Metal Plant

[Onidotmoe]

A plant that looks like a Bismuth crystal that can only grow wild and requires either radiation or electricity to grow and expand, harvesting it would yield metal ore.

[pether]

I'd go with rust, then you could get iron ore from oxygen production

[Sasza22]

But why wild only? It would make a fun design if it would require power connected to grow. Would basically be a reverse plug slug. I can see people managing both for sustainable power.

[Onidotmoe]

5 hours ago, Sasza22 said:

But why wild only? It would make a fun design if it would require power connected to grow. Would basically be a reverse plug slug. I can see people managing both for sustainable power.

I was thinking that it could be more of a tile than a regular plant, basically a tile that expands over time to other tiles around it, almost like a infection.

[Sasza22]

21 hours ago, VampireMonkey said:

basically a tile that expands over time to other tiles around it, almost like a infection

Oh, this reminds me the idea for a monster that would be made out of special tiles and grow stealing your resources and maybe damaging the base so you`d have to dig it out. Your idea is more tame and produces useful resources. Imo it would be fine if there was an option to find a seed of that thing so you can some control where it grows but wild only is ok as well.