Difference between revisions of "Toxic wastepack"

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Toxic wastepacks are waste products created by mech-related buildings or the cleanup of polluted tiles.

Acquisition

Pollution pumps and pawns manually cleaning pollution on the ground will generate wastepacks, at a rate of 1 wastepack per 6 polluted tiles. Wastepacks may also be dropped into your colony as part of a quest.

Mechanoid Recharging and Gestation

Toxic wastepacks are produced when friendly mechanoids utilize mech rechargers or large mech rechargers, or whenever a mech gestator or large mech gestator finishes gestating one. The amount of wastepacks produced is proportional to the Bandwidth of the mech recharged or gestated.

Mechanoid Type	Bandwidth	Wastepacks Per Recharge
	1	5
	2	10
	3	15
	4	20
	5	25

Summary

Up to 5 toxic wastepacks can fit into 1 tile, and they do not fit on shelves.

Pollution

Wastepacks pollute 6 ground tiles of a colony, per wastepack, when they deteoriate. A full stack of 5 wastepacks pollutes 30 tiles. When burned or damaged, they release tox gas, in addition to the pollution.^{[Detail Needed]} (What about natural walls / walls? Do they polute underneath?).

When dropped in a caravan or unmanned transport pod, they will lower goodwill of a nearby faction by some amount. There's no extra effect on an already hostile faction. Waste dropped this way immediately pollutes the world tile they're dropped on by 0.05% - it takes 2000 wastepacks to fill a hex. Dropping them on a water hex applies an 8x multiplier, meaning 250 wastepacks will fill it.

Deterioration

1 wastepack per stack will disolve every 8 days, with the following factors:

0.5x if indoors
2x if in Rain
0x if 0 °C (32 °F) or lower. No decrease for any temperature above freezing point.

Analysis

Disposal

Most means of destroying wastepacks have some sort of consequence:

Letting it deteroriate naturally. Pollution is localized - wastepacks that deteroriate away from your base won't have an impact, at least for a while. Insectoids may come due to overall pollution, as does acidic smog.
Dumping it. Dumping near a faction will lower goodwill proportional to distance, wastepacks, and current goodwill. Wastepacks may also be dropped at you, and if the faction is already hostile, you may start a raid. Dumping within 4 tiles of your colony will increase the chance for acidic smog.
- Caravans take time and food to set up, and have a limited carrying capacity - especially without pack animals or friendly mechanoids.
- Transport pods can dump wastepacks far away. 1 pod can store up to 25 wastepacks, and costs 50, 1, and variable chemfuel.
- Shuttles store up to 166 wastepacks (1000kg), and simply transporting waste will not anger the Empire. You'll need a noble pawn of at least Knight rank and be on good terms with the empire. This costs 1 permit slot, and has a cooldown of 40 days. This permit can theoretically support up to 5 bandwidth (although the realistic value is slightly smaller).
Wastepack atomizers have no explicit consequences. However, they are expensive to create, expensive in power, and aren't fast. One atomizer can support 2.4 bandwidth of mechanoids - a mechanitor is very likely to have more.
Polux trees, which are another clean form of pollution removal. Pollux trees naturally grow only if there is plenty of pollution already, though seeds can be bought from traders. They clean only 20% as fast as a Wastepack atomizer, and can only clean if there is no artificial buildings in the area. However, these trees can clean pollution directly from the ground.

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Pollution: Nature (Toxalope • Toxipotato plant • Waste rat • Gray pine tree • Pebble cactus • Rat palm tree • Witchwood tree • Stasis cocoon)
Mitigation (Wastepacks • Atomizers • Pollution pumps • Polux trees)
Adaptation Face mask • Gas mask • Tox grenades • Tox pack • Tox shell • Toxic needle gun • Toxbomb launcher • Detoxifier kidney • Detoxifier lung
Nonchalance Toxifier generator

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 Up to 5 toxic wastepacks can fit into 1 tile, and they do not fit on [[shelf|shelves]].
+===Pollution===
+Wastepacks pollute 6 ground tiles of a colony, per wastepack, when they deteoriate. A full stack of 5 wastepacks pollutes 30 tiles. When burned or damaged, they release [[tox gas]], in addition to the pollution.{{Check Tag|Detail Needed|See CompProperties_GasOnDamage}} (What about natural walls / walls? Do they polute underneath?).
+When dropped in a [[caravan]] or unmanned [[transport pod]], they will lower [[goodwill]] of a nearby faction by some amount. There's no extra effect on an already hostile faction. Waste dropped this way immediately pollutes the ''world'' tile they're dropped on by 0.05% - it takes 2000 wastepacks to fill a hex. Dropping them on a water hex applies an 8x multiplier, meaning 250 wastepacks will fill it.
+===Deterioration===
 wastepack per stack will disolve every 8 days, with the following factors:
 * 0.5x if indoors
 * 2x if in [[Weather|Rain]]
 * 0x if {{Temperature|0}} or lower. No decrease for any temperature above freezing point.
-===Pollution===
-Wastepacks pollute 6 ground tiles of a colony, per wastepack, when they deteoriate. A full stack of 5 wastepacks pollutes 30 tiles. When burned or damaged, they release [[tox gas]], in addition to the pollution.{{Check Tag|Detail Needed|See CompProperties_GasOnDamage}} (What about natural walls / walls? Do they polute underneath?).
-When dropped in a [[caravan]] or unmanned [[transport pod]], they will lower [[goodwill]] of a nearby faction by some amount. There's no extra effect on an already hostile faction. Waste dropped this way immediately pollutes the ''world'' tile they're dropped on by 0.05% - it takes 2000 wastepacks to fill a hex. Dropping them on a water hex applies an 8x multiplier, meaning 250 wastepacks will fill it.
 == Analysis ==
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 *'''Letting it deteroriate naturally.''' Pollution is localized - wastepacks that deteroriate away from your base won't have an impact, at least for a while. [[Insectoid]]s may come due to overall pollution, as does acidic smog.
-*'''Dumping it''' via [[caravan]]. Dumping within 4 tiles of your colony will still cause some pollution to spread back.
+*'''Dumping it.''' Dumping near a faction will lower [[goodwill]] proportional to distance, wastepacks, and current goodwill. Wastepacks may also be dropped at you, and if the faction is already hostile, you may start a [[raid]]. Dumping within 4 tiles of your colony will increase the chance for acidic smog.
-**Dumping near a faction will lower [[goodwill]] proportional to distance, wastepacks, and current goodwill.
+**[[Caravan]]s take time and food to set up, and have a limited carrying capacity - especially without [[pack animal]]s or [[friendly mechanoid]]s.
-**If the wastepack is "unintentionally" lost due to all pawns in a caravan dying, there won't be any goodwill penalties. This comes at the cost of a colonist, any [[pack animal]]s, and the respective [[mood]] penalty.
+**[[Transport pod]]s can dump wastepacks far away. 1 pod can store up to 25 wastepacks, and costs {{icon small|steel||50}}, {{icon small|component||1}}, and variable {{icon small|chemfuel}} [[chemfuel]].
-*'''Dumping via [[transport pod]]s'''. This costs [[steel]] and [[chemfuel]] for each launch: to send 25 wastepacks takes {{icon small|steel||50}}, {{icon small|component||1}}, and variable {{icon small|chemfuel}} [[chemfuel]]. Pods allow you to easily drop waste to a hostile, faraway base, where goodwill simply doesn't matter.
+**[[Shuttle]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} store up to 166 wastepacks (1000kg), and simply transporting waste will not anger the [[Empire]]. You'll need a [[noble]] pawn of at least Knight rank and be on good terms with the empire. This costs 1 permit slot, and has a cooldown of 40 days. This permit can theoretically support up to 5 bandwidth (although the realistic value is slightly smaller).
-*'''Dumping via [[shuttle]]s'''.{{RoyaltyIcon}} You can load [[Empire]] [[titles#Call transport shuttle|shuttles]] with toxic wastepacks. As shuttles have a carrying capacity of 1000kg, this allows the movement of 166 wastepacks at a time, provided you are on good terms with the empire. Normal goodwill penalties will apply if wastepacks are delivered within 15 tiles of another faction's settlement, but there is no goodwill hit from the Empire for merely using the shuttle for the delivery. This permit can theoretically support up to 5 bandwidth (although the realistic value is slightly smaller).
 *'''[[Wastepack atomizer]]s''' have no explicit consequences. However, they are expensive to create, expensive in [[power]], and aren't fast. One atomizer can support 2.4 [[bandwidth]] of mechanoids - a [[mechanitor]] is very likely to have more.
-*'''[[Polux tree]]s''', which are another clean form of pollution removal. They can't be grown manually and only appear if there's already a lot of pollution. However, seeds can be bought from traders but a [[Polux tree]] cleans only 20% as fast as a [[Wastepack atomizer]].
+*'''[[Polux tree]]s''', which are another clean form of pollution removal. Pollux trees naturally grow only if there is plenty of pollution already, though seeds can be bought from traders. They clean only 20% as fast as a [[Wastepack atomizer]], and can only clean if there is no artificial buildings in the area. However, these trees can clean [[pollution]] directly from the ground.
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