Oxygen Not Included

I recognise that build! Check out his hot steam vent tamer, it's a work of art.

Yeah mechanised airlocks are the best mechanism for controlling the amount of heat you're transferring.
I used that same build a few times back before nuclear power was added. End game power stability used to be much more of a concern which is why some of Tony Advanced builds are designed around getting stable power output. His Hot Steam Vent tamer is also tuned for power output and combines some even more amazing bugs/features of ONI such as a door compressor and bead pumps.
These days with nuclear power and the ridiculously good geothermal heat pump that came with the latest DLC those kinds of things aren't needed so much, although they're still amazing.

Tuco said:

I wonder what would happen if I just deleted all the sinks?

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Dupes will get food poisoning more often which just reduces their productivity by making them have to go to the bathroom and sleep more. It's not very noticeable.
Germs in ONI mostly don't matter. Slimelung used to be deadly in early access (it would literally kill dupes if they were sick for too long) but now it's kind of meaningless.
Zombie Spores are the only one that really matters, it's non lethal but it's pretty annoying as they make the dupe basically useless until it wears off which takes forever. Its not that easy to catch it though.

So in short you definitely could delete all the sinks in your bathroom. You could even further mitigate the reduced productivity by having a single sink that your cook has to wash his hands at on his way into the kitchen to stop all of your food from having food poisoning germs on it.

I tend to go the other direction and not only have 1 sink per lavatory (usually 3-4 in the colony and I break up their use by having all my dupes on different schedules), but I also run the pee water through a chlorine room to disinfect the water before it's recycled back into the bathrooms, otherwise you are using germ filled water in the sinks and showers. Which literally does nothing as it's impossible to catch food poisoning that way and the germs don't transfer onto the dupes when they use a sink/shower, but deleting all germs from the game is one of the many objectives I usually set for myself in ONI.

Yep that is absolutely normal.

This occurs when an atmo suit (or mask) that is at 0 durability gets taken off - which typically happens at a checkpoint. Any oxygen still in the suit gets dropped on the floor in a bottle.

The bottle drainers added in one of the recent patches kind of solve that issue in that you can leave it forever set requesting O2 and so when bottles gather at your checkpoint a dupe will drain the bottle back into your O2 pipeline.

suit durability is my least favorate thing. i always hard pass on that. just annoys me having to babysit them.

Tuco said:

Oh, the other atmo suit problem I have is I take the atmo suit off my dupe when they're in the space ship, and then when they land I have no way I can see to have them put the atmo suit back on before leaving the spaceship where my landing pand is a 300+ degree broiler. By the time they beeline it to the base they're about dead.

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You can put the suit back on by clicking/selecting the suit on the ground, then in the Options window that opens you can choose a dupe to put it on and the dupe will run over, pick it up and put it on.


But what I do is have an atmo suit checkpoint right at the door of the rockets. This is my standard rocket interior.

Tuco said:

I've got a storage container with suits, I have an auto-sweeper in range of them. I still have to click "Deliver Suit" for the auto-sweeper to activate. So every few dozen cycles I end up with a bunch of unused suits in my container and a dearth of available suits in docks.

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I have the same issue and always have. I'm not aware of a solution other than turning suit durability off. It's just one of those regular maintenance tasks I have to do every 10 cycles or so, go back to my docks and request suits for them all.

Yea thats why i disable suit durability. In dont wanna reassign suits constantly

This game should legitimately be used as an admissions test to the College of Engineering