Biochamber

Biochamber

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Recipe
20 + 5 + 20 + 1 + 5 + 1 → 1
Total raw
23.75 + 7.5 + 25 + 1 + 5 + 1
Map color
Health	300 390 480 570 750
Stack size	20
Rocket capacity	20
Dimensions	3×3
Energy consumption	500 kW (nutrients)
Crafting speed	2 2.6 3.2 3.8 5
Mining time	0.1
Base productivity	50%
Pollution	-1/m
Crafted only on
Module slots	4 slots
Prototype type	assembling-machine
Internal name	biochamber
Required technologies
Produced by
Valid fuel

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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

The Biochamber is a biological variant of the assembly machine and chemical plant, unlocked on Gleba. Unlike most other production buildings, it does not require electricity, but rather a steady supply of nutrients to operate. It has a built-in 50% productivity bonus.

One nutrients item will power a biochamber for 4 seconds. This can be reduced by Efficiency modules or increased by other modules, in exactly the same way as other machines.

An inactive biochamber uses no energy, but nutrients contained in its fuel slot continue to spoil, so an inactive biochamber will consume about one nutrient every five minutes if there are active inserters.

The biochamber won't work if there is too much spoil in its spoil slot (generated from spoiled nutrients), so outputing inserters will remove any spoil from inside the biochamber that is generated from spoiled nutrients. It is recommended to have one inserter filtered to only take spoil and another filtered to take out the recipe result or otherwise use a filtered splitter to control where the spoil goes.

Recipes

These recipes are exclusive to biochambers:

• Nutrients from yumako mash and Nutrients from bioflux
• Pentapod egg only on Gleba
• Iron bacteria cultivation and copper bacteria cultivation only on Gleba
• Bioflux
• Carbon fiber
• Agricultural science pack

These recipes are exclusive to biochamber, but the same items can be made by alternative recipes:

• Rocket fuel from jelly
• Biolubricant
• Bioplastic
• Biosulfur
• Burnt spoilage

These recipes can be used either by the biochamber or by other machines, but can benefit from the biochamber's 50% productivity:

• Biochamber only on Gleba
• Heavy oil cracking to light oil, light oil cracking to petroleum gas, and rocket fuel
• Yumako processing and jellynut processing
• Nutrients from spoilage
• Iron bacteria and copper bacteria only on Gleba
• Wood processing only on Nauvis
• Fish breeding only on Nauvis
• Nutrients from fish
• Nutrients from biter egg

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.

See also

• Gleba
• Crafting