Just a tip about the steam pipes for whoever's watching now: The reason the steam cools down in the insulated pipes is because the insulated pipes are cold and take a long time to warm up and reach the steam. No heat is actually lost to space. To solve this, use regular non-insulated granite pipes and keep the steam box close to the engine. This will let you leave the pipes full of steam without a worry (A bit of cold damage will occur as the pipes warm up though. This is normal.)

Launched my first Steam Rocket today. With close consultation of this tutorial. Thank you.

"This is where we have a hydro sensor" Button switch: Am I a joke to you?

Quick tip for gases in pipes in space: Don't bother using insulated pipes unless you're running them through something solid. Instead, just use regular Obsidian pipes. Their heat capacity is so tiny that they very quickly increase in temperature until they perfectly match the temperature of the steam (or whatever gas), and with no atmosphere to leak the temperature into they will remain that way permanently. This isn't such a big deal if you're quick about your first few launches with steam, but if you're putting half a dozen cycles between launches, even Ceramic insulated pipes will slowly leak the temperature from your steam into the pipes and crack them. It takes regular obsidian pipes mere seconds to catch up to the temperature of the gas and no matter how long steam sits idle in the pipes, it will retain that temperature permanently.

Cool tutorial, many thanks! An alternative way to make steam is to tap into a robominer petroleum cooling loop (linked to a steam turbine) - the petroleum will always be at least 125 degrees.

I prefer to use ice tempshift plates instead of bottle emptiers. - They get built fairly fast - They are exactly 400 kgs of water so easy to calculate how many you need - 3 is perfect for the standard liquid lock. 1200 kgs - It will keep your aquatuner cool a little longer before you get heat

This was the best tutorial I've ever seen on KZfaq. Well done.

Thank you so so much for all your guides. Without them, I would never have launched my first rocket today and also build the great monument on the side. Godsent content man.

"Cool dump?" -> Heat source. Cooling is just a lack of heat anyway. So you really only ever have heat sources and heat sinks.

Francis, I have been playing this game for a few years. your videos are insightful and quick. keep it up. someday I will get to getting some petroleum and heat management

So many great tips in this video, and not just about rockets. The "disable building" thing when I set a value on a sensor has had me stumped! I would _never_ have guessed cursor position was the workaround.

Big fan of the channel! One interesting thing I noticed while building an aquatuner steam room: I built a steam pipe return (which didn't work since steam quickly pressurizes past what a high pressure vent can handle) but the steam trapped in my return pipe stayed at a proper temperature versus my insulated ceramic pipe. The regular pipe quickly exchanges heat with the steam but then stabilizes. The insulated pipes will keep exchanging heat with the contents. You can just build a regular pipe to the steam rocket, pipe it in at 130 degrees and not have to worry about deconstructing it between the two rocket trips!

Just launched my 1st rocket today, interesting that only 2% of players got that acheivement. Thank u for your tutorials

Nice video, tnx! Second time when i refer to it. Although i prefer metal refinery with radiant pipes (petroleum inside) running through water, that is in steambox. Produces steam and refined metal as a bonus.

I launched my first rocket today (after 275 in-game hours lol), thank you for the tutorials.

Super useful! I'm just making my 1st steps into space!

Appreciate the insight, been wondering how to go about my first rocket today. Thanks!

Pretty good tutorial

Francis, could you please remake a scanner/telescope tutorial? I feel like it may got outdated by now.

You don’t need ceramic. Use the hot mafic rock you dig up to build regular gas pipes.

THank God for this video!!!!!!!! I'm nearly to the surface but I was about to give up playing the game cause i can't find useful info to tail me into the late game. THANK YOU

You don't even need the conveyor system. Just put a storage bin in the room and load it up with hot regolith. Then dump it out on the floor. Don't need a water pipe either: Just put some ice in the bin and dump it out, and it will melt and turn into steam.

I just used a steel door hooked up to a series of steel blocked dipped into some magma to make my first steam for the rocket. Also didn't use any power, and the steam was a nice hot 140 degrees. Granted I was lucky there was a volcano up there, practically on the surface.

I suggest using a rail temperature sensor and dropping the regolith down to your core base when it's cool enough, keeps dupes from dragging in 350c regolith as filtration and gives you a bit of power to boot. just need to pump in a bit more water than the two rockets need so the steambox stays relatively stable in temperature as you get regolith surges every time a shower ends.

Rockets are next on my agenda, perfectly timed!

Front-loading your steam chamber with water is not a good idea. You slow down the whole process significantly by doing that. The issue is that loading steam is slow. It's 1kg at a time, so 900kg takes 1.5 cycles. Instead of waiting for 2 tons of water to reach 110-120 C, you could make 20-30kg of steam, which is much, much faster. As you pump the steam into the rocket 1kg at a time, you can drip more water into the steam chamber via pipes, making new steam as fast as you pump it out. This requires piping water to the steam chamber, but it's still a lot faster than having to heat up all the water before you can start pumping steam. If you're going with hot rocks, It's a lot faster to build your steam chamber in a spot that had a lot of hot regolith or mafic rock. Dig it out, your steam chamber starts with a couple of tons of hot rock right away, no need to haul it there or use a conveyor belt.

nice vid!! very satisfying to see rockets launch. I've never gotten that far in any playthrough haha!

we need a tutorial video for everything you can think of. thank you and good luck

Thank you! I finally built a steam rocket for the first time 2 days ago and I couldn't get it to launch.

Would really love a tutorial on how to handle the hot and polluted oxygen vents. Most you-tubers just block them off and forget about them.

Launched my 1st rocket today 7/20/20, still has the rounding error FYI Thank you for the help best channel on ONI.

New to the game and to your channel. Love your tutorial nuggets and the style you do them. Quick and digestible, even when you go off topic, still concise. One question...any reason you choose the Hydro Sensors instead of the Signal Switch? There isn't a cost difference, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something or if this is just a case of Signal Switch being newer, and you're using something familiar? Thanks again!

Thank you for your tutorials on this game. I really am enjoying getting into ONI, and your explanations have been extremely helpful

Now I know what to do when I get to space... thanks

Its remind me of my first steam rocket... I filling my steam engine till full... 900kg with 1 pump..... lol Then my pipe is broken...water is spilled everywhere. And i forgot to open my bunker door... and think like idiot for 5 minutes, what i did wrong till i check the command capsule. My base is got blackout because that power eating gantry ( i build 6 or 7 maybe). Power spike is real... ahh good time indeed

you said u will be uploading the video that u completely froze the water biome. will we getting it today?

i built a steam generator recently, but didn't build any conveyors, or anything other than 5 storage containers in a room with a metal floor and bunker tiles. my reasoning is that the environment is naturally super hot. i have never had any troubles with it. i only pipe in about 200 kg of water in at a time instead of the full 1000kg or so. the metal tiles and bunker tiles are always between 176 C /350 F and 204 C/ 400 F. i have made more than 10 launches from it. i added a booster to it. can you do a video on solid boosters?

I would make an argument that your "powerless" method uses more power then with "aquatuner", since you need to run Conveyor Loader (and Auto-Sweeper, if you don't want to waste your dups time) for ages, which will use more power then these 40 sec of using Aquatuner.... P.S. I did no calculation, so I have nothing to prove my point :)

Cheers, steam in this game scares me, every time I make or come across it, it just causes pain and is a hassle to deal with. So I do my best to never make any steam, and wall in steam vents to control them xD

Did something change? I only got 540 research points from two missions, which suggests that I didn't get 10 research points from the modules that got the 50 bonus points.

I still don't understand the gantry. Mine always broke, so I tried jet suits instead, and now one of my rockets is stuck and no one will get in it. You said to put the gantry back one space? But then you tore it down anyways? Also what's with the "disembark" message, do my astronauts need to get out between missions or not?

Francis have a profound repulse against simple industrial blueprints. I can feel it in this video hahahaha

Something I’ve always wondered is why do you need a space scanner for rocket silos if they are layered with bunker tiles doesn’t the rocket break all the regolith when it lands?

Tutorial suggestions: gas management, and maybe power management as well

New to the game here... What's with that tower with the liquid locks next to the rocket? Is it to help build the rocket bunker?

i have a question, why not just use a switch? instead of a hydro sensor, it takes the same amount of material but you would be using the switch for its main function

I can only see a thin line in my telescope. It's not wide like urs. There's nothing above it. What do I do? Someone help me.

the tiles directly above the "steam box" should be plenty hot enough to make steam

I don't know if I would consider the steam box to be "no energy"... the automation will use quite a bit of energy while it's running. Wouldn't it be possible instead to just build the steam box around some good chunks of regolith, close it up and then dump water into it? that way there really is no energy needed and you don't even need to be able to build automation structures.

Nice video u got yourself a like and a new subscriber

Just built the steam box where the sun hits in the space area, add steel bunker tiles and it automatically heats up the room.. No regolith and heating rail system needed.. simple...

I have a Problem i have a steam rocket with oxilite boosters but my dupes wont fill Them up they are all idle and i have all Ressources

as always thanks for the video :)

Would it help if I used tempshift plates for the regolith setup?

I had no idea I could send more than one research module into space at a time... I've sent 17 fucking steam engines (with full tanks) into space before I finally unlocked the petroleum engine. I tried to build a research module and a solid storage module on a steam rocket and it said it was too heavy, so I just assumed two modules of any type would be just as heavy. I'm so, so annoyed 😂 Oh, and I was making steam in a really stupid slow way, too. So this whole process has taken absolute ages. I wish I would have looked up a tutorial sooner, but I was afraid of spoilers....

The petroleum is a heatsink.

Every time I hear steam rockets I think why did team rockets come to oni

'Missing Gantry' no matter what I do

Currently, the air lock doors are broken, lets all kinds of gases through.

Your steam box is too complicated. Just make a 4 tall, 12 wide metal box in vacuum with a bunker lid and let it get hit by like 10-15 large meteors. done. like you said it is only for 2 rockets

at 18:50 did you just send a dup plummeting to his death? xD

I would just connect the steam box with something thats really hot like the planets surface

Why would I not have less than 6 research modules?

Pretty useful, thanks dude

I have been playing for three weeks... just used my first Or gate. I am at a complete loss because I have never made it this far before, lol.

So i got a hydrogen engine, and build insulation insulated pipe at tank intake. But it still break after i build a mini liquid pump. Welp..

Do you have a video about a steam chimney.

Hey Francis, do you know if the 599 databanks bug is still here?

What about an oxygen rocket?

nooo i actually used 7 research moduls but I don't have enough reseach points i need 3 more😭

Nice

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I like your tutorials on the game, but man you talk fast ;)

Did you fart on 12:52?