Growth vat
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Growth vat
A vat of fluid which can gestate an embryo or accelerate a child's growth.
While growing or gestating, the vat must be fed with a constant supply of nutrition to provide the feedstock for growth. Gestating an embryo takes twice the nutrition of accelerating a child's growth.
Embryos are gestated for 9 days before a baby is formed. There is a risk of health complications.
Child growth can only be accelerated up to age 18, but not beyond. While growing, a child's skills will slowly increase. Children raised in growth vats will have lower skills and gain fewer passions than normal.
The device uses chemical injections, electrical stimulation, and simple mechanite treatments to push the body to grow. Growth vats are often used to quickly manufacture engineered workers or warriors.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building
Building
- Power
- -80 W
Creation
- Resources to make
150 + 
4- Deconstruct yield
- 75 + 2
- Destroy yield
- 37 - 38 + 1
Acquisition
Summary
Growth vats take a constant 200 W of power as well as nutrition. Both raw and processed foods, including nutrient paste, can be inserted inside. Hosting an embryo costs 6 nutrition per day, and aging a child costs 3 nutrition per day.
Growth vats be used to grow an embryo in 9 days, twice as fast as natural pregnancy. This comes without risk to the mother, but the baby can still come sick.
Vats will also speed up a baby's or child's aging by 20x, or 3 days per year, up to age 18. This ignores their 4x aging multiplier, so a vat is 5x faster than normal. While in the vat, children will have their Learning need set to 50%. Every 3 days inside the vat, they will gain a small amount of skill.
Analysis
Babies can be placed in the growth vat to speed up reaching toddler age. There are no apparent ill effects on the baby. However, parents gain a −4 moodlet, and it negates the mood buffs from having a happy baby in the colony [Not been extensively checked?].
Even if a child is at growth tier 8, they lose out on the skill training provided by the Lesson learning type. Meanwhile, aging a teen (13-17) to 18 is usually worthwhile - pawns under 18 have lots of workspeed penalties.