilets and 1 sink in main bathroom, dupes washing their hands on the way in. Same in hospital but there's a door that allows them to leave without washing.

I really hope I missed something here.

But then you have plastic, which otherwise puts you way ahead of me.
You could ask, "How are you still fucking up X?" and put like 30 things there. My base is shit (literally I guess) and I love it.

I want to go exterminatus on germs in my base. Part of that is trying out the new options I've researched like the urinals and showers. And also learning what to do with chlorine and bleach stone... maybe I'll bother with that before I go to the next asteroid.
 

Chris

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Game is beating me, no problems handling Dwarf Fortress or Factario but this is something else.

I'm getting to around day 100, oxygen/food sorted. Then something bogs me down and stresses out my dupes.

Fucked up mining around a geyser and heated up my crops. Restarted.

Had a fail making a new SPOM I saw online and it sucked and broke my machines and stressed my dupes. Restarted.

Did a water lock into a chlorine cave with oxygen masks to get chlorine for water treatment. Decided to reuse it to reach natural gas geyser but the wet and cold slowed everything down. Restarted.

Now I've made an outpost on the surface with a telescope, got hit by meteors. Repaired that and decided to put my cooling in space since it's cold. Brought up my oxygen, cooled it and sent it backdown. Worked decently. But I don't know physics and space being cold doesn't mean it's transfering to my coolers so they are hundreds of degrees and breaking. Put temp sensor on but they cool too slowly to be useful now. Maybe I can use radiant pipes and no coolers?

Tempted to restart again.

My main issue is starting industry. The SPOM is only enough for basic machines, not sure what to do for power otherwise. Maybe a critter farm for coal and vent the CO2 to space?

No sign of oil for plastic, I guess I need to dig down, but even with masks there's usually gunk down there to stress my guys out. I guess they need better clothing?

It's not clear what to focus on first so I'm stuck.