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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · 4 hours ago

Okay, a lazy weekend for me, time for some more Oxygen Not Included play, alternating w/a little bit of coding and reading some fiction.

This is a continuation of yesterday's play-through, here: https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/116539686349876152

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GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · yesterday

I feel like I can either scream "Burn it all down!" over and over again all weekend, or I can play Oxygen Not Included in a calming and mellow mode.

This is pure Spaced Out, survival, mini-cluster start, with no story traits enabled:

SNDST-C-1416041808-0-0-0

Overall mission: Nothing, just remain calm, take your time, and build pleasing things.

Here's starting dupes & picture.

Feel free to play along, and if you have any questions or comments, fire away, I love 'em.

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GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · 4 hours ago

c30. Census is 8, which we'll keep for a while, only picking *excellent* dups going forward, for a total of 16-20.

We have 2 builder/diggers, 2 farmer/ranchers, 2 operators, 1 supplier and 1 researcher. Some have extra skills like decorating & doctoring we'll want later.

I feel like I'm behind. I don't know why, cuz I'm not. It's only c30, whaddayawant, egg in your beer?!?

The mission of the next 70: become stable enough we feel we can look away for modest stretches.

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Screenshot: All of the starting asteroid I've revealed so far. Closer description & pics in reply.

GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · 3 hours ago

We're shitty-food stable, but a) shitty food is shitty, and b) shitty food is labor intensive. So we want to get some better food going, and more efficiently.

On the lower left, then, we have our next little goal: finish the hatch and control area, start the pacu area.

Hatches & pacu will give us not quite 16 dups worth of surf'n'turf, a "great" food, plus coal, plus eggshells.

(I'll show you the pacu ranch when it's closer to real.)

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Screenshot: Lower left side of base. Two hatch ranches are in place, one partially occupied by hatches, one empty, waiting for stone hatches. Below that, a lot of blueprinting. First level below, the control/evolution area isn't finished. That's a few simple buildings. Second and third levels below is the intended pacu ranch, with just the top row blueprinted in.

GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · 2 hours ago

c35. The dups are working well, and the pacu ranch frame is all built out, as is the control area. The conveyor stuff is for later: we don't even have a mechatronics dup for another 10 cycles minimum, but I lay it out anyway, partly so I know I got the build right, partly so Super and other idle dups can do the supply, even w/o the ability to build.

As water begins to fill the breeder tanks, we need, ummmm, a pacu egg.

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Screenshot: the fully framed out pacu ranch has 5 breeder pools, each of which will ultimately contain 3 pacu, producing 100-150 live pacus in the tiny pool on the right of the build. The pools are filling, which will take a few cycles. There is some shipping blueprinted, with more to come, but currently unbuildable. Similarly, above the pacu ranch, the control/evolution room is framed out, and the shipping's also blueprinted in.

GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · 2 hours ago

Now we come to my usual fail-point: multi-tasking. There are so many things to do, so why don't I do them *all*!

Here are some things:

1) Bathroom, medbay, water treatment.
2) Drecko ranch.
3) Pacu egg.
4) Tap & cap cool slush geyser.
5) Find polluted h2o vent.
6) Head down to the barren biome.
7) Set up rad & data bank research.
8) Set up metal refinery.

Staying focused, with all these possibilities, is a real challenge for me.

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Mastodon Migration

@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online · 2 hours ago

@GeePawHill

That looks like a cool game.

Big fan of Factorio and Oxygen Not Included seems similar.

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rhold

@rhold@norden.social · 3 hours ago

@GeePawHill why do you build so many fish feeders? I usually stick to 1 per tank and that's sufficient for me.

GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · 3 hours ago

@rhold Those are five breeder pools, not one, the walls in between aren't blueprinted in yet.

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rhold

@rhold@norden.social · 3 hours ago

@GeePawHill i see. Is there an advantage in having many small breeding pools vs. one large one (i usually do the latter)?

GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social · 3 hours ago

@rhold I think so. Once I have plastic, there'll be 15 breeder pacus. At full capacity, the one-tile pool on the right will hold 110-140 live pacus. There will be zero duplicant labor for this.

rhold

@rhold@norden.social · 1 hour ago

@GeePawHill I usually do a large breeder pool (width=9, so i only need one sweeper) and a dry chamber for the eggs plus an evolution pool.

Works fine, uses minimal resources, no manual labor but ramp up to full production is probably much slower than your design.