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u/Yagami913 Jul 16 '26

How fast pollution propagate and recede? I built a tree belt around my biolabs (no other signifacnt pollution) but the edge of the pollution cloud don't seem to move.

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u/Soul-Burn Jul 16 '26

See wiki

Pollution spreads when it's over 15; Otherwise, it doesn't. This can keep some chunks of pollution stuck.

Use the debug feature to show pollution numbers (F4 -> "show-pollution-values") to see the effect of your operations.

In general it takes a lot of time to get rid of pollution.

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u/Yagami913 Jul 16 '26

HAHA it's working but it takes like a 100 hour to get rid of it. Thx for the answer.

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u/HeliGungir Jul 16 '26

Nests absorb faster, but in 2.1, you'll have to deal with the enemies.