"I finally got my head around this game", I said to myself like a fool

I respect that this guy is able to talk fast while still being coherent. Makes the tutorial way shorter than normal for the same amount of information.

OMFG this is amazing. I've played over 900 hours since the launch of EA. Never got into the mid-game as defined in this video. I always found getting setup to make oil and plastics super complicated. Also never have used steal or steam turbines. This has made me not able to enjoy about half the content in-game. Thanks to this video I believe I'm ready to finally able to get past the mid-game hump!

This tutorial has been needed by someone for a long time. Thank you. I get stuck at about cycle 200 because I'm unsure how to handle heat and plastics.

19:45 "This is just a standard setup." Me, learning most of this first the first time: *begins hyperventilating*

"Give me one second while I sweep up this gunk." *Takes 5 cycles.*

THIS is the video I've been searching for. THANK YOU. I'm tired of videos that are titled "Let's make plastic" and it turns into a 40 minute tour of the happenings of the cycles, with no info on setting things up... Just making plastic from something they've already built.

The mid-game transition always felt like it had insurmounatble cyclical dependencies. Now they're simply surmountable cyclical dependencies!

So essentially my problem for "The Learning Gap" is that I'm caring too much about the environment

You're fast becoming my favorite source for oni videos!

I really appreciate a tutorial like this. Thanks for making it Francis. Before watching this my stuff was downright scattered. Between this and petrol boiler I might just get to space.

I'm late to this game, but this series is awesome. well paced, informative, funny at times (I'm looking at you pre-chill). Thankyou so much, it's massively opened the game for me.

Another great nugget Francis... I especially like the "Here's one I made earlier" cooking show line. :) cheers mate.

This was an excellent tutorial! It covered the required concepts without delving too deep into secondary concerns (how cooling loops work, how to set up exo-suit docks, how steam turbines work, etc.) keeping the information concise and focused. When I initially saw the 20+ minute run time I was a little apprehensive but I never once was like, "Yeah, get on with it!" like I am with so many tutorials. Keeping a distinction between stream recordings and tutorials is a thing for me. I appreciate it a lot!

Almost a year old content and still so valid, ty! Heads up in case anyone fubars like I did. The temp on the Thermo Aquatuner is ABOVE 50F not Below 50F ^^. I kept freezing my pipes and breaking it. Took me a second to realize what I had done.

This is so helpful! I remember how confused I was when first started to implement machinery like press or refinery and I thought about these as very late-game material. Your tutorial can save colonies at the brink of a restart! :)))

I suggest using salt water instead of polluted water, since the nearest water will evaporate before the polluted water, causing it to offgas if you are unlucky like me. Great tutorial! I've used it a couple times now and I believe I am getting the hang of it. Very helpful for learning mechanics of the game as well.

Just got this game and I'm absolutely loving it! One thing I've noticed on all these tutorials is how clean and efficient the bases are. My bases always seem to be scattered/patched together. I kind of enjoy the look of being scattered right up until my energy drops out and all my dupes starve to death :D

this videos are great, man. I like that your designs actually apply to real bases, I've seen lots of tutorials where people just use the debug mode and it's not so helpful for me, personally. I like doing things the hard way, no cheating!

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks a ton! I've completely hollowed out a map from magma to space but trying to put this together safely has always been rough. I'll absolutely be incorporating these designs. Thanks again!

Even four years later these guides are excellent. Thank you for sharing.

Just got into the game - your tutorials are brill!!! This one is actually one of your best. Please keep them coming! Without doubt my #1 ONI KZfaqr :)

Great work again FJ. I really wish we could get more of these practical how-tos and less of the math crunching theorycrafting ONI tutorials. You've become my go-to guy for ONI help. Thanks a lot.

I can't emphasize enough how crazy it is that I can sit through every tutorial you make. Literally no one else has ever made it that easy for me. ❤ And enjoyable. You're the whole package!

Poluted waterland then regular water on top to make a vacume ..... Mind officially blown away ! Awesome tutorial 😃 thx

My second time building this, I've used your trick for automated liquid locks, and automated the filling of the aquatuner section.. Now I just gotta plan where things go, and dive into some petroleum boiling.. Your videos have been a great help into me understanding how to do things in this game. Thanks!

An oasis without gold amalgam literally doubles the time it takes to do anything industrial. Amazing tutorial as always 👌🏻

I have now watched this a couple of times and cheered before I actually started to dare building a brick myself. Dude, you rock!

These videos have been really helpful and they are making my experience that much better, thanks for taking the time.

This guy is amazing, and he really helped me get started on all the basics of ONI.

Fantastic tutorial! Maybe I can finally get past the "oops I melted another base" part of the game. Thanks Francis!

Done the "aggressive version" really neat, the dupes take kinda 50 cycles to finish all the digging, building, and setting up. the most annoying part is know what to do with all of that natural gas, since i already tapped a vent nearby and have 500t coal from the hatch-farming...

Thanks for you videos and teaching. Today I made my first steel ever. It didn't go as easy as you show. My oil was over 140 degrees. I finally got a few ides and just repaired the Gold Amalgam pump to pump the crude oil to a storage container. I went through some repair costs, but the crude was at 130 by the time I was pumping into the container. I now have almost 1kg of steel and I'll probably make a steel pump and then start destroying some area to make my "Power Brick." I am starting to really enjoy solving the problems this game throws at me. Thanks again.

Thank you very much for this, having a cornerstone to start from is really nice. It's also nice to know roughly where the mid-game starts.

9:33 "We have atmo suits, so we don't give a...we don't care" LOL GJ on the tutorials, base building and ALSO keeping it family friendly!

Very good instructions, enjoyable to watch... thank you! One minor improvement I found is not to use poluted water for filling in the steam area, but some other liquid like salt water. The poluted water generated poluted oxygen. Salt water will still leave behind some gunk (salt) when converted to steam, but you are sure that 100% of your steam boiler area is filled with steam.

I really appreciate you still coming back to comment and help viewers. I love this game. This is my first "try hard" playthrough and I'm having a blast! Do you think u will start a new playthrough in the near future?

What was holding me back, was the first step of acquiring the first batch of steel & plastic. I never knew what to do with all of the heat. You made it so simple. Do nothing. Just make the heat in a place that is already hot.

Thank you for this, I've just started thinking about the mid-game and how to get all that refined metal. I have it a bit easier since there's a huge glacier next to my base to dump all the heat into, but the general setup is very helpful.

I bought the game about 5 mins into this wonderful vid. Currently £13.41 _for the bundle_ on Steam in the sales. I've played lots of Factorio and Satisfactory but this fluids and thermodynamics view of the world is new and very appealing. I'm going to be coming back to this time and over again - there's so much to learn! Thanks again this is great. x

I never understood atmo-suits before just because they cost so much effort to recharge, this will really help

I'm on cycle 819 and just starting to get into steel/plastic production properly, this is a great help thanks!

This video is so great! I've played many bases but eventually quit them because i didnt know where to go after finish the early game and being stable and comfortable. Very well explained, ta.

This video is easily the best ONI tutorial you've done. I figured out some of the stuff in this video in my last base playthrough, but that said, the mid-game hump is a real thing and this puts you into a prime position to jump into your endgame mode. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I am at cycle 300 and still between early and mid game. Glad I am not the only one.

This is the third time I've watched this video! It has helped me to get steel started so big thanks for that as I was getting stuck in the same place every playthrough. I dug into the oil biome and very luckily spotted a zombie plant before I dug through to it so keep an eye out for that people!

After playing about 10 hours and browsing tutorial at youtube, I realized fallout shelter is more my speed.

It might be important to note that the automation wire needs to be routed elsewhere from the Liquid Pipe Thermo Sensor. Post Banhi's Automation Innovation Pack new setups the Reservoir will send a green signal so the Aquatuner runs forever causing freezing in the pipes.

Exactly what i have been searching for - the raw starting ways to effectively produce the basis for further "clean" production.

Going back my ONI history, this video was the most important video I had ever seen for improving my game. Thanks.

Explained so well FJ, as with other people I've never made it this far & only just got to digging out the map to expand. The quirks make my brain hurt 🤣🤣

This is the exact point my bases end up getting messy and fail. Thank you for this

Referring back to this after a break from playing. Near the end when you set up the oil refinery you add a liquid pipe element sensor. I can't think how this would be set up? If you select petroleum it is red constantly. What am I forgetting

So, quite late to the party, but the amount of progress I was able to make just from you explaining the steps in this video is insane, so thank you so much.

What does the power look like for the steam turbine setup? Do you power the industrial brick with the steam turbine and just use the coal to kick start it all, or are you just feeding the steam power back in to the grid and powering it off your existing power grid? Speaking specifically about Spaced Out DLC right now... would I just power it with my solar, and feed any excess power back to my solar grid, or once this is jump started will it power itself?

You're really good at sharing your experience in bite size packets, without melting my brain.

This is super useful. I've been producing steel for a while but I'm running into serious heat problems because I didn't know much about heat and set up something quick and messy. Going to have to make myself an industry block and tidy everything else in my complete hodge-podge mess of a base XD

This video. I watched it every time one of my colonies reaches the hump. That's countless times so far. And then I always find an excuse to not go through with it and start a new colony. The layout not being right, not having enough space, and having to cut through annoying biomes to make up for that (namely the one with the dreckos, hate those with a burning passion), never having enough workforce to get it done in a timely fashion (mainly because I refuse to work with more than five or six dupes at a time), you name it. And then reminding myself that there's no shame in being 250 cycles in and not even having achieved a plastic press, especially with five dupes running on wheels because I had the brilliant idea of unlocking the sustainability achievement, of all things. Anyways, I'm going on a tangent. Your tutorial nuggets are invaluable for this not-so-noob-friendly game. If any, you make it look much simpler than my own experience suggests. To me this is all rocket science. Speaking of which, I'm dreading reaching the point where I have to tackle space. Anyways. I wonder how many hours you put into this game already. I'm betting somewhere in the thousands.

Another fantastic episode, Unique and useful tutorial as well! I would make a kiln and start ceramic the instant I developed the technology.

"And you've got a water source to feed that electrolyzer" I wonder if you'll see this, Francis, but I was just wondering, I don't see any tutorial nuggets dealing with what you would consider a stable 'water source' or how you deal with getting water. I might just be missing it, of course. I doubt you'll respond, but if you do, thank you for your time.

Thanks Francis for all the great videos you put out for ONI. You've helped me in so many ways. Love your accent! As a clueless American, I'm curious as to what "brick" means in your videos. I'm kind of assuming you mean a kind of foundational module for your base, but I could be wrong. And, I absolutely live for "aaaaaaaand we're back..." :)

So my base is a literal sauna. And I have decided to get my dupes some help, and by help I mean me watching tutorials.

Thank you a whole lot for these, I always enjoy your content. New and old!

Really helpful video, not just this one, i had to use a few in conjuction to get to this, finally got it up and running, the 3 part newbie guide helped me figure that the lack of atmos suits was slowing alot of the progress down, so after finally learning that i should box my living area in and build suit docks i finally was able to demolish biomes instead of messing around carefully blocking gases etc. Also had to use the shorter tutorial about the research for getting to steam turbines never knew could just use a few weezeworts to give me enough radbolts to unlock the tech. But all in all i think one huge part of my mid game hump was just undervaluing atmos suits, the difference they make is ridiculous. The 3 part newbie series, the bit about radbolts and this should just make up one series, coz tied together it really gets you through, finally after stupid amounts of saves and restarts the game feels like its opening up 🤣

Absolutely phenomenal tutorial I was wondering what to do next with my base and I couldn't get around to doing it. This is will definitely help thank you

Thanks for the aquatuner setups. I'm a bit confused with the different versions though. So far I've seen three: 1.) Have the cooling loop run directly through the aqua tuner. Seems to be the most common and also seen here 2.) Your icebox design where you use a cold liquid as transfer medium 3.) Running the cooling loop into the steam chamber. Didn't know you can do that Are some of these better than others, or is it personal preference? For some easy steel you can also pump up some polluted water from a slime biome and dump the hot water right back into the pool. It's not a long term solution obviously, but it allows you to make some refined metal without advanced infrastructure

I just bought this game and haven’t played it yet. I only seen the early game until I watched this. I’m now terrified I’m never going to grasp this haha. Most of this went over my head. Hopefully after some play time it’ll make sense and I’ll re watch.

wow, that was such a good tutorial. I'm with my ateria base at over 200 days and well, the only thing where I have problems is refined metall. I tried to make a good power/oxygen machine from the other big ONI-YTer, (it starts with B) and well, I set up everything, the only problem is, I need refined metal for the cables and the smart batteries. I started to make it, but I have cooling problems, I'm not so far like you, as I don't have atmo suits really, but well you helped me to get something to cool my metal refinery to get tons of refined alu. I already could set up the atmo suit production, for at least one or two suits, as I was lucky and got a few refined iron from the pod, A other question: I got from the pod 3 slickster eggs, I set up a small room for 2 and I pump all the Co2 from my energy room (1 coal, 2 wood) in that room, so I get some cruide oil and get some Co2 and heat away from my power room. So... was it good to build it already? I mean the slickers are at near/in my base, heated up from the hot Co2 out of the power room. (~60°). The grooming table is in the co2 max pressed room and it's quite hard to groom these cute things

I just make closed by waterlock vacuum chamber and spill some oil inside. Placing oil refinery and gas pump there both made of gold and they will never overheat unless you overheat oil above 120C and forget to change pipes to isolated ones. Doing same thing for polymer presses, most of structures just need to stay in liquid splash to stay cool. And most important, all that system self-powered by oil and gas generators, adding refinery will help a lot, thanks for vid. Before I usually was cooling water basin for it by placing small portions of ice inside, may be helpful if you running low on water.

You explain things so welll compared to anyone else

Great video! Most ONI "tutorials" I find have a thumbnail bearing the promise to teach you something important about the game, and then turn out to be just some dude talking about pretty elementary stuff for 45 minutes and showing off their base. But not you! Kudos. I realize this is a little late for a question on a channel with that much traffic, but here it goes: I'v noticed you are using copper radiant pipes to dump the heat from your refineries. Can I safely use lead instead? i.e Does the steam chamber have a tendency to go over 325 celsius?

Been watching ton of vids on this game as I kept getting lost while playing. This was the most helpful.

I sometimes use large chimneys to dispose of heat. I dump it into all excess fluid and then I release the superheate steam and other fumes to space - I know I waste power, but that is for the sake of having a badass chimney.

Late to the party here, I have one issue with the refineries. If I dont do a setup I seen where they add a shutoff valve to it. Eventually the petrol gets to hot and bursts a pipe for me. That shutoff valve would stop the petrol from going back to the refinery and forcing it to circulate in the steam longer till it cools down enough to run more steel.

i'm so glad for the automation innovation update giving us tanks with automation output, so you don't have to build those contrived overflow sensors

I forget how big the asteroids were in the original game. Spaced out Asteroids are Wayyyy smaller than the regular ONI ones.

This clarified so much in simple enough fashion that I can build on the knowledge easily. Thank you so much for this!

sorry if this question's already been answered and, yes, I do know i'm rather late but I'd like to know what the point of the structure built at about 20:12. I know Francis mentions creating petroleum on the spot how ever I don't quite understand how it works. I'd appreciate any help or if anyone could explain it to me.

Thank you so much! I have just seen my first steam turbine working and I feel so inspired, like the nice little nerd I am :D . Now I only need to figure out why mine is not at full capacity.

This video is probably the most helpful video on any game I've ever played. Thank you.

At 16:32 you mention how you can queue up a bit more coolant to avoid the "awaiting coolant" notification that can show up. My dupes are running into it all the time and if I fill it with more then I get another notification saying "output pipe blocked." Would you be willing to elaborate a little more on how to deal with this, please?

holy brain, how does people came up with this. great tutorial!

the petrol priority loop and liquid sensor setup is literally killing me. i cant get it to work at all the way you lay it out and ive had to rebuild the whole damn thing three times now. i have other ideas with sensors on the tank, but i really want to get his to work. wtf am i missing?????? edit: FINALLY figured it out. the first one he shows on the petrol tanks is simply a shut off, not controlled discharge. Look later to see how to trap liquid in loop at sensor to completely empty one tank before starting refinery again. You can condense it more, but dear lord i feel kinda stupid now :). last rebuild incoming i suppose

I really like your route of going straight for a Metal Refinery with the oil. Very good. Will use that. I think drip cooling with water is the first cooling method somebody should learn about and it can use very little power. Throttle a mini-pump to 200g/s and it effectively uses only 12W. Better yet lol Throttle a regular pump to 200g/s and it effectively uses only 4.8W. I sometimes find mini-pumps are overrated unless you absolutely must have the most compact design possible. Which reminds me... I still wanted to try and make a SPOM with mini-pumps just for fun even though they are less efficient.(edit: nah... it's not very good)

I'd find it interesting to see how you would handle all of this on say Arboria (or I guess The Badlands). If you're on Arboria or the Badlands without geodes, you don't have gold amalgam, and don't find a cool slush geyser or polluted water geyser (is either of those guaranteed to exist on the map somewhere?), do you think it best to hazard an electrolyzer with a pump that probably will get damaged eventually from a warm water source, or do you try to use rust deoxidizers more?

does anyone else say "aaaaand we're back" with Francis at the beginning of all his videos?

Most of tutorial-makers for ONI avoid self-cooling turbines, and there is a point to it, like you need at least 2 turbines per metal refinery and have big thermal mass in steam chamber and many more, but it is a great way to tame all gold volcanoes, almost all cooper and none for iron (unless you make 2 turbines or you have weakling volcano, or go nuts with ~45 tons of steam per tile in steam chamber) and save some power on cooling. Maybe touch this topic on some of tutorials, like you not recommend but there is an alternative?

Cycle 279 now, time to make my mini industrial brick. Every time i've refined metals i've always just built a metal refinery and mass refined 99*100kg of xyz metals. Now i've got a better idea on how to begin and expand!

It seemed a bit off that you used 6 billion tons of refined gold making conductive wires and radiant pipes before setting up the "first" metal refiner. Are we supposed to use regular wires/pipes, or rock crushers, or just live with the heat until the cooling becomes operational? (Edit: Didn't realize this was part of a series, yes apparently I should be using the rock crusher.) I've been trying to get a cooling solution going but the heat from refining the amount of refined metal needed just for pipes and wires has made my base borderline uninhabitable. I guess the biggest takeaway for me here is to insulate the base and put all industrial machinery outside. (And not bother with transformers, which emit stupid amounts of unnecessary heat. Just use localized power generators).

Love your channel! Therapeutic voice mate. Is there such a thing as too much liquid in the aquatuner box? Having a hard time getting steam. (I think I emptied many hundreds Kg of SaltWater/Water)

As a SD this resonates with em so much. This is simple demonstration why you pay senior software developers more that to junior ones. They know how to avoid pitfalls and set the project on the right track for an expansion.

Thank you, I have been improving through this greatly.

It seems this tutorial predates some update that added automation to reservoirs? So instead of a sensor I can just run automation wires from the reservoirs to the refinery, right? Also this setup doesn't seem like it works the same as the one in your Practical Automation Tutorial, it's missing the not-gate. Building it this way would mean the refinery only turns on if the reservoirs are full and there's petroleum in the pipe, right? Regardless, thanks for the great tutorials!

Great stuff, as usual. One thing I don't fully understand, is why you dropped a layer of p-water in the cooler before adding clean water to push the gasses out - at 12:34 Why not just use clean water? I suspect it has something to do with the total amount... Because using only clean water would require a lot more kg's and puts too much in the cooler? (I'm figuring this out as I write this, apparently)... So, basically using p-water first, causes that only little clean water is needed to fill the entire cooler and drive the gasses out? Ohhhh it's a trick! :) Yea.. I think I've arrived... Gonna give it a shot. Thanks a lot for this series of videos man!

10:00 mark - i think i'll need to rewatch this bit multiple times to understand WTF you just speed talked me thru

At about the 10:00 mark you create the first steam turbine after gathering some Steel & Plastic, but you make the turbine out of Lead? Why use a metal that lowers the overheat temperature in a machine that you're actively spending effort to actually prevent it from overheating? I'm sure (hope) you have a good reason, but it's not mentioned there and so I wonder if it's a mistake you didn't realize until after this video was posted, or something? Also, I have heard you explain why you use polluted water in other areas, but if all you're trying to do is get rid of all the gases from the steam chamber, wouldn't using JUST regular water work just as good? Plus no dirt left behind when it evaporates. Lots of useful information here but also mixed with some confusing stuff, lol. Thanks

At 20:10 or so on the Oil Refinery, you forgot to mention this setup requires a NOT gate on the liquid sensor, without it, the refinery will remain off forever haha

I basically get all my plastic from the sleek dreckos or whatever they're called. I normally get most of my reed fibers from the normal ones. I don't mind thimblereeds but it's kind of a lot of water compared to just a little bit of dirt plus I get tasty eggs or drecko meat. 2:00 I don't know why but I don't use atmosphere suits enough. It's really basic simple things like this that are really helping me up my game. 2:40 I've barely even been down to the bottom of the map even after like 200 days lol. 3:30 That's a great place to dump heat as well I've just been dumping it in local water pools that geysers make then further heating the pools with aquatuners to cool the liquid when I want some of it. Giant already hot pile of oil way way far from my base sounds so many times better lol. I've found pacu's to be great for lime. I try and build my water or polluted water storage below my printer so that if I get pacus they can just flop their way to the water it doesn't even have to be directly below the printer either even if it's like 5 floors down they'll make their way towards the water most of the time. I don't try and tame or feed the pacus I just let them keep living out their lives in the water it creates a decent amount of food and lots and lots of egg shells. I still haven't done it but I want to cool polluted water so the cleaning ones spawn and then you could clean your water sand and energy free even though the polluted dirt from seives is nice. 11:40 The metal refinery that makes energy is exactly what I've been wanting to build. I want to do the same with my glass making building. 14:00 I am not understanding your vacuum thing I always just autistically like to pump it out lol.

80 odd hours of gameplay and several hours of tutorial videos and I'm only just realizing that you can rotate pretty much any building and not just liquid bridges

That giant pile of boiling hot obsidian..... LOL