Hydroponic Wheatstraw is a Hydroponics bay which grows Wheat. It can be constructed after researching Hydroponic Wheatstraw. This building uses and levels characters' Farming stat. It requires inputs of Power (10 used) and Water to grow.
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Despite being an "indoor only" placement, Hydroponics can be placed on the roofs of buildings.
Compared to normal wheat farms, output seems low at first glance. However, as each plant produces 2 crops on harvesting, potential output is doubled. Maturation time is less than in a normal farm, so output per in game time gets to roughly half of an XL farm. More important, harvesting is much quicker for the Hydroponic, combined with less plants/more yield per plant, this results in a highly more efficient labour/output relationship, so are definitely recommendable for mid/end-game, if power is not a significant bottleneck. If Generators/Biofuel has to be used to power them, efficiency might be inferior, but no testing is done for this so far.
Details
- Condition: 16
- Power: 10
- Plants Produced: 18 (note that each plant produces 2 Wheatstraws on harvesting)
- Maturation Time: ~20 Hours
- Harvest time: ~1.7 minutes per plant.
- Workers: 1