Xeno-Botany Quality of Life Changes #3831
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Removes the gene masking from xenobotany in favor of more readable labels. - No changes to how things work, just removes the obfuscation that existed simply to make you push a bunch of buttons before you could do anything meaningful with them.
Adds a connector port to the "isolation tray" that connects to a port in the back room of hydroponics and to the scrubbers network. - Minor re-arrangement of the backroom to make it easier to move around with a canister hooked up back there.
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That is wonderful but I still wish we had means for pressure and temperature |
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Merge commits >=( |
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The merge commit is from updating to include your map edit from your science PR. Was hoping it wouldn't have shown up, but since I had already committed the first bit, it was too late to turn back on that branch. EDIT: As for what @taukausanake mentioned, plants will use the temperature and pressure of their environment. If you need non-standard ones, internal air-tanks are the way to go, as it will attempt to utilize the distro pressure of the inserted tank for pressure as long as the lid is up and the tank has enough air to maintain that pressure (it uses the internal pressure if it's below the distro pressure setting) and thus will use the temperature of the gas it's using for pressure and such. |
A long-requested feature, you can now build the two xenobotany machines - Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge - Requires 1 matter bin, 1 scanning module, and 1 console screen - Upgrading the scanning module causes less degradation when extracting genes, meaning seeds last longer - Bioballistic Delivery System - Requires 1 matter bin, 1 manipulator, and 1 console screen - Upgrading the manipulator decreases the degradation caused by splicing genes, meaning you can (theoretically) splice more onto a pack before it fails
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No more "random RNG research for wasting time" each round? 💯 |
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@FalseIncarnate I know how the plant pressure and temperatures work, my disappointment is that we don't have any means to do that yet without atmos helping. I wonder now, if a plant needs a certain pressure and/or temp and also creates a gas but you have to use the tank, what happens? |
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botanical research no with -1 retardness |
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I just noticed the top bit of the OP. I don't know if I like knowing what I'm researching. I originally thought but never made notice of if the machines were constructable then you could upgrade them then you could unlock the machine's ability to know what the gene is. Also maybe extract separate bits of a gene, like appearance and reharvestability that share the same block |
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Xenobotany has never been researching the genes, but rather researching new ways to combine them via hybridization. The only real unknowns are the traits of the randomly generated strange seeds. Obviously the contents of the genes are something you can learn via experimentation and/or the code, and previously you had to spend time figuring out which button the genes were on. There was no research to be had in that, only a horribly watered-down game of Simon. I'd rather not go back to re-obfuscate these genes only to re-de-obfuscate them with upgrades (something that would require a fair amount of tweaking to both the gene list and the nanoUI templates of the machines). Breaking up the gene sets into their base traits would be a major balance change, and not something I'd be comfortable doing with this PR. |
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Maybe in the future then. I consider it research though, kind of like how Genetics has to find mutations |
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Xeno-Botany Quality of Life Changes
De-obfuscates the gene masking for the xeno-botany machines and discs.
Adds a connector and some pipes to hydroponics to help with gas consuming/producing plants.
A long-requested feature, you can now (re)build the two xeno-botany machines
Map changes are map-merged.
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tweak: Xeno-botany is now more user-friendly, and less random letters/numbers.
rscadd: Hydroponics now has a connector hooked up to the isolation tray and a new connector in their back room for those strange plants that like spewing plasma or eating nitrogen.
rscadd: You can now (finally) build the xeno-botany machines, and science can print off their respective boards.
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