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OI--234177 - Mealwood eating CO2, Bug or feature?


Rynjathyn
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I have noticed that my Mealwood plants are eating my CO2, is this as intended?

Personally I think plants should "breath" the CO2, but not sure if that is the best for game balance, since it almost eliminates the need for carbon skimmers.


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Growing mealwood in planters, by ~20 cycles there is a significant decrease of CO2 that can't be explained by dupes walking in and out of room (pumping escaped gas back into the farm room.) By the time ~50 cycles pass (with ~30 plants) by I have gone from ~650g of CO2 to <150g of CO2.



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Only has 3 floors of Mealwood, rectangular in shape, sandstone floors for the planter boxes, 1 tile of sandstone walls, no insulation, 1 garnet ration box, 1 high pressure vent (Iron), gas pipe (igneous rock) going through top wall, and 2 sand stone ladders. That's it, nothing else is in the room. Oh ya, manual lock on the top (Iron) gas pump in the other room is 2  tiles from the airlock.

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It does appear to be that the airlock was destroying a fair portion of the CO2; although it still seems strange that with 7 duplicates (1 a mouth breather) I'm still so low on Co2 without a carbon skimmer and have seen very little CO2 growth @ 90 cycles.

At cycle ~30 I was at ~250g of CO2, now at cycle 90 @ ~290g. This is without generating any other CO2 outside of the 7 dupes (I did return to the airlock save after testing the water lock.)

Just so you can guys can look at the #s I saw.. but if it's working as intended.. then I suppose all is good. Thanks for reviewing it.

ONI Capture CO2 92Cycles.JPG

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