How To Auto-Collect Polluted Oxygen In Oni?

Polluted Oxygen is dirty, unfiltered air that is breathable and works similarly to Oxygen, allowing Duplicants to survive. It is a gas resource that can be found in the world naturally in the Swamp Biome. Polluted Oxygen can be automatically collected by using deodorizers, which produce oxygen and clay from Polluted Oxygen using a filtration medium. Pufts and Puft Princes can also breathe Polluted Oxygen and excrete slime. Sublimation Stations can turn 1000g/s of Polluted Dirt into 660g/s of Polluted Oxygen.

Sublimation Station can turn Polluted Dirt into Polluted Oxygen

Sublimation Stations are a key component of the space-colony simulation game Oxygen Not Included, developed by Klei. They are buildings that can be utilised to speed up the conversion of Polluted Dirt into Polluted Oxygen. This process is known as sublimation, where solid matter is transformed directly into a gas.

The Sublimation Station is capable of converting 1000g/s of Polluted Dirt into 660g/s of Polluted Oxygen. This Polluted Oxygen is breathable but is unfiltered and dirty, akin to regular Oxygen. While it can sustain Duplicants, it also carries the risk of transmitting Slimelung germs and causing Food Poisoning. As a result, it is recommended to deodorise the Polluted Oxygen produced by the Sublimation Station. This can be achieved by using Deodorizers, which convert Polluted Oxygen into Oxygen and Clay.

The Sublimation Station can be particularly useful in setups involving Ethanol Power generation and Puft Ranching. In the former, the process of converting Arbor Trees into Ethanol produces a substantial amount of Polluted Dirt, which can then be used by the Sublimation Station. In the latter, Pufts consume large quantities of Polluted Oxygen and produce Slime, which can be beneficial for various tasks such as farming certain plants and generating Oxygen.

It is important to note that Polluted Dirt can be acquired through various methods, such as using Ethanol Distillers, running old toilets, or allowing food to rot. However, as one user points out, relying solely on Sublimation Stations for oxygen production may not be the most optimal strategy.

Polluted Water emits Polluted Oxygen

Polluted Water is dirty, unfiltered water that is not fit for consumption. It is the most common naturally occurring liquid on most asteroids, especially in the Swamp Biome. It is also found in the Frozen Biome as Polluted Ice, which melts into Polluted Water once the ice is breached.

The emission of Polluted Oxygen is calculated based on the first 1000kg of Polluted Water. Having less will reduce the emission rate, while having more will not increase it. Therefore, for Polluted Oxygen production, it is more effective to spread out the Polluted Water tiles rather than stacking them.

Polluted Water in Liquid Reservoirs does not emit any Polluted Oxygen, which can be useful for players who want to store it for later use. Polluted Water can be purified into regular water using a Water Sieve, but this does not remove any germs present.

Deodorizers can be used to remove Polluted Oxygen

Deodorizers are an effective way to remove Polluted Oxygen in the game Oxygen Not Included. Polluted Oxygen is dirty, unfiltered air that is found in the Swamp Biome. It is breathable and works similarly to Oxygen, allowing players' Duplicants to survive. However, it carries the risk of transmitting Slimelung and Food Poisoning germs, which can cause the Yucky Lungs debuff, increasing the air consumption rate and causing coughing.

Deodorizers are a great tool to combat the negative effects of Polluted Oxygen. They use a Filtration Medium to process and transform Polluted Oxygen into clean Oxygen and Clay, purifying the air and providing useful resources. This process can take time, and it is important to ensure that the deodorizers have fully completed their job before deconstructing them, as residual Polluted Oxygen can breed more Slimelung.

To optimize the use of deodorizers, players can incorporate them into their base design, placing them near doors or in strategic locations to prevent Polluted Oxygen from spreading throughout the base. It is also beneficial to keep them running for a little longer after the Polluted Oxygen seems to be gone, as this ensures that any remaining traces are fully eliminated.

Additionally, players can employ other strategies alongside deodorizers to manage Polluted Oxygen. This includes circulating air through a chamber with a permanent deodorizer, venting Polluted Oxygen into space, allowing Pufts to roam the base, and utilizing cooling plants or chlorine to combat Slimelung.

Pufts and Puft Princes can breathe Polluted Oxygen

Pufts are non-aggressive critters that can breathe Polluted Oxygen and exhale Slime. They are capable of converting Polluted Oxygen to Slime at a rate of around 50 g/s. They typically inhale twice, then rise to the ceiling and excrete 1.5 to 2.5 kg of their corresponding element, doing this approximately every 10 seconds.

Pufts will not produce droppings if they do not have room to rise to the ceiling. This can be addressed by giving them a pneumatic door as a roof, which is theoretically not a solid, allowing production while being inaccessible to the Puft. Pufts are non-hostile and will flee when attacked. They lay eggs, which take 15 cycles to hatch outside of an incubator or 3 cycles if lullabied.

The Alpha Puft is a lazy critter that excretes small solid lumps of whatever it had been breathing. It can breathe Polluted Oxygen, Oxygen, and Chlorine, but only excretes 10% of the inhaled mass. They are needed to get Pufts to produce eggs for the Fat Puft and Squeaky Puft variations. Alpha Pufts can only lay Puft eggs, as they are always stable with themselves, and their initial 2% chance of laying an Alpha Puft Egg will disappear before they can lay one.

The Fat Puft requires Oxygen and creates Oxylite at 95% efficiency. The produced Oxylite can be used as an oxidizer in rockets. The Squeaky Puft requires Chlorine and creates Bleach Stone at 95% efficiency. The produced Bleach Stone can be used to farm Waterweed or refill hand sanitizers.

Puft Princes can also breathe Polluted Oxygen and excrete Slime.

Polluted Oxygen can be found in the Swamp Biome

Polluted Oxygen is dirty, unfiltered air that is breathable and works similarly to Oxygen, allowing Duplicants to survive. It is a gas resource that can be found in the world naturally in the Swamp Biome. It is the primary vector of transmission for Slimelung germs and can just as easily spread Food Poisoning germs. Polluted Oxygen has the same density as Oxygen. When the two gases mix, they tend to group with the same element and form gas layers, with the height of such layers being random. Neither density nor temperature have any effect.

Polluted Oxygen spawns naturally as part of Swamp Biomes. Slime, polluted dirt, and bottled polluted water all emit Polluted Oxygen into the air in environments with < 1800g of air pressure. This spreads any germs present on the substance into the air. Unbottled polluted water will also emit germy Polluted Oxygen into the air in environments with < 1800g of air pressure. The rate of production is random. Morbs produce Polluted Oxygen into the air in environments with < 1000g of air pressure without any inputs. They also release Polluted Oxygen upon death.

There are two types of geysers that produce Polluted Oxygen – Hot and Infectious Polluted Oxygen Vents. Both yield ~95 g/s and are stifled at 5 kg of air pressure, with the latter spreading Slimelung germs. Each of them produces enough polluted oxygen to sustain ~5 wild Pufts, or 1-2 tame ones, but the hotter geyser must be cooled first to not kill critters, especially since it is viable for powering Steam Turbines.

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