Oxygen Not Included: Beginners Tutorial, Tips, and Tricks!

Oxygen Not Included is a complex game, but after 400 hours in the game I can finally present these 20 Tips and Tricks for ONI. With these in your pocket, you'll have a head start in your first 50 cycles of the game! Prepare your colony in Oxygen Not Included with best practices for bathrooms, kitchens, power, and efficient oxygen production in the early game!

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Redaction: Oxylite produces the same amount of oxygen whether mined or unmined. But Mined oxylite produces Oxygen at a GREATLY reduced rate than unmined oxylite, so it's best not to mine it unless you have a reason to do so!

[MaxTheCatfish]

So, what tutorial videos would you like to see on Oxygen Not Included? Lemme know!

[nogamenolife]

This video made me realize how complicated this game is. You covered a lot of things but all of this gets you at most 300 cycles. I've played the game for more than 450 hours and I still learn.

[Greg_Rock]

Fun fact: it doesn't matter if you dig up oxylite. It emits twice the mass that it loses, for some reason, when in debris form. The only difference is it diffuses more slowly.

[sebitealeaf]

i bought this game impulsively when i was showing Don't Starve to a friend on Steam and saw that this one was on sale, figured that "hey, Klei is frickin great, I'm gonna get it", then it sat in my library for months, and today i finally remembered it existed. I opened it, thinking I'd have a fun time learning through mistakes, and immediately closed it again because i had no clue what was going on. your video is really helpful! I'll give it another go another day

[hashedone]

My tip for a loud sleeper - learn schedules. Just put him on schedule when he sleeps at different hours than his neighbors. Easy and elegant. Loud sleeper is probably the best negative trait existing in-game - it is like +9 digging with tryptophobia, basically no effect on the game.

[grapnarthemighty]

I almost feel like I could now play this game without stressing so much that I lose my hair (or straight pull it out). You have made getting into this complicated game more accessible with these tips. Great video!!

[Klotbeck]

When it comes to choosing duplicants I like to choose those with the negative stress traits "ugly crier" or "stress vomiting". It's annoying to clean up after them but provides a renewable source of water and doesn't break anything.

[JoveRogers]

I have one and only one thing of value to add.

I learned the hard lesson not to position my reservoirs underneath ladder shafts. When Duplicants have accidents, their messes spread outwards and trickle down right into your water supply. If you MUST put your reservoirs there, keep spirits up and bathrooms in uninterrupted working order!

[xNoiiRxcCoeuRx]

I´m 150h in and I still feel like a beginner -.- This Game is greater than I could´ve imagined. I Love it!

[MurphyPlays]

Love the vacation schedule Never thought of that. 👍

[YadonTheCat]

Been thinking of giving ONI another shot but was never all that good at it, so this will likely help. Great timing!

[politicallycorrectredskin]

Oh, and you forgot a simple one: don't destroy wild plants at first, particularly not in caves that have shine bugs and bristle blossoms together in them. You can harvest the plants for food, and even make nature reserves later when you research the sign for some bonus morale. I very methodically build aroung natural caves with a lot of food plants or bugs and blossoms in them. Free food!

[NekoKuroNeko]

I just bought the game on sale and looking forward to playing it during Christmas break. Thank you for the tips, I never thought about over expanding being a problem. That was naturally going to be my first mistake.

[Lrofmaulol]

I just started playing this game today, having played rimworld a lot really helped to start out.
I just wish I knew in advance how big the stations/buildings/etc are, because my current colony is... cramped.

[notaperson]

This is genuinely one of the most helpful video game guides that I've seen.

[jreelite]

Would love to see a early to mid game transition tutorial and tips/tricks list.

[samconcklin]

I've played a lot of resource management games but ONI one always trips me up. This video was the first guide I clicked on and I love it! I usually get passed the first chunk of the game okay, but I think all of these little tips will add up and help me form a stronger foundation every time I play a new colony. Thanks for the tips, I'll be watching more of your stuff!

[crapsound]

Ahh I remember way back in the single player Don't Starve, it took me about a month to learn the basics and a couple more to learn how to work towards self sustainability.

When I heard that Klei made another game and saw this I immediately liked it. But realizing how Don't Starve was, I was prepared on how this game could be and I believe I was right.
Right off the bat it's quite an information overload for me. But I look forward to learning more about this game as I play more.

Thank you very much for the tips.

[masterzoroark]

I remember on one of my colonies all of my duplicants got cooked on coal retrieval errand because I ran out of coal for generator and turned out that the only closest pocket of coal was in what was basically a volcano

[potzer]

I'm already 50+ hours into the game before seeing this video and I gotta say; I wish I had seen it minute 1. I would have saved myself a lot of trial and error. This is a great video with great tips. I was even pleasantly remined of a couple techniques that, for whatever reason, I had stopped using. Thanks a lot and great job!