Insulated Farm Tiles
Enhance Your Colony’s Efficiency with Insulated Farm Tiles
Are you struggling to maintain ideal temperature conditions for your crucial food production within your Oxygen Not Included colony? Traditional farm and hydroponic tiles can often compromise your carefully constructed thermal barriers, leading to heat loss or gain that can negatively impact your crops and the overall stability of your base. This mod introduces a vital solution: Insulated Farm Tiles and Insulated Hydroponic Tiles.
The Problem with Standard Farming
In Oxygen Not Included, temperature management is paramount. When you need to seal off areas to prevent heat transfer, standard farm tiles present a challenge. They are not built with insulation in mind, meaning they can become conduits for unwanted thermal exchange, making it difficult to maintain precise temperatures for sensitive plants or to keep your core base cool.
Introducing Insulated Farm Tiles
This mod provides insulated versions of both the standard Farm Tile and the Hydroponic Tile. These new tiles are constructed using the same materials as regular Insulated Tiles, requiring 200kg of building material. Crucially, they unlock with the “Gourmet Meal Preparation” research, the same prerequisite as the Gas Range, placing them logically within your food production tech tree.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Thermal Insulation: Maintain stable temperatures in your farming areas without compromising your sealed environments.
- Seamless Integration: These tiles function identically to their standard counterparts in terms of farming capabilities.
- Strategic Building: Ideal for sealing off your base while still allowing for efficient food production, solving a common late-game challenge.
- Resource Management: Built with readily available insulation materials.
The primary inspiration behind this mod stems from the common colony-building dilemma of sealing off areas while still needing to manage vital resources like Phosphorite for certain plants. With Insulated Farm Tiles, your farming structures themselves can become part of your insulation, allowing you to feed and manage them from outside a sealed environment. This offers a significant advantage for optimizing your colony’s layout and thermal regulation.
Reporting and Support
For any bugs, issues, or feature requests, please direct your feedback to the mod’s official GitHub issues page. This ensures that the mod creator receives timely notifications and can effectively address any problems. Contributions and inspiration from the Oxygen Not Included modding community have been invaluable in bringing this mod to life.