Steam Rockets : Tutorial nuggets : Oxygen not included

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Just built the steam box where the sun hits in the space area, add steel bunker tiles and it automatically heats up the room.. No regolith and heating rail system needed.. simple...

i have a question, why not just use a switch? instead of a hydro sensor, it takes the same amount of material but you would be using the switch for its main function

I had no idea I could send more than one research module into space at a time... I've sent 17 fucking steam engines (with full tanks) into space before I finally unlocked the petroleum engine. I tried to build a research module and a solid storage module on a steam rocket and it said it was too heavy, so I just assumed two modules of any type would be just as heavy. I'm so, so annoyed 😂

Oh, and I was making steam in a really stupid slow way, too. So this whole process has taken absolute ages. I wish I would have looked up a tutorial sooner, but I was afraid of spoilers....

Do you have a video about a steam chimney.

Thank you so so much for all your guides. Without them, I would never have launched my first rocket today and also build the great monument on the side. Godsent content man.

Francis, I have been playing this game for a few years. your videos are insightful and quick. keep it up. someday I will get to getting some petroleum and heat management

Appreciate the insight, been wondering how to go about my first rocket today. Thanks!

'Missing Gantry' no matter what I do

I actually launched 3 of them because I prioritized the research wrong^^
Also I just used 5 modules because I only saw 5 areas ro be researched on the asteroid

Should have watched this first

Oh yes and I also encountered the rounding error. My research is on 399 of 400 now...

Why would I not have less than 6 research modules?

THank God for this video!!!!!!!! I'm nearly to the surface but I was about to give up playing the game cause i can't find useful info to tail me into the late game. THANK YOU

I have a Problem i have a steam rocket with oxilite boosters but my dupes wont fill Them up they are all idle and i have all Ressources

Front-loading your steam chamber with water is not a good idea. You slow down the whole process significantly by doing that.

The issue is that loading steam is slow. It's 1kg at a time, so 900kg takes 1.5 cycles. Instead of waiting for 2 tons of water to reach 110-120 C, you could make 20-30kg of steam, which is much, much faster. As you pump the steam into the rocket 1kg at a time, you can drip more water into the steam chamber via pipes, making new steam as fast as you pump it out.

This requires piping water to the steam chamber, but it's still a lot faster than having to heat up all the water before you can start pumping steam.

If you're going with hot rocks, It's a lot faster to build your steam chamber in a spot that had a lot of hot regolith or mafic rock. Dig it out, your steam chamber starts with a couple of tons of hot rock right away, no need to haul it there or use a conveyor belt.

You don't even need the conveyor system. Just put a storage bin in the room and load it up with hot regolith. Then dump it out on the floor. Don't need a water pipe either: Just put some ice in the bin and dump it out, and it will melt and turn into steam.

Cheers, steam in this game scares me, every time I make or come across it, it just causes pain and is a hassle to deal with. So I do my best to never make any steam, and wall in steam vents to control them xD

What about an oxygen rocket?

Your steam box is too complicated. Just make a 4 tall, 12 wide metal box in vacuum with a bunker lid and let it get hit by like 10-15 large meteors. done. like you said it is only for 2 rockets

Quick tip for gases in pipes in space: Don't bother using insulated pipes unless you're running them through something solid. Instead, just use regular Obsidian pipes. Their heat capacity is so tiny that they very quickly increase in temperature until they perfectly match the temperature of the steam (or whatever gas), and with no atmosphere to leak the temperature into they will remain that way permanently.

This isn't such a big deal if you're quick about your first few launches with steam, but if you're putting half a dozen cycles between launches, even Ceramic insulated pipes will slowly leak the temperature from your steam into the pipes and crack them. It takes regular obsidian pipes mere seconds to catch up to the temperature of the gas and no matter how long steam sits idle in the pipes, it will retain that temperature permanently.

Nice video, tnx! Second time when i refer to it.
Although i prefer metal refinery with radiant pipes (petroleum inside) running through water, that is in steambox. Produces steam and refined metal as a bonus.

Just a tip about the steam pipes for whoever's watching now: The reason the steam cools down in the insulated pipes is because the insulated pipes are cold and take a long time to warm up and reach the steam. No heat is actually lost to space. To solve this, use regular non-insulated granite pipes and keep the steam box close to the engine. This will let you leave the pipes full of steam without a worry (A bit of cold damage will occur as the pipes warm up though. This is normal.)

Every time I hear steam rockets I think why did team rockets come to oni

I like your tutorials on the game, but man you talk fast ;)

I launched my first rocket today (after 275 in-game hours lol), thank you for the tutorials.

I suggest using a rail temperature sensor and dropping the regolith down to your core base when it's cool enough, keeps dupes from dragging in 350c regolith as filtration and gives you a bit of power to boot.
just need to pump in a bit more water than the two rockets need so the steambox stays relatively stable in temperature as you get regolith surges every time a shower ends.

Currently, the air lock doors are broken, lets all kinds of gases through.

I have been playing for three weeks... just used my first Or gate.
I am at a complete loss because I have never made it this far before, lol.

Thank you for your tutorials on this game. I really am enjoying getting into ONI, and your explanations have been extremely helpful

Something I’ve always wondered is why do you need a space scanner for rocket silos if they are layered with bunker tiles doesn’t the rocket break all the regolith when it lands?

Cool tutorial, many thanks! An alternative way to make steam is to tap into a robominer petroleum cooling loop (linked to a steam turbine) - the petroleum will always be at least 125 degrees.

Launched my 1st rocket today 7/20/20, still has the rounding error FYI Thank you for the help best channel on ONI.

The petroleum is a heatsink.

"This is where we have a hydro sensor"
Button switch: Am I a joke to you?

Just launched my 1st rocket today, interesting that only 2% of players got that acheivement. Thank u for your tutorials

I don't know if I would consider the steam box to be "no energy"... the automation will use quite a bit of energy while it's running. Wouldn't it be possible instead to just build the steam box around some good chunks of regolith, close it up and then dump water into it? that way there really is no energy needed and you don't even need to be able to build automation structures.

New to the game here... What's with that tower with the liquid locks next to the rocket? Is it to help build the rocket bunker?

nice vid!! very satisfying to see rockets launch. I've never gotten that far in any playthrough haha!

New to the game and to your channel. Love your tutorial nuggets and the style you do them. Quick and digestible, even when you go off topic, still concise. One question...any reason you choose the Hydro Sensors instead of the Signal Switch? There isn't a cost difference, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something or if this is just a case of Signal Switch being newer, and you're using something familiar? Thanks again!

Francis, could you please remake a scanner/telescope tutorial? I feel like it may got outdated by now.

You don’t need ceramic. Use the hot mafic rock you dig up to build regular gas pipes.

Nice video u got yourself a like and a new subscriber

I would just connect the steam box with something thats really hot like the planets surface

Launched my first Steam Rocket today. With close consultation of this tutorial. Thank you.

Pretty useful, thanks dude

Big fan of the channel! One interesting thing I noticed while building an aquatuner steam room: I built a steam pipe return (which didn't work since steam quickly pressurizes past what a high pressure vent can handle) but the steam trapped in my return pipe stayed at a proper temperature versus my insulated ceramic pipe. The regular pipe quickly exchanges heat with the steam but then stabilizes. The insulated pipes will keep exchanging heat with the contents. You can just build a regular pipe to the steam rocket, pipe it in at 130 degrees and not have to worry about deconstructing it between the two rocket trips!

Did something change? I only got 540 research points from two missions, which suggests that I didn't get 10 research points from the modules that got the 50 bonus points.

Pretty good tutorial <3 doing rockets for the first time is pretty daunting, guides like these help a lot