A little idea about chewing gum

[xSil3ntd34thx]

... and with that i mean adding a way to relief duplicants from stress and other negative factors (like: bad decor or just annoying diseases).

I thought about it in that way by adding a machine which will produce chewing gum by using slime or "stable slime"( I will mention that later) and chlorine(in order to get the flavor and the somewhat disease cleansing part of it).

But what would be the good thing about it (Numbers mentioned here are just an example):

• -5% Stress/Cycle
• "Good breath" (increases decor by 10 in a 8 tiles radius, if in breathable environment)
• "Clean insides" (accelerates the killing process of germs inside a host by 10%)
• Lasts 0.5 cycles and gives 250kcal after finishing
• Cannot be eaten multiple times, when active/eaten
• It will not rot away

 

And in order to produce those you will need a "Bubble gum factory" which will:

• cost 100 plastic and 200 refined metal
• give 0 decor ( because its a machine but also something positive because of the relief of chewing gum)
• require 230kW in order to work
• need a duplicant who has the "Chef" job in order to be operated
• take about 25 to 40 secs to make a gum
• also be the dispenser for the product (like these little bubble gum machines where you rotate a handle and you get a gum)
• take 30kg of slime or 60kg of "stable slime" and 400g of chlorine(gas) in order to make 250kcal
• destroy any germs on the slime, they will get killed in the process of makeing the gum(because of the chlorine)

 

That would be a little thought on how to make it a little bit easier to get your dupes a good surrounding.

 

But now to another thing wanted to talk about, and that is the "stable slime" part, and what i meant by that is that there also should be a way of creating slime in order to make these gums possible in a long term and i thought about a "Slime synthesizer" which will produce so called "stable slime" and this kind of slime will not emitt polluted oxygen but still will be a slimelung multplier and it will not be able to be put into the algea distiller.

 

And the machine will:

• cost 450 refinded metal
• give -15 decor
• take 800 kW
• require 20kg dirt, 100g natural gas and 1 full mushroom in order to make 50kg of "stable slime"
• need about 5 secs for each 50kg of "stable slime"
• drop the product onto the ground

 

And the idea behind this machine is, as allready mentioned, that you cant have unlimited slime but with that machine you can have more slime with which you can improve your duplicants moods by using it to produce chewing gum.

 

Please leave your opinion on this idea bellow.

[InternetGuy]

fun fact, bubble gum have rubber in it so making it out of plastic makes sense. It can be made from Pincha pepper plant, balm lily and plastic.

[xSil3ntd34thx]

My intention with that idea was to kinda get a use out of chlorine but also let it make sense (slime is "slimey") and since i am at a point of the game where i never reached a way of producing plastic, i leak in information, but i tried to make it kind of realistic (from the game's perspective and with all that statistics stuff), but to make it consume plastic, since its used in real gum too, would be some kind of balance to it too (i tried to keep my idea simple because i never posted some kind of idea for a game).

But thank you for giving it a thought (but dont see that as any critisism against your comment because i never did something like this and dont know how to response).

[ImpalerWrG]

So long as it stresses the the Dupes nearby the one chewing.  So it basically a stress swap, useful for targeted stress management on one dupe while allowing them to continue working (unlike a message table) but at the cost of stressing others.

Everyone knows nothing is more annoying then someone chewing gum.

[InternetGuy]

10 hours ago, xSil3ntd34thx said:

My intention with that idea was to kinda get a use out of chlorine but also let it make sense (slime is "slimey") and since i am at a point of the game where i never reached a way of producing plastic, i leak in information, but i tried to make it kind of realistic (from the game's perspective and with all that statistics stuff), but to make it consume plastic, since its used in real gum too, would be some kind of balance to it too (i tried to keep my idea simple because i never posted some kind of idea for a game).

But thank you for giving it a thought (but dont see that as any critisism against your comment because i never did something like this and dont know how to response).

That's fair. I don't know if chlorine geysers spawn in every map now that the gassy moo is in the game. That most definitely be a thing.