Lawn Mowers!

[jkernitzki]

To further automate biomass processing with the addition of beltable biomass burners, add either a new vehicle or attachment to existing ones to harvest bushes, trees, etc. that could be sent out to deforest, store, and deliver to the biomass storage. Pathing could be a challenge, but patterns in a bounded area might make the most sense.

[Man's Best Friend]

As vegetation does not regrow, and is honestly such a limited early game thing, it hardly seems worth it. Especially with how feeding generators can now be automated. There's no need to automate it further. All you need is two or three containers, and a few constructors. Hand sort your biomass into leaves, wood, and optionally animal remains, each goes through a constructor to turn it into generic biomass, then another to turn it into solid biomass, and then belts to distribute it to your biomass burners.

Introducing a whole system just to clear cut areas for biomass is needless complications.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

I clear cut areas of biomass with a nuclear nuke :D ^_^

[Maehlice]

What we need is some kind of mob farm that spawns and drops Hogs from a substantial enough height to kill them. Even better if we could harvest the drops automatically into containers for full Bio automation.

/s

(The whole idea of thinking we need belt fed biomass burners is f*cking stupid in the first place.)

[Zak]

Originally posted by Maehlice:

(The whole idea of thinking we need belt fed biomass burners is f*cking stupid in the first place.)

Yes. I also believe this was a solution that was looking for a problem. Bio burners were an early game challenge, not even that hard. They were finite, non-automated power source that was meant to kickstart you and nudge you toward infinite, automated power.

Now, we have a finite but automated power source. People will be now building out, sticking to wood burners for too long, and be complaining that they spend too much time collecting wood or they will run out of wood altogether. This will create more moaning and whining. Getting to coal was not hard.

So naturally, they will now cry out and want automated wood collectors.

[mackster]

useful for a minute or two, in the rush for coal power. I dont even use foundations so much in the beginning, its all just messy spaghetti!

As soon as coal is here, its then I start to think automation and better factory design. Tho not worrying about filling up the bio gens would be a small time saver at least

[Lawn-Mower]

There can be only one.

[Flash✪Gordon]

Funny. I just wanted to write that. No kidding.

[jkernitzki]

The current state of biomass does limit it to early-game usefulness, but I think it's a waste of a mechanic that could be "grown" to future uses. For example, even after you've progressed beyond coal power, coal still has continuing value as an ore. No real reason biomass couldn't be repurposed for other mid- to late-game recipes. Just my $.02.

Originally posted by Lawn-Mower:

There can be only one.

Truer words have never been spoken.

[Zak]

Originally posted by jkernitzki:

No real reason biomass couldn't be repurposed for other mid- to late-game recipes. Just my $.02.

Biomass->Solid Fuel is still useful as vehicle fuel long after one switched to coal for power. It's just that prolonging the use of biomass as the main factory power source is pointless.

[The Big Brzezinski]

I used to keep my remaining solid biofuel for my personal ride. Now I pretty much always explore by building a series of lookout towers and sticking a line of power lines on top of them. This gives me a permanent zipline route with zero respect for terrain as well as extending my power grid towards whatever resource ping I'm chasing.

Most of my remaining biofuel, minus a stack or two for my chainsaw, now goes into the sink once I have coal running.