seaweed farm and plastic maker

[Operation40]

seaweed farm foundation block - needs contact with the water, grows collectable seaweed

plastic factory - turns vine goo into plastic. maybe make this a mill *and* require wood fuel, suggesting alot of energy required. so you have to be moving and burning to produce.

I do realize seaweed and plastic can be gathered easily.. these would be neat late game items, imo..

[CrunchyKiwi]

seaweed maker sounds okay. but yea plastic is so easy to get start or late game i think we don't need a plastic factory item.

[Operation40]

you could say the same about planks, but we can grow trees :) so why not "grow" plastic (via seaweed farm -> goo -> plastic )

[MechWarden]

It would be interesting looking to see seaweed growing upside down from under the raft, but I don't think that's how they work. Having planter boxes that are mounted well under the raft seems risky as well.

I'm not sure how you'd go about making plastic. Granted, you can make circuit boards in-game but that's more for getting to the plot easier. Plastic is quite involved, and requires a lot of processing.

About the only thing I can think of, given the supposed in-game story setting, is that the player loots some kind of special plastic producing algae or something. You get some kind of sludge from it, which can be turned into plastic with a bit of simple refinement.

[Operation40]

farmed seaweed doesn't have to look the same as natural seaweed (you only harvest a small part of it, anyway). I think it could look similar to collection nets and you just loot from it..
http://cdn.nocamels.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/seaweed.jpg

Originally posted by MechWarden:

loots some kind of special plastic producing algae or something.

like seaweed?

Originally posted by MechWarden:

You get some kind of sludge from it,

like vine goo?

Originally posted by MechWarden:

which can be turned into plastic with a bit of simple refinement.

like the plastic maker i suggested? lol..

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Operation40:

farmed seaweed doesn't have to look the same as natural seaweed (you only harvest a small part of it, anyway). I think it could look similar to collection nets and you just loot from it..
http://cdn.nocamels.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/seaweed.jpg

Originally posted by MechWarden:

loots some kind of special plastic producing algae or something.

like seaweed?

Originally posted by MechWarden:

You get some kind of sludge from it,

like vine goo?

Originally posted by MechWarden:

which can be turned into plastic with a bit of simple refinement.

like the plastic maker i suggested? lol..

I knew what you were getting at earlier, and was indirectly saying "no" to the vine goo = plastic idea. Vine goo is used more like a glue than any sort of structural plastic material anyway.

Having a tank of genetically modified algae that makes a plastic-like material, which is found in one of those structures, would be more interesting in the game setting than turning a rare resource into a really common resource.

[Operation40]

Yes.. I got that lol.. you said "no" (for what that's worth),

and my belabored quoting style was indirectly saying that you just re-stated my idea with a different resource chain. i'm not convinced it needs a new resource chain...

[ZzCanonBull]

Use glass to make an aquarium...you can farm seaweed or fish...like trees