smol botany balance ideas

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saying that histamine is in omega weed is a bit ridiculous imo; who is going to spend 30 minutes grinding saltpetre for histamine??? especially when omega weed has way more interesting things in it, like bath salts, that make the histamine not even relevant.

Or maybe, histamine is just completely useless? Who in their right mind would ever want to mass produce it, especially when it comes with salicylic? If you really really want bath salts in botany you could make Omegaweed, but omegaweed chems are not why you ever make omegaweed anyway.

Being able to get histamine without jumping through hoops is nice, but as a kill chem histamine is useless. 

I don't think it's useful to consider its application as a kill chem in this context. The point was to remove curare, not to replace it with another deadly poison.

Might as well remove Quivering Contusine mutation instead if you really want to spit on botanists. The skinpen effect was very abusable with beaker extraction. The chem was not completely over the top in hot boxes, which was its main use -- until people realized how OP it is to just extract and splash it (and it took only 6 hours for the "hotfix" to hit lmao).

But now since there are no skinpen cc chems in botany toxic grass is no longer a thing. And before you say "add super hairgrownium" I must remind you taht it eats a lot of plant potency in useless chems, is painfully slow to make and the recipe is 1u+1u+1u=3u, which easily fills mobs with superhairgrownium up to 330u cap before applying deathchems.



One more thing, which doesn't concern only botanists: Kudzu passive growth need a massive nerf, and Kudzumen in turn require a massive buff. The passive growth is insane and is extremely annoying to deal with. Kudzumen, on the other hand, are extremely helpless, slow and incapable of doing anything useful. Suggested kudzu things, which I might PR soon:

- Reduce kudzu passive growth by an extremely large margin, like 1/4th of what it is now
- Kudzu growth is quadrupled when there are kudzumen nearby
- Kudzumen now passively gain healing chem when standing on kudzu. "Kudzu spores" is a new chem which only affect kudzumen. It heals a bit o
- Kudzumen can use disarm intent (Why the hell is disarm intent disabled on kudzumen? It makes no sense, it is a peaceful way to defend your kudzu)
- Humans area capable of passing through kudzu like kudzumen are if both of their legs are Synth legs
- Synth Eyes allow you to see through thick kudzu
- Kudzu seed can now be loaded in an implanter. When Implanted, the mob turns into kudzuman upon death, with few kudzu tiles around it.