Meal Lice auto compost

[Storm]

Hi,

I've recently uprooted all my mealwood plants and removed the meal lice from my storage area. I then proceeded to mark all the meal lice for compost.

I still have a few wild mealwood plants around my base area but the compost heap doesn't allow me to mark what it must compost.

How can I get it so they'll auto compost muckroot and meal lice please?

Thanks!

[Hedning]

What I do is I have a critter feeder in my pokeshell pen where I bring the meal lice (other critters work too). This is full of oxygen so the meal lice rots and turns into rot which the pokeshells can eat.

I don't use composts for anything. I agree they should be buffed to have options like a storage compactor would, including "sweep only" setting.

[Storm]

Ah ok, thanks for the info. So I take it it's an early game thing or do you just not use them ever? If so, what do you use?

[Hedning]

I never use them. Polluted dirt will offgas into polluted o2 if left alone, then converted into pure o2 by a deodorizer. Pokeshells are my preferred method though because they produce lime which turns into steel. You can never have too much steel. Not that the meal lice will feed a lot of pokeshells, but since I have them already this is where I bring it.

[Storm]

Hmm, that sounds like a plan, do you get the dirt back or do you lose that? I'm assuming you don't? Also, do you place the dirt into a normal storage container or where do you place it?

Appreciate the info.

[Hedning]

No, the polluted dirt turns into polluted o2 mass for mas, there is nothing else. However even if you don't care about the o2 you also get some clay. Also if you compost the dirt it will be hot, so it's not good dirt anyway.

In the very beginning when I have outhouses I let it sit on the ground. The ground is just as good a storage area as a bin, but with the benefit of not requiring a dupe to move it.

When I have shipping I ship it to my pokeshells. In general you do not want your dupes to handle the polluted dirt because then you must add sinks on both ends (both after collection and delivery) or let your dupes risk food poisoning since the dirt from the bathroom sieve have germs in it. I have not done anything other than pokeshells since pokeshells were released.

If you have sieves all over the place and don't want to spend on shipping rails I recommend putting the storage bin by the sieve that does the bathroom water since the others are less likely to have germs.

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by Storm:

Hmm, that sounds like a plan, do you get the dirt back or do you lose that? I'm assuming you don't? Also, do you place the dirt into a normal storage container or where do you place it?

Appreciate the info.

but it in storage bins that are submerged or in high pressure

[Storm]

Ah, thanks for all this, very interesting indeed.

One last question if you don't mind. When do you push for the pokeshells? Early, late early, mid, late mid?

[Storm]

Originally posted by believer in prawn:

Originally posted by Storm:

Hmm, that sounds like a plan, do you get the dirt back or do you lose that? I'm assuming you don't? Also, do you place the dirt into a normal storage container or where do you place it?

Appreciate the info.

but it in storage bins that are submerged or in high pressure

What does the submerging or high pressure do please?

[Hedning]

Submerging prevents it from offgasing so it sits there and takes up space forever or until you find some other use for it.

[Hedning]

What is considered early, mid and late game is different for different people. I set it up fairly early. You can even start with wild pokeshells, just wrangle and move them into your waste room. They won't produce more lime than they would otherwise, but you are getting rid of your waste.

[TasteDasRainbow]

Yeah I like to start pokeshell fairly early (as reasonably as metal constraints allow) to get a pokeshell stable up, but I also find myself delaying it occasionally until I have a solid food supply that might provide rotten food. Otherwise it can be best to leave them wild and simply pick up the molting until you have said supply. I just know that lime can often become the bottleneck for steel production. The other hand however being that any general critter ranching will provide eggshells to help in this regard, so pokeshells aren't all that critical but they make for nice recycling.

[Storm]

ah cool, thanks everyone. How do you get around the Pokeshell Egg aggression problem early game?

[Dracuras]

Set up a container in a small room for hatching purposes, snatch the egg away from them and they'll chill out. Once the egg is deposited in the bin you can just empty the bin and let the egg sit till it hatches, then wrangle the baby pokeshell to send it back to the other room.

[Storm]

Originally posted by Dracuras:

Set up a container in a small room for hatching purposes, snatch the egg away from them and they'll chill out. Once the egg is deposited in the bin you can just empty the bin and let the egg sit till it hatches, then wrangle the baby pokeshell to send it back to the other room.

I'm assuming you're referring to that arm thing to do the snatching or what?

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Storm:

Originally posted by Dracuras:

Set up a container in a small room for hatching purposes, snatch the egg away from them and they'll chill out. Once the egg is deposited in the bin you can just empty the bin and let the egg sit till it hatches, then wrangle the baby pokeshell to send it back to the other room.

I'm assuming you're referring to that arm thing to do the snatching or what?

Nah a dupe can just walk up and take it and they'll stop being aggressive immediately after it's grabbed.
If you're constantly getting attacked while trying to liberate the eggs from them, you could build the stable so that dupe climb down into it to groom them and make a ladder scaffold above it so dupes can grab the eggs without going down to ground level.