Friday Facts #414 - Spoils of Agriculture

[mmmPI]

Well.. but the case is that all biological products in our factory will rot evetually, unlike cotton, co why not treat them as food and freeze? Food for the machine god.

I don't think this is correct, wood or fish weren't announced to spoil over time. And although you could freeze fish ( animal product & food) it make no sense to me to put some wood in the freezer ^^ ( plant & not food ).

Plus i am not convinced a hidden random freshness is a good idea. To me it serve no other purpose than defeating the purpose of the spoilage mechanic in the first place. I think it is like opening a window to get cool air, while at the some time cranking up the heat, to have hot air. Introducing the whole mechanic just for people to instead use freezer like they could use current mod that put item in box seem very counterproductive, there will already be the "stacking on belt" mechanic that serve this purpose.

[Cyclonut]

Love the Gleba resource management. With respect to Spoilage, you have three methods, but the most real life practical one used in farming, composting it, was not mentioned/realized. Maybe you can convert it into compost, which then can be used as a heat source in cold greenhouses, or a land fill to increase productivity.

[FuryoftheStars]

With respect to Spoilage, you have three methods, but the most real life practical one used in farming, composting it, was not mentioned/realized.

I think the 3rd method, "create nutrients", is the game's abstraction of just that.

[mmmPI]

you have three methods, but the most real life practical one used in farming, composting it, was not mentioned/realized. Maybe you can convert it into compost, which then can be used as a heat source in cold greenhouses, or a land fill to increase productivity.

The FFF i think mention the different (in game) methods :

That's why spoilage exists, and we have multiple methods to get rid of it - you can burn it, waste it in a recycler, or create nutrients that are already half-spoilt.

The nutrient part is similar to using compost as land fill to increase producivity, it's not landfill to cover water, more like fertilizer.

illustrating for me how rotten spoiled and stinky mess can turn into fertile compost

The heat souce is more questionnable i suppose, because compost is not "burnt" to extract "heat" for cold greenhouses, but from gameplay logic, it make sense that "burning" is a mechanism that gets rid of it and provide "heat".


Edit : Fury was faster ... ^^

[gGeorg]

Lets introduce the fridge wagon !

If a fridge wagon contains any item inside, then wagon turn on cooling.

Wagon which turned cooling on, is supported by locomotive - it consumes additional 300kW/s. Speed of train regardless. Consumption 300kW is per wagon, which means a train :1 loco plus 3 fridge wagons standing on red lights is consuming 900kW per second.
Items in the fridge wagon, which is cool (consumes energy) decay by 1/10 speed.
Items in the fridge wagons, which has no power, decay as usual.
Empty fridge wagon consumes 0 kW
fridge wagon with 1 or more items, consumes 300kW. Fridge dont recognize type of items, if any item is in, it turns cooling on.