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Oxygen Not Included Beginner Guide to POWER

Shmoky

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Cycles 21 through 30 are usually where a beginner colony's power setup quietly starts breaking down. If your dupes are still wasting away their day running on the hamster wheels while the bottom of your base fills up with unbreathable CO2, it's time to upgrade your layout.

Welcome back to Episode 3 of our Oxygen Not Included Beginner Guide! Today, we are finally getting off the manual wheels and building an early but stable, automated power grid. I’m going to show you how setting up Coal Generators and using a Smart Battery will help you stop wasting fuel, and building a completely self-contained Carbon Skimmer loop to destroy CO2 seamlessly.

We are also breaking down the basic wire limits (1kW, 2kW, 20kW, and 50kW) so you can use Transformers to route heavy power to your base without the decor melting your dupes faces.

Subscribe to stay locked in—next episode we are tackling ranches, and the early SPOM (oxygen) set up.

00:00 - The Early Power Trap
00:38 - Ditching Hamster Wheels & Refining Copper
01:10 - The Starting Coal Warning (Don't Get Comfortable!)
01:50 - Smart Battery Automation (Stop Wasting Coal!)
03:15 - Digging the CO2 Pit & Carbon Skimmer Closed-Loop
04:22 - The Wire Limits Matrix (1kW vs 2kW vs 20kW)
06:10 - The Transformer Interstate (How to Step Down Voltage)
09:35 - Explaining the Bed/Bath Achievement Setup
10:14 - The Smart Battery Safety Cushion Logic
10:48 - Wrap-Up & What's Coming in Episode 4

9 Comments

@tomasisnotmyname2688 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the helpful video! Good editing, and because the topics are separated into chapters it's very easy to find and rewatch what you need.

@MauzWauz 3 months ago (edited)

I’d like a let’s play (so, unedited) or a ‘overexplained’ series from you. You explain it all very well, but it goes fast. I frequently rewind and watch again haha. ONI is so good, but soooo deep. You got a sub!

@movies_and_videogames 3 months ago

Nice!

@Shmoky3 Creator 3 months ago

Nothing hurts more than watching your entire coal supply vanish because you forgot to hook up a Smart Battery...
To everyone building up their beginner bases right now: what cycle are you on, and what system is giving you the most trouble? Let me know what mechanics you want me to cover after we tackle Critter Ranching in the next episode!

@KathyNoble-lc8fi 2 months ago

I had figured out the carbon skimmer loop but how smart batteries and the transformer worked was confusing me. Thanks for your straightforward explanation of how it should be done!

@tursh_city 2 months ago

Thanks for the tutorial, it was really helpful. It would be great if you make another Power guide video but in the mid game. I am on my 70th cycle and i don't know how to supply everything now, there is always some power shortage

@femalecrusader8389 2 months ago

Hamster wheel great for building athletics and you can turn it in a gym only power the room.

@someone-ne5bu 2 months ago

i use an infinate gas storage to dump the CO2 into, i use an automation circuit that detects boths CO2 and air pressure of 300 or 500 or whatever depending on my O2 pressure above the pit to activate the gas pump and move the co2 from the pit into the infinate storage. super easy to set up, consumes some energy but also helps with deleting some of the heat generated in that pit from the generators and the batteries and transformers. it's as if you have access to space vacuum from cycle 20