Biomass

Biomass
Primarily used as fuel. Biomass Burners and vehicles can use it for power. Biomass is much more energy efficient than raw biological matter.
Unlocked at	Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6
Blueprint path	/Game/FactoryGame/Resource/Parts/GenericBiomass/Desc_GenericBiomass.Desc_GenericBiomass_C
Item
Stack size	200
Sink value	12
Fuel
Energy	180 MJ
Stack energy	36 000 MJ
6s in Biomass Burner 3.273s in Tractor 2.4s in Truck 2s in Explorer 1.2s in Cyber Wagon

Biomass is a fuel item produced from various forms of biomass items such as  Leaves,  Wood,  Mycelia or  Alien Protein. It is used to fuel the Biomass Burner and vehicles, providing significantly more energy than Leaves but less than  Solid Biofuel. It is also the building material for U-Jelly Landing Pads.

For conversion rates, see Biomass Burner § Conversion.

Obtaining

Unlocking

Biomass (Mycelia) is unlocked via the Mycelia Research chain in the MAM using:

5

Biomass (Alien Protein) is unlocked via the Alien Organisms Research chain in the MAM using:

5

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Biomass (Leaves)	10 × Leaves 120 / min												Constructor 5 sec × 1	5 × Biomass 60 / min 4 MJ/item		Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6
Biomass (Wood)	4 × Wood 60 / min												Constructor 4 sec × 2	20 × Biomass 300 / min 0.8 MJ/item		Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6
Biomass (Mycelia)	10 × Mycelia 150 / min												Constructor 4 sec × 1	10 × Biomass 150 / min 1.6 MJ/item		Mycelia Research - Mycelia
Biomass (Alien Protein)	1 × Alien Protein 15 / min												Constructor 4 sec × 2	100 × Biomass 1500 / min 0.16 MJ/item		Alien Organisms - Bio-Organic Properties

Usage

Research

 Biomass is used in the Mycelia Research chain in the MAM for additional unlocks.

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Fabric	1 × Mycelia 15 / min						5 × Biomass 75 / min						Assembler 4 sec × 2	1 × Fabric 15 / min 60 MJ/item		Mycelia Research - Fabric
Gas Nobelisk	1 × Nobelisk 5 / min						10 × Biomass 50 / min						Assembler 12 sec	1 × Gas Nobelisk 5 / min 180 MJ/item		Mycelia Research - Toxic Cellular Modification
Solid Biofuel	8 × Biomass 120 / min												Constructor 4 sec × 10	4 × Solid Biofuel 60 / min 4 MJ/item		Tier 2 - Obstacle Clearing
Biocoal Alternate	5 × Biomass 37.5 / min												Constructor 8 sec	6 × Coal 45 / min 5.33 MJ/item		Tier 3 - Coal Power
U-Jelly Landing Pad	2 × Rotor						20 × Cable						Build Gun	1 × U-Jelly Landing Pad		Tier 2 - Jump Pads
	200 × Biomass

AWESOME Sink

 Biomass can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 12 points.

Trivia

• Over-harvest of biomass in the game has significant impact on the game performance, and more noticeable on client side. Biomass can be refer to any trees chopped down, any flower or bushes picked up, including small rocks and stones that can be destroyed. The game stores the complete map including all trees and others as the "default" state. For every single entity removed from the environment, the game has to save the additional information for that removal.
  • For example, if 100 trees are chopped down, then the map state will be stated as "Default map with all trees + tree 1 chopped down + tree 2 chopped down + ... + tree 100 chopped down".
  • For client side, ghost trees can often be seen, because the default map is loaded first, and the data with tree removal can take some time to load. And for client side, the stats of environment is not updated until the client interact with it.

History

• Patch 0.6.0.0:
  • Introduced Alien Protein recipe
  • Removed Alien Carapace and Alien Organs recipes
• Patch 0.3.2.0: Minor switch in the Alien Organisms research tree, the second research now consistently unlocks Biomass recipes
• Patch 0.1.5: Fabric recipe now requires Biomass instead of Leaves
• Patch Closed Alpha 3: Updated Biomass description to show that it is more energy-efficient than unprocessed resources
• Patch Closed Alpha 2.1: Increased wood, biomass, and biofuel energy by roughly 30%
• Patch 2018-10-17: Biomass overhaul

See also

•  Solid Biofuel