Thread by @GeePawHill

ONI: I think I've decided on the food chain of my permaculture plan: frost burgers. Here's my reasoning.

1) I have 16 dups, one bottomless stomach. I have a water geyser & two AETN's.

2) If we go with pip-planted, drop-harvested plants, that's just 35 wheats and 12 waterweeds.

3) Like most terras, I have effectively infinite water, which means infinite hydrogen, which means infinite AETN to keep the wheat cold.

4) For the meat, I already have enough stabled hatches to feed all the dups barbecue, and I will likely always want them, for coal, but even if not, shove vole ranches are de rigeur when crack space because of the regolith.

5) Frost burgers are the highest quality food. They *do* have a -2 athletics buff, which lasts for 2 cyles, so -4. Ack!!

Except. My newest dupe is already at athletics 9, and we're going perma here, they'll all eventually be at 20. An effective athletics of 16 is no problem.

6) I was really tempted by pepper bread, which has no de-buff and for most dups no morale difference from frost burgers, but there the wild drop-harvested requirement is *huge*: 175 wheats.

<sigh>

Well, my goodness, making dirt in an ice biome was certainly a learning experience.

Bouncing back to c226 save, equipped with my tremendous new knowledge. :)

Pro-tip: Don't bother making dirt in an ice biome. Just use the door-destruction method and settle for copper. Melting algae/slime in the ice biome takes way way more trouble, no matter how neat it looks, and copper or iron will work just as well.

No big about the learning, but having to bounce 50 cycles backwards sucks. When will I learn to save every 20-30?!?