I mean this both in the air bubble distributor as well as leaf block senses.
I've been slowly accreting a Moon Base, and it seems odd to me that the only way to produce oxygen is to build a tree farm, when a hydroponics system should also work. Granted there is a nod to that with saplings requiring four or more water blocks nearby in order to grow, but allowing growing wheat to produce oxygen as well would not only add to verisimilitude but also extend the configurability and build styles available. If it's implemented with a config file, it would also allow cultivation of plants from other mods (Pam's stuff immediately comes to mind, but there are plenty others).
On the flip side, it would be very nice to see something like an Oxygen Decompressor that you can feed filled air tanks and pipe it around, similar to how they manage it on the ISS. This would (as with the change outlined above) extend the build styles available as well as make early space exploration more viable. Alternatively, it would be nice if there was a slot on Sealers and Distributors that one could place an oxygen tank in. Either way, it would vastly move forward the timeframe for establishing outpost stations.
Hopefully this gets a few eyeballs; I tweeted a severely truncated version of this at Micdoodle but in looking at the sorts of things people routinely tweet I can totally understand not checking twitter
For those of you who have stuck through all of these words, have some pictures of the lunar colony I've been working on for the past couple weeks:
I've been slowly accreting a Moon Base, and it seems odd to me that the only way to produce oxygen is to build a tree farm, when a hydroponics system should also work. Granted there is a nod to that with saplings requiring four or more water blocks nearby in order to grow, but allowing growing wheat to produce oxygen as well would not only add to verisimilitude but also extend the configurability and build styles available. If it's implemented with a config file, it would also allow cultivation of plants from other mods (Pam's stuff immediately comes to mind, but there are plenty others).
On the flip side, it would be very nice to see something like an Oxygen Decompressor that you can feed filled air tanks and pipe it around, similar to how they manage it on the ISS. This would (as with the change outlined above) extend the build styles available as well as make early space exploration more viable. Alternatively, it would be nice if there was a slot on Sealers and Distributors that one could place an oxygen tank in. Either way, it would vastly move forward the timeframe for establishing outpost stations.
Hopefully this gets a few eyeballs; I tweeted a severely truncated version of this at Micdoodle but in looking at the sorts of things people routinely tweet I can totally understand not checking twitter
For those of you who have stuck through all of these words, have some pictures of the lunar colony I've been working on for the past couple weeks:
