Toxifier generator
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Toxifier generator
This electrical generator very slowly pollutes the terrain in a radius around it while producing energy. If all terrain in the radius is polluted, the generator will shut down.
Base Stats
Building
- Size
- 2 × 2
- Minifiable
- False
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- impassable
- Cover Effectiveness
- 75%
- Blocks Wind
- False
- Terrain Affordance
- Light
- Power
- 1400 W
Creation
- Required Research
- Toxifier generator
- Skill Required
- Construction 4
- Work To Make
- 8,000 ticks (2.22 mins)
- Resources to make
125 + 
3- Deconstruct yield
- 62 - 63 + 1 - 2
- Destroy yield
- 31 - 32 + 0 - 1
The toxifier generator is a power generator added by the Biotech DLC.
Acquisition
Toxifier generators can be constructed once the Toxifier generator research project has been completed. They require 125 Steel, 3 Components, 8,000 ticks (2.22 mins) of work, and a Construction skill of 4.
Once constructed, a Toxifier generator cannot be moved, it can only be deconstructed.
Summary
Each generator produces 1400W and pollutes 6 tiles every 3 days, for an average of 2 tiles a day. The pollution can spread, up to a 27-tile radius from the bottom-left tile. This is an area of 2253 tiles[]. Once all cells in range are polluted, the generator ceases to work until there are unpolluted tiles again. Pollution can spread through constructed walls but not natural ones. This means that generator begining on clear ground will cease working in 18.775 years.
Unlike wood-fired and chemfuel powered generators, toxifier generators do not produce heat or light, and cannot be toggled off.
Analysis
Toxifier generators don't actually create too much pollution. A pollution pump can convert the output of 2 generators into wastepacks, which are easy to freeze and store.
A toxifier generator creates the equivalent of 1 wastepack every 3 days. With a pump, this is equal to 20 wastepacks, or 4 full stacks, per year. A year's worth of waste from 2 generators, 8 full stacks, can easily be frozen or otherwise managed. An 8x8 room has space for 64 tiles, or 8 years of running 2 generators, and can be frozen with a single cooler year-round in a temperate biome. The net power of this setup, 2400 W, can be enough to power an entire early- to mid- game colony.
The pollution can be annoying in the long term, especially with mechanoids. However, "free" and invariable power saves quite a bit of labor compared to wood-fired generators. Colonists can manually pick up pollution, though it is quite slow, and non-resistant colonists will accumulate toxic buildup.
Clean energy
The toxifier generator's key drawback is its pollution, however, with sufficient infrastructure it can provide net positive power without polluting the map.
Each generator produces an average of 2 tiles of pollution per day. A pollution pump cleans 4 tiles of pollution per day, where 6 tiles = 1 toxic wastepack. The wastepack atomizer destroys 2 wastepacks a day, or 12 pollution tiles per day. Pumps consume -200 W of power each, and atomizers consume -400 W. Therefore, a ratio of 6 toxifier generators : 3 pollution pumps : 1 atomizer is fully clean and has a net power of 7400 W.
Gallery
Toxifier polluting nearby tiles. Note the purple clouds over newly-polluted tiles.
Alternative visualization of radius with forest for scale. Green carpets are inside of the pollution zone, red carpets are outside.
Version history
- Biotech DLC Release - Added.
- Power
- Power conduit (Hidden, Waterproof) • Power switch • Wood-fired generator • Chemfuel powered generator • Wind turbine
- (research)
- Battery • Geothermal generator • Solar generator • Watermill generator • Toxifier generator
• Bioferrite generator
- (uncraftable)
- Vanometric power cell • Unstable power cell
- Related
- Ship reactor • Electroharvester