Oxygen Not Included Tips & Tricks

by Falagar / Articles, Misc. Guides / 26 May 2017

Early in the game, you might think you have enough algae. But NO, you don’t.

Build at least 2 Massage Tables, especially if your stress level is reaching 40-50%. You should try to avoid using them as much as possible, but it’s better to let them rest on the table instead of stressing out (>80%)

Watch for warning notifications, dupes are not the smartest creature on the asteroid, sometimes they can kill themselves in the most unpredictable scenario.

Exploring is good, but be careful not to expand too much or open a big vacuum area when your oxygen production is still low.

Taking a new dupe is okay, but be very careful with your oxygen & food supply.

Certain dupes can fart, and it releases natural gas.

Some resources are more scarce than others, be very careful. Some examples: In the early game: Algae, clean water, and metal (copper, gold). At the mid-late game: Sands and coal.

Hatch & puff are useful. Rule of thumb, don’t kill any creature before you actually know what they do (good or bad).

Hatch will eat any ore and then poop out coal (fuel for Coal Generator, produce electricity).

With a bit of work, you can catch creatures and build a cage for them.

You can’t see it, but actually, there are 5 hatches there, standing on the same tile.

Puff will breathe polluted oxygen and then poop out slime (can be converted into algae).

Morbs are producing polluted oxygen.

You might think mealwood will be your stable food supply. But NO, it is not.

First of all, if you don’t reach excellent yield, they won’t give any seed back, so you can run out of them.

Second, they are low-quality of food. You shouldn’t depend on them at mid-late game, they are causing stress to your high-level dupes.

Farming has 3 yields: Standard, Good, and Excellent. Different plants have different conditions to meet. But to reach an Excellent yield, you need to fulfill all of their conditions (fertilize, irrigate, ideal temperature & gas pressure).

Don’t freak out with unfriendly/toxic gases, but you should start worrying when they are getting out of control. Polluted oxygen and sickness are not a major issue for now. But don’t get used to it, because the developer will change this in the future.

Build Airlocks in your base, especially in certain areas that are polluted or toxic.

For polluted oxygen, you can set it up pretty easily. Just build a room with a closed-door on both sides and put Air Deodorizer inside that room:

Blue is the airlock room, purple is the Air Deodorizer.

For a more complex airlock (usually for toxic area), you can build something like this:

Having 2 or longer corridors to make sure the toxic gas won’t come out easily.

Green is the vacuum airlock room. It has 2 gas pumps connected to atmo switch.

Gas pump is for pumping gas and atmo switch is a programmable switch that can be set when to active/off depending on the air pressure. So I set it up to where there is gas pressure in the room, they will pump the gas back in.

Blue is the first room that has contact with the toxic area. That machine that is hanging inside the room is a gas filter, I set it to filter out all the toxic gas.

Algae is not your best oxygen solution. You need to move on to Electrolyzer.

It uses clean water to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen (pink) is lighter than O2, so it’ll go upward. There are several ways to set it up:

Build a pyramid or house roof shape base and build a gas pump at the top, then build an electrolyzer at the bottom of your base. Oxygen will distribute by itself and hydrogen will gather at the top of your base. Connect your gas pump to a gas filter and then deliver it to a hydrogen generator to produce power.

Build a special room for it. Build electrolyzer & gas pump in the same room and then connect the pipe to the gas filter to separate oxygen & hydrogen.

#DupesLivesMatter, remember to take care of your dupe. When stress starts to get out of control, it will be quite hard to handle. It is like a snowball effect and your colony is doomed before you realize it.

Watch your decor, some buildings have bad decor and it is bad for your dupes. (use decor overlay)

Watch your base temperature, some building emits heat and can be overheated (they’ll break). The temperature is usually a late-game problem though.

Explore and find the geyser, currently, there is 2 geyser in the game:

Steam Geyser: it emits steam & produces hot clean water.

Natural Gas Geyser: It emits natural gas (can be used to fuel Generators for electricity).

Please don’t do this (it’s sad), but sometimes sacrifices are needed. When your colony is about to die and some dupes are causing it to fall. You can kill them off to save the colony. The easiest way is to lock them up and let them die (slowly :<)

ALT+S to use the camera view freely, it also hides the GUI. Can be used to take cool screenshots 🙂

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.
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