Rocky terrain into farmable tiles?

[P O P]

I got royalty and base game. I originally had lot of hyrdoponic basins, but I mainly need a high yield food crop like corn. So I scrapped all of them. About half of that space is big enough for me to grow anything. The other half is rocky ground from the mountain I dug into. Is there any way I can make it into soil that can support corn?

[Hoki]

not in vanilla.

modded you have access to planters that pretty much allow all plants (Vanilla furniture Expanded - farming) or different types of terraforming.

[Quill]

Hydroponics

[P O P]

Originally posted by Quill:

Hydroponics

Then I can't grow corn.

[whatamidoing]

Why specifically corn instead of rice?

[P O P]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Why specifically corn instead of rice?

Corn has a higher yield. I was growing rice with my old hydroponic basins and a full yield produced about 8 meals. Wasn't really worth it.

[whatamidoing]

Originally posted by P O P:

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Why specifically corn instead of rice?

Corn has a higher yield. I was growing rice with my old hydroponic basins and a full yield produced about 8 meals. Wasn't really worth it.

Rice grows significantly faster, though. It's more nutrition/day than corn in equivalent fertility.

[Geekbar Enthusiast]

i think there is fungal gravel that you can use to grow nutrifungus it only needs a pawn with a tunneler ideology so either build it yourself or look through raiders to see if their ideo has it and turn them into a slave so you can build some

[P O P]

Originally posted by P O P:

I got royalty and base game.

Don't have ideology.

[Wasted]

A powered hydroponics basin acts as a terrain with 280% soil fertility, twice that of rich soil. The exact speed boost depends on the Fertility Sensitivity of the plant in question. For example, rice gets the full 280% effect, while potatoes won't benefit nearly as much.

you can't grow corn in hydroponic basin. rice is best,

When it comes to growing food, consider the following:

Rice plants will provide the best crop yields. Lit with a sunlamp in optimal temperatures, a hydroponics basin will yield 24 Rice rice every 1.98 days, or 12.12 food per day (assuming a 100% mutiplier from difficulty). The exact amount may vary due to sowing and harvesting times, as well as external factors like power outages and solar flares. In spite of this, rice remains the crop with the greatest yield potential.

Strawberry plants provide the second highest crop yields, producing 32 Berries berries every 3.03 days (assuming a 100% mutiplier from difficulty) under a sunlamp and optimal temperatures. This works out to about 10.56 food per hydroponics basin per day. This is 87.13% of what a crop of hydroponic rice would yield in the same time-frame. However, berries have the advantage of being suitable for consumption immediately, without the need for cooking.

Potato plants are the least tile-efficient crop to grow. Their fertility sensitivity of 0.4 prevents them from gaining the full benefit from hydroponics. A hydroponics basin will yield 44 Potatoes potatoes every 6.23 days, or 7.08 food per day (assuming a 100% mutiplier from difficulty). That is only 58.42% of what a crop of hydroponic rice would yield the same time-frame, they are technically the most work-efficient crop in hydroponics, however. If you happen to be starved on grower time, then potatoes have a small niche – but a colony using hydroponics is unlikely to be starved on grower time.

Nutrifungus Content added by the Ideology DLC might be a viable option if your ideoligion Content added by the Ideology DLC prefers eating raw fungus. A hydroponics basin will yield 44 Raw fungus raw fungus every 8.72 days, or 5.04 food per day (assuming a 100% multiplier from difficulty). That is only 41.58% of what a crop of hydroponic rice would yield the same time-frame, but with a potential mood buff Content added by the Ideology DLC.

[MadArtillery]

If you want less labour cost for hydroponics do strawberries, very reasonable options. Rice is for maximum food production at the cost of maximum labor.

For outside of hydroponics do be aware corn takes forever to grow and is vulnerable to disruption and if I'm remembering right producing a bit less overall then rice would over the same time period. Hell of a lot less labour though.

[Jetstream]

Well if you don't mind to cheat a little, use dev mode, third tab, search box and write "terrain" then look for something like "set terrain rec" and then write "soil" and there you are you can create a zone of soil just like any zone(farming, dumping, and so on)inside of a mountain, just dig a zone big enough for your colony before doing anything, if you don't want to cheat this is a good option:

Originally posted by Hoki:

not in vanilla.

modded you have access to planters that pretty much allow all plants (Vanilla furniture Expanded - farming) or different types of terraforming.

[Baked.Bread]

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