Hydroponics not being able to grow healroot

[Numenusty]

Hi, I am playing in a map basically 90% poluted and I basically don't have clean place to plant. Therefore I thought on using hydroponics to get some healroot and not depend on just buying medicine. Even though it won't allow me. It comes with growing rice as standard but I can only change to toxicpotato and psychoid, and once changed can't come back to rice anymore. Shouldn't hydroponics be an option in a poluted tile?

[Cellar_Cat]

Sounds like something has broken there. AFAIK even in vanilla you should be able to grow healroot in hydroponics basins.

[Numenusty]

My tile is 83% polluted, I cannot grow cotton nor healroot. My option would be hydroponics at a big expense of energy, but it seems for now it is not an option xD

[Cellar_Cat]

According to the wiki, in a hydroponics basin you should be able to grow: rice, potatoes, strawberries, healroot, cotton, hops, psychoid, smokeleaf, fibercorn, nutrifungus, tinctoria.

So I would suggest looking at any mods you have that may be interfering with it, or maybe make the game redownload its data folder.

[Astasia]

It sounds like it's working as intended. Toxipotato is showing up as an option which implies the location of the hydroponics has become too polluted for the other options. You can only plant toxipotatoes in pollution. Psychoid has some pollution resistance it seems, which makes sense since wasters depend on it.

If you rip up the floors under the hydroponics is it polluted? If you clean that up and dump it far enough away that might allow you to grow other stuff. Or it might just hit a point where average pollution on the tile is so high you can't plant normal crops anywhere.

[Numenusty]

引用自 Astasia：

It sounds like it's working as intended. Toxipotato is showing up as an option which implies the location of the hydroponics has become too polluted for the other options. You can only plant toxipotatoes in pollution. Psychoid has some pollution resistance it seems, which makes sense since wasters depend on it.

If you rip up the floors under the hydroponics is it polluted? If you clean that up and dump it far enough away that might allow you to grow other stuff. Or it might just hit a point where average pollution on the tile is so high you can't plant normal crops anywhere.

As I understand, the hydroponic is like you plant in a vase or in some placed controled and not in the ground. So technically it should ignore the polluted state of the ground. Even so it comes with a standard rice plant. I should have let plant the rice and see what happens.

[Playzr 🐵]

Sounds like it's polluted indoors. Maybe it's also a matter of the air rather than just the soil in the ground. So you probably want one of those pollution pumps and to dump the toxic waste far away.

[Astasia]

引用自 Numenusty：

As I understand, the hydroponic is like you plant in a vase or in some placed controled and not in the ground. So technically it should ignore the polluted state of the ground. Even so it comes with a standard rice plant. I should have let plant the rice and see what happens.

Pollution is airborne above the polluted tile. That's why colonists have to wear gasmasks or have special lung genes/bionics to survive in it, rather than just wearing boots.

[Numenusty]

But even if the place is closed the wastepacks pollution, when they deteriorate goes indoors anyway and keeping a indoors place clean of toxic is impossible. Sending the toxicwastes through drop pods is inviable, too much resources to do that.

[PolecatEZ]

Pollution spread ignores walls and such. If the pollution percent is high enough, certain things won't grow. The old "Toxic ship crash" did the same thing if you ignored it - eventually the whole map (even your hydroponics) wouldn't be able to grow anything.

[SocksFoHands]

Could be related to an issue I'm having assuming you're running mods. Todays update has broken the grow zone drop down menus somehow and most plants (including healroot) are now missing. No idea which mod has broken yet but it might not be a gameplay feature thats caused it to vanish.

[Numenusty]

I'm not using many mods, just a few: Harmony, beer is alright, royalty tweaks, shella backgrounds and table dinner