Plants and Nutrition

Description: This mod aims to fix some balance issues with the plants and food system in Stationeers. With that, you'll have a reason to take good care of your plants and to build a big greenhouse in your base, maybe even a pantry room to store some emergency food in case something goes wrong and your plants die. Plants will only do photosyntesis under light and with water, and they'll be much more balanced in terms of water consumption and gas output. In this mod, I tried to use Real World data as a base parameter, whenever possible. But BE WARNED, this will add new challenges to the game and will make it harder (but much more interesting), you will need plants to survive and they'll need you. So, if you don't want that, don't use this mod. --- What this mod changes: (most things below can be adjusted in the config file, if you want to) The growth speed of some plants. Now they take longer to grow. See the table in the images for details. The amount of water plants consume. In the stock game, plants take ~10x less water to grow relative to the amount of gas they output, this mod changes it so they take a more accurate water amount accordingly to photosyntesis rules, but values were adjusted to still allow a net gain of water when playing on planets like Vulcan and Venus. Plants will do photosyntesis and output oxygen (or wharever the plant outputs) only when they have light and water. Exception is Mushroom that will work in the darkness. The amount and types of gases plants will transpire will be more accurate with the simplified photosynthesis equation (6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2) and the nitrogenase enzyme activity equation (N2 +8H+ + 8e− →2NH3 +H2). In simple terms, that means, unlike what happens in vanilla, less molecules should be magically created or destroyed by plants (Mutated plants could still drift a little out of mocelular equilibrium, but still far less than vanilla). * Most plants will transpirate some of the water consumed back to the atmos