A Spell for the Automatic Reaping of Wheat

A Spell for the Automatic Reaping of Wheat

Meant to be inscribed (repeatingly) along the leading edge of a board that is hung to the side of a cart, which is then drawn by horses

Forms small crystalline blades along that edge, and creates suction via airflow both against the blades and over the board, while rainflinger seals dry the wheat.

The result is a contraption which cuts wheat as you simply drive your cart along the edge of the crop row, leaving sheaves ready to be collected laying along the ground!

u/DocViviLeandraVTuber — 4 days ago

Another "spell to cause the industrial revolution": Combine grain processing contraption!

Top seal pulls in wheat from the fields, which is then threshed against the grate by the wheel. This "breaks" the wheat, knocking loose the grain, which then falls through the grate, while the straw is output into a tray.

The loose grain is still mixed with chaff, so it falls through a wind tunnel which blows away the chaff (being much lighter than the grain), while the grain falls straight through and to some kind of container below

u/DocViviLeandraVTuber — 6 days ago

PROTOTYPE SPELL TO REVOLUTIONIZE AGRICULTURE

It does the Haber-Bosch process for production of ammonia fertilizer from natural gas (which can be sourced from a well or compost), steam, and air

I love casually increasing the world's population by an order of magnitude by making bread from air

u/DocViviLeandraVTuber — 7 days ago

Testicular Torsion Spell

Human sigil is derived from Beldaruit's smoke sculpture

The flower encompassing the human sigil is meant to mean "reproductive organs"

(Inspired by watching the anime with anime-only friends and making a joke about "casting the testicular torsion spell" on Kukrow)

Probably would have been better to just use sights set to make the spell targetable and use a more generic sigil but a spell that specifically targets human reproductive organs is funnier

Glaives are probably unnecessary but it's also funnier this way

u/DocViviLeandraVTuber — 23 days ago

Proteus's Primary Producers...

Say that three times fast, lol

So, there's a misconception I keep encountering that Proteus has no primary producers aside from the World Trees, but that's not true.

People are confusing the statement "there are no plants (well, plant-analogues) on Proteus" with Naheema's statement that the ecosystem has insufficient primary production to sustain it in its current state - emphasis on insufficient.

Plenty of the corals we see are photosynthetic, and we also encounter a little bit of kelp (with implications there used to be a lot more kelp in the area which died off). There's also tons of thermotrophic and chemotrophic organisms in the hot zone. And the oxygen tunic is radiotrophic.

So, there's still a large number of primary producers around, but the World Trees getting sick has meant there isn't enough.

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u/DocViviLeandraVTuber — 27 days ago
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You ever think about how any predator that eats you in Subnautica 2 probably died afterwards?

We can't digest Proteus's proteins, and it seems pretty obvious Protean life can't digest ours, either.

If they ate and swallowed a human, that'd just be a big intestinal blockage they can't ever digest, and they'd probably get sick and die!

Honestly the saddest part of when we die, given we can just reprint while Protean animals can't, lol

Edit: Actually a really funny opportunity for a >!Nahema audio log, if they have her lecturing the colonists about how getting eaten is hurting the native life, because that sounds like exactly what Nahema's priorities would be!<

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u/DocViviLeandraVTuber — 1 month ago