Oxygen Not Included Tutorial: Germs and Sickness

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any information on the "animation" of the symptoms and the time it takes. The one thing that I know is that the "sick" game takes a lot more time than a "healthy" one. You might call me paranoid, but a sick dupe stops running and working to express his frustration, and he does it a lot. Is that a big deal? I'd like to know your opinion.

The best way to prevent Slimelung in the early game - DON'T dig out the slime. You can freely dig out everything else in the Slime Biome around the slime, like gold amalgam, sedimentary rock, plants, you can even take polluted water, it's going to be germ free, but leave the slime alone. The moment you dig out one tile of slime, the entire area is infected. But as long as you don't, you are gonna be fine.
Food Poisoning is complicated, I get it. What I do is create a "polluted room" under my bathroom with Sink and Deodorizer inside + combine Infinite Bathroom with Infinite Shower. Didn't have to worry about Food Poisoning ever since.

yo i know its old but the thing about sickness percentage is individual, when it says 27% u cant think about it as a group of 15, its 27% of 100% for each and everyone of them so sometimes u get all of them sick, sometimes u get only 1 like ur video. like everyone rolled a dice and only one got a number below 27 the others got above it. got that when i was modding this war of mine few years ago lol

watches you disable the wash basin eyes begin to twitch

I just drowned the Zombie spores...🤣🤣

depleted uranium i know that's late game but the same idea mine some uranium and put it in your infected water, the uranium wont hurt them if its in a chest away from they're direct exposure or even shine bugs. i know people hate having shines keep there're dupes up but abyss bugs don't and still do the trick. so is one dupe getting a little sick from mining uranium and putting it into a chest for the health of all. and yea i found you do need to mine it. having my water right up to a uranium deposit didn't help. but it helped for food poisoning and slime lung

For a yeah I ignored slimelung and it barely was a problem

Nice tutorial. However, dealing with germs early on really isn't that big of a deal. You made a great example of building your germ generating buildings behind the wash basin. At that point, you don't need to worry about killing or dealing with the germs for quite some time. Just store it away in a reservoir until you get your colony stabilized. I find dealing with germs a nice extra challenge with setting up your colony. This is great for new players just starting because you did mention that it is overwhelming for new players. Still, great tutorial covering a lot of information.

I had the perfect germ-free base right up until the point where I ran out of algae & coal and everyone suffocated because I was terrified of slimelung and prioritized chlorine rooms over everything else before expanding. 10/10 tutorial.

I recommend if anyone gets zombie spores, lock them in sealed room and vent the oxygen, if you think you’re encountering spores but don’t have a vacuum chamber made. Do it, regardless of their skills it’s better than dying

The reason it doesn't work in sandbox is because you don't have a Dupe to transmit the germs to the object. The Dupes transmit it wherever they touch. No Dupe, no transfer.
The liquid to air transmission happens because the Dupe had germs and exhaled germy CO2.

You should have set the outhouses to not be disinfected, then it would be faster contamination.

I built my first colony before watching this. I set it up like an army FOB So i clean germs off people leaving bathrooms, before they cook, before they eat, and after dumping off waste.
Been doing well. Just looking at how to clean the air from the drop off point.

Poor Meep tho

feel like food poisoning tablets (like 3-4)help a lot early on

All this is still correct, nothing was changed yet, probably won't change anymore.
Again, very informative, thanks for the video !

Magnet: "Oh, I won't set up a water positive plumbing toilet and sink for a while."
Also Magnet: "You can't handle the germs."

Suggestion:
Plumbing toilets and sinks, deals with most of your germs and no handling germy stuff.
The clean water coming out of the sieve can be priorized off pipe with a liquid bridge or reservoir (additional buffer function) - once your clean water is backed up until the priority re-introducem it will take the low priority path further down the pipe. guide that into a reservoid or two and let them sit. time will kill off the germs in the clean water and after a while you have 5t of clean, room temperature, germ free water.
All this needs is sand and a bit of power for the sieve and occasional reconnecting the de-germing reservoirs. all of that is pretty cheap. and a compost with deodorizers even generates oxygen and dirt (although the heat can get annoying after 50 cycles or so)

I found a sporechid in an oil biome, but it was submerged in crude oil so it was not that bad. I have NO IDEA why, but the sporechid spawned with zombie spores around it, so i can confirm that the sporechid spawns with zombie spores around it.

The three not digging dups 😂

I love how empathetic this guys it to his dupes

hi, would love an update for the creative way of making a fridge with the new update food will rot in the clorine only. it would have to be at 4 degrees. now you could maybe try to cool it down like that.. but maybe thats a bit much work for it? additionally if you want to use food that is used for other recepies that uses the same type it gets mor complicated with dupes running from kitchen to restaurant all the time. so it would require a bit more micromanagement. love all your tutorials! thank you!

Tbh I'm glad slime lung got nerfed
I had no way to treat them and lost everything to it

I do wish some germs had more effects,like maybe zombie spores make them go ideal or do the lowest priority stuff

Forgive my Britishness but what TLDR and PSA mean? 🧐

"Oh, look, Mi-Ma is making a mess again. Now we have germs in our water supply. Oh, gee, who's ready for a world reset?"

when would you start using fridges or would you recommend never to use them?

Hmm, did people stop pestering you after this vid? 😁😉

Also, I just love how, in contrast with the chill vibe, someone is viciously clicking in the background, slapping that mouse as if it owes them money or something 😂😋

EDIT: Chlorine gas. You missed the most surefire way to deal with germs "en masse". Containers of "stuff™" in chlorine.

is there any reason you don't pull up the germ overlay to just get a quick look at the germs and what kind they are and how thick they are?

Awesome tutorial. Def going to try that mess hall. I did miss the chlorine room though.
I tend to deal with zombie spores by crushing them out of existence by diagonally building. If you replace the tile the sporechid stands on with a tile it will uproot it. Then you just crush the co2 and everything is peachy. I haven’t tried it myself, but somebody also suggested using an automated dispenser to shove the seed into a neutronium tile for good :)

Hey Magnet, thanks for the video and why you don't use the overlays ??
They help me a lot maybe they help you too !!!

One of my colony members (who is ironically named jschlatt) has floral scent allergy and my base is full of those germs, what do I do?

Ah I remember when my second (or third I don't remember) base died to slimelung. It was back in the yee olden days b4 the disease nerfs. Even food poisoning was horrifying because dupes would constantly piss on the drinking water...

You are my favourite ONI you tuber, you explain things so simple and it makes it easier for me

The slime lung room is crippled by the oxylite. Oxygen kills SL

I still remember when slimelung was actually dangerous. Now, it can be almost be ignored and food poisoning is easy to handle. One thing that still bothers me tho are the sinks and showers. For example: Dupe uses the toilet, germ infected water gets pumped into a water sieve, normal, but germ infected water comes out. So why does my dupes don't get infected when they shower and wash their hands with germ-infected water?

I'm a new player, and slimelung still freaks me out. I just can't deal with seeing that overlay and the rampant slimelung in the air.

Remember when slime lung can kill everyone lol

fill the ration box with chlorine
solved

I was nodding along all proud of myself when you mentioned keeping the sporechid bin in liquid until I suddenly remembered I had dug out the pool around my sporechid bin but forgot to relocate them....and that I have a few wild Pips...

dont feel bad for them, I don't know how many I kill mid game...

Wow germs used to be a huge deal. In most of my colonies i spend a lot of time making sure they never have any germs anywhere.

Just saw zombie spores in quite a big area. Went searching if I should even approach them. Thanks for the info

The problem with disease is that it doesn't matter. I ended up using a mod to make slimelung deadly again, because otherwise whats the point?

As to bathrooms, you are not supposed to keep using the basic versions. Switch to the piped versions before you need to empty the starter ones the first time. Food poisoning solved forever.

The most danger you have to worry about with slimelung is coughing sounds and stress. idk what you are on about

So, to put things simple: The easiest way to handle germs is to instead of putting wash basins in the bathroom, put them in the area BEFORE they eat...? So that way they'd poop, immediately head to the place to eat but wash their hands first and therefore kill any germs.

SJ Perry
Do you really need 4 filters around each polluted dirt storage? Isn't 2 enough?

“Man, this thing sucks!”

Best line in the episode lol