Thanks for all the feedback. I wanted to add a few things here in the comments. - The beaver is a great way to gather wood passively, however you can really crank this up with the chainsaw and some manual farming as Notfallhamster and KidDynamite93 point out!! - Eels are also a great addition to the setup, but keep in mind that they have a cooldown so be careful building out your base's energy need on the "increased cap" - There are other solid energy setups out there, but they require RNG to bless you on your memtic specializations. This is, IMO, the best general setup you can use in any biome 😁😁
If you make food using coconuts or bananas, then there's essentially no reason for beavers ever. I can barely gather a stack of bananas before having like 10k wood. But yea, it's great for passively keeping wood up
Use hydraulic generators and electric eels if u don't feel like doin all that u get more then enough power if you use switches to switch power between locations as needed this makes any of the other generators viable and electric eels increase their efficiency. 6 adv hyrdros and a few eels and each has an output of 45 watts or so I can switch back and fourth between some 16 turrets and my farms. Never having to fuel anything.
Just one quick tip about those Bio generators, u can go to any beach an quick mine shellfish it's 100 for 1 shellfish u only need a total of 25 shellfish to fuel it to max u can also store the shellfish an craft useful food items with the left over shellfish 2 birds one stone
This was actually super useful. The Advanced Biomass generator needs 50% of the materials of Advanced Hydraulic generator. Super nice, since both need tedious Tier 5 stuff.
Another tip to have an additional 60w is to use your vehicles to place 1 advanced biomass generator on each one (each vehicle has independent structure limits), you won't be able to attach wires to your base facilities, but for example, I am using 4 extra brewing barrels to process acid (limited to 2 on each vehicle) + 13 barrels I have on my base so I have 17 barrels processing acid at the same time. Btw if someone managed to make the deviation generator to work on a vehicle please lemme know how, I never could.
About the Deviant generators not working on vehicles, it's gonna be patched next Thursday. "Fixed an issue that caused Deviant Energy Generators on the home-moving vehicle would not work correctly in a Pollution Zone."
The biomass generators were great and no hastle at all, they ran forever. I eventually got the solar generator memetic but even with 6 of them, all with an eel, I still don't have as much power as I want!
I have 4 eels and still need more 😂 its about time all my extra things are put through on switches. That can help direct smaller amounts of power for a larger power pool on the back end for any future expansions.
i am currently using deviant energy generators right now because i am farming acid on phase 2, when phase 4 comes i will be migrating to the oil fields. this is such a great help!
Very niiiice. Totally experienced the stardust effect this morning. Got into a fight with toons @ my level and they one shot me =P but the Stardust heavy zones in game are some of the most beautiful and resource rich.
They are interesting zones and the power generation in there is crazy, but not everyone wants the debuf (has the resist or the items to negate it). OH has some cool looking places for sure.
@@JudgeGray I"m intrigued. Would you mind recommending a Once Human Item Database I can search for resistance items and where to get 'em? If not perhaps you know the name of an armor set with reasonably high anti-pollution resistances you'd part with?
since acid and oil/stardust source become a massive needs in later stages of the game because you gonna need a lot of firepower to finish certain missions not to mention prime wars also. i think, logging isn't really a thing to focus on at this moment, explore the map and settle your base at either polluted zone or oiled area. so you can farm those material passively, of course you got much more if you doing it yourself like doing silos, dungeon and everything but i mean really the more you get the best you have. i may have suggestion, try somewhere at northeast side of red sands i think there's polluted zone near the edge of the map also there's a lot i really mean a lot of startrace ore sitting peacefully waiting for someone to mine them. me myself always find 3k or almost 4k stratrace ore just in one sweep and i can go back in 3 hour and get another 3k more since their amount of spawn always in different spot but still in that location
For sure acid and stardust are hugely important in the late game. Building your base in a spot to farm those will allow you to use different power sources that are on par for sure. Stuff like stardust power is great but your base has to be in the correct zone and positioned just right so you get the bonuses without the negatives. This is imo the best way to power your base in general without any special memetics and with minimal effort. ;)
I use the biomass generators and have the logging station going, it passively cuts wood and have a whole chest just of wood so never need to cut trees down.
I get that. The goal here is good passive energy. You can go farm shells, or you can just let beavers farm for you while your offline. Once you stack wood just pull them for something else ;)
I completely agree that specializations can change which is best. The point of the guide is to show what’s the best “baseline” for any base at any location. I even say in the video that there are ways to outclass my choice. ;)
If you use Biomass gens, just farm shell rock near the ocean. Mining them gives you shellfish and they fill up the Biomass gens resource needs very easily
Thank you, I think I'll use this for this season. I'm considering this season a "learning" season and some of the pulleted area stuff just seems a little too advanced for my learning pace.
I could be wrong here.....but isn't the best way to max your output is to build six advanced solar generators and have six electric eels? which means you don't need wood or the beaver and it doesn't matter what your location is as there is always sun, just place and forget about it. Also i can only place six down, is this the limit or can you place down more?
You can get up to 2 more but you gotta get lucky in the memetics. Advanced biofuel has also 2 potential rng memetics making it the best one out of all energy whise. I got lucky enough and have 8 generating over 50W with eels.
I agree with silver on this. There are “Super optimal” energy setups but you need RNG on Memtics. This is the best IMO for general players. Also eels are great but they have downtime, so you will lose power here and there if you build out for them.
"Your powering your base wrong" then never mentions power switches lol. You build a switch between defenses, ur farm and your crafting stations to shift power to where you need it. Do this and the adv solar panels are enough. Though I recommend the adv hydraulic generators they output more energy combined with electric eel deviations don't use the beavers that's not necessary at all. You should be by water anyway if you want to have automatic irrigation for your plant growing needs. No Offense but the way this vid suggests is counterproductive. Also anyone can access these by simply a respec to whatever you need then a respec back. Only exception to this is the garages and crafting components all building parts like farming parts base parts and benches exc, stay and are fully functional. Hope this helps.
The point of the video was to show which of the power sources is objectively best. There are situations where anything can be “best” but the biomass/beaver is the best all around because you can use it anywhere and requires 0 effort on the part of the player. Using hydraulic generation requires water, and not every base location is by water. You can use switches to throttle areas of your base that you aren’t using and min/max your energy usage, and yes that is an advanced tip for sure and something that a lot of people do and I def recommend it, however it was not the point of the video ;)
I'd get the electric eel instead and double your generators output and then just throw flowers or something in it. It took me about 10 minutes to gather enough flowers to power one generator for 135 hours.
Yup, I use wood to power my biomass generators. I have sooooooooo much wood that I will never use. Fill the generator to max and your looking at 23+ hours of electric going.
hey buddy! how it's works? i have 2 beavers crafting LOG but i've never appears avaliable on Biomass generator. Just a question, i have to put in MANUALLY ...?! (inventory >>> generator)
Fairly certain you need memetic upgrades to get the solar panels up to that number. If you don’t have the upgrades then this is the best alternative. This is a great option for “any” character without memetic specialization
The best in what way? Maxing out your output would be done by getting the best generators with eels.. This might be an alternative way to make it simple and avoid the contaminated zone.. but it’s not the “best”
Best is always debatable for sure. I love eels, but they are not always out and if you rely on them for the boost you can find yourself short on power at times.
@@panzerswineflu eels are just a bonus on top of every kind of generator..(from what I know they fit them all) The best generators would be the ones with the highest output from the build menu and I believe those are stardust gens.. Some other gen’s could be easier to set up in terms of pollution .. but in don’t see that as a problem
@@adamlevi9295 but only when they're active right? when they go to recharge in the display case you have no bonus right? so if you calculate your power usage with the eels then random things will randomly go offline on you? i'm afraid of the farms starting over the count when they go offline, though already having issues with no getting materials after an hour wait as is, or coming back and having no processing while i was gone
@@panzerswineflu if we are talking about how eels work.. yeah you are correct, their uptime is not 100% I’m not sure how the game handles devices that are connected but not being used (let’s say a electric furnace, when it’s off it shouldn’t be consuming power, or should be consuming a lot less which might help out with loosing the eels bonus) Either way, i think they are worth it (you could always have more than 6 and they *might* rotate properly)
Thanks for all the feedback. I wanted to add a few things here in the comments.
- The beaver is a great way to gather wood passively, however you can really crank this up with the chainsaw and some manual farming as Notfallhamster and KidDynamite93 point out!!
- Eels are also a great addition to the setup, but keep in mind that they have a cooldown so be careful building out your base's energy need on the "increased cap"
- There are other solid energy setups out there, but they require RNG to bless you on your memtic specializations. This is, IMO, the best general setup you can use in any biome 😁😁
If you make food using coconuts or bananas, then there's essentially no reason for beavers ever. I can barely gather a stack of bananas before having like 10k wood.
But yea, it's great for passively keeping wood up
My chainsaw said "F beavers I do 50k wood in 5 minutes!".
I’ll have to put in a pinned comment saying that beavers are great for passive gains, but you can crank it up more with a chainsaw
Beavers are craft furniture sometime.
Use hydraulic generators and electric eels if u don't feel like doin all that u get more then enough power if you use switches to switch power between locations as needed this makes any of the other generators viable and electric eels increase their efficiency. 6 adv hyrdros and a few eels and each has an output of 45 watts or so I can switch back and fourth between some 16 turrets and my farms. Never having to fuel anything.
Not all spots have trees
Just one quick tip about those Bio generators, u can go to any beach an quick mine shellfish it's 100 for 1 shellfish u only need a total of 25 shellfish to fuel it to max u can also store the shellfish an craft useful food items with the left over shellfish 2 birds one stone
This was actually super useful. The Advanced Biomass generator needs 50% of the materials of Advanced Hydraulic generator. Super nice, since both need tedious Tier 5 stuff.
Glad it helped!!
Another tip to have an additional 60w is to use your vehicles to place 1 advanced biomass generator on each one (each vehicle has independent structure limits), you won't be able to attach wires to your base facilities, but for example, I am using 4 extra brewing barrels to process acid (limited to 2 on each vehicle) + 13 barrels I have on my base so I have 17 barrels processing acid at the same time.
Btw if someone managed to make the deviation generator to work on a vehicle please lemme know how, I never could.
Great tip
About the Deviant generators not working on vehicles, it's gonna be patched next Thursday.
"Fixed an issue that caused Deviant Energy Generators on the home-moving vehicle would not work correctly in a Pollution Zone."
The biomass generators were great and no hastle at all, they ran forever. I eventually got the solar generator memetic but even with 6 of them, all with an eel, I still don't have as much power as I want!
I have 4 eels and still need more 😂 its about time all my extra things are put through on switches. That can help direct smaller amounts of power for a larger power pool on the back end for any future expansions.
i am currently using deviant energy generators right now because i am farming acid on phase 2, when phase 4 comes i will be migrating to the oil fields. this is such a great help!
Hopefully it helps.
Best tip I got in powering up my base. Thanks!
This is a great tutorial. (Thank you for speaking slowly and not rushing through it.)
Very niiiice. Totally experienced the stardust effect this morning. Got into a fight with toons @ my level and they one shot me =P but the Stardust heavy zones in game are some of the most beautiful and resource rich.
They are interesting zones and the power generation in there is crazy, but not everyone wants the debuf (has the resist or the items to negate it). OH has some cool looking places for sure.
@@JudgeGray I"m intrigued. Would you mind recommending a Once Human Item Database I can search for resistance items and where to get 'em?
If not perhaps you know the name of an armor set with reasonably high anti-pollution resistances you'd part with?
shoutout to the beaver community. clutch animals
Beavers are the real MVPs
since acid and oil/stardust source become a massive needs in later stages of the game because you gonna need a lot of firepower to finish certain missions not to mention prime wars also. i think, logging isn't really a thing to focus on at this moment, explore the map and settle your base at either polluted zone or oiled area. so you can farm those material passively, of course you got much more if you doing it yourself like doing silos, dungeon and everything but i mean really the more you get the best you have. i may have suggestion, try somewhere at northeast side of red sands i think there's polluted zone near the edge of the map also there's a lot i really mean a lot of startrace ore sitting peacefully waiting for someone to mine them. me myself always find 3k or almost 4k stratrace ore just in one sweep and i can go back in 3 hour and get another 3k more since their amount of spawn always in different spot but still in that location
For sure acid and stardust are hugely important in the late game. Building your base in a spot to farm those will allow you to use different power sources that are on par for sure. Stuff like stardust power is great but your base has to be in the correct zone and positioned just right so you get the bonuses without the negatives. This is imo the best way to power your base in general without any special memetics and with minimal effort. ;)
I use the biomass generators and have the logging station going, it passively cuts wood and have a whole chest just of wood so never need to cut trees down.
you can go to the beach and get enough sea shells to run 8 generators for a month in like 10 minutes. Ill never have bevers waste my spots.
I get that. The goal here is good passive energy. You can go farm shells, or you can just let beavers farm for you while your offline. Once you stack wood just pull them for something else ;)
thanks for the in depth info. Subbed and liiked
I appreciate you!!!
Thanks for the tip, wasnt using the biomass gen ...
Keep up the good work my man
Appreciate the comment
Best power source? W/e specialization you get
I completely agree that specializations can change which is best. The point of the guide is to show what’s the best “baseline” for any base at any location. I even say in the video that there are ways to outclass my choice. ;)
If you use Biomass gens, just farm shell rock near the ocean. Mining them gives you shellfish and they fill up the Biomass gens resource needs very easily
Great tip!
Good video just used this for background sound while I ate👍. Idek what where powering my bases for guess I’m to new to the game
The real problem with Energy Management in this game is a lack of timers for power relays
They definitely need a timer system so you can alternate between crop management and pumping/etc. Also I do enjoy the eels but their CD time sucks.
Thank you, I think I'll use this for this season. I'm considering this season a "learning" season and some of the pulleted area stuff just seems a little too advanced for my learning pace.
I think the best part of once human is you can just take it at your pace ;). Glad you like it.
I could be wrong here.....but isn't the best way to max your output is to build six advanced solar generators and have six electric eels?
which means you don't need wood or the beaver and it doesn't matter what your location is as there is always sun, just place and forget about it.
Also i can only place six down, is this the limit or can you place down more?
You can get up to 2 more but you gotta get lucky in the memetics. Advanced biofuel has also 2 potential rng memetics making it the best one out of all energy whise. I got lucky enough and have 8 generating over 50W with eels.
I agree with silver on this. There are “Super optimal” energy setups but you need RNG on Memtics. This is the best IMO for general players. Also eels are great but they have downtime, so you will lose power here and there if you build out for them.
Eels have downtime which makes them unreliable. Also this takes up 6 slots of your limited Deviation number.
"Your powering your base wrong" then never mentions power switches lol. You build a switch between defenses, ur farm and your crafting stations to shift power to where you need it. Do this and the adv solar panels are enough. Though I recommend the adv hydraulic generators they output more energy combined with electric eel deviations don't use the beavers that's not necessary at all. You should be by water anyway if you want to have automatic irrigation for your plant growing needs. No Offense but the way this vid suggests is counterproductive. Also anyone can access these by simply a respec to whatever you need then a respec back. Only exception to this is the garages and crafting components all building parts like farming parts base parts and benches exc, stay and are fully functional. Hope this helps.
The point of the video was to show which of the power sources is objectively best. There are situations where anything can be “best” but the biomass/beaver is the best all around because you can use it anywhere and requires 0 effort on the part of the player. Using hydraulic generation requires water, and not every base location is by water.
You can use switches to throttle areas of your base that you aren’t using and min/max your energy usage, and yes that is an advanced tip for sure and something that a lot of people do and I def recommend it, however it was not the point of the video ;)
Id rather use the 'clean' energy instead of burning stuff. Yes I roleplay.
You’re one of “those” >.> j/k do you boo-boo.
I gather 50k wood and using advanced biomass gen. Also have 6 eels. I should be good. 😅 thanks for sharing!
6 eels is cracked. I bet the energy output when they are active is HUGE !!
I'd get the electric eel instead and double your generators output and then just throw flowers or something in it. It took me about 10 minutes to gather enough flowers to power one generator for 135 hours.
I get that for sure. With the beavers it takes me 0 minutes to gather wood ;)
@@JudgeGray I get that, I had I think 7 of them going at one time, I cut them back for other deviants though.
Yup, I use wood to power my biomass generators. I have sooooooooo much wood that I will never use. Fill the generator to max and your looking at 23+ hours of electric going.
It’s great and it works no matter where you put your base. Also can never have enough wood ;)
Hi, nice video. Advanced solar panels are still the best ones right? Assuming I got the memetic of course
With Memetics they are very good. I think some of the other beat them if you have the memetics for them, but all and all the solar will do well ;)
Which is better 6 Biomass or 6 Avanced Solar ?
Depends on if you have the memetic specialization;)
hey buddy! how it's works? i have 2 beavers crafting LOG but i've never appears avaliable on Biomass generator. Just a question, i have to put in MANUALLY ...?! (inventory >>> generator)
Have them in your inventory when you go there. It doesn’t pull from your chest
@@JudgeGray yeah! thats it! thank you!!!
doesnt the advance water generator produce 30 as well tho so no need for wood if u have water??
True, but they limit your base location options. If you don't live close to water the generator is a good option.
It’s as annis said. The water gens are great if your by water. This setup lets you build wherever and doesn’t limit your base.
best solar panels and biomass generators both have 30w output right ? so why go with the biomass one that u need "fuel" for it in order to work ?
Fairly certain you need memetic upgrades to get the solar panels up to that number. If you don’t have the upgrades then this is the best alternative. This is a great option for “any” character without memetic specialization
Best Solar panel is 20 watts. Best hydraulic or biomass is 30 watts.
The best in what way? Maxing out your output would be done by getting the best generators with eels..
This might be an alternative way to make it simple and avoid the contaminated zone.. but it’s not the “best”
But doesn't your power take a massive drop when the eels go back to their box to recharge?
Best is always debatable for sure. I love eels, but they are not always out and if you rely on them for the boost you can find yourself short on power at times.
@@panzerswineflu eels are just a bonus on top of every kind of generator..(from what I know they fit them all)
The best generators would be the ones with the highest output from the build menu and I believe those are stardust gens..
Some other gen’s could be easier to set up in terms of pollution .. but in don’t see that as a problem
@@adamlevi9295 but only when they're active right? when they go to recharge in the display case you have no bonus right? so if you calculate your power usage with the eels then random things will randomly go offline on you? i'm afraid of the farms starting over the count when they go offline, though already having issues with no getting materials after an hour wait as is, or coming back and having no processing while i was gone
@@panzerswineflu if we are talking about how eels work.. yeah you are correct, their uptime is not 100%
I’m not sure how the game handles devices that are connected but not being used (let’s say a electric furnace, when it’s off it shouldn’t be consuming power, or should be consuming a lot less which might help out with loosing the eels bonus)
Either way, i think they are worth it (you could always have more than 6 and they *might* rotate properly)
Is 6 power generator max?
Currently it appears so
you only talk ?
Well sometimes I eat, sometimes I sleep, sometimes I game. It really just depends on my mood. I go entire hours without talking at all >.>