trinitas Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics Soiless solution. instead, it uses nutrients So why is it called hydroponics in game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgamer123 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 they could force all of them use fertilizer ,but balance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiziologus Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 19 hours ago, trinitas said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics Soiless solution. instead, it uses nutrients So why is it called hydroponics in game? Most hydroponics need some substrate (sand, clay pellets, sponge etc) for roots support. In ONI hydroponics use clay/dirt as substrate. It is primitive tech level of course but close to real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinitas Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 they use "net pots" so sand and dirt would go right trough. but clay pellets and sponges is ok, they will stay in the pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkMaster13 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Hydroponics tiles are not built with dirt. Only farm tiles use it as a substrait. After that, only plants that need dirt will be given it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinitas Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 The image of the hydroponic farm tile is like 80% dirt when hydroponics should be "dirtless" that's the big concept of hydroponics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiziologus Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 36 minutes ago, trinitas said: they use "net pots" so sand and dirt would go right trough. but clay pellets and sponges is ok, they will stay in the pot. From your link Quote Sand is cheap and easily available. However, it is heavy, does not hold water very well, and it must be sterilized between uses Dirt/clay also possibly (it is initial tech level for hydroponics and no use now). For hydroponics may use any hydrophilic 'soil' even wool and plastics pellets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 1 hour ago, trinitas said: The image of the hydroponic farm tile is like 80% dirt when hydroponics should be "dirtless" that's the big concept of hydroponics To be fair building one doesn`t require dirt. You build those from metal. Lets just assume the art is inaccurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinitas Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 3 hours ago, Sasza22 said: To be fair building one doesn`t require dirt. You build those from metal. Lets just assume the art is inaccurate. yeah i see now that they used the farmtiles art and just mirrored it. so is it a bug that it uses dirt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkMaster13 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 1 hour ago, trinitas said: yeah i see now that they used the farmtiles art and just mirrored it. so is it a bug that it uses dirt? Mealwood actually gains nothing from being inside hydroponics tile, as it doesn't use water. It *must* consume dirt to grow as its nutrients, it doesn't just use the dirt for a substrait. Duplicants have to regularly add more dirt to even regular farm tiles while mealwood is in it, since it's consuming the dirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinitas Posted August 7, 2019 Author Share Posted August 7, 2019 On 8/5/2019 at 10:42 PM, DarkMaster13 said: Mealwood actually gains nothing from being inside hydroponics tile, as it doesn't use water. It *must* consume dirt to grow as its nutrients, it doesn't just use the dirt for a substrait. Duplicants have to regularly add more dirt to even regular farm tiles while mealwood is in it, since it's consuming the dirt. ah ok that's explains why it uses so much dirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallichydra Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 On 5/8/2019 at 10:42 PM, DarkMaster13 said: since it's consuming the dirt. mealwood is made out of dirt our duplicants eat mealwood which means our duplicants eat dirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkMaster13 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 6 minutes ago, metallichydra said: mealwood is made out of dirt our duplicants eat mealwood which means our duplicants eat dirt Wasn't that already obvious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurve Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 4 minutes ago, DarkMaster13 said: Wasn't that already obvious? Those are the microbes and other organic bits squeezed out of the dirt, and formed into a deliciously nutritive snack. Technically it ought to drop sand as a byproduct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinitas Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 On 8/7/2019 at 8:39 PM, DarkMaster13 said: Wasn't that already obvious? that's not made out of mealwood. that's just dirt and water. mealwood is a tree with larvas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Basically uo until they added the waterweed all food types were made out of dirt and water, except meat and eggs. Mealwood converts dirt to calories. Bristle berries convert water and light into calories. Dusk caps covert slime into calories (and slime can be converted into dirt or polluted water and algae then algae to dirt) Sleet wheat converts dirt and water into calories. Pinch peppernuts conver polluted woater itno calories (and polluted water is basically water plus dirt). Even nosh beans are water and dirt. They require ethanol and you get that from arbor trees and those require polluted water. Only waterweed needs something else as bleachstone doesn`t come from water or dirt. It still uses salt water though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallichydra Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 and eggs and meat could be made out of dirt by using sage hatches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 6 hours ago, metallichydra said: and eggs and meat could be made out of dirt by using sage hatches I didn`t count them beacause critters can use a variety of stuff as food, including rocks or oxygen. Plants are mostly balanced by dirt and water rewuirements. Critters more by grooming time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasinji Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 10 hours ago, trinitas said: mealwood is a tree with larvas i used to call it mealworm, because it has worm, we have lumber in other tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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