Oxygen Not Included – First 30 Cycles
First thirty Cycles
There’s an awful lot to larn almost keeping your duplicants (or “dupes”) live on that the game doesn’t learn you. Here are the details you lot need:
- Difficulty: Survival
- Asteroid: Terra
- Seed: 616868630
(Cycle 0) The Problem of Duplicants
The inaugural of all major human face of whatever Oxygen Not Included game is deciding upon your starting iii dupes. There are a few basic guidelines hither that I ever follow:
- Try to notice 1 skillful researcher, 1 skillful operator, as well as 1 skillful digger or constructor.
- Look out for positive traits which give you lot attribute bonuses, such every bit Night Owl, Early Bird, Buff, as well as therefore on.
- These are the alone negative traits you lot should live on happy with: Gastrophobia, Pacifist, Squeamish, Yokel, Irritable Bowel, as well as Small Bladder. The balance are much to a greater extent than problem than the dupes are worth.
You tin send away run into inwards a higher house the iii dupes I settled on. If, similar me, you lot halt upward amongst a Night Owl on your team, as well as therefore piece they’re sleeping at the halt of your inaugural of all wheel you lot should caput into the scheduling tab as well as create a novel schedule for that dupe, therefore that they’re ever at piece of work during the iii default “sleeping blocks”.
Oxygen Not Included starts you lot inwards the pump of an asteroid, amongst null but iii dupes, a Printing Pod, as well as a Ration Box of food, as well as a vague indication to start digging.
(Cycle 1) The Problem of Urine Sleep
- Priorities: Outhouse (x2), Wash Basin (x2), Pitcher Pump, Cot (x3)
So, you’ve landed inwards the pump of an asteroid, as well as already our attending has turned towards urination. The top priority for your inaugural of all wheel is to flora a latrine area: dig out a dead-end somewhere nearby, as well as build 2 Outhouses at the halt of it, amongst 2 Wash Basins at the entrance amongst their arrows pointing away from the Outhouses (so that dupes launder their hands when exiting the latrine area).
But that’s non all! The other essential matter you lot demand is a provide of water: else neither Outhouses nor Wash Basins volition function. So dig towards the nearest provide as well as build a Pitcher Pump to suck upward all that lovely soon-to-be-toilet-water.
Once you’ve got those iii things working, the immediate crisis is over. You’re no longer inwards danger of your dupes icon your asteroid yellow. The side yesteryear side measuring is to flora an initial barracks expanse where your dupes tin send away sleep, therefore plop downwards iii Cots inwards a divide room nigh the Latrine.
This is what I accomplished inwards my inaugural of all cycle: 2 Outhouses, 2 Wash Basins (always receive got every bit many Wash Basins every bit Outhouses), a Pitcher Pump, iii Cots, as well as the beginnings of the side yesteryear side step, which is…
(Cycle 2) The Problem of Power Research
- Priorities: Manual Generator, Battery (x2), Research Station, Oxygen Diffuser
Now that your dupes receive got a house to salve themselves, it’s fourth dimension to expect towards power. Many of the solutions to the diverse problems that arise throughout Oxygen Not Included require power. For now, all we’ll demand is a unmarried Manual Generator hooked upward to a brace of Batteries.
The inaugural of all 2 things you’ll demand that require ability are a Research Station (so you lot tin send away set your researcher to piece of work thinking upward novel ways to solve problems), as well as an Oxygen Diffuser. The Oxygen Diffuser won’t live on needed for some other wheel or 2 but you lot mightiness every bit good build it all at nowadays as well as disable the Diffuser until all the natural Oxylite providing Oxygen to your base of operations has run out.
Remember to claw it all upward amongst wires! In total, you’ll demand 1200-1400 Copper Ore to create all this, therefore brand certain you lot mine whatever immediate patches of Copper Ore around your starting location.
You mightiness every bit good house all of these buildings on the same level, therefore that you lot tin send away preserve on Copper Ore yesteryear connecting it all via a unmarried draw of wire.
(Cycle 3) The Problem of Food
- Priorities: Microbe Musher, Basic Farming Research
We’ve sorted our initial Power provide as well as the basic needs of our dupes, but the nutrient inwards our Ration Box won’t final us long. Our innovation for getting us through the inaugural of all hundred cycles or to a greater extent than volition live on to build a Mealwood farm therefore nosotros tin send away feed our dupes amongst Liceloaf, but we’re non quite ready for that yet, as well as nosotros demand our dupes to non starve inwards the interim.
So, on Cycle 3 our priorities are twofold: first, nosotros demand to acquire our researcher started on the “Farming” department of the tech tree, inaugural of all amongst Basic Farming as well as heading instantly on to Meal Preparation. And second, nosotros demand to build as well as claw upward a Microbe Musher as well as set it to churn out endless Mush Bars – because nutrient poisoning is preferable to starvation.
Besides this, Cycle 3 is a skillful fourth dimension to expand the base of operations a petty more. You’ll run into below I’ve placed doors at the entrances to our bath as well as barracks expanse therefore that nosotros acquire the Morale boost from those completed rooms (if you’ve no catch what I’m talking about, hitting F11 in-game to convey upward the Room Overlay). Your Printing Pod volition also give you lot the option for a 4th dupe this cycle. Use the same criteria every bit I set out at the start of this guide. If at that topographic point are no suitable candidates, you lot tin send away ever pick the non-dupe offering, or turn down it altogether. Remember, to a greater extent than dupes isn’t ever a skillful matter every bit you’ll demand to maintain them fed as well as oxygenated. They’ve gotta live on worth the trouble.
By the halt of Cycle 3, I receive got a 4th Dupe amongst Cot installed, Basic Farming researched, as well as a Microbe Musher hooked upward as well as ready to churn out Mush Bars until nosotros tin send away transition over to Liceloaf.
(Cycle 4) The Problem of Food, Part 2
- Priorities: Mealwood Farm
The Food Saga continues. Hopefully yesteryear this fourth dimension your researcher volition receive got finished researching Meal Preparation, which volition allow you lot to acquire starting amongst your Mealwood Farm using your shiny novel Farm Tiles.
For the base of operations layout I’m using (8 dupes per barracks), it’s a skillful catch to house downwards a farm of thirty Farm Tiles, which volition live on exactly plenty to maintain all 8 dupes fed. It’s okay if you lot don’t receive got plenty Mealwood seeds for all of them correct now; exactly flora nonetheless many you lot can.
This draw of piece of work may accept to a greater extent than than a unmarried wheel to complete. Here I am inwards the pump of Cycle 5, exactly almost to genuinely flora my Mealwood seeds.
(Cycle 5) The Problem of Oxygen Algae
- Priorities: Enable Oxygen Diffuser, Dig out Algae Copper Ore, Research, 2nd Manual Generator
While you’re getting your Mealwood Farm set up, this is a skillful fourth dimension to plough your Oxygen Diffuser dorsum on if you lot disabled it earlier. You’re probable non to receive got much to a greater extent than Oxylite left yesteryear Cycle 5.
The other matter to accept stock of is your textile reserves. Check the dropdown carte on the right-hand side of your covert for anything you’re depression on, especially Algae as well as Copper Ore every bit these are essential as well as slightly rarer than the usual Dirt as well as Sandstone that everything is made from inwards your starting biome.
Also brand certain you lot maintain researching. Your inquiry dupe should exercise petty else. After Meal Preparation is finished, beeline to Advanced Research as well as and therefore pick upward Power Regulation for the Jumbo Batteries it gives you.
And at nowadays would live on a skillful fourth dimension to add together a 2nd Manual Generator to your ability station therefore that you lot tin send away easily maintain Oxygen Diffuser, Research Station, as well as Microbe Musher powered at all times.
Looking at the Oxygen Overlay, you lot tin send away run into some areas of my base of operations had started to darken later the Oxylite ran out; but amongst the Oxygen Diffuser at nowadays running, things are already starting to brighten.
(Cycle 6) The Problem of Storage Pollution
- Priorities: Create Water Lock for Pollution area, build Storage Bins
You’ll no incertitude receive got tonnes of debris littering every surface of your base, which dupes loathe amongst a passion (check out how much of an touching on debris makes on the Decor Overlay using F8). So you’ll demand to create a bunch of Storage Bins therefore dupes receive got somewhere to seat all this trash. I’d recommend 10-15 Bins to set about with, somewhere off to the side of your base.
The other work is slightly to a greater extent than complex. We’re going to install a Water Lock therefore that nosotros receive got a house to shop the nasty polluted materials that come upward from our Latrine. Outhouses make Polluted Dirt, as well as Wash Basins make Polluted Water. Both these things coughing out Polluted Air, which isn’t overnice to receive got floating around. Hence the Water Lock.
A Water Lock is a manner of creating an airtight barrier betwixt 2 areas, as well as it’s genuinely real easy. Check below for reference: you’ll demand a V-shaped depression inwards the ground, as well as you’ll demand to install a Bottle Emptier side yesteryear side to it, amongst Auto-Bottle enabled therefore that dupes volition fill upward the infinite upward amongst water. Once it’s done, deconstruct the Bottle Emptier, as well as build a Compost Heap (for the Polluted Dirt) as well as some other Bottle Emptier over a pocket-sized pit (for the Polluted Water) on the other side.
And at that topographic point you lot receive got it! You at nowadays receive got a manner to dispose of Polluted textile without it constantly introducing Polluted Air into your base. Dupes won’t similar going at that topographic point much (they don’t similar to go through water), but luckily they’ll alone demand to acquire at that topographic point sparingly anyway.
On the left, you lot tin send away run into my Water-Locked pollution expanse inwards progress, amongst room for both Compost as well as a pocket-sized Polluted Water dump. Meanwhile, on the right, you lot tin send away run into the beginnings of my storage area.
(Cycle 7) The Problem of Morale Rot
- Priorities: Debris, Rooms, Sterilise Food, Super Computer
Now that your storage expanse is built, it’s likely an catch at this betoken to exactly set everyone who isn’t on critical tasks (research, providing power) to sweep upward the debris throughout your base, because Dupes loathe mess.
Another matter worth considering if you lot haven’t done therefore already is turning all your rooms into actual rooms to gain the associated morale bonus. With bath as well as barracks this volition live on easy; you lot tin send away run into below that I’ve also started putting together a Recreation Room as well as a Massage Clinic (requires Employment as well as Interior Decor techs) for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of a morale boost.
Another large of import matter to know is that your nutrient volition rot within a few cycles if you lot don’t maintain it inwards a sterile environment. Fortunately, there’s an tardily solution to this. Deconstruct your Ration Box, as well as build some other 1 at the bottom of your base of operations where it’s 100% CO2. Carbon Dioxide is sterile, therefore your nutrient volition live on preserved forever every bit long every bit the CO2 stays there.
Finally, maintain to research! Build a Super Computer if you lot haven’t already done so, as well as start heading towards the Sanitation as well as Distillation techs.
All this volition likely accept several cycles, as well as that’s okay, because you’ve earned yourself a chip of a recess from the “always something to fix” mindset that Oxygen Not Included forces you lot to adopt.
Massage Clinic on the left, as well as Recreation Room on the right. Massage Tables are a hell of a drain on your ability at this point, therefore I would maintain them disabled for now.
(Cycle 12) The Problem of Transportation
- Priorities: Fire Poles, Tiles
Fire Poles are great, as well as you lot should innovation from Cycle 1 to contain them into your base. They terms a fair amount of Copper Ore, but they drastically growth the efficiency of your base of operations as well as the transportation of your dupes. Refined Renovations is the tech you lot need, therefore brand a start towards that if you lot haven’t already, as well as and therefore seat some Fire Poles downwards beside your chief ladders.
If you lot receive got some spare dupe-power, you lot mightiness also desire to accept this fourth dimension to supersede whatever natural floors, walls, as well as ceilings to your base of operations amongst Tiles, because non alone exercise they amend decor as well as morale, but they also allow dupes to run faster through your base.
By the start of Cycle 15, I receive got 2 Fire Poles side yesteryear side to my chief ladders. You volition also notice my attempts to motility the broad apartment expanse of H2O that used to be below my bath into a overnice neat reservoir.
(Cycle 15) The Problem of Water
- Priorities: Top upward H2O reserves if needed
You may non demand to exercise this if you lot got lucky amongst your the world seed, but I needed to at around this point, therefore I’ll include it. Our side yesteryear side large projection volition require us to receive got a corking bargain of readily accessible water, as well as piece I receive got a overnice amount already, it could definitely live on improved.
If you’re playing along amongst the same seed, you lot may receive got noticed an enormous provide of H2O inwards a higher house the base, which would live on perfect if non for its awful positioning. So I decided to create a single-block tunnel through my base of operations (walling it off therefore I don’t drown everything inwards water), as well as drilled into the bottom of the H2O reservoir inwards a higher house therefore it relocates to a to a greater extent than accessible position.
As I said, you lot may non demand to exercise this, but if you lot do, as well as therefore this is how it’s done!
The breakthrough 2nd every bit my dupes drill into the bottom of the enormous H2O reservoir inwards a higher house my base, as well as it all deluges downwards through the carefully crafted tunnel inwards my base of operations to top upward my existing reservoir. Feels skillful man.
(Cycle 18) The Problem of Urine, Part 2
- Priorities: Replace Latrine amongst Washroom
Your inaugural of all large project, as well as your inaugural of all foray into the wonderful the world of plumbing, volition live on the creation of a fully-functional Washroom, containing Lavatories, Sinks as well as Showers. You’ll also demand a Water Sieve inwards your Polluted area, some Liquid Reservoirs below your Washroom, as well as a Liquid Pump at the bottom of your H2O reservoir. Oh, as well as a tonne of Liquid Pipes as well as Wires connecting it all properly.
Sounds similar a lot, as well as it’ll accept you lot a few cycles, but it’s non that bad really. Check the below prototype every bit a direct on how to claw it all up. Remember that you’ll demand to feed H2O into the organization from the Liquid Pump to set about with, but 1 time you lot receive got plenty for the Washroom to function, disconnect the Liquid Pump as well as allow the organization run on its own. Washrooms output to a greater extent than liquid than they input, therefore eventually your Liquid Reservoirs volition live on filled upward as well as you’ll demand to bargain amongst that, but this won’t come about for some other 80-100 Cycles, therefore it’s null to worry almost correct now.
Congrats – that was the biggest projection you lot needed to consummate within your inaugural of all thirty cycles!
Make certain you lot don’t confuse your inputs as well as outputs! The H2O should caput from Washroom to Water Sieve to Liquid Reservoirs as well as dorsum to Washroom.
(Cycle 23) The Problem of Oxygen, Part 2
- Priorities: Add some other Oxygen Diffuser if needed
This is a skillful fourth dimension to revisit your Oxygen province of affairs as well as run into if your dupes are getting all the life-giving gases they need. If not, as well as therefore merely add together some other Oxygen Diffuser. It’ll utilisation upward to a greater extent than Power as well as Algae, but your province of affairs amongst both should live on fine, as well as besides, they alone run when the ambient gas pressure level is below maximum, therefore it’s non similar they’ll both live on running 24/7.
I decided to deconstruct 1 of the 2 Massage Tables that I wasn’t using anyway, therefore I could add together some other Oxygen Diffuser higher upward inwards my base.
(Cycle 25) The Problem of Food, Part 3
- Priorities: Farm Station, Mess Hall
If you lot haven’t done therefore already, I’d house downwards a Farm Station inwards the same room every bit all your Mealwood therefore you lot tin send away exercise goodness from the Greenhouse room morale bonus. Now’s also a skillful fourth dimension to notice a skillful spot for a Mess Hall if you lot haven’t already. All you lot demand for at nowadays is a room amongst a door as well as 8 or therefore Mess Tables inside. If you’ve got an creative mortal as well as the required techs, you lot tin send away set them going on turning it into a Great Hall too, for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than morale!
The beginnings of my humble Mess Hall. As fourth dimension goes on you lot tin send away expand this into a spacious as well as well-decorated Great Hall to give your dupes the maximum morale benefit.
(Cycle 30) The Problem of What To Do Nex
- Priorities: Power, Oxygen, Exploration, Expansion
No incertitude you’ve reached Cycle thirty amongst relative ease if you lot followed this Oxygen Not Included guide. Here’s my base of operations at around the Cycle thirty mark, for reference:
But what’s side yesteryear side for you lot as well as your dupes?
Now you’re entering what I would telephone vociferation upward the mid-game. Here the problems that demand solving are farther apart, but require much to a greater extent than fourth dimension to solve. Things similar putting together a proper Power Station filled amongst Coal Generators as well as Hydrogen Generators (preferably within an Ice Biome filled amongst Wheezeworts therefore that null overheats). Things similar edifice a self-powered Electrolyzer System (commonly called a “SPOM” – Self-Powered Oxygen Module) that uses H2O instead of Algae to pump Oxygen through your base. Things similar exploring into other biomes inwards your search for Cool Steam Vents as well as Natural Gas Geysers therefore your base of operations tin send away ambit the side yesteryear side degree inwards terms of ability generation as well as self-sufficiency.
