Plants and Nutrition

Description:

This mod aims to fix some balance issues with the plants and food system in Stationeers. With that, you'll have a reason to take good care of your plants and to build a big greenhouse in your base, maybe even a pantry room to store some emergency food in case something goes wrong and your plants die. Plants will only do photosyntesis under light and with water, and they'll be much more balanced in terms of water consumption and gas output.

In this mod, I tried to use Real World data as a base parameter, whenever possible. But BE WARNED, this will add new challenges to the game and will make it harder (but much more interesting), you will need plants to survive and they'll need you. So, if you don't want that, don't use this mod. ---

What this mod changes:

(most things below can be adjusted in the config file, if you want to)

* The growth speed of some plants. Now they take longer to grow. See the table in the images for details.

* The amount of water plants consume. In the stock game, plants take ~10x less water to grow relative to the amount of gas they output, this mod changes it so they take a more accurate water amount accordingly to photosyntesis rules, but values were adjusted to still allow a net gain of water when playing on planets like Vulcan and Venus.

* Plants will do photosyntesis and output oxygen (or wharever the plant outputs) only when they have light and water. Exception is Mushroom that will work in the darkness.

* The amount and types of gases plants will transpire will be more accurate with the simplified photosynthesis equation (6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2) and the nitrogenase enzyme activity equation (N2 +8H+ + 8e− →2NH3 +H2). In simple terms, that means, unlike what happens in vanilla, less molecules should be magically created or destroyed by plants (Mutated plants could still drift a little out of mocelular equilibrium, but still far less than vanilla).

* Most plants will transpirate some of the water consumed back to the atmosphere when doing photosyntesis. By default they'll transpirate 25% of the consumed water back. Exceptions are Mushrooms (they don't transpirate in RL), and Hades plants.

* The max food and water of the character: Now you can stay 5 game days without water and 12 game days without food before you start dying (Stationeers difficulty).

* Winterspawn Methane output is increased to match the amount of Nitrogen consumed by the plant and make it molecular accurate.

* The amount you have to eat and drink daily: This setting was balanced assuming that an average person has to drink 2 liters of water and consume 2000 calories every day. So you'll need to drink a little more than 1 bottle of water per day (1 bottle = 1.86 Liters ingame) and eat 2 or 3 full cans of food (depending of the can) just to keep up with the Dehydration and Calories consumption rate. 20 min day cycle is too fast for a day, so i used 40 minutes as a day cycle reference for this parameter (the old sun/orbit 2).

* The amount of food/water you'll get after death/respawn (to avoid rewarding someone who dies with 100% resources). If you die or a new friend joins you, the character will respawn with food and water proportional to the days past in the save (for servers where ppl join later and make separated bases, there's also some config options to adjust this).

* The recipe and nutrition of some foods (see the table in the mod images). I tried to maintain the original recipes whenever possible, but in stock game, some recipes are quite unbalanced, take Bread for example, the vanilla recipe needs 200 flour and each wheat makes 5 flour so, to make a single bread, you needed to harvest 40 wheat. If you chose to sustain yourself with only bread, you'll need an hydrophonic with 540 plants growing. To fix this and other imbalances, I changed: - 6 cooking recipes and 2 reagent recipes (the ones marked as yellow are the modified ones). - Most of the foods nutrition values, to make all of them useful and feasible to be used. - Complex recipes and the ones that need eggs now are kind like the endgame of nutrition. Now, the best food is pumpkin pie, it gives you enough calories for 4 days. But anything made with eggs will give you good nutrition. - When you make Canned food and cereal bars, it will loose a litte nutrition as a tradeoff for their ability to never spoil.

* Eggs: - Fertilized Eggs now need controlled enviroments to hatch. Pressure between 50 to 120kpa, temperature between 36°C to 38°C (96.8°F to 100.4°F). Eggs need to stay 14 game days in hatching conditions to hatch. The egg will show an tooltip similar to the plants, so you can see if it's hatching or not. - Eggs and Fertilized ones take 24 game days to spoil without refrigeration, so you have a chance to use the eggs from the lander. ---

Installation:

Step 1 - Subscribe to this mod here in the workshop; Step 2 - Leave the mod BELOW core in the workshop menu inside the game; Step 3 - This mod uses scripts and it will only work if you use a modloader. Currently it support StationeersLaunchPad and BepInEx modloaders. Choose JUST ONE to install and follow the procedures:

• StationeersLaunchPad framework, it's the easiest and preffered way to load mods because after the installation, you just need to subscribe to the mod and it will be active. With StationeersLaunchPad you'll also get mods update automatically. Learn how to install it here: https://github.com/StationeersLaunchPad/StationeersLaunchPad#installation
• BepInEx: Follow the instructions in the github page to install BepInEx modloader and Plants and Nutrition scripts for BepInEx: https://github.com/ThndrDev/Stationeers-PlantsnNutritionRebalance-BepInEx

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Mod config file: