Generation of consumable ore

[rafker]

Is there possibly any way found (or datamined) to generate coal or bleach in the new update?

For coal I only know the "Hatch" one (which isn't the great one, considering other resources are limited as well). Even though Natural gas is the winner for power generation, there is a possibility that there would be no generated geysers for your map (and even if there are, they might end up in the corner of the map)

For bleach, There exist chlorine geysers, but beach isn't actually a chlorine.

 

[BlueLance]

Bleachstone unfortunately not and Hatches are your only renewable coal source, but they can be fed renewable resources, frozen water and polluted water, as well as their bottled variants seem to be consumed by them, but slime which you can get from pufts is more or less infinite as long as you have polluted oxygen

[FloomRide]

Hatches can eat anything but seeds it seems. Raw minerals, while finite, are so abundant it really doesn't matter. They can eat bottled polluted water, but it's hard to transport it effectively to a hatch corral. Fertilizer is probably the best hatch filler for coal, since it's easily renewable in excess from natural gas plants (and who grows sleet wheat anymore lol, can't even cook it since electric grill is broken atm).

Sadly, Oxylite and Bleach stone are nonrenewable. It'd be cool to see a "gas compressor" type building that compresses Oxygen and Chlorine into their respective ores.