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	30 MW
Fuel	Leaves, Flower Petals, Wood, Mycelia, Biomass, Solid Biofuel, Alien Carapace, Alien Organs, Fabric, Packaged Liquid Biofuel
Overclockable	Yes
Inputs	0
Outputs	0
Dimensions
Width	8 m
Length	8 m
Height	7 m
Crafting
Ingredients
15 15 25
Resources breakdown [Expand] 15 ×  Iron Plate 23 ×  Iron Ingot 23 ×  Iron Ore 15 ×  Iron Rod 15 ×  Iron Ingot 15 ×  Iron Ore 25 ×  Wire 13 ×  Copper Ingot 13 ×  Copper Ore Total Base Ingredients 38 ×  Iron Ore 13 ×  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 and fauna found in the world. Later these raw materials can be refined into Biomass and Solid Biofuel for higher fuel efficiency.

The HUB can have two (small) Biomass Burners attached to 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 30MW of power (1 Biomass Burner at 100% load) for 0.033 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 Organs	250	50	12500	12.5	625
Alien Carapace	250	50	12500	12.5	625
Solid Biofuel	450	200	90000	15	3000
Liquid Biofuel	750	0	0	1	0
Packaged Liquid Biofuel	750	100	75000

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 Fuel	Output Energy	Energy Multiplier
10 × Leaves	150	5 × Biomass	600	4
4 × Wood	400	20 × Biomass	2400	6
10 × Mycelia	200	10 × Biomass	1200	6
1 × Alien Carapace	250	100 × Biomass	12,000	48
1 × Alien Organs	250	200 × Biomass	24,000	96
8 × Biomass	960	4 × Solid Biofuel	1800	1.875

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.
• The are ways to regenerate biomass though, by farming loots from hostile creatures which respawn over time, or from a makeshift farm of Lizard Doggos.
• 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.