Goonhub
02-02-2023, 07:34 AM
(02-02-2023, 05:28 AM)Lord_earthfire Wrote: I love that little thing in the wiki that straight up trolls people. Sadly, i never witnessed it, i would probably burst in laughter and then explain them whats happening. It's like seeing someone make crank or cfl3 for the first time by heating it in their hand.
Maybe i PR a mutation that require the plant to be growing in liquid potassium. Makes probably for some nice headache for botanists that want to pursue that path and don't want their plant be exploded by someone trying to water it.
I'll have you know that it was VERY confusing to me when I got flashbanged and exploded while trying to water my plants. I only put the dots together when I whipped out a Reagent Scanner and saw that my watering cans contained only water (and not some hellchem mix, as I initially assumed) and noticed all of the bananas growing on the other side of the room. On one hand, while it was really funny, I was more panicked about botany rapidly depressurizing and being near-crit from blowing up twice.
As for the liquid potassium thing, I'd be down if the mutation was REALLY strong. Like, increases all plant stats and stat increases/decreases by 50%, but you've gotta grow it with mostly potassium in the tray or it takes damage quickly. And, obviously, it wouldn't need water to grow. Put that in the gene pool of something that people don't normally grow (creepers, for instance) and you'd both get a cool thing to splice and more incentive for people to grow weird plants. You'd also probably have to wall off the trays so there wouldn't be any well-meaning morons that nuke all of your hard work. (There is a PR for creepers in the pipeline, though, so you could opt to put it in the gene pools of one of the new varieties of flowers instead.)
I'd petition for the name of the mutation to be "Alkaliphile," as in alkaline-loving, since potassium is an alkali metal. Bonus points if it also gets the growth bonus with lithium in the tray.