Producing oxygen for a base

[mardon40dc]

Morning everyone. Building a base and trying to figure out how the large 02 tanks get filled. Reading the forums and seeing that the 02 Generator was removed from the game. If I build a base NOT AROUND water, how then do I fill the large 02 storage tanks? Watching videos and I see that the tanks are being filled (I believe) without any input from the character. Automated process? Playing game version 8.7. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

[HurtfulPlayer97]

You are going to have to find water. Stick some Water Generators in water and power them and they will make Water Containers. Put those in a Constructor to make O2 bottles. They are the Blue tanks in the Weapons tab.

[Bullet Magnet]

If I remember right you can drop a water generator on snow as well. Don't know as I ALWAYS put my bases near or on water, mostly for other reasons then O2 but it is handy.

[Goddess Ilias]

you can also take o2 containers from pois when you destroyed the core and emergency o2 generator wukk make small o2 bottles too along with water bottles

[NimrodX]

For a while I just filled my O2 by building 3 of the survival water/O2 generation things running on biofuel. I think you can only build them with ore (not ingots) and the survival constructor, not any of the other constructors.

They are slow but if you have several running in parallel then they can crank out the water and O2 at an OK rate. But it will be more trouble than it's worth with a large base, ships, and any other bunch of large things needing O2 filling.

If you just use a SV or HV to fly to some water, then set up like 3-4 of the water genrators, you can just go periodically collect a huge pile of water. Basically operate in large water hauls to cut down on number of trips collecting 500-1000 at a time.

[VulcanTourist]

Water is not the ONLY source: ice/snow can also be used. There are different types of "white stuff" in the game that might look suitable to our eyes but don't suit the Water Generator, so you have to experiment with placement in the different biomes with the white stuff. The large water containers must be further processed in a fabricator to result in large oxygen tanks (or other things instead like hydrogen). As NimrodX says, though, the portable/emergency oxygen generator will also work, giving you small oxygen bottles directly that need no further processing. If you use small oxygen bottles, however, you must use the Manage interface to drop them in; the autofill button and the logic behind it will not automatically choose them, even though they work.