POLL : Let’s go aquatic or not!

[Madbro]

Some players have suggested to add oceans and salt water plus aquatic critters.

This is for reflecting how much players want to have that kind of aquatic update.

[ArunPrasath]

I still believe we should implement plant grafting in the game - just like critters getting new variants, plants too can be make different through combining 2 plants together (called grafting).

Eg: pincha plant can be grafted with bristle berry plant to require both light and water. But would give much better seeds/fruits that can be consumed directly (with good food taste).

Sleet wheat can be grafted with balm lily to give it medicinal properties, but would require the sleet wheat to be in chlorine as well as below 5C. etc etc

[Morse]

New content is always good, but salt water is not really needed, I don't understand how it would differ from the Pwater gameplay-wise. I also can't see much use for salt. An inorganic component that increases the quality of food? Preservative?

Oceans are tricky. I'm all up for new biomes (yay content!), but a biome filled with water and nothing else? Kinda a waste of space.

[stoeberhai]

- desalination -> sodium chloride + water -> new food recipes for dupes and pets, mineral lick for domestic animals which gives a buff for happiness or reproduction, as ingredient for other processes..

- saltwater species

- underwater growing algae plant

 

 

 

there should be a max of one ocean biome with a saltwater spring (all in all it works like a geyser with a specific biome for it). saltwater should be unusable for anything except flushing toilets. salinity should work like germs in terms of spreading into fresh water (obviously no change in amount). desalination is possible through typical oni cooking workarounds or with a desalination station that needs raw mineral and carbon dioxide.

the difference to fresh water is that saltwater looks like it but it is almost unusable, like in rl. the point is that you have another source of water with a different type of processing while adding more complexity. this would go very well with the need of dupes to drink.

 

[Sasza22]

I`d love a squid FROM SPAACE!

Actually it would be nice if we had some aquatic plants (i mean fully aquatic growning only under water) like some sort of coral, maybe growing something pacu could eat instead of algae.

A squid could eat pacu and produce someting useful like maybe one of the space materials that you could collect but setting up a pacu farm to feed a squid would be pretty challenging.

[crypticorb]

I'm all aboard any update that adds new biomes. I'd love if there were an update that added the ability to choose different types of asteroids, such as:

1. Heliotrope: purely ice biomes. This is currently available, but not terribly well implemented as it doesn't have most elements other than ice biome stuff. Would be better implemented with randomized material contents.
2. Oceanic planet: new water biomes! Also include a THICK ice crust before the standard surface biome of mafic rock and meteors.
3. Hell planet: nothing but HOT. Loads of coal and gas vents, volcanoes, etc.
4. Gas planet: extremely high pressure gas in every compartment. Would be a cool challenge map for players to deal with new areas.

Any variations on the standard ONI formula would be welcome.