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By the looks of it, we have a new dirt route?

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If my calculations are correct:

Ethanol building converts 750 g/s of lumber into:

~502g ethanol
~185g PD
~62g CO2

(rounded, not sure why actual numbers are so weird? is it intended?)

To grow 300kg of lumber, a plant needs:

4.5 cycles
35 kg PW per cycle
1 kg of Phosphorite per cycle

Which gets us to ~462 kg dirt from 157.5 kg PW (per one plant full grown).

Seems nice unless there's a mistake in my calculations above. What do you think?

PS. Would anyone be so kind to share numbers on the new oxygen plant, can't find them in game?

PPS. Edit for pips: tooltip says they eat 0.3 kg lumber per cycle and excrete 75% so 225g of dirt per cycle. Not sure if they eat more when domesticated, also not sure if they eat from the plant directly or feed from the feeder?

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This is exactly the 50/1 ratio of a dupe's O2 inhaled/CO2 exhaled. I can't verify it right now, but that means that 13 wild oxyfern is a free, infinite source of oxygen for a single dupe, is that right ? Maybe those numbers need some tweaking, or else oxygen will actually be included with the release which means false advertising, lawsuit, bankruptcy, all sorts of non cool things I'd prefer not to see !

It is 12.8 (so 13) ferns / dupe wild, or a little over 3 if they're planted.

The bigger problem, honestly, is that these will wilt if you don't have enough CO2 to keep them going.  I haven't fully tested with them yet but so far my starter world play sees them 'dead' half the time.  That might be from the oxylite though.

Absolutely viable, but it's not going to be simple.  You'll need to gravity feed the CO2 downward and use ventilation systems to push the O2 upwards to keep the flow going.  This is different than, for example, Terrariums.  The CO2 clean up is just a bonus, but the O2 is coming either way.

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