A Nature Reserve in the middle of your base?

Yes, it is possible. No need for an extra room, even, my access shaft doubles as a nature reserve. Here's how.

What you need

1. Pips
2. Seeds
3. A base designed to fit it (sorry, you might have to restart to do it right).

The basic setup you're looking at is a vertical shaft through your base, consisting of 5 block high and 8 block wide modules.

First and eigth column consists of two doors and two blocks of wall above. In front of the doors, you have to leave one block of natural soil, then leave a block empty (fill it with an airflow tile as soon as you research it), with the two center blocks consisting of a ladder and a pole to allow your duplicants to climb up and down.

Every single one of those modules has a total of 24 blocks, meaning that if you stack 5 of them on top of each other, you're looking at a total of 24*5=120 plus 4*2 blocks for the blocks between them. So we're 8 blocks too large. Just fill 8 blocks at the top of the rooms with more solid blocks and you're down to 118.

Now all you need is some Pips to bury some seeds in the natural blocks you left. You can easily get them from the printing pod, sometimes you get pip eggs or young pips offered. Take them (do NOT capture and release them! That makes them tame and you'll have to feed them), just open the doors from the printing pod to the shaft you want them to seed, put a storage bin with seeds in them into the nature-reserve-to-be and wait for the Pips to plant seeds.

The shaft looks something like this:



My suggestion is to put mostly Thimble Reeds, Oxyferns and other seeds into the storage bin that you can get some benefit out of (and that grow in the base).

Now all that's missing is a park sign and you can easily cash in a +6 morale bonus without having to break the bank.

As you can see, the layout of the base will probably not allow you to have a natural block in front of every door, but all you need is 4 such spots in front of a total of 10 doors.

[Darael]

I realise I'm late to this, but…

"(do NOT capture and release them! That makes them tame and you'll have to feed them)"

Just for reference, this is not and has never been true (not even in 2020 when the guide was written). The only thing that tames pips is if your dupes groom them repeatedly. The same is true of all critters except Pacu (which are tamed by eating from Fish Feeders). It is perfectly safe to relocate wild Pips by wrangling them and using Critter Drop-Offs, so long as they are never put into a Ranch where they'll be groomed.

[GavinPlayz]

please tell me that you cant go left through the left bathroom door

[aKa_Me (de)]

i always build to nature reservelike:
Infront of the great hall or infront of the washing room. So all dupes go threw it every cycle. If i have enough place, also place a recreation room in the same place.

[Fly]

Because the 4 washing sinks right of them are behind the tooltip window.

[BeasteBeat]

why is your bathroom only lavratories

[途安]

Why not put it in the stairwell

[thatguy]

Worked like a charm but made it 4x4 blocks per level, so covering 4 floors at a time per nature reserve.

[Wonderboy]

@asdlars I know this is a long shot, but could you re-upload that screenshot from img so I can see the buildings you're using? I can't figure out what you have that's right beneath your Gas Range.

[ruslanbes]

Another hint - put it right in front of your Atmo-suit room

[Bread Climp]

I've been abusing this for a long time, you can keep scaling it throughout your base [i.imgur.com] and after the pips are done planting just use the rest of the space with statues, deodorizers, etc. although I'd say that if you are going with the 6 columns wide parks maybe leave one of the columns open for tubes. In any case this should be nerfed, a constant +6 morale bonus is constant overjoy.