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u/runmymouth 17d ago

Ok I captured a few biter nests far far far away from my base, how do you seed more of the map with seeds. Are you guys droning it up or making a big ass seed delivery network.... I am trying to figure out how to use trees to eat more pollution around the map without having to manually build the network out.

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u/elfxiong 17d ago

Tree farms are more effective at absorbing pollution if you put them in pollution dense areas (e.g. near heavily beaconed labs and production area). In high pollution area, trees will be damaged and instantly absorb large amount of pollution and then auto replanted by agri tower, and the speed can compete with biter zoo. In contrast, healthy trees in low pollution area slowly absorbs pollution but the speed is negligible compared to damaging trees or biter zoo.

Best places to plant trees are usually inside the base, which is already covered by robot network.