Hydroponics tray processing is a massive chunk of machinery processing
for no good reason, I have a sneaking suspicion that this is due to proc
overhead on get_trait, as process can call it upwards of 30 times per
tick per tray.
Realistically most of the things that are traits should instead be
variables, but that's a refactor for someone with more time.
### What does this achieve?
This overhauls hydroponics to integrate atmospherics mechanics more
heavily, with the hope of establishing the foundations of much more
significant mechanical depth to what has been a very shallow job for a
very long time.
Currently, this is limited to the preferences and tolerances system -
hydroponics is now comprised of five 'reservoirs' of segmented portions
of the pipe system connected to trays, with a gas heater and cooler to
change temperature across the entire system, and you can cut off each
reservoir with valves to separate it from the rest and maintain its
current temperature.
Five tiers, each with a trait, have been implemented for the different
heat ideals of different plants. Plants from Adhomai and Moghes are the
most environmentally extreme, and cannot be grown outside of drastically
low and high temperatures respectively, limiting them to hydroponics
proper, whereas colder and warmer terrestrial plants can be grown at
room temperature but will grow much slower than if they were within
their preferences. **This means there will be plants that outright
cannot be grown in the garden.**
With this, hydroponics becomes an atmos puzzle. If you need to grow
nothing but mushrooms you'll probably send every tray cold, but if you
need a diversity of different temperature ranges you'll have to
fine-tune your setup and routine to have everything within their
preferences. Once you're done growing mushrooms off one reservoir, you
may turn the heat in it up so you can grow citrus, etc etc.
This also solves several bugs and makes a lot of QoL changes, the full
changelog will list everything.
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### What about the mapping?
Atmos has been integrated into every hydroponics tray in the mapping
changes, rather than only on D1 like at present, to support the new
mechanics. I've moved as much stuff up to D2 as I could fit, in the
interest of getting players to the more visible and socially viable spot
rather than hiding in their basement. D1 is now exclusively intended as
a storage area, laboratory, and now has an expanded Hazardous Specimens
unit.
### To-do before review
- [x] Ensure that chefs can still do alien-specific menus without a
hydroponicist, now that they can't necessarily grow their stuff in the
garden - loadout produce box, maybe?
- [x] Remap xenobotany
- [x] Review whether every alien crop can still grow on its respective
in-game exoplanet - Adhomai might be okay? (Adhomai is essentially fine,
Moghes will need work before we go back into the sector)
- [x] Make sure the yield_mod interactions aren't explosive.
### Known issues
1. Yes, the examine on hydroponics trays is huge. In the long-term, IMO
this should probably be a TGUI.
2. The TGUI on seed storage units is clunky, this is also on the to-do
list for the future.
3. The logic for calculating growth is bad, it's very RNG-skewed.
Another thing for later.
4. Atmos mechanics like these can be pretty opaque to players, so this
will certainly require a wiki update shortly after merge describing
exactly what steps you should take to operate the new atmos equipment.
See changelog for the full list, several little QoL things coming off
https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/20890.
The most notable mechanical change is that, if outside of their light of
heat tolerances (or otherwise afoul whatsoever of the handle_environment
proc), plants will stop growing. This is to avoid the awkward
interaction of a plant being grown at completely improper temperatures
or light levels still managing to mature before it dies.
Makes hydroponicists spawn with full belts at roundstart. Engineers do
and machinists do, it just cuts down on a little roundstart begrudgery.
Includes light and heat preferences on seed packets!
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Coming up next will be extended descriptions explaining the mechanics
somewhere visible to players, once
https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/20923 is in.
This is sorta bulky on the changes since it includes a lot of shuffled
documentation, so I'll try to thoroughly summarise here.
- Introduces 'preferential' temperature and light values to plants. This
means that, while a plant is _within_ 5K and 2 lumens of their ideal
heat and ideal light, they will grow faster than otherwise. In the
current implementation, the base growth is a 15% chance of age being
increased, plus another 15% if you're within preferential temps, and
another 5% if within preferential lumens for a maximum of 35%. This is
intended to incentivise engaging with temperature mechanics to grow
plants with unusual requirements.
- This is different to the existing tolerance values, which instead
check whether the plant is _outside_ of them - if they are, it damages
them. Tolerances cause the plant to die if they're too far from their
ideals, preferences cause the plant to grow faster if they're very close
to their ideals. The range of preferences should always be inside
tolerances.
- To work better with this, the ideals of a few kinds of plant have been
tweaked. Mushrooms, Adhomian plants, and molluscs will all **not** be in
their preferences at room temperature - they will need to be cooled,
which can currently be done in D1 hydroponics. A few warmer plants, such
as sugarcane, will need to be warmed up to reach their preferences.
- None of these will go outside of their tolerances at room temperature
- they won't die, they'll just grow slower.
- Most plants will be within all their preferences without any action by
the gardener.
There's also a few assorted QoL changes to hydrotrays, see the
changelog.
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Seed code DMdoc'ed and code added to allow for custom descriptions and
extended descriptions for produce.
Adhomai plants given descriptions as proof of concept (maybe)
- [x] Foundation code
- [x] Assassinate Almrah Harrlala
- [x] Adhomai Plants descriptions
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