Toxic wastepack

Toxic wastepacks are a byproduct that is created when using mech-related buildings.

Acquisition

Toxic wastepacks are a byproduct of using mech rechargers and mech large rechargers. The bigger your mechanoid, the more pollution it creates. When the recharger's waste meter fills up, mechs create pollution at a rate of 1 bandwidth cost = 5 wastepacks. They are also created, at the same rate, whenever a mech gestator or large mech gestator finishes gestating.

They are a more contained form of pollution, so are created by pollution pumps and pawns manually cleaning pollution on the ground.

They may also be dropped into your colony in a quest.

Summary

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

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.

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.

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.
Dumping it via caravan. Dumping within 4 tiles of your colony will still cause some pollution to spread back.
- Dumping near a faction will lower goodwill proportional to distance, wastepacks, and current goodwill.
- 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 animals, and the respective mood penalty.
Dumping with transport pods. This costs steel and chemfuel for each launch: to send 25 wastepacks takes 50, 1, and variable chemfuel. Pods allow you to easily drop waste to a faraway, hostile base, where goodwill simply doesn't matter.
Wastepack atomizers have no explicit consequences. However, they are expensive to create, expensive in power, and aren't fast. One atomizer can support 4.6 bandwidth of mechanoids - a mechanitor is very likely to have more.
Polux trees, which are another clean form of pollution removal. They can't be grown manually, and only appear if there's a lot of pollution, already.
Shuttles. You can load Empire 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.

credit to /u/BenightedAlizar on r/rimworld

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Biotech (DLC)

Families: Relationships (Reproduction • Children)
Life stages (Babies • Children • Adults)
Furniture (Crib • Baby sleeping spot • Growth vat • Toy box • Baby decoration • School desk • Blackboard)
Mechanoids: Laborers (Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler)
Combatants (Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron)
Commanders (Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen • War urchin)
Mechanitors: Control (Mechlink • Band node • Mech boosters • Mech signallers • Control pack • Airwire headset)
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Genetics: Xenohumans (Dirtmoles • Genies • Highmates • Hussars • Impids • Neanderthals • Pigskins • Sanguophages • Wasters • Yttakin)
Genes Germline • Xenogene • Metabolic efficiency
Genetic Modification Genepack • Gene extractor • Gene bank • Gene assembler • Gene processor • Xenogerm • Archite capsules
Deathrest (Deathrest accelerator • Deathrest capacity serum • Deathrest casket • Glucosoid pump • Hemogen amplifier • Hemopump • Psychofluid pump)
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

Toxic wastepack

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