Hydroponic Farm

Hydroponic Farm
Grows one Plant from a Seed. Can be used as floor tile and rotated before construction.
Must be irrigated through Liquid Piping. Hydroponic farms reduce Duplicant traffic by automating irrigating crops.
Research	Agriculture (Research)
Dimensions	1×1 tiles
Rotation	Turnable
Category	Food
Decor	-5 (Radius: 1 tile)
Piping	Input: Liquid Intake
Storage Capacity	Liquid 5 kg
Effects	Plant Domestication
Materials
Metal Ore	100 kg

Hydroponic Farm grows a single plant when sown with a seed. It can be used as floor tile and rotated (upside-down) before construction.

Usage

Hydroponic Farms allow liquid delivery for irrigation. Following plants are recommended to be planted with Hydroponic Farm:

• Bristle Blossom, Sleet Wheat and Oxyfern use Water.
• Waterweed uses Salt Water.
• Nosh Sprout uses Ethanol.
• Pincha Pepper uses Polluted Water and shall be planted downward.
• Arbor Tree and Thimble Reed use Polluted Water.
• Gas Grass uses Liquid Chlorine.

Supplying wrong Liquid will stifle the plant growth until the Hydroponic Farm is emptied.

Tips

See Farm Tile for tips; Hydroponic Farms is just a pipe-able version of Farm Tile.

• Irrigation (liquid delivery) is automated by Hydroponic Farm, but fertilization (solid delivery) will still need to be supplied by Duplicants.
  • It can be further automated by Auto-Sweeper.
• Make sure duplicants can reach the farm tile either from above or below; duplicants cannot reach Pincha Pepper hanging installations from below without help if the room height is four or higher.

History

• U47-561558: Plants wilting in a Hydroponic farm tile show a unique status item when their storage is saturated with the wrong irrigation liquid.

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