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 any nutrients contained in its fuel slot continue to spoil. As such, an inactive biochamber will still have nutrients inserted into them if nutrients are available.

The biochamber, like any machine, will not function if there are too many items in its trash slots (usually generated from an input or output spoiling). Unfiltered output inserters will remove items from trash slots. It is recommended to have one inserter dedicated to removing spoil products and another filtered to take out the recipe result. Alternatively, the belt the items are going into can have a filtered splitter to separate the desired product from the undesired product.

The biochamber has the unique property of having negative pollution. This means that, if you use the biochamber on Nauvis, it will absorb pollution. Furthermore, modules that affect pollution (by increasing energy consumption or directly) will make the negative value larger. So heavy use of biochambers with productivity modules and speed modules in beacons can lead to substantial pollution absorption.

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