Getting Medical Supplies/Space Vermin

[colhanindysolojones]

Dear All:

For openers, thanks to those who helped me with my last problem. I'm having a blast outfitting the pleasure deck!

Now, my next problem is twofold as you can see by the subject line. Firstly, Arona Dal doesn't seem to want to sell me any Medical Supplies, and I don't dare open a sick bay without them.

Question: From whom might I get medical supplies if not Arona?

Secondly, I have found myself the unhappy host to a colony of space vermin. When I played yesterday, I saw something that resembled a cat. How, if possible, might I get said alien cat to to rid me of my unwanted visitors? This is the last thing I need!!!

Any suggestions, vague notions, brainstorms will be entertained here.

Sincerely yours always,

Indy.

[Muobman]

The best way to obtain medical supplies is to hire karmarama (the purple hippy aliens), and they'll start growing things on the biodeck, growing different plants depending on the conditions. Medical plants grow best in cold, wet environments so zone out an area of that type using the biodeck controls (as explained in the tutorials). Once the plants are grown, harvest them with a right click on them, giving the medical supplies required.

As for the space vermin, the best way to deal with them is to just tidy up the station, beam up litter and place it in the recycler or buy some more scuzzers. Memaus (the cats) just kinda show up when vermin are around, and while they will deal with the vermin and make everyone a bit happier when interacting with them, they come with serious problems of their own. Trust me when I say they can be much worse than vermin, but if you want to spoil the surprise of why, read the spoiler below.

They will eat litter until full, then find the nearest person and infect them with a parasite, this will grow inside them and without immediate medical attention, will result in the violent death of the host creature as a massive nigh-unstoppable alien called a skrasher bursts out, often in the middle of your medbay as sick people will naturally head there. The worst part is if your security team doesn't kill it in time then it simply withers away, leaving 2 memaus behind to restart the cycle

[Richard]

An addendum to the above, Medical Supplies can be harvested from trees in Moderate Medium and Hot Dry biomes, tree and shrub in Cold Wet biome and Stickrush in water. As long as they have been researched they can also be constructed in factories. The other primary source is trading with the Greys, although that requires you to get a stardock up and running first.

and an addendum to the spoiler above.
Once you start seeing Memau you may want to move your dine-o-mats up to the recreation deck, as this will significantly cut the amount of litter available for them to eat. Memau have a limited lifespan and will die off without infecting a peep if they don't eat enough. You will also want to get a z-ray scanner into your sickbay to enable treating of those infected with a Skrasher parasite, as well as placing security columns next to the sickbay for when a Skrasher hatches before they can be treated.

[Bromstine]

In addition, you don't *have* to harvest the plants manually. It just gives you (I think) a bit of a time advantage. If left alone, all plants will morph into crates of supplies automatically.

If you have cargo bays, your scuzzers will pick up the crates and bring them to the nearest non-full bay. With enough scuzzers, it will all run with no intervention.

[Richard]

Originally posted by Fight Aaaaaah:

In addition, you don't *have* to harvest the plants manually. It just gives you (I think) a bit of a time advantage. If left alone, all plants will morph into crates of supplies automatically.

This is false. Plants can only be harvested manually, whether immediately if they are fully grown or on a delay until they finish growing.