Intro to Rads, Radbolts, and Reactors | Oxygen Not Included

An introductory look at radiation mechanics in the Spaced Out DLC.

End Screen music: When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Cooper Cannell

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[travisperkins]

My first experience with radiation was when my 7 wheezewort spom cooling system almost killed my whole colony after the update xD

[mcpunchins]

I've watched this video dozens of times just for the first 15 seconds or so. There is just something satisfying about watching a reactor explode.

[wittkopdotzgaming]

Here is a random radbolt fact: you can use them to destroy natural tiles at a slightly low rate, it can also break neutronium, which can lead to some applications

[wittkopdotzgaming]

No dupes where harmed, huh? Then why did I see a trapped message? Also love the colony name!

[ekimmak]

If you have good sources of Carbon Dioxide, then you can use Beeta as a way to generate radbolts. While they're asleep, they generate a lot of radiation, so ensure that the adult Beeta will all gather at the same point, stick a radbolt generator by it (and make sure to install a cooling loop later on), and you get a pretty potent early game source of radbolts.

[iamnopsycho]

I recently just bought the new DLC and I’m a bit confused by some of the changes. Your guide really helps!!

[salemprompthous]

Depleted uranium has, in my colonies, one specific use: coolant for my metal refineries. Once it's liquid, it has a massive temp.range (132.9°C to solidify, and rock gas at 4131.9°C), with decent conductivity (2.0 TC and 1.690 SHC) for use in an industrial site. A little temperature automation on the steam turbines to always have steam (turning turbines off at about 140°C, as liquid uranium solidifies at 132.9°C), and build the room a little higher than usual for a longer refinery-loop. Also works nicely to start up an industrial sauna, running the loop downwards to make the initial steam.

[KalinRangelov]

Thank you for this comprehensive tutorial.

[misterren]

I would love and appreciate more videos like this.

[konraddax]

Thank you so much for this, I just bought spaced out and I'm looking forward to using this new knowledge to the test!

[sdollCarol]

Great video. I've been too scared to build a nuclear reactor/power plant. I'm looking forward to seeing how you tackle building one.

[punkinpaiTV]

Yay! Now I know how it'll look when my very first Research Reactor melts down. Thanks, Echo!

[Mike-fspm]

great vid! I always just used wheeze worts to get rad bolts tbh but might tap into crashed satellites since I have never messed with them before

[louishermann]

I really wanna see a breakdown of coolant limited (high temp) reactors, especially if it can include a bolt on petroleum boiler and can be made without space mats.

[queenkalero]

Poor Frankie. Just trapped and being irradiated for our entertainment and education lol

[john_titor]

What's stopping you from just piping the water from the output of the steam engines back into the input of the nuclear reactor, creating a self-sustaining loop?

[jeffgaston]

I ranch shinebugs and ship the eggs into a trapped space and have gotten the rad output of the shine bugs over 3000 rads per cycle. That limit was only because I didn't need to go higher.

[relledge]

This tutorial was so helpful I thumbs up and subscribed on two devices.

[mcsuperplayer]

One thing i discovered about the Glow Stick trait is, that such a dupe can easily deal with germs
i have one glowstick dupe, and this dupe can leave the bathroom directly, because all germs on them are gone after walking like 4 tiles
also, i used this to get rid of the germs on the clay from the deodorizers next to my slime biome

[annoyannoy]

Manual radbolt generator is the best at early game. It saved my skin when i was doing the carnivore achievement, when all power was going to incubators!