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Why does water not flow to the right in this pipe?
Each segment of pipe only flows in a specific direction, and can only ever flow in that direction. Even if the pipe segment is empty it still blocks liquid entering it against that preferred direction,...
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Do duplicants passing through a park in a pneumatic tube get the morale boost?
To my surprise, the answer is: yes!
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Best way for cooling water?
The idea is to not cool the water too much. And use insulated abyssalite pipe to run everything with relatively hot water. Geyser water on abyssalite pipes will be just perfect for like 95% of your ...
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What qualifies as a "recreational building"?
Build the Water Cooler, it's the easiest to build and maintain recreational building.
From the Gamepedia page:
The Water Cooler serves as a "Recreational" object needed to create
the ...
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Are showers any real use?
In the Expressive update dupes gain a +3 morale bonus from having a shower.
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Why are my dupes tiding stuff into storage bins far away instead of nearby?
According to this, there is a hidden priority hierarchy which is enabled by default (when Enable Proximity is unchecked). My guess that it has a queue of errands to ensure that even the most distant ...
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Extra heat gets added out of nowhere when using Thermo Aquatuner
One oddity in the game is that buildings have their mass divided by 5 when calculating specific heat.
Cbox contents = (1200 + 25) × 0.622 + 2 × 4.179 + 2 × 4.179
Cbox contents = 1225 × 0.622 + 2 × 4....
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How can I upgrade wires?
After jumping back in the game, I figured out that I just need to place the blueprint of the conductive wire where the regular wire is.
It won't exactly upgrade the wire, but once the construction is ...
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Renewable sources
Before the Launch Update everything apart from wolframite and tungsten is renewable. After the Launch Update everything seems to be renewable.
Lists below show data from before the Launch Update.
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How to batch-cancel tasks in Oxygen Not Included?
There's a whole dedicated tool for that, hotkey is C (for Cancel). It's in the bottom right corner of the screen, and there are filters for what exactly you want to cancel. Same for the deconstruction ...
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How can I open this locked door?
Click on the door. Choose the 'Submit Sample' option. To speed things up, set the priority of the door to 9. A dupe should head straight there, press its hand to the door and it opens up!
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Duplicants not collecting water
In the recent patch (that introduced germs), they add a new structure that pump up water for your duplicants to use.
You have to make sure that this new structure has access to water below itself.
I ...
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Why is this Electrolyzer and Hydrogen Generator combo unsustainable?
The gas filter requires 120W per packet of gas that passes through. If a packet of 1000g goes through, it requires 120W. If a packet of 4g goes through, it will still require 120W.
As the hydrogen ...
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How to choose specific Abyssalite to insulate walls or pipes?
You can't choose the temperature of the materials you are using to build.
What you can do is:
Mine the desired Abyssalite and store it in a designated Compactor (use sweep only, choose only ...
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How do I prioritize material deliveries?
Your response in the comments suggested the source of the issue:
Did you actually prioritize the jobs in the priorities menu, or did you only change the 0-9 slider on the object? These are two ...
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How do I transition to Thermal Aquatuners without any oil? (Berry Blossoms dying)
You can use any liquid for that purpose, not just oil, water or polluted water is fine. The key is to submerge an aquatuner completely, two tiles high.
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How do I get out of the coal trap?
You don't need a tenured scientist for anything. The geyser will be in one of the following states:
Idle: It is active but currently not emitting stuff
Active: It is emitting stuff
Dormant: The ...
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How to control shine bugs
There are several options to do this.
Building a room around the shinebugs (as you already mentioned)
ideally there are already some plants (Bristle Berries in that room)
Same as before but contents ...
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How to unassign dupe skill point?
You need to build the Skill Scrubber machine, and shake the duplicant until its skills reset.
The Skill Scrubber is listed under Stations.
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Algae terrarium: automatically empty bottles
You did (almost) everything correctly already:
1. Place terrarium which produces pWater bottles.
2. Construct bottle emptier nearby.
3. Set bottle emptier to accept polluted water
4. do not set it to ...
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Why is my transformer not connected?
Your second screenshot shows the automation port on the transformer highlighted red. That means the game thinks it's connected to an automation wire.
Almost certainly you have a single square of ...
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Is there a way to replace a building as an atomic operation?
I don't remember if I activated a specific option for it, But I can replace standard tile with insulated tile simply by building over it.
This does not work for replacing a background tile with a ...
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Best way to cure slimelung?
Removing all jobs and assigning them a med-bed (or pharma chamber) is the best you can do. In the new Occupational update, make sure you mark them as "unemployed", and toggle their options off in the ...
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What is the purpose of setting an object's priority?
From the wiki article on priority (https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Priority):
Priority can be set on actions and buildings in your colony. Your Duplicants will complete actions and tend to ...
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How to destroy (or use) large amount of polluted water?
I would use it in the fertilizer synthesizer.
1) This produces natural gas, which can be used with the natural gas generator to make power. (The N.G. generator also produces more polluted water, ...
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When does a duplicant go by a wash basin and not wash their hands?
I know this is a bit of an older thread, but I just had this problem, and I was trying for a while to get my dupe to wash his hands when passing by the wash basin. I tried making it bi-directional, I ...
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How to prevent food shortage?
I haven't read the guide, but it is definitely worth while to have a dedicated chef that ONLY produces food. A dedicated chef with a single microbe musher is capable of producing enough food for 5 to ...
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How do I get my duplicants to use the recreation room?
By making sure they have enough free time to do, besides their basic necessities, also entertainment activities such as hanging out at the water cooler or dancing. Most of the time a two time slot of ...
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