I have over a thousand hours in this game and the bit with the ration box and a single hatch being fed the sedimentary rock is just brilliant, I never thought of that.

when most of guide are late-game/optimal, new players tend to get overwhelm and/or become indicisive during cycle 30-50 (when getting access to refined material, and more stuff) whether they should do something right away, or wait a little longer to do optimal one. this progressive guide really help a lot with that. teaching how can you start utilizing them early and on top of that, in detail for each step to optimize it remarkable

8.5 hatches per generator my dudes! If you get stone hatchlings and use a volcano to your advantage to feed the hatches, you could essentially have infinite food + coal

You can orient your ranches vertically to not need any oddly shaped sectioned off ranches. Your hatches are always close to the grooming station just the same

Don't forget to hide your conveyor rails in walls, floors or even doors. That way eggs count as "out of the room" and will minimise time critters have cramped debuff on them

Just Binge watched your max difficulty playthrough and your 150 dupe playthrough, moving onto your colonization playthrough. Man its addicting.

With the 25x4 tile ranch, and filling in with a door and two tiles: remove the tiles, and place a pneumatic door horizontally above the feeders. This'll increase the gasflow through the ranch (not being blocked by a solid tile, and having a 4tile high area to move, same principle as the 3tile wide ladder/firepole row), and the room won't look asymmetrical due to a corner tile in one end, for those who like that. (This is something I got from the comments section in one of @Francis John's videos a while back. Can't remember who said it, but I've been doing this ever since, as I do enjoy the look of a more symmetrical room) Another note: the patch that updated ranching (for the first time since it's introduction to the game) didn't add only grooming as a way of skilling up, but the actual wrangling aswell. With this, the athletics/operating gym of a hamsterwheel and lightbulb principle can be added to husbandry; a batch of 10 newly born hatches (as an example) in one room with a drop-off. Set the drop-off to no critter filters with auto-wrangle. Ranchers will come and wrangle, gain skill, but not move them (as long as all ranches are full), so when they naturally get free, the ranchers will come back and repeat the process. (Doing this, I had 3 ranchers, who started out with 1-3 base in husbandry, at about 12 base husbandry within a relatively short time. (More hatches in the room equals more experience per round, but more time spent training)) Great tutorial @Echo, pretty sure any newcomers to the game will have an easier time with food management 😀

Remember the extra room space can be used for storage, power systems, and any other misc room you may want. Stables are very lenient on the extra furniture and equipment. So you could have your coal generators in the same room. If built vertically you could give multiple entries to the stable leaving easy access or routing around your base. Kind like slicksters in hot boxes.

This is the best ONI hatching tutorial on KZfaq by far. Thank you for taking the time to make it.

Your tutorials are so comprehensive. Love it!

I love your tutorials! They're so thorough but never tedious and that's an impressive balance to strike.

Excellent tutorial, covering all angles, been playing for years and still learned something while being entertained at the same time.

This is by far the best tutorial I've seen on this topic. Very thorough and yet to the point.

This is so insanely helpful! Like someone pointed out most other guides have really complex setups that make no sense and you(new player) don't understand what is going on.

if u don't wanna have a cuddle pip ranch but still want them to hug eggs for you, just raise some wild ones. in case u forgot, cuddle pip can hug the eggs even if it is in the incubator, and no, u won't need to spend much reed fibers cuz u only need one to keep the system going. so the egg get double buffs lullabied by the dupes and hugs by the cuddle pip. also the cuddle pip can go on hugging spree if a dupe hug them make them hug more eggs

This video is excellent. Some things I knew but I didn't know why and you explained it here. Some other things were completely new to me. I just made specific farm designs I learned from Reddit but never knew why some things were the way they are.

This is a fantastic video. A lot of care and effort went into this. I learned a lot. Thank you.

Excellent tutorial. You explained the entire process very well and it was nice to see the logical progression of how to make a simple design a little more complicated one piece at a time instead of getting the most optimal arrangement all at once

Excellent tutorial, I have several hundred hours in this game and have largely gotten as far as I have through guesswork but I want to learn more about the systems - I play to binge several of your videos over the next few days. Great work!

what a fantastic tutorial. i wouldn't have expected it to cover automation. this is definitely a 100% tutorial for hatches. nice.

The absolute best tutorial on hatches that I have seen, great job and thank you. :)

Very helpful. Thank you!

This actually helped me A LOT compared to other ranching tutorials. It's a surprise that I even like playing this game because of how complex and difficult it can be. I'll make sure to work on my ranching and do something like this in my worlds. Tysm ❤️😂 Also side note, the little moments where you put an edit in the video that was 1000% unnecessary but cute helped my attention span actually stay on the video rather than wander lmao

Awesome stuff Echo!!

Really fantastic tutorial! Thank you! I’ve played ONI for a bit over 20 hours and I’m on my 3rd world and this is perfect. I’m definitely a beginner at ranching and this was on a great level

This video had a lot of stuff I had forgotten also. Lots of good tips!

I've been playing this game literally since it's beginning and I love learning new things I'd never thought of before - thank you!

I appreciate how you provide basic engineering principles though the medium of a relatable video game. I think you.

i like how your videos are linked together. yes, there are a lot of youtubers that say that they have a video about "x" subject but then you have to look for it. yours are really well tagged even with the thumbnail and it's just great.

Fantastic tutorial again. I just wanted to know how many criters I can have in my 64 tile ranch but watched it all and learned so much. Thank you!

Excellent explanation! Gonna start a new playthrough now. :)

This video is so good man thankyou

The animation for the waiting hatch is very cute... lol. The tapping leg perfectly captures impatience in one small movement.

Great vid Echs. You're tutorials are the best!

Excellent work!

Great content and explanations. Very easy to follow. Thanks.

34:20 You need a night shift rancher, because that 600 off, 40 on, timer will gradually push the incubation/lullabied time to the rancher's sleeping period. I would also use the values (600 + 40) on, 40 off, because if the dupe managed to lullaby late, say 39 seconds into the ON time, using a 600 + 40 setup means the next day the dupe would only have 1 seconds on lullaby period.

This is a video I will definitely be referring back to from time to time. :-)

That was fantastic.

I love going hatches early game! for some reason stables still still count with industrial buildings inside. I usually stick my coal generators in the big empty spaces, and becomes a space for most of my stations too, with 3 stables. The powered stuff will eventually need cooling, but hopefully by that time you’re on to bigger and better power sources.

You did great job! Thank you man

Amazing tutorial

ty foe the deep dive, i recently came back to play oni, and i realise i usually use plant base diets for my dupe back then and only use meats n eggs when its laying around. This will help me better to do the ranch effectively rather than do the rooms, and let it be.

Awesome vid!

Amazing, I learned a lot, time to reproduce it in the game! :D

In my experience with incubators, both lighting and Husbandry skill level affects how fast they hug them. Also, if you don't need the coal, feeding the Hatch/Sage Hatch food is more resource effective, it'll cost 35kg dirt per cycle to feed one Hatch on Meal Lice, as opposed to 140kg from feeding it dirt directly. The amount of coal they drop is based on the weight of the material they consume, Meal Lice is second best food, after the Grubfruit for coal, though even Grubfruit is only 2-3% of the coal that eating raw material gives. From what i can tell, Hatches convert 50% mineral weight and 75% food weight into coal, while Sage Hatches convert 100% mineral and food weight into coal. If the hatch gets to lay the maximum of 16 eggs in it's lifecycle, then the average calories consumed per egg laid is 4178.125, a small net loss, in exchange for Barbecue tier food.

Ohhh… very impressive. Thank u for your tutorial.

thanks bro this really help me a lot

Very comprehensive thankyou 👍

What a great tutorial. Thanks for creating it.. 👍👍👍

I love this game, although I'm not a very experienced or good player. I usually play 10-15 hours and come back after months and find updates that i need to re-learn about. Hatching is something I've never cared to try because of that besides some basic farming. Your video is easily comprehensible and moderately fun for this topic. Excellent stuff! 👌

Excellent content

I subscribed to you just from this tutorial. Thank you for explaining it to me clearly & even including some automation things. I just found the game & I have loved playing it, but I am intimidated by the automation & advance stuff.

Tank you... i have enjoied your video.... Keep it on 😊

Thanks!

I have about 700 hours in this game and I always learn something new

Fun tip: You can make your ranch 100 tiles, use a door with a block on top of it about 5 blocks away from the grooming station, and one block in the other corner at the end of the ranch. This traps the hatches near the grooming station. Then use the rest of the ranch as a farm. Congratulations. You just saved a ton of space and travel time for your farmer/ rancher dupes. Use Sweepers and conveyors to transport everything for even less work load. :D

Just started to play this game. I killed 2 communities, the third one was on the blank of extinction but a dupe saved the day, and now I have 4 and I was able to grow food. Now I am learning ho to address gas and animals. This game is a full time job!

The door & tile thing in the hatch room, could also be for player who wants to do things on the oppisite side of the door. Could be dropping more valuable resources on the other side. Can do almost anything in there as long as other critters are not involved.

I typically use 8 wide x 12 height hatch ranches (8 x 12 = 96). It serves the same purpose as the door + tile stack, requiring only one sweeper. But it also allows for a walking platform above the hatches which the dupes can use to move around the ranch without risking any of them escaping through the doorway, or to shoot the hatches from above without risking getting hurt, if you do that. It isn't necessary very often to shoot them, but it's there when you need it. Stone hatches can bite hard enough to send dups to a med bed for a cycle if they fight more than a couple of them. Avoiding the risk is worth it when it is trivial to accomplish. 12w x 8h is another convenient size for them sometimes. I rarely use a 24w x 4h configuration like what you show here because I reckon skinny & tall beats short & fat most of the time with hatches. I prefer short & fat for dreckos mostly because you need farm tiles for them and they're easier to manage along the bottom of the chamber necessitating more width there. So, 12w x 8h, 16w x 6h, 24w x 4h, or 36w x 3h all work better depending on what space is available. 12w x 8h is nice because it perfectly fits to span two floors vertically in a layout which uses 4 tiles/floor...the most common layout most people use in early game.

I always throw my mealwood farms in my hatch ranches so not using the door + tile barrier isn't a good option. That's just my thing - with so many ways to play this game, it's great they added another option with the grooming queue.

Great video as always with interesting tips, but from my experience if you don't have infinity source of material, it's better to sometimes look how much you have left of it. By my irresponsibility I forgot about our beloved hatches for over a dozen cycles with my gigantic stables and to my surprise despite hundreds of new hatches hatched, they also ate through the whole bunch of my 150t poor sand. That was a funny lesson to me (despite having problems with sand lmao)

there are acceptable caveats to clay, sand, polluted dirt, dirt, iron ore, fertilizer, and slime when feeding the hatches and hatch variants: 1. clay is produced from deoderizers, which can be serviced with regolith as opposed to sand. hatches don't have the ability to eat regolith, but can eat the clay produced from it. so, if you have an asteroid which has meteors delivering regolith, then all you need is a team of deodorizers and a polluted water source. 2. sand is very important to save, but is very abundant in an oasis asteroid, almost on the same level as igneous and granite. alternatively, the sand could be produced via poke shells. even though their output is reduced, it is still a viable method of a continuous food source for the hatch. 3. 4 ethanol distillers (required to run a petrol generator in full) produces enough polluted dirt to feed 5 sage hatches continuously, enough to run a single coal generator at continuous power indefinitely. this is the best combo with the ethanol distillers for power. 4. dirt is produced from polluted dirt, slime, and fertilizer. it isn't as practical as the parent 3, for feeding sage hatches, but it is an option that is abundant on the forest biomes, until ethanol distillers are up and running. most often giving more than 600 tons worth. 5. when it comes to smooth hatches, they are not as efficient as metal refineries, but they are more productive at producing refined metal. with that said, they need a lot of it, and the best place to get metal ore, is the rust deoxidizer. this produces 400 g/s of iron ore, or 240 kg/cycle. this is enough for 2.4 smooth hatches for a long time. maybe not indefinite, but long enough to make as much steel as you want. 6. fertilizer is by far the worst way, but it is the most accessible way to support a sage hatch ranch. 18 synthesizers (enough to keep two nat gas generators running continuously), has the ability to produce 1296 kg of fertilizer, enough for 9.25 sage hatches. this will support 2 coal generators continuously, while only using 54% of the dirt requirements. 7. slime is the most power efficient way to support sage hatches. a puft drops 47.5 kg of slime per cycle. 5 sage hatches (enough to support one coal generator) requires 14.7 pufts, or 2.45 stables worth. to make this work for power, it would be best to have 15 small puft ranches, instead of multiple large ranches, due to polluted oxygen consumption.

I also just figured out that you can store gas or liquid reservoirs in the extra space if you are using the tile and door trick. You can probably also but a bunch of bins and use it for solid storage as well.

So sick

Great ranching tutorial, amazing summary. Only bit I missed in this is the 100% conversion rate of Sage Hatches, which differs from the other hatch types. There are super neat ways to combine wild arbor trees, pip dirt production into Sage Hatches for more coal. As each pip generates ~20kg of dirt, you'd need 7 pips to feed a single Sage Hatch for 140kg coal per cycle, with likely lots of excess lumber for other things, if you are running a full size arbor tree farm with 8 pips. This can be particularly useful if you need coal for refined carbon into diamond within the DLC. Either way, great step by step tutorial for hatches. Sure there are many people getting lots of info out of this for quiet some time.

12 tiles per hatch, that's what i needed to know Thanks

Dude thx so much I was using plants as my food and I didn’t work because the heat and I needed to get a new food source. So thank you

you can also use 2 critter sensor, one for eggs and the other for critters connected to a AND gate and the output goes to the auto sweepers. And then you set the auto sweeper to take the eggs only if the critters are above 6 and the eggs above 2. that way the sweeper take the 2 eggs to drown the critters but still leave 6 critters alive so they lay more eggs. Doing this way they never get cramped as their numbers never get above 8 for a 96 tile ranch

I am not even playing oxygen but I loved this video

28:00 this works just as well with a dispenser above the chamber as rail dropping eggs from above. as long as that door is pneumatic(AKA NON SOLID). With shipping you can just make a single tile of water, surrounded by walls from all 4 sides, an corner pull the meat out, with sweeper, so that thing becomes tiny, and hidden between 2 of your ranches,

You forget to say, that hatches could fight back the slaughter and traumatize your dups.

I use hatches primarily as coal producers. My method requires periodic culling but only because they eventually produce so much coal I run out of storage solutions to keep it all. I use the same small room you started with (about 32 tiles total 10x3 usually with an extra tile over work station(s) for lighting), but I leave the door open to a natural floor, open "free-range" area. This area is connected to all the rest of the non-room explored area of the map. The hatches never feel cramped in the free-range and the size of this area only increases as you explore and open more of the map. This open area is dead-ended to hatch pathing to other areas of the map usually by a two or three tile gap bridged by ladder tiles so the hatches can't go beyond their free-range. I usually make this anywhere from 5 to 16 (or so) tiles long and 2 tiles high. I then train two ranchers and *put them on a night cycle work schedule* (even better if they have the "night owl" trait) making sure their off time and bed time are at least two or three hours after the start of the morning cycle. I then place two grooming stations with a priority above 6. The night cycle work schedule means it's unnecessary to hard tile the working room. The hatches can bury themselves during the day in both areas because their groomers work at night. The important thing to know is that a buried hatch does not feel cramped and reproduction rate goes to maximum even if you have 100 hatches confined to a one tile opening. As long as they can burrow they will produce eggs at a (nearly) maximum rate. I also put several feeders out in both the room and in the free-range. With this set up you can start out with the usual three or four discovered hatches and by the 50th or so cycle have so many hatches (I've had as many as 200+ hatches at one time) all contained in this small area, producing coal enough to power the entire base with coal generators and still have a continuous gain in coal.

Because I always try to see how I can save dupe travel time, I like to make vertical ranches. Basically take the 24x4 room and put it on it's side. A few next to each other. You can have some discontinious flooring with their own doors for various other things that are allowed in a ranch too (storage is a nice one. Then sweeping is efficient and ranchers do not need to run up and down ladders so much. Having the incubator room/dispensary/killing floor across from a few such vertical ranches is another great way to save dupe time. Before evolution chamber (which is locked behind a long skill tree) I like to make a pip ranch, with thimble reed seeds in a storage container (natural floor of course), if I can get a pip from the printer. A few cuddle pips speed things up in the incubator and dispenser rooms which need their own grooming stations and critter dropoffs btw. they need to qualify as ranches (1 zeroed for hatches, 1 maxed for pips) - Then excess hatches can be auto wrangled to the high prio ranches or a low prio dropoff at the killing floor. The latter strat is mostly to speed things up for the carnivore achievement.

I usually want as efficient use of space, so I want 8 adult hatches in a ranch. So having sweepers take the eggs to a killing chamber/incubators depending on how many eggs are already getting incubated. If you have the incubation chamber have a critter drop building and set it to 0, the incubators will not overproduce :)

My sage hatches live in my bathrooms. They eat that polluted dirt quicker then I can move it and handle it in compost. very handy.

14:00 This game is a logic and math nightmare xD I'm so more used to be approximative but the degree you can have things going is sideral 🤯

Really wish this video had chapters to be able to find the information I'm looking for quickly. Otherwise it is a good, comprehensive guide aimed for beginners (meaning it is slow paced and explains the relevant concepts thoroughly).

I like using vertical ranches, more efficient to go from one to the next.

nice tutorial! as i have not played for a long time now i don't know if it is still true, but i think eggs ON conveyors are counted while they are physically inside the room. so i would advice having the conveyors run inside the wall to minimize the time an egg is counted to the population of the room.

I wonder if creating an incubation room with a Critter Pick-up set to 0 and a Critter Drop-off set into a pool of water with a lower priority than your Stables would also work. You'd get the benefits of maturing the eggs faster while also sending excess critters into the dunk tank. The only downsides might be getting your dupes soggy, but you ought to be able to fix that by placing a shower into/out of the dunk tank.

just a note. i thought the main reason for the door/tile was to keep them close so you could use the sweeper to automate the removal of the eggs. never once did i think it was to keep them close to the grooming station.

I put one sage hatch into the room with water purifier. Hatch eats any polluted dirt generated by the purifier, preventing it from releasing polluted oxygen.

buddy, but you can place a warehouse with eggs not in the kitchen, but next to the incubator, and send only meat from drowned monsters to the kitchen, it will be much more profitable. Yes, and the kitchen can be made very compact and with a "eternal" refrigerator.

great video thanks!

I have so many hatches around my base until i learned how to ranch. Now I only found two

21:00 To get more sedimentry rock you can also crush fossil, it will break up in lime and sedimetry rock

Once I tried making the ranches vertical, and it seems that hatches enjoy vaulted ceilings. My ranchers didn't need to go up and down ladders to get to the next stable. Not exactly a huge improvement or anything, but you could theoretically use the vertical space for other purposes like storage. IIRC, hatches don't mind sharing their ranch with buffer tanks or piles of storage compactors.

Unfortunately the starting ration box is _not_ always made of sedimentary rock. It depends which planetoid (in the base game) or cluster (in Spaced Out) you're on - in some cases, notably the base game's Arboria and Aridio asteroids, it's made of Igneous instead.

19:08 Echo petting a doggy in the hatch ranch

feels like there's more grooming than the hatches with this one.

It might be nice to update this to reflex the changes to ONI logic for how critter work and the new items that effect happiness.

Came for the hatches; stayed for the hatch math.

Sigh I'm going crazy, drowning chamber made me laugh for awhile lol

Great video 😊 The only thing I dont like about ranching hatches is the large area of space needed ;( I always have annoying slime and or pockets of chlorine, helium and polluted oxygen all around making expanding slow :/

Something I keep hearing is coal generators run infinitely and I'm not sure what game y'all are playing, but coal generators actually have a low threshold setting that starts once battery life has decreased and it'll stop again once max battery charge is met. They don't require a smart battery and the manual generators have this feature, as well.

If you feed regolith to your volcano you quadruple the heat, lots of steam power, then can feed it to stone dupes for 75% of the mass in cole. Even late hate with things life infinite pacu and shove Vole it’s still worth keeping your hatches around.

It's still useful to keep your animals penned in as much as possible to keep pathfinding down to save your poor computer from melting down. I like to build my Hatch ranches vertical, hatches up top with coal generators on a level below the hatches and then the bottom floor made of farms. Once I get to mid game I'll grow mushrooms in the CO2 and feed them slime from a chlorine room below the farm tiles.

17:50 - locking critters in place is still useful, because it allows you to use a single autosweeper per stable to do all loading/unloading tasks. 29:00 - nevermind :)

If a tamed hatch is wrangled or burrows, it will become wild