¶ Bioreactor
The Bioreactor is a production chain building used for growing products into crops.
Crops in the Bioreactor are grown in fixed-length batches.
¶ Construction Supplies
1,400,000 kg Deionized Water
300,000 kg Fused Quartz
500,000 kg Cement
300,000 kg Soil
100,000 kg Steel Beam
300,000 kg Steel Sheet
25,000 kg Polypropylene
125,000 kg Pure Nitrogen
16 × Fluids Automation Module
12 × Solids Automation Module
3 × Avionics Module
8 × Power Module
¶ Construction Time
The Bioreactor requires a base 40 h to construct at 24× time acceleration. Bonuses and penalties can change this time. Transport time is additional.
¶ Available Actions
| Icon | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Manufacture Goods | Begin manufacturing organics into different products. |
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Deconstruct | Deconstruct the Factory. A Factory construction site is created and 90%+ of the construction supplies are returned, but rounded down to the nearest whole unit. |
¶ Batches
The Bioreactor is unique among production chain buildings in that its processes run in batches. Intuitively, it doesn’t matter whether you grow one potato or a whole field of them; it will still take a certain number of weeks for the potato(es) to grow. For the Bioreactor, this means that each Standard Recipe is a single batch of that crop. If a non-round-number of Standard Recipes are produced, the amount of time will round up to that for the next largest whole number of Standard Recipes. For example, growing 0.1, 0.5, and 1 Standard Recipes of a crop will all require the same amount of time, that required for one batch. As soon as 1.001 Standard Recipes are selected, the amount of time for two batches will be required.
¶ Guide
See the Bioreactor guide for detailed how-tos.
See the illustrated construction recipe for required inputs and base timing.
Browse the Bioreactor process recipes for illustrated inputs and outputs.