About priorities. Ranching is unique - you can set to "very high" it for other dupes too. Even if they can't groom or wrangle they still can bring eggs to incubators(important) and bring wrangled critters(very important).

I've played this game for 250 hours and never really understood how to optimize priorities until this. Thanks! I realize I have WAY too few dupes with building and digging priorities.

I am so happy you updated the priorities tutorial. Your first one was my so called 'Priority Bible' so to say. It allows me to stop adding high priority job as my base get bigger. Thank you!

I think the skills gain thing is actually quite intuitive: by making skill point game proportional to time spent, they built-in a sliding scale on rate of progression. This is not unlike an RPG where 1000xp gets you lvl 2, then 2000 for lvl 3, 4000 for 4, 8000 for 5, etc.

This was great! It was the tutorial I didn't know I needed. I finally understand why my dupes would run off to the other side of the base and do something else unexpected, I had no idea about those internal modifiers.

Good stuff - think a lot of other youtuber's covering ONI should be watching this tutorial..

I'm sure it doesn't matter in the scheme of things, and doesn't nullify anything you've said, but in the very first demonstration you state that he is going to fill the deodoriser first. He's actually going to dig.... you didn't look at "Current Errand" at the top of the screen, you looked at the first thing on his priority queue ("To Do List") for what to do AFTER the current errand. It can also be seen on the right in his Bio where it says "Status: Going to dig".

So if I understood this right, a new dupe that is planned for excavation should, if possible, be given a high dig priority and allowed to dig out areas for future projects as he will get the biggest gain from digging an area than sending in an experienced dupe. Better yet, if it is simple digging tasks maybe lower the priority of the trained excavators so the greenhorn can level his skill. Of course only if time and projects permit it. A great vid btw. So far all of your tutorials have given me something I didn't know, hadn't considered or better yet was failing to implement when I get the tech. I appreciate the work and explanations. keep it up. :-)

My colony is suffering from priority problems, This was EXTREMELY helpful, Thank you sincerely, Also i hope you upload more oni soon❤️

The maestro teaches me yet another thing. Great video.

Love your videos man. Happy you kept making them.

Putting eggs in an incubator is considered either *farming(??)* or supply... On a side note: You *might* want to do a quick side bar on clicking on a job (object) and looking at the 'errands' tab where it tells you what kind of job it is and who is likely to do it... like farming eggs. arggg.... cheers for the vid Francis.

recently I deprioritized building for operator and was wondering why my conveyor rails are never constructed. Thats why,priorities

Great Video! This video really helped me sorting out some problems in my lets plays! :-)

04:00 - i imagine a dystopic parallel dimension where Francis John discusses how to skin a cat

The good the Bad and the ugly... You seriously manager to put that one here ? You sir, have my respect (and for the tutorials toi of course).

Great stuff. Concise and clear explanation.

Good basic overview, though I defiantly think you should add that after you have your core set of duplicants, you should get a few that have no special priorities, so when you want something done and set it to Priority 9, there's not a bunch that are digging out in the other side of your base while your toilets overflow or something stupid like that.

You're the best Francis John

Nice video. I wonder if this is still up to date after all the updates they done to the game lately.

My dupes would spend time to dig instead of building ladder and usually get themselves trap. I didn't mess with the priority and it Always annoy me when I give them the 9 priority and they always choose to repair broken ladder instead of building a new one(and it's already supplied)

The more I learn about this game, the more I find this is an absolute masterpiece. Unbelievably deep micro-management. Like Civilisation e.g. What else would you recommend that is this deep? Factorio and Satisfactory are awesome, but not like this...

That why I don't worry about sweeping. However when I'm just thinking planning or just letting it run for a cycle. All dupes will pick things up around the base. I set the default storing to down 1 and leave open storage bins set to 1. prntscr.com/ovq86w However the groundskeeper who is not my supplier the 1 that does toggle tidy storage. Storage also effects supplying food bins for ranches. Supply and groundskeeper prntscr.com/ovq7q0 prntscr.com/ovq736

as always thank for the video :)

Another great video, Thanks! I'm watching through all your nuggets and they are great :-) In that sense, I'd like to drop some ideas for new nuggets ;-) * Battery farm: I saw your vid from your LP but with the Wheezewort update I think it's kindo outdated? * Use cases for all the geysirs and vents Thanks again and keep your nice work going :-)

Only two kinds of dupes in this world: those with +7 research, and those who dig.

I produce most of my oxygen in my bases with deodorizers... they are highly imortant life support buidlings!!! also they work regardless of pressure so i always end up with massively overpressured bases xD Maybe you should have mentioned all the jobs that don't just give you +2 stats but enable something. You got most but someone who just starts the game (although I have no idea if ppl who are new at the game watch your videos) might not know about improved carrying capacity +400 and +800 if they want to get a dupe to tidy their base. I have seen ppl pick the +2 strength of the tidying job over the +400 carrying capacity when they wanted someone to clean the debris in their base :/

I wish there was more to do with the skillpoints they earn... at a certain point you either buy out the entire skill tree... or just let the number climb exponentially.. leaving the annoying notification under the printing pod forever either way.

you didnt answer my question. what do the red boxes mean? some are white and some are varying shades of red

Great tutorial, thank you so much for these! In general what ratio do you try to make your diggers / dogsbodies?

i woudnt say the skills from the skilltrees arent so important. cause they count as different. for example your dupe has lvl 16 digging skills. 10 earned and 6 from the tree. so the higher the level the more xp you need to reach the next level. from 16 to 17 is a lot xp. but your dupe just need the xp amount from 10-11 to reach lvl 17. cause the skills from the tree and the starting skills dont count in the xp meter. for example you have 2 starting digger. digger A is lvl 10 stating skills and digger B is lvl 0 starting skills. they will both need the same time to reach lvl 11 and lvl 1. thats why the perk quick learner isnt so op like some people think. if you have molehands you need only the xp from lvl 0 - lvl 17 to reach lvl 20 digging skills. so thats why the molehands perk is better in early game and in late game for your dupes. and quick learner will make only your mid game better. thats what i think. what do you say goat of oni?

This comment won't be noticed on this 2 year old video but I could really use a priorities and skills tutorial nugget for the spaced out dlc, as you can't specialise your dupes as well when they are spread out over multiple planetoids

This was a great tutorial. Do you put any priorities for tidy, supply, or storing?

that natural reserve along the main pole... fckn brilliant. I almost want to restart the whole thing. how do you plan for it? do you count floors and plan ahead of time? I usually dig shit first ask questions later. But then again, I never got to the mid or late game ever... never built automation, never used more than 20% of all stuff I researched :(

thanks.. didn't think of all this :D

i put, toggling max priority for all dupes, i want whatever dupe to change that valve number, regardless his/her main job and fast. Second i put life support and tidying max for most dupes (maybe only exeption is main digger, rancher and scientist) . I want toilets cleaned and oxydaizers feeded asap regardless their priority number and i dont care much who does it.... :)

I really hate this priorities system, for example i have some dupes digging, some dupes ranching and cooking, and i want to sweep something or supply a deoderizer, no one will do that job. Now if i crank up the supply/ sweep priority for all the dupes, they will interrupt their current jobs, go supply a machine and then go back to their jobs. It's really annoying.

Oddly, my duplicants, even when all but 1 are set - across the board, would rather do a priority 1 dig 60 tiles away than a priority 9 refill the coal generator 3 tiles away with the coal sitting by the generator some days...

Your cook dogsbody only lvled cooking 3 times the other 7 is from the fact that his only interest was cooking.

still wating for a "force errand" like RimWorld. obviously the red alert is a joke, not a priority tool.

ahhh life support is accualy an important thing.... not just a doctoring or idk what

What tipe of errand is cleaning toilets?

Great thx

Francis John, What about the hats? What in the world are they for and why do you not use them?

How I don't know that?

Where are you from ?