Hydrogen Vent Tamer Tutorial | Oxygen Not Included (2024)

Thanks so much for the tutorials! Vent taming is something I have had a super big difficulty with in the game so its always nice to see it laid out so completely. Now to just understand the cooling loop setups for the aqua tuner.

The 500°C is actually quite great. Too bad it's gas so it actually doesn't have much heat energy. But you can use this to turn crude oil into petroleum without risk of overheating it to sour gar. But like said, the vent won't have much heat energy and even a tiny amount of oil will just soak all the heat from it. Still early on this is one of the easiest ways to get oil turned as it doesn't require steel nor plastic or any of the space materials.

Great design, i took the liberty to attach a cool box where the liquid lock used to be ran by the same aquatuner so the hydrogen going to my generators also snakes through the generator area cooling it down before being burned!

You're right mate they are a good resource, thanks!

A decently cheap/low tech hydrogen tamer method is to make your hydrogen travel through a snake to get to your pump, moderately cool it around the pump and then backfeed and radiate this coolness back through the snake, cooling it before it reaches the pump. Then you just burn the re-heated hydrogen.
While this works it also results in the hydrogen having a travel time to get to the pump resulting in a slower extraction speed.

This is really expensive. You could get away with a lot less.

Tempshift tiles, from what i understand, should not be touching the insulated tiles and that entire room doesn't need to be filled with them.

Very helpful information, thank you so much! I have hundreds of hours in ONI and have still been a bit scared to tap into a majority of the vents and geysers - I know many could be very helpful, but they could also cook my base alive and I've grown slightly attached to my dupes in this save, lol. XD So looking forward to the other tutorials you mentioned, very cool!
Tyfs! Hope you're having a great week. Best of wishes.

Granite is not a good insulator, actually works for pre-radiant pipes prior to having them, and generally as long as you are not heating your base up to absurd levels can just use granite normal pipes with some water to keep it at a good temp.
Steal anything does not have 275 C before it overheats. It has an extra 275 C above the base overheat temp of whatever the item is.
You could have used roughly 1/9th the diamond or even 0 in the hydrogen room. More eventually just lets less spiky temp changes, but again not needed if you do not have it. Can also use a different temp shift plate as long as it can take 500 C and it might not get to 400 C if it is done right.
Could have made the steam room two tiles high with a lot less water. Then used a door to inject heat if needed.
Almost all of the above would allow for at least 1000s of cycles. Not saying your design will not last for 1000s of cycles, but most of it is not needed.

I think you skipped a step... I couldn't find a point in the video where you talked about the liquid circulation you have going... When you talked about crude oil I have no idea what you were doing... I don't think I see any point in the video that shows your liquid pipe layout...

Great guide :)

Nice tutorial. I like your style, in both tutorial and let's play. I think you need a 'Aaand we're back'- kinda thing, you know who I am referring to, there are much similarities. Keep up the good work.

Nice looking, but really excessive build. One way is how somebody mentioned snaking it in tiles and letting it cool naturally, but of course eventually heat will build up. So turbine is needed, but no aqua tuner. You put tempshift plates just behind the vent and some metal tiles just above the vent, some water on them, then insulated tiles and self-cooled turbine. This way You can extract hydrogen at 125 degrees, but if You willing to use more space and do some more work - You can make one tile-wide tunnel from insulated tiles for hydrogen to go up to the turbine, which could be submerged in a tree layers of liquid, where You can place the gas pump and let the self-cooled turbine to cooldown that hydrogen down to 95 C.

Much like eric said its overkill for this vent. its either going to get burnt off vented into space or turned into liquid. Pre cooling it for liquid is pointless as its so cold in that set up it insta drops.
2nd thou is if that pump ever back up the vent will stop emitting thus you lose resources. The all time best set up to tame a vent and never get backed up is to use the same size area but you seal off the pump with a vertical 3 door compressor. moving all the gas from the vent to the pump keeping the vent in a vacuum.

Thanks for the tutorial. Very helpful. One question, is there an alternative metal shift plate material that will still work? I don't have aluminum at the moment. Thanks!

When i made mine, i used four petro loops to help the heat exchange, this is far better than what i built.

That is a good guide. Do you have any tips for what to do with it if you find one early game, the first 100 cycles?

This is a really nice video. However I don't really get how you cool the hydrogen down to 20 ºC. Hasn't it been exchanging heat with 100ºC steam with gold amalgam as the mediator?

I have a quick question if anyone can help me? Echo mentioned having the liquid pipe thermo sensor set at -20c but said that this is only temporary. What temp should i set it to? I'm still a little confused about the function of the aquatuner here. I know he mentions in the video that it could possibly work without the aquatuner but I'm not sure I wanna risk it

This is super overkill lmao. Oni gases have a bonus temperature transfer rate to solids, so you could probably just have a steam room and metal tiles.

Any way i could get away with some more standard materials, like ceramic instead of diamond as TS plates, or copper or tunsten instead of aluminum as metal plates? Have no aluminum or cobalt. Thanks for excellent vids!

why you didn't put any temp shift plate inside the steam room?

yeah...I am completly lost lol, I guess I am stuck with solar, I have no idea what you did here. isnt there easier setup than this insanity ?

I see you use auto sweepers to move your coal to your coal gennies, and to use your steel maker, I tried doing the same thing for my coal generators but the auto sweepers do nothing, how do you get them to transfer coal from the storage to the generator?

You could also just not tame it and directly feed it into a hydrogen generator but you would lose a lot of energy from the heat that way.

9:15 lmao

I literally just dug the smallest hole and put a gold amalgam gaspump idk why but it never gets pass 120°c

Once i tried to cool the hydrogen from the vent with several wheezeworts. It didn't work. Darn thing belched so much hot gas, it overwhelmed everything. Bah.
If you can get Saturn trap plants, use them instead to generate hydrogen. All you need for farming them are extra critters to feed the plants.

Do you think this will work for a hot polluted oxygen vent? They both erupt at 500 degrees. Now that I think of it, a CO2 vent is also 500 degrees.

Huh I'm kinda surprised I made something similar just finding things out but I made one that goes vertical so the hot metal would be touching the water first before the void for faster conversion but I didn't pass the hydrogen through the steam and instead put a separate container on the side that had water that I turned to ice using the aquatuner since I was lacking in the steel department and didn't want my generators overheating coz I made them from cheep metal.

Why bother to bring pipes all the way up if you brought heavy wat wire downstairs anyway?

You kinda sound like Carl's sims guide

You don't need to double wall if you don't let the plate spread heat into them. You don't need to have the plate touching each other. They even out the heat 1 tile around themselves. Plus, if you set the senor to 3000 you won't get a temp spike when it's going off. More gas helps soak up the heat evening it out because the 3000 is cooler and takes longer to heat up than 500. Nice build thou. But you need to show how to store the extra gas. Without that when the vent isn't active your generators aren't running because they have no gas. It been wasted running your generators all the time burning gas off, so the vent doesn't over pressure.

Great tutorial, nice solid setup!
However the setup is rather expesive, I think your system can handle 5 more hydrogen vents :D
Cooling 98,5 g/s of hydrogen from 500C to 125C is only 88,6 DTU/s of heat that needs to be removed, less then 8 wheezeworts of cooling.

I can see mickey mouse delivering water to that room....