Biomass Burner

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Biomass Burner
Burns various forms of biomass to generate electricity for the power grid. Has no input and must therefore be fed biomass manually.
Building
Category	Power
Subcategory	Generators
Unlocks at	Tier 0
Operation
Power Generated	20 MW
Fuel	Leaves, Vines, Wood, Mycelia, Biomass, Biofuel, Alien Carapace, Alien Organs, Fabric
Overclockable	Yes
Inputs	0
Outputs	0
Dimensions
Width	8m
Length	8m
Height	7m
Crafting
Ingredients
10 10 15
Resources breakdown [Expand] 10 ×  Iron Plate 20 ×  Iron Ingot 20 ×  Iron Ore 10 ×  Iron Rod 10 ×  Iron Ingot 10 ×  Iron Ore 15 ×  Wire 5 ×  Copper Ingot 5 ×  Copper Ore Total Base Ingredients 30 ×  Iron Ore 5 ×  Copper Ore

“	A factory needs power, and power needs a generator. In comes the biomass generator, cleaning up your lawn and building a better world in one fell swoop!	„
	~ Caterina Parks's assistant Steve

The Biomass Burner is an early Power generator that uses organic material as fuel. These materials can be gathered from trees, shrubs, and most flora seen in the world. Later these raw materials can be refined into Biomass and Biofuel for more fuel efficiency.

The HUB can have two (small) Biomass Burners attached onto it — one for completing each of these Tier 0 Milestones: "Hub Upgrade 1" and "Hub Upgrade 4".

Fuel energy values

Energy is given in MJ. 1MJ provides 1MW of power for 1 second, or 20MW of power (1 Biomass Burner at 100% load) for 0.05 seconds.

Fuel Type	Energy (MJ)	Stack size	Energy/stack (MJ)	Burn time (s)	Burn time/stack (s)
Fabric	15	100	1500	0.75	75
Leaves	15	500	7500	0.75	375
Mycelia	20	200	4000	1	200
Vines	35	200	7000	1.75	350
Wood	100	100	10000	5	500
Flower Petals	100	200	20000	5	1000
Biomass	120	200	24000	6	1200
Alien Carapace	250	50	12500	12.5	625
Alien Organs	250	50	12500	12.5	625
Biofuel	300	200	60000	15	3000

Conversion

Most fuel types can be crafted into a higher tier fuel type, increasing their Energy.

• Input Energy: refers to the total energy of the items that go into one crafting process
• Output Energy: refers to the total energy of the items that come out of one crafting process
• Energy Multiplier: How much energy you gain by crafting it into the next tier item.

Fuel Type	Input Energy	Output Energy	Energy Multiplier
Leaves	150	720	4.8
Wood	500	3000	6
Mycelia	250	1200	6
Alien Carapace	250	12,000	48
Biomass	450	600	1.25

Trivia

• The biomass burner, like all power generating buildings, behaves differently to other buildings when overclocked. See Clock Speed for more info.
• Since the game map is hand-made there is a limited amount of biomass available on the map, meaning that with enough determination you could run out of fuel to put in these generators.
• In the early game, around 6 to 10 biomass burners should be sufficient until the coal power is unlocked, if the player did not overbuild.