The lower left dry pump with a bottle emptier takes polluted water and adds it into the system. The bridge before the water filter allows excess/overflow polluted water to feed the reed plants. The run going down and out of sight is a loop that powers a CO2 scrubber.
Eventually when I upgrade from 3 dupes in a work schedule to a schedule with 5 or 6 I was thinking of adding another overflow. Water gets pumped from the storage tank into the restroom, and also into a sink so the room counts as a bathroom for morale bonus purposes, and then the outputs go directly towards a water sieve which gets fed back immediately into the the shower and sink. [ONI Beginner Guide] Building Sustainable Self-Cycling Toilets - Perfect Solution for Water Resources & Plumbing Issues! Learn how to build a fully automated, self.
This tutorial bite for Oxygen Not Included talks through everything related to bathrooms, including how to set up the infinite bathroom.0:00 - Intro0:18. Plumbing buildings are needed to maintain a subterranean asteroid base. The majority of plumbing buildings are used to organize the flow of liquid around the base.
This includes buildings that can be used to improve the hygiene of the colony. What Makes ONI's Plumbing System Unique? Oxygen Not Included doesn't use "simple pipes." Instead, it simulates liquid physics based on pressure, temperature, and flow rate -inspired loosely by real-world fluid dynamics (though simplified for gameplay). Every liquid in ONI-water, polluted water, molten metal, chlorine, etc.-has distinct properties like viscosity, boiling point.
I'm curious what other bathroom setups people use. I play with a 40 dupe colony with 2 schedules to break up the bathroom usage to 20 each. I have a loop that keeps pumping the germy water back into the showers and lavatory.
I use a liquid valve set to 5Kg a second to match the water sieve and once it reaches full capacity, overflow goes to plants. Today, we're diving into proper plumbing-installing working toilets, sinks, and maybe even a luxurious shower room to boost morale and hygiene. This continuous task requires manual cancellation.
Transporting liquids, solids, and gas is a core part of any ONI playthrough, and understanding how pipes and conveyers work for infinite bathrooms, cooling loops, or volcano tamers is critical. The "Basics" Series is a group of tutorial videos for beginner concepts in Oxygen Not Included. This is a nice build! Definitely one of the first ones new players should get down.
A popular optimization many players do is having the overflow bridge on the polluted side, and have it run to 1-2 hydroponic farm tiles planted with Thimble Reeds. They will happily soak up all the extra polluted water from your system without the eventually overflow problem you mentioned, while giving you.