Easy Bristle Blossom Set-up

[cyboogie king]

I've seen a lot of people use very complicated setups for their Bristle Blossom plants, even though barely anyone uses those since Mealwood is easily abused, but the Bristle Blossom is a very crucial ingredient in making high-quality food.

Requirements: Room 12 x 5 (length times height)
Insulated tile surrounding the room
Mechanized or manual airlock for entrance on the LEFT side
Wheeze wort in a plant pot in each END of the room (2)
Space heater by the Wheeze wort on the left side
Space heater is connected by thermal switch on the heater's right
Set thermal switch to below 8 degrees Celcius. (46.4 Fahrenheit)
Cover the rest of the five spaces with planter boxes (MUST BE THE STAND UP ONES, NOT TILES)
Plant Bristle Blossoms and put a ceiling light in the middle of the plants (3rd plant)

There you go! This can be done anywhere, it does not need to be done in the Ice biome, you can even do it in your base!


Although it is only 5 Bristle Blossoms, this system can be easily replicated for more rooms.

[cyboogie king]

I call it, The Bristle Suites.

[RonEmpire]

food quality really doesnt matter much. their stress level can just simply be managed by massage table.

i realized after playing that its more of a down time sink and waste of resources farming these things.

1. cost energy with your methods having to produce electrcity.

2. consumes way too much water, and the time and effort for your guys to deliver them.


if you insist on farming these. I would just simply use the portal as the light source. use airtiles above the portal to make platform. and put platter boxes there. put a wort around. when it gets too cold just uproot the wort and store the seed, and replant the wort. again saves you from using a heater/energy for no reason.

it's actually just better to find bloosm growin in the wild. (no water consumption) and use shine bugs to trap them around the plant that is in the wild.

[cyboogie king]

What is the "portal." Where is it located?

[PhailRaptor]

Originally posted by De_Captain:

What is the "portal." Where is it located?

The Printing Pod, from which new Duplicates arrive. People call it a portal due to it's appearance and animations.

[L37]

Wheezeworts are rare and limited, using 2 for each 5 plants (which are enough for how much dupes, 1?) is terrible waste. Also berries use a lot of water, i'd say too much to be sustainable, even with geyser. And then power and space requirements... IMO it is not viable at all...
If you want good quality and relatively easy food - use mushrooms.

[RonEmpire]

no. once you cool the area. you can actually remove all the worts and leave one.

reason i use those many is to speed up the process.

and honestly by time you find all the worts, you will have more than you actually need.

[cyboogie king]

Yeah, all you need is 1 wheezewort to maintain the temperature after you cooled the room to around 10 degrees celcius. Use the other recycled wheezeworts to make new rooms.

[Cryten]

Its the water requirement thats the killer. Its a late game luxery, otherwise its a resource trap.

[cyboogie king]

My steam geyser water would overflow and now I have something to keep the water at a regular level, my water-thirsty plants.

[kagemusharanger]

I'm a noob and honestly for a very common plant, this plant seemed to be very needy from the get go and those things would only be available after hours of researching. Is the plant worth it?

[PhailRaptor]

Originally posted by kagemusharanger:

I'm a noob and honestly for a very common plant, this plant seemed to be very needy from the get go and those things would only be available after hours of researching. Is the plant worth it?

Currently all food sources other than Mealwood are very weak. Mealwood is easy to grow en masse, as it needs no fertilzer or watering, and it matures in only 3 cycles. It takes 3.5 plants to sustain a single Dupe, which also makes it fairly space efficient to sustain a large group. If you feel the need, and have the excess H2O to spare, it is easy to cook into a food that doubles it's calorie content, further reducing the quantity required to sustain a large group. And the only penalty is, like, 5% Stress per cycle or some such as your Dupes get to a high enough level (not early). This small negative is countered completely by using the new Room mechanic to close in the Latrine or the Mess Hall (both provide Stress relief).

Any food source other than Mealwood is just a late game hobby once you've "won" already. I'm about to hit cycle 1,000 and I have yet to even attempt to grow anything else.

[L37]

Mushrooms are pretty nice too. They require no water, have easy temperature range, require CO2 atmosphere and use slime as fertilizer. The only disadvantage is time spent to bring those slime. As nice bonus, room pressurized with CO2 (which is trivially easy to do with natural gas generators conviniently outputting it into pipe) solves storage issue too (just leave it on the floor, it will not spoil).

As for berries... IMO too much hassle. Yes, combined with peppers it produces the best food in game, but even ignoring all other difficulties it requires far too much water to be viable, unless you have multiple geysers or very small colony. Even if food quality actually ment something berries would not be viable as the only food source...

[Strike Force Q]

Lol trying this 3 steam geysers and a polluted water geyser, water will not be a problem

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by PhailRaptor:

Mealwood is easy to grow en masse, as it needs no fertilzer or watering, and it matures in only 3 cycles.

I guess you will be unpleasantly surprised, when at some point you will run out of dirt and then no mealwood for you ;-)

[Cryten]

Dudes, look at when this post was created.