Oxygen Not Included - Critter Tutorial Bites - Pokeshells

What is the point to having a premiere for a pre-recorded video? What benefit is there for you over just releasing the video?

Why is it important to have people watching the video at the exact moment it is released when it is not a livestream?

I can't wait

One more thing that I found useful is using Pokeshell to kill other critters. Especially Paku, that can't "evolve" naturally and should be starved to death. XD

Pokeshells lag behind pacus in all aspects. Variants are quite useless, too.

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recently returned to ONI and your vids are a blast and your calm voice is very sooothing

What trips me up about oakshells is how labor intensive they are! First they want to be groomed, and then their shells want to be crushed, compare that to a wild arbor farm that can be only harvested, or left to be less efficient but fully automated by letting the wood drop after a while. I guess one can turn a wild arbor farm into an oakshell ranch at the same time, to get some extra lumber out of the space. Ultimately not sure it's worth the rancher time though. Grooming in those large open ranches takes a lot longer when critters are free to wander, if I'm going to have a dupe wait by the grooming station, I'd rather get something else out of it like meat and dirt from the pips, or insane amounts of food from the divergents.

It's nice to have some sanishells going on the irradiated asteroid (the moonlet one) when using an ethanol loop (which I always do, I'm a sucker for the rare liquids) to get seafood buff reliably without pacu, though, also great for spacefaring on higher difficulty.

Otherwise I think pokeshells in their hatch-like efficient range is the way to go. I'm not sure about the ratios and I might've missed it if you mentioned it, but since you only need minute amounts of refidned carbon for steel, feeding hatches with the sand gives you everything bar the iron needed for steel starting with the humble wild planted tree, going through a distiller for power and water, the pdirt through a pokeshell for lime and sand, and the sand through a hatch for coal.

I just love ranching due to how the different critters feed into one-another for more complex setups. I wonder if you'll do some video as to beneficial interactions between the critters, a recap of what to ranch together, now that the critter series is nearing the end. I.e. pips feed into sage hatches, oakshells into hatches, pufts into pacu, etc. Something to tie it all together. The broader picture of how they work together (including with farming). Think that would be neat.

I appreciate all the boommarks! I reference your videos a lot.

Oakshell is interesting because it can be feed by the Polluted Dirt from the Ethanol Destiller and Petroleum Generator

I've noticed that most people who cover pokeshells don't mention that fed oakshells produce 100kg of molts per cycle. Wich is in my opinion the best part of oakshell ranching.

In helping to produce Ethanol, I'm afraid Oakshells have become a main rival of the Hatch for early power production, giving the player the opportunity to start a small setup with a Petroleum Engine, and perfect it as time goes on...

I typically do have 1-2 in a ranch to deal with rot piles and polluted dirt.
But typically, I treat them like most of the other grounded critters. I stick them in a 1x5 open pit with an autosweeper at the bottom. They gradually increase in number, as they're in a room the size of the map. Automated drop to put any more eggs around the colony in there...and so passively and without resource use, I get a fair number of critters, shells, and food with no labor.

Yay, another non-stream video from you! :)

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I use sanishell overflow to clean my dirty water. Can dump as many eggs or spawn in there as I want. Keep dupes above them, and even when they're in protect mode they're usually too busy cleaning to attack. So, germ free water, seafood, and no attacks. Simple.

Not sure if you ran the numbers on it, but shouldn't you also be able to roughly make oxygen for one dupe per distiller by sublimating 1/3 of the pdirt and feeding the other 2/3 to oakshells (or other shells?) For deodorizer sand. I'd wager a fully domestic tree growth setup if using oakshells for that little extra lumber would at least be water neutral and power positive, while providing o2 for a dupe and bonus clay.

Came to mind as I'm playing on metallic swampy moonlet and there's absolutely no sustainable water or oxygen here, and being a moonlet wild planting can be iffy at times due to size constraints. But domestic trees are quite space efficient, and you can plop the oakshell ranch in the tree farm to save space. Should take no more than the size of 2 stables total to make oxygen for roughly 8 dupes this way? Though perhaps a bit more as the sublimation/deodorizer might take a bit of space.

Did you ever try that and run the numbers on it?

Would you be able to hook up a bathroom loop to a sanishell to just turn that excess water into clean potable water?

what's a good way to "remove" the excess sanishells since they drop no molts?

Pokeshells spawns are the absolute cutest critter in this game

=I'VE MADE ANOTHER DESIGN...................... BASED ON SPECIAL ROOM THAT HAS INCUBATORS AT TOP PRIORITY........AND THAT ROOM TO HAVE EGG SENSOR SO EGGS THAT ALLOWED WILL MATCH EXACTLY AT THE NUMBER OF INCUBATORS

.........AND YEAH, A PERFECT SOLUTION FULLY SELF SUSTAINABLE CERAMICS FARM, HEHEHEHE

So sadly, pokeshells are the short stick of the critter usefulness list, as they can be replaced by:
Pokeshell = any large enough critter ranch that produces egg shells.
Oakshell = arbor trees.
Sanishell = chlorine (base game) wheezewort (dlc radiation) or pakus (for food).

The Pokeshell is still the best of them for lime production though, the others need a buff or rework to be worth ranching.

The thing for me is not that Pokeshells are g ood for anything, but that I love them and want to ranch them, so thank you!

On the off change you get sleetwheat exuberant version, which isn't necessarily hard just takes time, it produces a lot of rot pile on harvest, I usually use it to feed these guys, starve 20 and feed 3, but I've only farm them for fun at this point.

It’s been a long time since I saw your video on killing germs but it inspired me to preserve most of my natural uranium and to use it to kill germs in an unfinished play-through I have. You can watch it if you want.

I feel like the SannyShells and Gulps would make a great team. You Gulps converting the piss poluted water in germy water and transfer that to the sanny shells, or put them in the same water space separated by mesh tiles and you can try to mix sponge slugs too. Gonna need to make calculations of power and resource efficient. Probably not as power and resource, or heck even space too.

One important thing you forgot to mention is that adult oakshells also regularly (I think every 5 cycles, not sure though) drop one molt, but only if they‘re happy I think, sadly it’s really not well documented.

Tell me, please, how do the eggs of the creatures get to the incubators? If a scheme similar to the one you used with Plug Slugs is applied here, then all eggs are sent along the conveyor to the overflow room. But, in that scheme, duplicates are taken out through the door in the overflow room and referred to incubators, but what about here?

Sounds like an oak and sani co-op farm is good sand generation

Does anybody know, has anyone measured: for how long does the adult keep the tint and anger after detecting an egg? How much time after removing all eggs until they become calm?

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how do you make sand farm

How do the dupes get the eggs in order to put them in the incubators? In this design the eggs go straight into the kill chamber and the dupes can't access them

It would be nice if Sani Shells produced more sand based on how many germs they destroy, or something else.

Are sanishells better than pacu for seafood now (for me I'm mostly concerned with making surf and turf)? I was looking at luma's pacu ranch design where he mentioned that pacus are more of an egg critter than fillet critter now since they drop a whopping 4K calories of raw egg everytime they lay an egg. compared to the measly 1K per fillet on death, and they supposedly nerfed pacu starvation ranching - I only started the game recently so I guess I wasn't around during the "good times". He was making mostly an automated ranch for pacu eggs and auto cooking them into omelettes which can be used for better foods.

Wild Sanishell ranches are OP.

Pokeshells and pacu make great friends. Pacue fed seeds make plenty of poluted dirt.