Just got rid of a Food Grower T1

[trygve]

And don't really have plans to use T2s, at least for food purposes.
(Haven't reached T2, yet)

I now have 2 T1s(growing beans) and outside the base there's two Beehives T1s, both within reach of my Autocrafter.
When I'm not using it for anything else, I just set it to make the 'High Quality Food'.
(Gets you 90 Health points. Beans are 60HP )

[2alphyns]

The Autocrafter is pulling from your Beehives? It didn't why I tried that experiment. I'll have to try it again.

[Blender McBiscuits]

If you've got to beehives, you must know that most of the food in the game ends up going into the science lab to do weird chemistry with, make mutagens and fertilisers. Only a small amount need to go in your mouth, and yep High Quality Food does well.

[trygve]

I had to place the beehives right next to the base unit where the Autocrafter is located, though.

Yeah. I have 7 T1s producing for Science right now. I was thinking of adding to them, but I just unlocked outdoor farms... I may use a few of those.

I have half a dozen Algae Generator T2s going now, and will probably add a couple more of those. It may be my imagination, but they seem to produce more Algae now than when I had them at the Waterfall Biome. (My base is at the crater, and it didn't get any surface water until 1GTi )

[Blender McBiscuits]

You know Algae Generators do better with a bit of water underneath them? A bit of depth. Best to have a swim about before you place them, if necessary built some stairs up, so you have somewhere to stand while you place your generator in deep water.

[trygve]

In the waterfall biome, the deepest parts is the areas closest to the cliff with the waterfall itself. I climbed up on those rocks and created them from that point. There was plenty of depth there.

I'm up to 8 now, and I usually fill up my inventory and have to leave before going though them all. (And I harvest a little more often than when I had to hike to the next biome over)

Autocrafter is confirmed to find my outdoors farm, also. But it must be within 1 base unit range from the Autocrafter, it seems. It honestly seems to have better range indoors.
I'm tempted to redesign my base as a 3x3 tower, and place the Autocrafter in the middle. I don't believe it has the same issues with vertical range.
I haven't tried what kind of range it has when placed outside, though.

[Blender McBiscuits]

Originally posted by trygve:

the deepest parts is the areas closest to the cliff

That's the "plunge pool", carved out by the force of falling water. Real waterfalls have them too.

You can clamber about the scenery, true. But sometimes it's easier just to build metal stairs from the lake bed up to where you want to stand to create your Generator. then destroy the stairs right after.

How fast is your frame rate? Mine is often terrible, while games with similar graphics zoom along fine, no problem. TPC is jerky. I noticed it could, oddly, disappear algae. Cutting down some graphic options to give a smoother framerate, usable algae are much more likely to appear beneath a given bunch of floating greenery. Odd but true! So now I have loads of algae from the dozen growers I built before. Now the frame rate is smooth, they spawm much more.

[trygve]

I have a HP ProBook 455 G7 laptop(discontinued a year or three ago) with AMD RX Vega 7 graphics onboard. The only thing that allows me to even consider playing games like this is that I forced 2 x 16GB RAM modules into it, in a Dual Channel config. The Graphics card can use Dual Channel to speed up a lot of the processes...
So on a good day, I can reach 25fps...
I'm usually at 15 - 20fps, and sometimes dropping all the way down to 10...

And my swimming about is low speed(no Shift button) and plenty of stops.

[Davetiger]

Originally posted by trygve:

I had to place the beehives right next to the base unit where the Autocrafter is located, though.

Yeah. I have 7 T1s producing for Science right now. I was thinking of adding to them, but I just unlocked outdoor farms... I may use a few of those.

I have half a dozen Algae Generator T2s going now, and will probably add a couple more of those. It may be my imagination, but they seem to produce more Algae now than when I had them at the Waterfall Biome. (My base is at the crater, and it didn't get any surface water until 1GTi )

Yeah the range on the auto crafter is a bit limited I just put the farms on the roof right above the machines that need to use them and the bees under :)

[wizdmalegj]

Make sure to use the T1 Beehive. The T2 will clog up with bee larvae.

[Blender McBiscuits]

Originally posted by trygve:

I have a HP ProBook 455 G7 laptop

Right! Any other game, I'm sure is buttery-smooth, right? What do you mean "games like this"? The graphics are no better than dozens of other games that play much, much smoother. Is it bad programming? Why is this game so jerky even on decent systems?

[trygve]

It's an HP Business laptop, and they don't believe that people should play games on a business model.
Trust me, most reasonably modern games are worse than PC when it comes to FPS.
Of course, running the game in 2560 x 1440 on my Samsung 34" gaming monitor probably doesn't help.