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Thermal update - meal lice crop rotation.


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One thing I found out is that you can do is crop rotation with meal lice. what I do is create 3 rows of 10 planter box all on separate levels. all I do is plant seeds on one row all at the same time. and do the same for other levels but at different cycles like 2 - 3 cycle apart. that way there will be meal lice ready to harvest on different cycles. once you harvest the meal lice TWICE, you dig up the plant and retrieve the seed and redo the planting again. you do have to manually replant it, but by retrieving the seed, you wont destroy it. Similar to how we portion the seeds of real life corps for replanting.

As stated in other threads, what you are doing is essentially exploiting a bug.  They intentionally made mealwood not drop seeds in the thermal update.  They instead rebalanced bristle blossoms as the primary food source.  In all honesty, bristle blossoms are currently better than meallice all around.  So I really don't see a purpose to exploiting mealwood like this.

7 minutes ago, PrivateDonut said:

It's only a matter of time before they fix being able to get seeds back from mealwood. 

Except that Alia specifically told us on the discord channel that it isn't a bug, but an intentional design change.  This is made further evident due to them making bristle blossoms easier to maintain, rather than just giving seeds back to mealwood.

13 minutes ago, Ecu said:

Except that Alia specifically told us on the discord channel that it isn't a bug, but an intentional design change.  This is made further evident due to them making bristle blossoms easier to maintain, rather than just giving seeds back to mealwood.

I think @PrivateDonut meant that they'll fix being able to dig up the mealwood and get the seed back after 2 harvests.

It's a simple fix really, once the mealwood has produced one harvest, digging it up will not give the seed back. Ie., you should still be able to dig it up before the first harvest and have the seed back if you planted it by mistake.

 

Just now, Saturnus said:

I think @PrivateDonut meant that they'll fix being able to dig up the mealwood and get the seed back.

It's a simple fix really, once the mealwood has produced one harvest, digging it up will not give the seed back. Ie., you should still be able to dig it up before the first harvest and have the seed back if you planted it by mistake.

Ah.  Yeah.  I wouldn't be too surprised if they were to do that.  Though as stated, honestly I'm not sure why you would even exploit this now that they made bristle blossoms easy to maintain.

2 minutes ago, Ecu said:

Ah.  Yeah.  I wouldn't be too surprised if they were to do that.  Though as stated, honestly I'm not sure why you would even exploit this now that they made bristle blossoms easy to maintain.


I agree, you get so much more food from blossoms and due to yesterday changes it's easier to maintain. 

2 minutes ago, sai05 said:

 bristle blossoms  really easy to maintain you just need fertilize maker from distilizer :) and 15 dupe ( 5 dupe only for runing power ) ghahah

Geyers give the opportunity to have basically endless free energy. Just a shame they fixed the mass conservation bug when having it run down stairs as it's harder to destroy excess water now.

Just now, Saturnus said:

Geyers give the opportunity to have basically endless free energy. Just a shame they fixed the mass conservation bug when having it run down stairs as it's harder to destroy excess water now.

how lucky you T_T i never seen geysers T_T

40 minutes ago, AlexRou said:

I put my box in a ice biome and fill it with CO2 so it goes into both refrigerated and sterile incase temps or CO2 levels changes, and then just spam the hell out of food production and put everything into that box.

Honestly, the ice biome really breaks the game. Haven't had any spoilage since I moved all my food over there.
All of my planters are being neglected because the storeroom is full.
 

1 minute ago, rottielover said:

bristle blossoms easy?   I keep having all kinds of temp issues with them thinking they are too hot when it's like 20C in the room...

Did you install the preview?

 

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It went from brittle thing to a sturdy champion.
Temperature range: -23°C - 27°C, Fertilizer 2 kg/cycle, and 2 fruits per harvest.

 

11 hours ago, Saturnus said:

I think @PrivateDonut meant that they'll fix being able to dig up the mealwood and get the seed back after 2 harvests.

It's a simple fix really, once the mealwood has produced one harvest, digging it up will not give the seed back. Ie., you should still be able to dig it up before the first harvest and have the seed back if you planted it by mistake.

 

I'd rather they give seeds the same 'harvests remaining' counter as the plants. That way you can still dig them up, but it won't give you more food.

41 minutes ago, futrettamer said:

my big question is can you double the number of calories in bristle blossom by putting it through the microbe musher like you can in the basic build with meal lice?

 

 

No, there is no recipe for that. But BB has almost double the calories than mealwood as it is.

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