things in mechcomp

[RelentlessGarbage]

the seeds thing is another thing i'd like to do something about, but i'm not sure what. there are way too many and compost isn't useful at all, plus you can overfill the compost tank easily.

At this juncture, Compost acts like a free - albeit extremely weak - health boosting agent. For a while, I thought it dried out the hydroponic tray faster when it was present, but that doesn't seem to be the case based on the code I've read. It doesn't hurt to add it, but it is very easily outclassed by certain tray nutrient combinations. It doesn't get used often, either because people can't be bothered to add it or because they don't know about tray nutrient effects besides mutagen. If there were more benefits to having plants be at extremely high health, or some compost-specific perks, then people might consider using it more.


The only other use for compost in bulk is the production of Saltpetre with the Potash + Nitrogen + Compost route, but the bottleneck associated with Potash really prevents saltpetre from being made quickly, hence making it rare that you actually see it get produced this way. In general, compost just isn't used enough to prevent the compost bins from filling completely when there are enough botanists around. This isn't helped by people often stashing valuable seeds on the ground, in case a splice goes wrong or a plant gets a mutation you don't want, so you occasionally have moments where someone mulches a seed to reduce clutter and another botanist goes "what the hell, I needed that," leading to many seeds staying unmulched.


Anyways, complaining about botany aside, any developments on MechComp conveyor belts so far?