Biology Lab Help

[legoclone09]

I can get my best strains to 3.2 food but I can't get to the fabled 4. I saw a post somewhere about a good combination but I didn't understand it at the time. Can someone help me get a guide for it (im running out of clay/gypsum so i need help!)

[solzerogame]

There might be more than one way, I've seen a few people who intentionally keep the level of cyanobacteria (green) low as they mix - that way they can get larger amounts of the other four and only have a small sliver of green. The soil quality will still increase with a small amount of green, it will just increase a bit slower than with a full unit of green. But that's just a short-term delay, and once the soil quality is very good then it doesn't matter that there's only a bit of cyanobacteria.

But this has to be planned from the start - once the strain has a full unit of green (or any other color) it's harder to reduce it back down.

There might be other ways, but that's the method I've most commonly seen.

[legoclone09]

Ok, I'll try that.

[Some1xx]

There's some maths behind researching but I don't really understand it all.

This is my method:

G = Green
R = Red
B = Blue
P = Purple
Y = Yellow

First Stage is to make the strain that you will use a lot, it contains all four of the basic food production DNA.

R + B = RB
P + Y = PY

RB + PY = RBPY

When you have made this strain do NOT let it go under (2)!
This one is important and will be used to the end of making +4.
Make several of these now and/or when you only have two left by splicing them together.
* After making it, RB and PY are no longer needed they and can be deleted.


Second Stage is to add the one green so that you have a strain of that contains all five basic DNA.

RBPY + G = GRBPY

Third Stage is simply a loop:

Join the DNA with the four food producers with the newest strain that has the one green.

RBPY + GRBPYG = GR²B²P²Y²

Continue to add RBPY to the newest strain you make so that there is only ever one green and then one extra of the other four.
* When you make a new strain the previous one isn't needed anymore.
* The food production may go up, down or stay the same but it will eventually reach +4.0
* The number of times needed to do this may vary.

Once you have the +4.0 you are finished with the researching.
Keep splicing it with itself and DO NOT LET IT GO BELOW (2)!
If you lose this you will need to make another +4.0 strain.

All the rest go to the farms for +5 food.

As a tip for the BioLab, have at least two built in your colony but do not have them near each other. If you or a disaster destroys your only BioLab, all of the strains you have made are destroyed with it.

[martintallon]

At least the game has a color blind setting, be nice if posts had a key as to what colors are what chemicals for those of us who are color blind