Crude oil killing my dupes - help !

[psanni]

I can't see a way to extract the oil. The moment my dupes dig anywhere near the oil field they'get roasted alive. What's the solution ?

[ShadeLight]

probably exosuit would help

[madcow]

Play like Stalin...you get a new dupe every 3 cycles.

[Myriad]

Definitely would help, and an outright necessity for prolonged exposure to anything outside a dupe's liveable range, be it heat, gas, or other. You're going to at least need Atmo Suits.

Since you asked the question, I'll assume you don't have any, so I'll add this...
If you find yourself digging into areas you're not quite ready for, like the oil biome, because you don't yet have enough Refined Metal for Atmo Suits (trust me I've been there many times,) then you really want to build a Hospital first, or at the bare minimum a bunch of Triage Cots, otherwise you might start to lose dupes left right and center.

See, dupes aren't that smart. They're quite stupid really, and will run back into a scorching area to complete a job, or pick up a material, even when they're a c-hair away from death. And if you haven't built a door which you can restrict access to, you'll have a hard time keeping track of, and controlling them. And if there isn't a free Triage Cot for them to go and heal, you'll potentially end up with every dupe near death, which complicates things.

So do yourself a favour and build that Hospital sooner rather than later, and work on getting Atmo Suits asap.

[View The Phenom]

You need Atmo Suits to avoid roasting your Dupes in high temperature biomes. If you don't have those yet, then avoid venturing into dangerous areas.

[gimmethegepgun]

Remember that you don't need to set up a Metal Refinery to get Refined Metal. You can use a Rock Crusher to inefficiently create small amounts of Refined Metal, which will suffice to get a few Atmo Suits and a dock for them.
You could also breed some Smooth Hatches, which will get you Refined Metal less inefficiently than a Rock Crusher.

[POWER WITHIN USER]

place an atmosuit dock next to the oil biome and use a liquid lock or two so that the heat is mostly contained to the oil biome and so that people working in there don't scald themselves.

[Peez Machine]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

You could also breed some Smooth Hatches, which will get you Refined Metal less inefficiently than a Rock Crusher.

Smoothies are 75% efficient, so more efficient than the 50% from crushers, less efficient than 100% from refineries.

[psanni]

Thanks all. Much appreciated

[View The Phenom]

Originally posted by Peez Machine:

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

You could also breed some Smooth Hatches, which will get you Refined Metal less inefficiently than a Rock Crusher.

Smoothies are 75% efficient, so more efficient than the 50% from crushers, less efficient than 100% from refineries.

Don't forget the cost of feeding Stone Hatches metal ore that won't be refined. I like Smoothies too, but there's an entry level cost before you get the first one.

[<unknown>]

Originally posted by View The Phenom:

Originally posted by Peez Machine:

Smoothies are 75% efficient, so more efficient than the 50% from crushers, less efficient than 100% from refineries.

Don't forget the cost of feeding Stone Hatches metal ore that won't be refined. I like Smoothies too, but there's an entry level cost before you get the first one.

You can be patient too, eventually you will get your first smooth egg without feeding a stone hatch any metal.

[AlexMBrennan]

You can be patient too,

Or you could actually play the game instead of going afk for 5000 cycles waiting for random spawn to happen.

[<unknown>]

You have too many 0, on average it's only take 50 cycles to get it. I have my first smooth egg under the 100 cycle every time with 8 stone hatch.

[cswiger]

If you have a full stable of Stone Hatches, you get ~1.3 eggs per cycle. A 1% chance of getting a Smooth Hatch egg will pay off after 40-odd cycles on average.

So 50 cycles sounds about right to me as well. Feeding Stone Hatches some metal ore will speed things up, but it's not necessary.

[Angpaur]

Are you really discussing a way to save some few hundreds of kilograms?

Just use rock crusher and don't worry.

[View The Phenom]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Are you really discussing a way to save some few hundreds of kilograms?

Just use rock crusher and don't worry.

ONI is a game about optimization. So...yes! :)