Oxygen Not included, A brief introduction to the Game and its basics

Oxygen Not included is in Pre-Alpha which is amazing for how well it works at the moment. So far I have sunken 110 hours into the game and I’m in love. I purchased it a while ago and I let it sit there until I noticed the previous update “Outbreak” which made me fall in love with the game. They listened to the community and really showed off their skill with the newest update Oil upgrade. Sure there are a lot more improvements to come but oh man does this make me excited.

This game has 6 biomes which have unique gases, blocks, liquids and mobs. Two are layers of biomes and the rest are scattered with your starting biome staying the same between playthroughs.

The outbreak update introduced sinks in which you needed bottled water to replenish and also a place to put the polluted water once the sink needs emptying. All at the hands of your duplicants.
With the Oil upgrade you can now research a sink with plumbing! Horraay!
Also we were blessed with “exo suits” which require oxygen and power to charge. Then they house a duplicant so they can infiltrate germ infested areas.

The two main germs in the game are:

• Food poisoning which you receive from duplicants waste (when they wash their hands, go to the bathroom, get too hot and sweat, come in contact with an item or surface with a lot of germs. They can not die from Food poisoning! :D

• Slime Lung on the other hand can wipe you colony out. If you do not have the appropriate buildings and hygiene to combat slime lung avoid it!

I will be releasing some playthrough footage of this game over the next week so hit that follow and stay tuned!

Heres screenshots and basic beginning of the game stuff

Loading Screen!! :D

Duplicants

Duplicants are your main tools to access this meteorite. They need food, bathrooms, sleeping quarters and a place to get rid of germs! They each have individual traits (similar to Rimworld by Tynan Sylvester) and Stress Responses (mainly, Ugly Crier, Stress Vomiting and Destructive. Not in any specific order) In this screen you can name your Duplicants (which you can change in game) also shuffle through them or change the name of your colony.

Photo Backup - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxKvu5s5h-t0dGlSZnFES2tjVTg/view?usp=sharing

Duplicant Selection then EMBARK!

Once you embark on your journey you are struck with an alert!

" Your Crew has awoken stranded inside a distant asteroid.
Oddly, they can't recall how they got here.

They'll need to survive to find answers"

Gameplay :D

Now you are into the game, around you are resources and gases.
Most importantly Algae and sandstone seeing as it’s abundant.
Algae is used to produce oxygen in the beginning of the game (it is the green textured block)
Also the Blue blocks giving off those particles are called Oxylite which gives off oxygen in turn for mass, slowly eroding the block into gas.

In the following screenshot I have opened up the “Jobs” tab, which sadly doesn't allow me to assign a numerical priority for the individual duplicants which i wish this game had.

Although this game does have an individual 1-9 priority overlay which works for anything except flipping power switches (the block) and changing Valves (gas and liquid)

Once you have cleared up some space and read the hints in the top left of the screen you should be aquainted with the buildings in the next screenshot

Left to Right

1. Pitcher Pump - Used to extract from a pool of liquid from 1block - 4 block depth and bottle it. Duplicant required to utilize machine

2. Algae Deoxydizer -Consumes water and algae to produce Oxygen Gas in the space around it. Can pump till just over 1000 g of oxygen is in the tiles around it. This requires Electricity

3. Wire - Used to link low voltage appliances to power

4. Algae Terrarium - Consumes water, algae and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. This building can be partially submerged in water to satisfy its water requirements but will still need to be accessible for algae and must still be in a liquid free tile to suck up carbon dioxide.

5. Manual Generator - These things are how you get power in the beginning of the game, as you can see my duplicant currently operating the Generator just leveled up!

6. Small Battery - It holds power created by generators, there is a second tier that requires research.

7. Outhouse - Now these things are essential, normally i forget to build them and end up with food poisoning and wee in my water supply D: Good thing about the toilets in this game is you can set the to be public or assign a certain duplicant to them. You will need a place to store the Polluted Dirt once the outhouse is full!
   

In the following photo you will see the Storage compactor. Its the only source of storage and can hold up to 20000Kg of items.
As you can see when clicking on one, you can set a priority for the building and also select what you allow inside and what you don’t want to be stored inside. Above the check boxes is a slider allowing you to manage how much the duplicants can put into the building.

Research!

Now this is where things get confusing. In the Oil Upgrade then refined the tech tree.
I love what they did with it. It does make it a little harder to get to the end of the research but I guess it does make you focus on the slow improvement of duplicant life.

tech tree image - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxKvu5s5h-t0WnlaT3U0U0JqRWc/view?usp=sharing

Now before we get into much more of the game I want to show you guys the over all generation of the map. Please keep in mind it is based on a seed generation

Image - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxKvu5s5h-t0TURWM0syLXZ6Ulk/view?usp=sharing

Well that does not look plesant!

Anyway, this game has alot of depth and if I try to fit it all in one post my fingers are going to fall off! That's all for today steemians!

Let me know what you think! Check out :

Brothgar - https://www.youtube.com/user/Brothgar

For some quality mechanics testing and gameplay footage on Oxygen Not included! I love watching his vids and I always learn new things about this game :D

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