Watching this made me realise just how trash I am at this game.

I appreciate how fast you speak. Nothing like tutorials where you get what you need quickly. I can't even speed you up and understand you, beautiful!

the bathroom water to thimbleweed is something i would have come up with in about 1000 years, absolute brilliance

Just picked up the game and put 12 hours in in under 2 days, I feel so overwhelmed but so drawn to the game. This video made me realize I need to lose the fear of expansion, I was always scared of expanding because I figured my oxygen wouldn't stretch to the new areas. Good to learn from a tutorial, thanks man!

"If you leave the tutorial and video notifications there, it's a sign you've got problems. Or at least bad mental health." I feel attacked.

Played ONI for a long time now, don't need this tutorial... Watched it anyways because it's John, and John is just fun to watch and listen to.

So I just finished the 3-part newbie series. If you're a newbie, just keep in mind that the way Francis designed the starting base is heavily informed by tons of experience and game knowledge. Please don't feel bad if you think "I've been doing everything so inefficiently." Even the carbon dioxide trick to preserve food for free does not come to mind easily. You eventually get this much early and mid game efficiency as you start to look more and more towards space travel.

playing oni for years, still watching

One thing that might have been worth mentioning, is that you don't _have_ to assign skill points as soon as they become available. There's no penalty whatsoever to having a stack of unused skill points on a dupe, and there is merit to keeping your morale needs low until you absolutely _need_ a new skill. Also, remember that Research consumes water to perform, so don't go so nuts with research that you completely drain your water supply.

Just started playing again after a year+ break, man this game is everything I need :D

I remember when i started playing a dupe peed on the floor, and since i did not know you can mop it, i filled all the ground where he peed with pumps and pumped the water away before deconstructing the pumps...

Put the research station near the portal, 10% faster research at no cost.

I appreciate seeing your style of beginning the game. It is indeed different from most of the other players I have seen. I appreciate the play through.

This is an old video but I have to tell you how much I love your tempo, most tutorials for everything is so insanely slow that I start jumping in the video because Im falling asleep. This is a wonderful pace and if for some reason you cant keep up as a viewer you can just pause or rewatch. Thanks for it.

"And we're back", I love the way he starts a video Thanks for the guide! and I love the way you design the base with every need in mind.

This tutorial is perfection for getting started. I just needed fast examples of what can be done. I'll be happy if I can remember 50% of this on the first go around.

Francis: 1:19 Me: *Panicking over destroyed buildings, no food left and vomit everywhere*

I have almost 300 hours locked into this game, just got to the point where I was patient enough to make it too late game. Now, I wanna learn how to improve my early game with tutorials. Thank you.

I like your videos a lot. Generally, but tutorials especially. They are always simple, thorough and very entertaining. I wish education programs in schools and universities could recognize this style as future and learn how to implement it eventually. Keep up the good work!

I can't thank you enough for the newbie and mid game videos. I practiced the early game a lot and once it felt comfortable I stopped creating new bases, currently on cycle 900+ and going for the tear.

I have this game for quite a long time, started to play recently and I am having a lot of trouble with the resources and duplicants, will be watching your videos to learn more, really apreciate it

This is hands down the most helpful tutorial I've watched. And I've watched quite a few. Succinct and practical. Keep up the great work!

Tremendous. I did know most of that, but seeing it all put to such good use in such a straightforward and organised manner. Golden.

so ive been having my eye on the game for a while now and finally picked it up.. came on YT to find a few tips before diving in and this video is by far the best beginner guide ive seen .. thank u

Thank you for this amazing walkthrough. I followed every step you took to be sure I made it right (except I had to dig into the slime cuz it was in the way). I have restarted the game almost 10 times. One time I came to cycle 300 before chaos happened, but I never left "early-game". I'll be watching the whole series.

Great trilogy of tutorial videos! Before watching this, I was able to work my way into mid game, but got stuck there b/c of electricity issues. I've underestimated how much expanding a base really helps with getting materials and organizing different areas, especially for the power grids. Will definitely use this as reference when thinking about colony set-ups! I especially loved the automated electrolyzer set-up in the 3rd video. It's crazy how nicely things can get automated when done right :)

One of the drawbacks with having a really successful base and no real guts to make the jump to something fancier (also, a busy job) is that it gets easy to micro your current base and not make a new one, as it is in my case; I've forgotten the hurdles of early base life. So thanks for the effort of making this series, FJ!

I haven't played in a couple years, this was a great refresher!

Have enjoyed your videos for over a year now and despite being well past "early game" and have been playing for over 3 years, felt the need to watch these intro and tutorials as both an homage to your well done instruction and to boost your view count.

TBH I didn't even realize that I'm almost done watching a 35 mins video! Great work! :)

I have 540 hours in ONI and I learned like 5 new things in the first 15 minutes of this video! Thank you, you are really good at condensing information and giving good tips.

Loved this game but never progressed past the basic tech. I always found it difficult to get food/manage stress properly. This helps so much. Thanks alot!

Your videos are always so helpful in what can be a tough game to get a grip on. For starters, I always choose 1 machinery expert, because conveyor belt mechatronics takes 5 levels to get to and I like to start on it early. It's just so useful. My first pod printout is always the best person to train up for ranching. To me a cook is only useful once you have the ranches up and running

14:12 *Scheduling, start by switching it around, so the dupes sleep in the middle of the day.* (after toilet & beds are set up) In this way, if the old or new dupes have a morning/evening bonus, that bonus will trigger WHILE they are working. Otherwise you might forget to change their schedule, or the bonus triggers on their downtime or when sleeping. Make sure you set the same on the "default schedule" too, so all new dupes also get this schedule.

I've got hundreds of hours into the game, but I still watched this just to see if he's got something clever or more organized than my usual start. Plus it's John Francis, and he just does a good job with these videos, to the point and well explained. I do question shunting the toilet water to thimble weeds, though. I'm just super-paranoid about water conservation until I can find a renewable source such as a geyser. Which is largely a reaction to my first game where I was constantly running out of water. The main argument for thimble weeds for waste water disposal is that cleaning and disinfecting waste water is difficult in the early game. Not really doable at all until you've captured some chlorine, and it's still a big project when your population is small.

Thank you for putting this out. I've already started ONI 4 times over as the game is very complicated. This is very helpful :)

Its fascinating to see the differences in how you choose to start and run a base and how differently I do things

getting back into this game and happy to have a refresher on the optimal early game choices

I really enjoyed your video! your voice is so easy to listen to and learn from. went on ONI when it first came out and now i'm back and there's so much more to the game!!!

"I don't see the environment as a place that should be preserved but as a place that should be destroyed and demolished to place stuff thats actually usefull for my dupes. Pretty much like humans, *Sad laugh*" Thats sad :( Nice video btw, im loving this tutorial :)

Hey, I found your guides only today, and with my attention span being short as it is, your guides' high speed of information made them very useful and fun to follow. I picked up a ton of tricks and my bases now look radically different (In a strip-mining the planet hellhole kinda way!) , so thanks for that!

FJ you are wonderful teacher and great content creator. Both rim world and ONI. We love your technical builds and you’ll be an icon for the ages!! You’ll see you bloke. :)

Usually I increase the speed of the clip for tutorials. But your talking speed was perfect! No lifetime wasted ;) Nice tutorials thanks.

lol I kept checking my settings to see if I was running at 2x speed. Love it though, to the point

I just picked this game up on steam and played it non-stop yesterday. Thanks so much for this video. I put it on last night before bed and have learned a lot I didn't know before!

Fun to watch even for veterans. You do an awesome job of keeping it entertaining. Keep it up!

Coming to this late but it’s super helpful still. I have a base going okay at 130 cycles (9 dupes) but running into expansion and organization issues that stem from my early game planning. Didn’t really plan stuff out at all so my base grew kind of organically and super inefficiently. Might restart again after watching this series through all the way.

I've been playing this game for 4 years now, pretty much 1400 hours on steam, and I still have things to learn. itt's the best colony sim ever created.

Well I've played the early game over and over, hundreds of hours, so I thought it was the mid-game I had trouble with. But I actually learned a few things with this video

Pretty good info. I would just like to point out one little detail. I am rather new at this game, but fortunately I realized the usefulness of the portal early on. The portal gives a lot of decor bonus and it provides light. On my last play-through, I destroyed the food box and put a researching station in its place, and on the right side I put on the hamster wheel. This makes the workplace well-lit for free, which can give you a noticeable boost in early-game research. And since the researcher almost never leaves the area, since for me they are either researching or running the hamster wheel when they run out of power, it means they have a big decoration bonus from early on as well.

I have a pretty great handle on the early game but I would love a refresher thank you for this series

I've had this game just under a week but my gaming time is very limited so rather than use my limited gaming time not knowing what I'm doing, I watch videos in between so I have a better idea when I do play. All I have to do ATM is do the toilets and I'm at where this video ends. Thanks for the tips and guide.

My god, what a very concise useful tutorial !! I love how you speak, fast but very informative. Your brain must be very powerful

Awesome thanx! No need to apologize to experienced palyers. They should not be watching beginner tutorials, if they already know everything. You are not wasting any breath XD This is really helpful :)

What a wonderful video. Thank you so much! I've been playing for 200 hours and I learned so much!

Omg thank you so much, going to be following you now. I really want to master this game and this was an awesome video :D can't wait to watch all your videos!!

I am new to the game and I find your videos very useful. You present a lot of information in a very compact format.

if you build a ladder to the top of the starting biome, and start digging everything, all falls downward, you can even destroy the tiles near the pod temporarily, then you will need to place tiles tho. generally there is enough sandstone to build it, so that's not a big issue. you can have a storage level, just 2 high, all the way around sideways, like under the pod, or one more 4+1 room under. placing a few boxes, everything falls to that level and will be easy to collect and sort the items, and all the negative décor will be there and the rest of the base will be clean, low priority so they only do it when nothing else is to do. this would require a more narrow, but high setup to be worth. maybe only a single toilet with a sink. you can even split them on middle, if you want the directions on one side only, double walling might look weird but decreases the number of tiles, so higher gas pressure, and makes the things symmetric. Generally there can be rooms 3 high, farms and even toilets are okay with 3, technically farms with farm tiles as the floor, only 2 high. There are some setups for 5 high, it's actually good with some middle tiles each 2 tiles. To speed up research (and maybe mushbars) you can build a small well, just 2x5 and 2 more tiles on top one side, then a vent later under floor level. i.imgur.com/Wckt41d.png basically will be over pressurized, once the water fills it up, so won't need to stop the pump. research and cooking uses water, and maybe dirt, so a box of dirt can also be placed next to it. Also can be used for bottle emptier setup,

Francis, dude. Love your video tutorials. So much insight packed into this one video :O Re-visiting after some time away from ONI. Stoked to dive back in.

one of the best tutorials i ever watched tbh..

This is a timestamp for myself to rewatch this bathroom section of the tutorial: 31:40

Fantastic content as ever. In your part 2 I’d be really interested to see how you handle a nature park and getting dupes to consistently run through it - especially without pips to do the wild planting trick in the central access shaft. Cheers!

Geez I thought I had a good early game strat. and you just threw it in the trash. Great video!! Excited to see more.

Bit late but I'm so glad I found this playlist! New colony number 6 is definitely going to go better with your help :D This time no flooding my base with pee or accidentally cooking my dupes alive hopefully

Referring to all your ONI videos: Best practical tutorials ever (also those where you "only" play like Badlands)! Not played for far over a year and quite lost at the start but after watching your videos got into early game with confidence. Hope with your tips this time I will progress past mid-game (which I didn´t before and was the reason I had quit - running out of everything not daring to expand early enough because of heat excess, slimelung, suffocating dupes ecg.) Only drawback - you talk like a machine gun ;-) Am a non native speaker just frantically hanging on my head set with a stupidly frozen look on my face ;-) while trying to follow because there is valid information in nearly every sentence (contrary to many other youtubers). But I like your accent :-)

I've been disposing the toilet water into reeds before this tutorial :D,mostly due to the fact that you don't have to worry about the germs that you would have to deal with if you were going to sieve the water!As always,nice video enjoyable for both newbies and veterans!

Thanks for the tutorial. Played oni before and now just picked it up again. Great tutorial.

i just remember to keep a cold original biome section for mid game farming and have a "gaptime" between "you need to keep mealwood because barbeque factory isn't ready yet" and "you have enought steel to cool down material you coudn't" (my "perfect" setup barbeque factory involves conveyors and a stable coal production so thats take some time all my colony survive in meal lice)

The overjoyed and stress reactions are predetermined by the duplicant, for example an Ari will always have the Sticker bomber overjoyed response and Ugly crier for stress reaction.

I highly recommend the “happy digging: dwarf edition” it allows your digging skill to decrease the amount of waste when you dig, as you digging increases you gain more of the “lost” 50%. it makes sense more skilled diggers would produce more usable resources.

Very useful. Just few modifications from my opinion: 1 - I have double-transport system with 1 ladder and 1 pole for faster move and between them i have 4 tiles for oxy producers and storage containers - its good have them in the middle of home 2 - feel free harvets oxy ore - its releasing oxy still after dig-off. You can also build storage with filter to allow only oxy ore and put it down in the home system for better air distribution with high priority = save using oxygen diffusers = save algae. 3 - be very careful with temperature management, must planning. I like starting in cold asteroids and manage heating only, because need for cooling is big shit. MKII pipes are very useful and also isolate your home ASAP with purple tiles from rest of world - for keep stable temperature. Later u need install temp.sensors and switch it with heaters/coolers for keep stable temperature.

Great guide so far. my only real complaint is with the 4 high and 4 wide setup for everything. I always put in 1 main "corridor" that is 6 high for the horizontal run, and 5 wide for a vertical run. all others i do as 4 high for horizontal and 4 wide for vertical. if you do 4 and 4 you will run into problems later when installing tubes, if you have a 6 and a 5, you get a highway around teh base that can handle having a tube install with minimal disruption. the vertical i do space-ladder-space-pole-space, then when it comes time to put in the tube, you can easily slot it in the center and easily run it through the 6 high central corridor. otherwise fantastic information for new players.

Very fast paced and concise, great tutorial, thank you :)

Holy balls. I just started playing this game last weekend and I'm definitely struggling. This was eye-opening to the point I'm just gonna restart my current asteroid

Always put your doors up one, with a tile under them. That will make any spills contained to the room and wont flow all over the place. Also, run your wires through the floors and ladders, its only for looks, but otherwise youll see wires all over the place, just a cool way to hide them.You can click on the portal to do skill points, you dont have to go into the menu.

I know this is a year old. But this is so important and will be forever. Thank you mate! This is timeless material and I appreciate it.

I had to slow the video down to .75 speed so I could keep up. Now it sounds like I'm having a drunken conversation with Francis :D

Wow I needed this video so badly, thank you Francis you earned yourself a sub! Great info, amazing help for a great game!

I have a 1000 hours on this game and I thought I was pretty good at it, but watching your tutorials... holy cow I suck.

This feels like learning stellaris all over again.

I don’t know why but I like listening to you.

I would recommend preserving a few natural caves if you find any practical ones that don't impede base design. Those can be turned into parks very easily, or you can breed pips there. Both very useful things, and the caves are perfect for it. Well, some of them are. Like the one you wantonly destroyed in this video. Also for sweeping, it only takes time if you start doing it late. What I like to do is set one dupe to sweeping only, and then build new containers as that dupe fills them up. That is all it takes to have a pristine base at almost all times. It'll be messy while you scrape out the starting biome obviously, but it will be cleared up by cycle 20 or so and stay that way.

I tend to build neatly as I go and so it's a bit slower, so start with beds first because you can get them done by the end of the first day, then toilets afterwards because they dupes can survive until the 2nd day without wetting themselves. Then hammer research. I go straight for power first because a coal generator frees up 1 dupe to not need to run on the treadmil, you don't need food that early because the muckroot lasts ages if you're excavating which allows you to skip planter pots and go straight for farms. You don't need o2 generation either for quite a lot of cycles as you should be mining into areas with oxcilite, other good tip is to uproot all the plants as you go as they consume o2. Heat rises so build your heat stuff near the top and farms near the bottom. Also with early research you want to go straight for advanced researching as fast as possible and get the rock crusher to refine ore and get down smart batteries ASAP, I never go with more than 1 jumbo at the start before rapidly swapping that out with the smart one. You want to be power efficient right from the start.

This is a very good tutorial! Very precise information and no BS!

I find if I'm really wanting to optimize I'll look for a starting dupe with the Starting Skill: Mechatronics Engineering. That skill is a pain to get early on as it takes 5 dedicated full skill points and an equivalent amount of morale. Starting with it for free makes a big difference to getting your automation set up early on

Your subtle yokes and comments all the time are hilarious! Had to laugh allot

One thing you should mention is that you get back all your materials when you deconstruct something you've previously built. It's only "natural" tiles that halve their mass. I didn't know this, and it made me very hesitant to actually start this game.

I only came to this channel to watch some rimworld and to get some ideas for future colonies and now I end up having bought a new game. God damn it.

Instead of two starter diggers, I like to do one digger + one builder with the same priority plan. it's to complement each other. I tend to build a lot of airflow/mesh/insulated tiles so that's how I ended up with that mix in the early game.

Best GUIDE EVER! Thank you. I was handling it for a bit there and then it just all went to shit. I was like, let me just watch a video. LOL.

Good video! Really helpful in learning the ropes. I'm coming from Rimworld, and really like this game too!

so glad i found this kind of tutorial video. really helpful. you have a new subscriber :)

Great video! I've subscribed. Keep up all the awesomeness!

Excellent as always.

Not a newbie... but damn, that bathroom->quick access to reed setup was slick. thanks for the tip!

This was really useful especially the duplicant choosing thx

I like doing a separate bedroom with a bed and a plant. Then I attach a bathroom to each with a sink, toilet. I also mine until I find an ice area and get those blue ice plants as they cool rooms. You can also place farm plots in the ground. You will find switches VERY important as you add more and more machinery. this lets you turn off one machine and turn on another to greatly reduce energy needs. I even do this for research stations. You also forgot to put hats on your people as you level them up.

As far as I know, I really glad to be a newbie here, btw some experts as this F.John can teach me best tricks ever. Now, I perfectly see the point to "how to play this game smartly". So thanks to share it !

2:36 *freeze frame* "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation."

Tys I never gotten this far into the game before watching you