Oxygen Not Included - Tutorial Bites - Geothermal Power

This tutorial bite for Oxygen Not Included covers geothermal power, and how to harness natural magma and volcanoes for power.

0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Steam Turbines
0:57 - Natural Magma
1:30 - Volcanoes
2:36 - Magma blades
3:00 - Design 1 - Dropping debris
4:23 - Cooling loop
4:45 - Smart battery control
5:08 - Choosing the number of turbines
6:16 - Solid shipping
7:29 - Starting up the design
7:58 - Design one take reference
8:06 - Design 2 - Heat injector and heat spike
8:52 - Extending the heat spike
10:13 - Design 3 - Pumping magma
10:46 - Outro

[Omni]

My trick to cooling down large amounts of igneous rock is to wait for the heat death of the universe.

[Rigr_Mrtis]

A bit of trivia: Lava blade is a term coming from Minecraft, where you would use the same principle to create a magma overhang which could be used to burn creatures to death and their loot would drop on the ground to be collected. The overhang bit of lava is very thin and looks like a blade.

[michaelrichards]

You actually explained this with builds in 11mins lol crazy

[ToskaForsite]

The best ONI tutorials.
Without any doubts.

[lukemilne]

Think I've watched all your tutorial bites now, fantastic information and video structure. Hope more people find your channel. Looking forward to the ranching one

[agliy]

Just some heads up, if the magma starts to not flow through the second mesh tile, you probably have a certain bug where the magma becomes an igneous tile inside the mesh tile.
To fix this, deconstruct the mesh tiles, save and reload, find any igneous tiles where the mesh tile is before, and dig them. This should fix them from turning into igneous rock inside the magma line.

[blavena]

Awesome designs, and you can even clean the salt with shipping before taking the igneous rocks for a ride
Sadly my home planet has no oil, this is probably the best I can do with the 3 vulcanoes there, I also added a spike to the left to build my sauna there

[facundoorzabal]

Amazing content. Thank you so much. Your Tutorial Bites series was an instant bookmark for me.

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Your tutorials are the best I've seen on ONI, bar none.

[LostTimeLady]

Thank you. Your videos have got me back into ONI after I hit a mid-game wall previously.

[anomalocaris]

4:55 When I'm using Smart Batteries to control the turbines, rather than allow one turbine to continue running like you're doing, I actually prefer to just put a failsafe on the Aquatuner itself (with an AND gate and a nearby thermo sensor) that stops the Aquatuner from running if the steam temperature is over 300C, thereby guaranteeing it doesn't break itself.

[GermanyOni]

Just recently found this Channel, and although I already understood all the concepts shown it has helped me get a deeper understanding of them and will definitely help new players.

[mickuijldert]

Thank you for the high quality content, as per usual!

[spanishlefty]

This was a great tutorial of something VERY difficult. Thanks.

[Kawaii_duck]

For the heat injector set up, i would recommend u guys to power up the mechanized airlock so it closes and open faster. That way u don't bring in more heat than needed. My set up would get overheated when I didn't power up the mechanized airlock. Also move the thermo sensor closer to the middle. Hope this helps anyone who has a problem with the injector set up.

[GunGryphon]

Another lazy way to do geothermal is to "bottle" the volcano inside a large diamond window container and siphon the heat with a heat injector. You can start the process with a heat spike above the volcano till everything is cooled to neat boiling, then dig out an area and change the spike into a bottle. As the lava builds up to cover the volcano, just mine it out every few hundred cycles.

[michaelsotomayor]

There's one more option to harnessing magma power, my preferred method - using hydrogen filled steel pipes to slowly drip cool the inflow magma from a volcano. Pools of magma is different but if the volcano is in a pocket of obsidian with surrounding magma I mine all of the rock out and cool down the magma into a crust using igneous tiles. Then I dig the entire volcano out free with no liquid magma to deal with. From here setup to catch the magma and cool down easily with a hydrogen filled loop. You can easily gather tons of igneous rock this way for future use in any project you need heat power.

[martinbennett]

Your voice reminds me of old Open University programmes that were on BBC2 late at night :)

[deilusi]

There are variations of it,
for example if you open magma blade that flows into tempshift tiles, it will also turn into debree and do nothing else.
its useful if you just want to compress magma into rock, to unlock new area. Then you can store stacks of 100T of hot rock, without big ass room for it. Good part of it is that it usually happens at astonishing speed, as flash point mechanics are a bit glitchy.

[OneOfDisease]

I am playing on the flipped lava planet as my main starting planet and my first window tap was coming in from directly below. It works the same I guess but logistically it was a lot more of a pain to set up. If I could go back in time I think I would have set it up like your first example.