Summary
The Planet Craftermerges aspects ofa survival gamewith a sci-fi crafting adventure centered on terraforming a strange planet. Players progress by unlocking blueprints and technologies, aiming to reduce and stop all tectonic activity, decrease the planet’s heat, and establish a sustainable ecosystem showcasing surface water, flora, and fauna. Depending on which starting location the player chooses, the game will range from being quite easy to almost impossible.
Terraforming is the main gameplay loop inThe Planet Crafter, which gives it a subtle twist compared to other basebuilding andcrafting games.Creating oxygento enable the establishment of a sustainable ecosystem is a major part of the terraforming process. The player has a number of options available to them for the production of oxygen, depending on which stage of the game they are in. These are the best approaches to take
Variations:
T3 Input/Output:
TheVegetubeis the first oxygen producing structure that a new player toThe Planet Crafterwill unlock. The T1 and T2 Vegetubes can be placed inside a building, but the T3 has to be placed outside.
Once placed, the player just needs to put a seed inside the Vegetube, and it will start producing oxygen if it has enough power. Most players will use Vegetubes in the early game, but switch over to a better form of oxygen production when it becomes feasible.
T2 Input/Output:
Even the T1 Algae Generator is a significant upgrade on the Vegetube as an oxygen-producing structure. However, there is a downside here. Unlike the T1 and T2, the T3 Vegetube can be placed outside, making it easy to build a base that has a large number of them, but allAlgae Generatorsneed to be placed outside.
The Alagae Generator is useful in that it also grows mushrooms, which are agood foodsourceand also a resource used in the more advanced food recipes.A good tipis that an Algae Grower can be used to produce oxygen, then switched over to growing mushrooms as needed.
Seed Spreadersare very much like an advanced Vegetube inThe Planet Crafter. The difference is, Seed Spreaders will continue propagating plants and flowers across an area, as long as the seeds don’t run out.
The amount of oxygen that a Seed Spreader will produce is determined by the type of seeds that the player loads into it. However, even the lowest rated seeds work better in a Seed Spreader than they do in a Vegetube. Many players replace Vegetubes with Seed Spreaders once they can afford the material cost, and have enough power to keep them running full-time, as there is almost no downside to making the change.
TheTree Spreaderis the best of all the seed-based single construction stations. It produces a huge amount of oxygen, but also takes a lot of power to run. However, by the mid- to late-game,The Planet Crafterplayers should find that providing enough power is a easy-to-overcome challenge.
The amount of oxygen that the Tree Spreader puts out will depend on thetype oftree seedsthe player puts into it. As long as it has power and seeds, it will propagate seeds across a wide area. Using a Tree Spreader is the only viable option for creating vast forests, which will produce oxygen for the rest of a playthrough.
Mass Propagation Of Large Areas
Required materials:
In the late game,The Planet Crafterenables playersto load a rocketwith a large amount of seeds, which will then be shot into the atmosphere, and open up to disperse the seeds across a very wide area.
However, the actual launch platform needed to fire the rocket off takes a huge area of the player’s base to build.Seed Spreader Rocketsare useful for giving a rapid boost to the planet’s oxygen, but the more sustainable options are generally better in the long run.
InThe Planet Crafter, aBiodomeis an indoor ecosystem that can be used to plant numerous flowers and plants. These structures can be connected to others, such as a living area. A door will need to be constructed in the side of the Biodome to access it.
Although Biodomes don’t give out a huge volume of oxygen, the amount they do provide is completely sustainable and will continue permanently once the Biodome has been populated with flora. This is very much an end-gamestructure for terraforming, and is generally used to fine tune and sustain the amount of oxygen in an already mostly terraformed environment. However, in terms of the best ways to produce oxygen, there is no better option inThe Planet Crafter.
