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 by	MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Bio-Organic Properties OR MAM Mycelia Research - Mycelia OR Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6
Class name	Desc_GenericBiomass_C
Item
Stack size	200
Sink points	12
Fuel
Energy	180 MJ
Stack energy	36,000 MJ
Biomass Burner 6 sec (10 / min)
Truck 2.4 sec (25 / min)
Tractor 3.27273 sec (18.33333 / min)
Explorer 2 sec (30 / min)
Cyber Wagon 1.2 sec (50 / min)

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	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Biomass (Alien Protein)	1 × Alien Protein15 / min	Constructor 4 sec Craft Bench  × 2	100 × Biomass1,500 / min	MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Bio-Organic Properties
Biomass (Leaves)	10 × Leaves120 / min	Constructor 5 sec Craft Bench  × 1	5 × Biomass60 / min	Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6
Biomass (Mycelia)	1 × Mycelia15 / min	Constructor 4 sec Craft Bench  × 1	10 × Biomass150 / min	MAM Mycelia Research - Mycelia
Biomass (Wood)	4 × Wood60 / min	Constructor 4 sec Craft Bench  × 2	20 × Biomass300 / min	Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6

AWESOME Shop

Name	Cost	Contents
Biomass	1	200x  Biomass

Usage

Research

 Biomass is used for research in the Mycelia Research chain in the MAM.

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Fabric	1 × Mycelia15 / min 5 × Biomass75 / min	Assembler 4 sec Craft Bench  × 2	1 × Fabric15 / min	MAM Mycelia Research - Fabric
Gas Nobelisk	1 × Nobelisk5 / min 10 × Biomass50 / min	Assembler 12 sec Equipment Workshop  × 5	1 × Gas Nobelisk5 / min	MAM Mycelia Research - Toxic Cellular Modification
Solid Biofuel	8 × Biomass120 / min	Constructor 4 sec Craft Bench  × 10	4 × Solid Biofuel60 / min	Tier 2 - Obstacle Clearing
Biocoal Alternate	5 × Biomass37.5 / min	Constructor 8 sec	6 × Coal45 / min	Tier 3 - Coal Power OR MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
U-Jelly Landing Pad	2 × Rotor 20 × Cable 200 × Biomass	Build Gun	1 × U-Jelly Landing Pad	Tier 2 - Jump Pads

AWESOME Sink

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

Trivia

• Over-harvesting of foliage in the game has an impact on game performance, more noticeably for clients in multiplayer. This includes 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".
  • On the 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. This can lead to desyncs between each player.

See also

•  Solid Biofuel

History

• Patch 0.6.0.10: Removed Biomass from Organic Data Capsule research requirements. Alien Organism research now fully reveals all options after the first research
• 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

Early game development

Prior to Closed Alpha, with the addition of the biomass burner generator after 40 weeks of development came the ability to collect biomass from foliage.

• See also: Game Development - Biomass