A17 Sun lamp

[er613]

So... Sun lamp....

"Off for plant resting period"

So no more growing in snow maps? what am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

[O Negative]

Plants normally rest at night, and don't grow.

In the past, people would waste HUGE quantities of electricity in the hydroponics rooms, unless they had a mod or micromanaged their sun lamps.

A sunlamp that's "off for plant resting period" will still allow you to grow on any biome. There are no drawbacks, really

Unless, for whatever reason, you've been using sunlamps to illuminate your base

[er613]

The auto shut down at night is awesome but I am not referring to that.

The sun lamp did not light up through the winter because its not the season for growing.

[O Negative]

The auto shut down at night is awesome but I am not referring to that.

The sun lamp did not light up through the winter because its not the season for growing.

That's odd! Was the room up to temp?

Update: I just tested this. The sunlamp works even when it's too cold outside (not season for growing)

Sounds like you may have encountered a bug, if you ask me. Maybe report it, and provide your save file for them to look at?

[er613]

Thanks!

[KillTyrant]

Ok sweet. I no longer need to try and micro manage my circuitry to keep my sunlamps on different cables than my hydroponics. Frees up a minion

[RemingtonRyder]

Down side, it noms a bit more power than it used to.

[Blastoderm]

EVEN more power? It was, what, second biggest power hog in the game?

[Snownova]

EVEN more power? It was, what, second biggest power hog in the game?

But it's only on about half the time, so the total consumption is lower I think.

[Zhentar]

It consumes pretty close to the same total amount of power per day. If you're powering it with solar panels (and not turning it off at night via micro/mod), there's a significant savings because you don't lose as much power charging & draining batteries.

[Hans Lemurson]

EVEN more power? It was, what, second biggest power hog in the game?

Sun Lamps are a bargain, even at high energy costs.  You get 100 tiles of sunless cropland, and it doesn't even require 100 tiles of solar panels to power.

The increased power costs probably make self-fueling tree farms impossible now though, which is fine.

[DanielLeal]

Guys just to clear out there are several types of plants who can benefit from 24 hours lightsources and you can even afect that by changing the colour of the bulb for example green red and so on i see this change something sad since i got a mod that allows plants to grow 24 hours a day i would like to have an option to keep those on when i want and to turn them off if i ever what ( i never got issues with power )

[Shurp]

Well if you have a mod that makes plants grow 24 hours, find a mod that keeps the light on for 24 hours ;->

[Canute]

or use advance hydroponics which got an buildin lamp.