Download Oxygen Not Included for macOS

With 15 duplicants in your care and a single printing pod to start, survival in Oxygen Not Included hangs on how well you plan the flow of gases and liquids. An oxygen not included download torrent gives you the full asteroid base to manage, where every breath and meal depends on the systems you build.

Native Apple Silicon support and fewer visual glitches

The game runs as a native app on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. Version 744825 optimized some textures to reduce memory usage and fixed a liquid rendering bug on older graphics cards, so visual glitches are less likely on integrated GPUs. Colony simulation stays smooth until you hit around 20 duplicants, after which the physics calculations can slow things down. Keyboard and trackpad controls work fine, though a mouse makes blueprint placement far quicker.

What you actually manage

Duplicants arrive with random traits — some learn planning easily, others are good at creative problem solving. You track bladder fullness, stress, and workload while assigning tasks that slowly build their skills. Lower happiness leads to protests and worse task performance, so you balance food surplus against the waste your base produces. Consuming everything creates waste that piles up as polluted water and carbon dioxide, which you then need to process or vent. The loop is tight: gather water, oxygen, and valuable resources, then deal with the mess growth brings.

What the hotfix quietly improved

Version 744825 tidied up a few rough edges that experienced players had learned to work around. The strangest was duplicants teleporting to the bottom left of the world after rescue and resuscitation — a bug that could strand a revived dupe far from oxygen and food. That stopped happening. Deconstructing buildings with gaskets now spawns the correct gasket element instead of a wildcard material, so your material counts after a rebuild stay predictable. The navgrid memory leak was plugged too, which helps long sessions on larger asteroids hold a steadier frame rate. None of these changes shift how you play, but they remove small frictions that used to interrupt a colony’s rhythm.

Digging wide caverns steals your oxygen

New players often dig out huge caverns early, thinking space equals progress. Oxygen floats up and carbon dioxide sinks, so a tall open base pulls breathable air away from your duplicants. A better habit is to dig narrow shafts and seal off unused areas with manual airlocks. Another common slip is ignoring bladder fullness until a duplicant makes a mess in the water supply — then the whole colony drinks germs. Place outhouses and wash basins before the first cot, and keep them one tile apart. Overloading a single circuit with research stations and oxygen diffusers trips the wiring before cycle ten. Spread your power consumers across separate circuits, and use the wire wattage tooltip often.

A geologist’s first week underground

A player who loves resource-chaining picks the Rime asteroid for its frozen biomes and tricky heat management. They print three duplicants with the mole hands trait — digging comes naturally to them. By cycle five the crew has mined into a frozen ravine, finding a pocket of rust and salt they will later convert into oxygen and chlorine-free water. The geologist sets up a small insulated chamber around a steam vent, using the heat to thaw ice blocks without flooding the main shaft. A duplicant with creative problem solving handles the pipe routing while the others haul debris. By cycle twelve, the base runs two electrolysers off a rust deoxidiser loop, and the colony breathes from rock they cracked themselves. The satisfaction is not in surviving — it is in knowing the whole supply chain came from a ravine no tutorial led them to.

Good to know: an oxygen not included mac download includes the same hotfix build that cleaned up the teleporting and rendering bugs, so the version you start with is already patched.

• Fixed duplicants appearing at the bottom left of the world after rescue and resuscitation.
• Corrected the Masterworks skill string to reference Masterpiece artwork quality.
• Fixed a gasket deconstruction bug that spawned the wrong element.
• Fixed a liquid rendering issue on older graphics cards.

• macOS (native, runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon)
• Languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean