Oxygen Not Included Tutorial: Water Management

Slight correction: If you want to build insulated tiles that are more effective than what I used in this video, use Igneous Rock or Ceramic.

Intro: 0:00
Starting a new run: 1:02
Using the first pool of water: 3:25
Producing food: 6:23
Finding renewable water: 13:24
The need for cool water (Bristle Blossoms): 15:13
Maintaining oxygen production without water: 17:50
Starting the water management system: 18:48
Creating the water cooling setup: 20:21
Capturing a water geyser: 23:51
Storing different water types: 28:50
Producing cool water!: 32:39
Working with Polluted Water Vents: 37:12
Using plumbed bathrooms: 43:45
Working with a Cool Slush Geyser: 46:40
Creating oxygen using water: 55:40
Reducing dependency on Bristle Blossoms: 1:00:50
Harvesting natural water on the map: 1:02:05
Best and worst water sources: 1:10:13

[aragureghian]

Fantastic approach! Yes, stumbling getting near 100 cycles and running out of water while my Dups [6] are using it like it flows freely! What I like a lot about your video [s] is the fact that you touch on many subjects for example here learned so much more than just "water" aspect. Love it and many Thanks for making this 74 year Old Gamer happy!!! Got to Love Video Gaming, Stay well.

[peterschmidt]

One hint for newer players, that I figured out: If you are looking for Geysirs/Vents on the revealed map, the easiest to spot them for me was the temperature map overlay.

[coolermonkey]

This game is way more complicated than I bargained for. Scary as a new player, but im always up for the challenge! Thanks man!

[chupetaparamahboy]

i've watched a couple of your mega tutorials now and i want to say you do a fantastic job, i've learned a lot from them and it's made this difficulty mountain of a game much more approachable.

thank you for your work, i greatly appreciate it!

[louishermann]

Tip: The super computer uses enormous amounts of water, but the research has to be done so it's basically a sunk cost.

Make the most of that water by running it through a metal refinery a few times until it's above 80C, the output it to a small insulated pool with a pitcher pump near your lab.

The waste heat from refining gets deleted in the super computer.

[Graknorke]

As someone who's played a lot of Dwarf Fortress and was told this was a similar kind of game, I think what makes it daunting to me is that yes it's standard for these games to have a lot of moving parts, you have to basically know all of ONI at once to play it. you can't ever experiment from a kind of safe setup because everything is incredibly finite and limited and if anything in your experimenting goes wrong you just die without it necessarily being obvious why.

[mcfluffly]

happy to see such awesome content from a relatively small creator

[karimsonsafehold]

I really like this game. It is not as complicated as people said it was, but then again I had 2 years of electrical engineering so "complicated" may be relative. THis is like factorio meets rimworld plus some terraforming and space exploration like Kerbal.

[katiezellers]

Ive gotten to almost cycle 100 with just the algae oxygen maker. If you put 2-4 of them on almost the lowest level (anything below it will become a co2 trap) and use airflow tiles on every level, you can get high oxygenation with very little algae consumption. For some reason I didn't know there was a water consuming oxygen maker so I needed to find a way to make the algae ones work.

[vqwugpj]

Thank you for this video, it's pretty heavy for a newbie like me but i learnt so much from you. Especially when i don't have the time to learn the game at my own pace, it is definitely nice to learn how to do things without bumping into mistakes along the way.

[m-pod]

Love this channel! OxygenNotIncluded may be one of the most underated games I habe seen so far, so I'm glad there's such great content about it.

[jonaut]

I think that bristle blossoms are pretty easy to just skip. I usually start transitioning to ranching as soon as I have everything else set up. Plumbed bathrooms, refrigerator, grill, that kind of stuff. This way even once my ranching is up, I have tons of backup dirt. This also means I can pretty much ignore germs as well. I also only really have one clean water storage. it makes it pretty easy because with me skipping the bristle blossoms I can ignore germs, and mixing the waters is a pretty good idea imo. It means you can just put the hot water into the cold water and then just cool the main tank.

[Nillerus]

Brilliant tutorials, nicely structured as well. And unlike other ONI YouTubers you don't have constant motormouth, but keep a steady, pleasant place.

[xiaohu]

I can't believe I just finished an 1hour lesson and enjoyed it. Very good tutorial explained things clearly for beginner like me. Thank you!

[function]

High quality ONI content you produced here. Good job.

[Lmask]

Your tutorials are great, been binging them while learning the game. Many thanks!

[kaysidegamer]

I wish you talked more about the endgame! Given your focus on sustainability, all of your solutions always seem so impermanent, and whenever I find myself using them I always know I’m already screwed!

[Shabazza]

Superb tutorial.
I really like to get a big cup of hot coffee and binge-watch your tutorials.

[dankullander]

Thanks for a nice tutorial regarding water!!

[nathanlamberth]

Magnet: "This might be kind of a long video"
Me: "Sounds good to me"