So, I was doing some research for a story that I was writing a while back, and the main character had the ability to do alchemy, and I wanted him to get a sustainable food source from it. I found that food, except for the minerals and some proteins in it, it entirely composed of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. So, I think that in the later tiers, maybe on one of the moons of Jupiter, there should be materials to create a machine that turns food into minerals.
Minerals would be turned into whatever they're used for in the body, so from calcium and phosphorus you could get bones, for example. But the real beauty of it is that from that farm of yours you could supply a small amount of the oxygen needed for life, but the rest, and the carbon, could be synthesized into carbon dioxide, which along with the hydrogen, would allow you to turn sunlight shining on your space station and your excess food into fuel, so you could provide enough fuel to bring back resources you can't get in orbit, like redstone and diamonds. It would be useful in later gameplay as you go farther out. And, iron, copper, and silicon can be found in food as well, though in much smaller amounts.
What do all you fine people think?
Minerals would be turned into whatever they're used for in the body, so from calcium and phosphorus you could get bones, for example. But the real beauty of it is that from that farm of yours you could supply a small amount of the oxygen needed for life, but the rest, and the carbon, could be synthesized into carbon dioxide, which along with the hydrogen, would allow you to turn sunlight shining on your space station and your excess food into fuel, so you could provide enough fuel to bring back resources you can't get in orbit, like redstone and diamonds. It would be useful in later gameplay as you go farther out. And, iron, copper, and silicon can be found in food as well, though in much smaller amounts.
What do all you fine people think?
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