You're right, the way shown here is broken now as well.

I'm guessing you just set the first reservoir as 0 low 100 high and hook it to a not gate? since it's red at full? so that your system burns off the excess, and without a not gate in the case of the refinery?

My computer could never handle finishing an asteroid. I’m just going to the oil biome now and the game is constantly lagging. I only have 8 dupes and banned as many priorities as I can. Still very laggy

@@blazingfish8486 clearing the floors into storage can help a lot… but costs a lot of dupe time

@@blazingfish8486 Those dispensers that act as storage and drop their items, all going to 1 spot, if you can, in a liquidlocked room vented to vacuum to stop temperature transfer, set to sweep only so they wont take items from the pile, and sweep up all the loose items you can on lower priority, so they clean up when they would be normally idle for you. Put offgassing items on a second set in a seperate room in a liquid that is constantly being vacuumed out of any gas, to avoid offgassing. Items transfer their tempature with the gas/fluid around them, and being in vacuum stops these calculations for *every single item pile and gas tile they touch*, second room and liquid for offgassing materials helps with lag from them changing mass and also the gas they make mixing in the air. Lastly, look at a duplicants navigation, and see where they can go. Make more central movement areas with plastic ladders when you can/a pole down, instead of a bunch of ways down every room, and it cuts down on possible pathes and as such, lag. As well, one last thing to help is with saving lag/midday lag freezes, change the timelapse size and autosave interval as you want, as if it lags on saving, sometimes saving every 2/5/10 cycles is better (late game saving sometimes takes me a whole cycle of time itself)

Thanks, every time a see someone with an oil refinery with no automation I cringe on the inside.

A little simple automations makes playing so much simpler.

This is legendary

Going to have to retest all this now, I got it working one time and that's the version I used every since. My laziness knows no bounds :)

I'm a bit similar, studied programming years ago so was familar with gates. Still took way to much trial and error to get simple automation working the way I wanted it to.

Oil boiling is really really late game, I'v played around with making one with pre space materials though it not anywhere near tutorial ready. For cooling methods all we really have left is ice machines and steam turbines.

I am :)

It was glorious, every breakfast started with whiskey. Took me days to get over the cumulative hangover.

Once you figure out the first couple of pieces of pipes/automation it makes everything so much simpler.

As always, thanks for the thanks.

For the hydrogen I have it activate the gens hooked up to my main grid. On my main grid I keep the batteries at max 90% so the overflow tops up the grid plus I don't need any additional gens.

That's brilliant! If I'll ever get this far with my horrible bases I'll do that :D

is not what usually people do? sometime i use sour gas boler/condenser, but is pretty much useless because generate too much power for my uses so i just do stupid thing like solidifing oxygen if my liquid oxygen production overflow... when you process 10 kg/s of crude oil into natural gas is overkill. going back on oil refinery, make a petroleum boiler save you a good amount of dupe time and is way more efficientin term of power and petroleum produced, if you are in mid-game is a very useful thing to build in your base

This introduced automation ports on the liquid tanks since this video was released. So you can set the tanks to say turn on when the tank hits 2 tons and turn off when it hits 5 tons.

I'll admit, I haven't played for quite a while as Spaced Out brought me back after over a year or so gap, so I have forgotten what is new and what is old. What I do know is new is that I have no oil on my starting asteroid, so getting steel has been a pain.

@@SgtDax There is a teleporter on your starting asteroid, on the other side is the oil. You can send a single dupe through to scout, make sure it has dig and you can find the teleporter on the other side to send it back. The return teleporter is close to the receiver. Once you have scouted you can plan a more permanent settlement.

Enjoy.

For dirt to turn to sand you need to get temps of 326C, you should not be going above 200C for steam going into your turbine it is a bit wasteful. But so long as the sand is not messing up the flow of steam you should be fine. But if you find your steam is always above 200C maybe strap on another turbine. If you find the steam only goes above 200C every so often maybe throw in more water to even out the temperature spikes.

@@FrancisJohnYT thank you!

because it would be useles? if you put another gas pump you will use energy and this energy does not compensate for the hydrogen that you will store

@@aricre8886 I did it in my world and it worked like a charm 👌

an OR gate lets you have separate conditions for different machines on the same automation circuit. say you have two hydrogen generators that you want to both turn on when a battery goes below 25%, but you also want one of them to turn on if there's a backup in hydrogen. just running an automation wire straight through all of that makes both generators behave the same, but with an OR gate, you can control them separately

I'm going to have to try that, you got a pic of this I can look at?

ONI is single player, play it your way and don't worry about what other people think. How much you are enjoying the game is all that counts.

I have a thing about putting germ clean water back into sinks and toilets. It should not require any automation just an overflow pipe for the excess water that the toilets generate.

It allow you to put a break in a wire to stop a green signal flowing back along a wire and affecting automation else where.

Laphroaig 10 or lagavullin 16

Infinite storage is a hack rather than an intended game mechanics, it only works because of an unintended (and undesirable) side effect of the way the game's physics had been written, while automation is a fair game.

Exactly, you'll need liquid hydrogen later in the game for rockets do if you can store it for later use

Put in 5, 10, 15 gas tanks if you want. But make sure you cover yourself for when it overflows.

you cant really keep that much until you do liquid hydrogen. this is actually great in early stage of the game. unless you are using a mod to increase the tank capacity. 150kg is nothing

I set them all to 700g.

So glad you asked. I was scrolling and scrolling hoping to find this question so I wouldn't have to ask and wait

Is the exit pipe full? Is the gas pressure in the room above 5kg? (The nat gas it emits needs to go somewhere)

I think i figured out whats happening. The main Operator has high enough machine skill that the pump cant supply Crude Oil fast enough from the pond. If the internal tank of the refinery runs out for even a moment he runs away.

@@vulkandrache1928 That should not be possible, machine skill does not affect the speed at which an oil refinery works.

I do have 3 nat gas in my base too but didnt even open them yet(cycle 300+ xd) since im using coal, As a main power generation, coming from stone hatches

Do not underestimate the hatch! Im exactly the same atm.

Have you tired Factorio, the only things it's missing is the colony.

It's been on the wishlist. Been hesitant due to playing Mindustry on mobile and not having much fun with it. Appreciate the response =)

Irish born and raised.

I like to try and stick inside the developers intent myself, that is the joy of the game, so many ways to do things and all of them are the right way.

Demonstration map, it happens.