Critter Power

[Smuch]

Someone posted a thread called “critter based automation”. It means“censors for the automation based around critter ranching” but first reing the title I couldn’t help but think of it as “automation using critter as a power source”.  Then I remembered that..actually used to be kind of a real thing before engines rolled in.

 

We have treadwheels manual generators and with the ranching update we have tamed animals.  

Wouldn't it seem kind of a logical step if some of the bigger critters (right now Drekos mostly I think, hatches seem a tad too small and the others aren’t land based; if new animals get introduced, who knows) could be tamed to turn manual generators instead of our duplicants ? (maybe a different kind of manual generator, maybe the same)

 

Maybe they could require extra food for baiting them into effort to balance. and they'd need a duplicant to lead them in/out the generators (it's not like the critters will pay attention to the charge level of your batteries)