Morb farms, are they useful?

[minespatch]

For a experiment, I decided to try making morbs my alternative source of oxygen. They emit polluted oxygen, so perhaps there's a way I can recycle the air they emit?

[Christophlette]

29 minutes ago, nakomaru said:

They produce at a set real-time frequency, regardless of game speed (not when paused though).

That is really a bad characteristic of morbs.

Critters really need a QoL/Balance/BugFix Update.

[PhailRaptor]

Morbs are very useful in that they allow you to, effectively, produce Oxygen out of Sand.  Normally this requires Water, which is generally a scarce or fully utilized resource.

The only problem is that to achieve a reasonable rate of production, you're required to produce a dramatic population of them.  This is your CPU's worst nightmare, and will slow your computer to a literal crawl.

[Gurgel]

I tried this in two games wayyy back. I found it tedious and not very good result-wise. Also had bad lag with a lot of Morbs, but that may be fixed by now.

[Denisetwin]

I always end up with a small Morb farm just after I switch from outhouses to lavatories.  I stick a deodorizer in there, let them get to 15 or 20 and let them be, they are not costing me anything but sand and they generate oxygen for just the cost of that sand.  If I have an unexpected plumbing emergency the backup outhouses are nice.