Eating caviar for survival

[BionicSandwich]

So I have been playing this game a while, and recently, I have made something I am somewhat proud of.

Below is a picture of the pacu farm I Built. I have found that having 4 pacus at a time is plenty to feed 6 dupes and have excess for breeding stock.

the algae i use to feed is not 100% renewable yet, but I plan on working on that in the future.

[TheScaryOne]

This would make a great purifier with gulp fish in a slush geyser tank.

[Technoincubus]

How much aglae does one pacu eat?

Also, why are you using airflow tiles for PH2O tank??

[PhailRaptor]

1 minute ago, Technoincubus said:

Also, why are you using airflow tiles for PH2O tank??

For one thing, they are incapable of breaking due to liquid pressure.  And judging by the number of Deodorizers around the tank, they are also using the inherent off-gasing as a means of Oxygen production.

[BionicSandwich]

yeah, I use the tank as a depository for polluted water, which then off gasses to give me some oxygen.

[Technoincubus]

But evaporation gives you, like, negligable amount of O2. Mere grams or something like that

[fleranon]

4 pacus at a time plenty to feed 6 dupes? with eggs? If this is true I'm making something wrong. i have around 15 pacus and 30+ Hatches, but I need my shroom farm to sustain my 14 dupes, the eggs and the meat alone would barely be enough I think.

[Oozinator]

Just now, fleranon said:

4 pacus at a time plenty to feed 6 dupes? with eggs? If this is true I'm making something wrong. i have around 15 pacus and 30+ Hatches, but I need my shroom farm to sustain my 14 dupes, the eggs and the meat alone would barely be enough I think.

lol how many ranchers do you have / dupes?

[fleranon]

4 minutes ago, Oozinator said:

lol how many ranchers do you have / dupes?

14 dupes, 2 fulltime ranchers. automation is key - everything is dispensed automatically, plants are tended automatically, food is stored in my vacuum room automatically and sent to the kitchen automatically. My dupes mostly sit on their asses all day long.

 

edit: ah, perhaps I misunderstood you. You mean 2 ranchers is perhaps not enough? the hatches are always "happy" i think

 

[KittenIsAGeek]

2 hours ago, fleranon said:

14 dupes, 2 fulltime ranchers. automation is key - everything is dispensed automatically, plants are tended automatically, food is stored in my vacuum room automatically and sent to the kitchen automatically. My dupes mostly sit on their asses all day long.

 

edit: ah, perhaps I misunderstood you. You mean 2 ranchers is perhaps not enough? the hatches are always "happy" i think

 

That is a very large shroom farm for 14 dupes.  My biggest mushroom farm was 20 mushrooms. That mushroom farm alone could support 20 dupes, I think.

[Neotuck]

11 minutes ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

That is a very large shroom farm for 14 dupes.  My biggest mushroom farm was 20 mushrooms. That mushroom farm alone could support 20 dupes, I think.

I don't see any farm stations so the growth rate is slower than most

[KittenIsAGeek]

18 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

I don't see any farm stations so the growth rate is slower than most

Without a farm its 3.125 mushrooms per dupe.  That means for 14 dupes, 44 mushrooms would provide plenty of food.  I'd guess he's got 120 plants there.  He should be able to feed almost 40 dupes.  

[Neotuck]

2 minutes ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

Without a farm its 3.125 mushrooms per dupe.  That means for 14 dupes, 44 mushrooms would provide plenty of food.  I'd guess he's got 120 plants there.  He should be able to feed almost 40 dupes.  

maybe he's not grilling them 

[KittenIsAGeek]

I did my math without grilling.

Lifecycle: 7.5 cycles.  Production: 2400 kcals.  2400/7.5 = 320.  1000/320 = 3.125  -> 3.125 plants per dupe to keep them fed.

[Carnis]

I'm curious what fleranon is using for power, since he can afford tubes everywhere and gazillion incubators.

[KittenIsAGeek]

Just now, Carnis said:

I'm curious what fleranon is using for power, since he can afford tubes everywhere and gazillion incubators.

I have 4 tube stations, an oxygen generator producing 1000g/s of oxygen, and a cooling system for the oxygen -- all running off two coal generators and a hydrogen generator.  Once they're charged, the tube stations only draw power when a dupe uses them.

[BionicSandwich]

10 hours ago, Oozinator said:

lol how many ranchers do you have / dupes?

For pacus, you don't even need ranchers, they just eat from the feeder and tame themselves.

[wachunga]

7 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

That is a very large shroom farm for 14 dupes.  My biggest mushroom farm was 20 mushrooms. That mushroom farm alone could support 20 dupes, I think.

He has 1,142,012 kcal on hand. I think it's safe to say his notions of food requirements are ... different.

[thewreckedangle]

this is generally my way of setup for mushrooms

[WanderingKid]

@thewreckedangle I'm surprised you don't get jammed up with left leaning PO2 on the lower rack during slime deliveries.  My typical setup has air vents and 3 high tiles to make sure the PO2 doesn't screw up the growth cycles.

[thewreckedangle]

the room is such high pressure co2 that the slime does not produce po2 (i assume this is the reason?). it is supplied by the air pump (also pictured) to the right, from stuff that falls past the scrubber + what comes out of the generator. the bizarre zig zag of walls etc, was just a result of me trying different ways to contain it without anything fancy/high power/exploity 

 

e: the slime is stored in that room that makes no sense (with the ration box under it)(the door next to the pump is forever closed) the lockers in the farm are for spores and fertilizer

[WanderingKid]

I usually just sink the slime in a small water pit, but to each their own. 

I'll have to try that high pressure technique sometime, usually my farms are under plenty of pressure from my coal generators though.  I've personally stopped bothering to fertilize mushrooms, it's just not worth the worker time for me.   Neat design though, thanks.

[Technoincubus]

Each pacu eats 120 kg of aglae. And that's a HUGE amount. You'll need a packed morb-puft slime farm to get enough for aglae distillers. And aglae distillers require tons of slime to get some aglae

[TheScaryOne]

C'mon, that's only 24 pufts per Pacu, plus the associated distillers and facilities.

The Pacu seem completely unsustainable, atm. They need to eat far less algae, or some renewable food.

[fleranon]

On 27.4.2018 at 4:30 PM, Carnis said:

I'm curious what fleranon is using for power, since he can afford tubes everywhere and gazillion incubators.

Do people still worry about power since the last couple updates? Steam, of course... build 2 or 3 of these puppies and you will never worry a single day about power. I usually do it as early as possible.The other one is a natural gas powerplant powered by magma heated oil.

On 27.4.2018 at 11:31 PM, wachunga said:

He has 1,142,012 kcal on hand. I think it's safe to say his notions of food requirements are ... different.

Dudes, I was talking about Pacu food. But that changed after I experienced my first "pacu explosion", now there are dozens of them and the floor is covered in eggs.. I have so much mushrooms I drown in it, millions of calories. food production district:

in terms of farm station and such: my dupes hate work. The only time they enter the shroom farm is to farm them after 8 cycles, the rest is robotic.