i have done the wheeze wort on a planter box where the water locks are- works but i tend to almost always get a radient pipe inside with an ST/AQ. good point about it being possible to swap to pips or cuddle peeps with. i believe its only 4 domesticated arbor trees to feed 8 pips- which also fits

so in the individual scale, that makes sense until you find out wild critters regrow their scales slower vs a tame critter. then theres scaling up- you can never scale up wild farms and while you would spend less resources per plastic, you would have to also wait exponentially longer to get as much plastic as a tame ranch since the number of critters will blow up. that might lead into another question which ill answer- you cannot "untame" critters once they reach 100% tame. wild critters in the process of becoming tame may not become tame if left alone long enough but that would be it.

@@2LegitCity Thank you for the quick and lucid response. I've been down the rabbit hole; yes, a 70% reduced shear rate is rough. So, like you say, it's worth some resources to ramp up quicker. I'm thinking once I get production up, I'd still set some aside to keep wild to try to live that infinite dream.

glossys specifically eat 33% of mealwood growth per cycle, which is how much a meal wood plant grows in a cycle. perfect balance. regular dreckos eat less than glossys do

planter box where either water lock is are great spots!

thats a great idea- i havent thought about incorporating the story traits into any of the designs. youre basically trying to automate a new glossy every cycle- im curious to check now if the critter flux carries over scale growth% or resets it on morph to potentially get a double shear. would be great to crank out plastic as soon as possible

My current design is similar but using balm lilies with all the eggs going into the flux o matic room. I also put an incubator and critter drop off in the flux o matic room so that I can insure that my normal drecko population is maintained. Any extras from the incubator stay in the room and get fluxed.

i believe critters can interact with the planter box, but you had to build another tile next to the planter box. the issue is that technically the box is floating(up a tile compared to farmtile) and the critter has no way to interact with it.

Decoration! XD

initially i mop it up, but after the first mealwood temperature stifle, i leave the water on top to help cool the middle tiles- most of the cold water falls into the corners and cools the farm tiles outside to inside.

He says that in the video. Why would you even write this comment

Why? Outside of specific scenarios, reed is plentiful and not in much demand, plant from toilet water can pretty much supply your needs. Plastic at normal temperature is where the dreckos shine

its hard to say, the devs said there were things not "tested" during the beta so i want to see everything first before i judge

@@2LegitCity fair enough

@@2LegitCity just logged in today btw Frosty DLC is out now