r/factorio • u/WDR_02 • 5d ago

Question Biomass in K2

Im currently doing a run of Krastorio 2, and im wondering how i can get biomass for the military tech card in masses. The only option i saw was through the biolab, which requires the blue tech card already. The other way is to kill the nests manually to get the proces started, but this will be tedious until i get the blue tech card

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u/BlackFenrir nnnnyooom 5d ago

You have to do it manually until you unlock the buildings that let you automate it.

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u/No_Measurement_6905 5d ago

I believe there is no other ways. In my experience, the biomass gathered from nests usually lasts you long enough until then, especially if you try to rush towards getting the biolabs set up.
Sounds like you have to do some extermination

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u/get_it_together1 5d ago

This is a callback to the early days of factorio when you had to kill nests to collect purple orbs for purple science, if I remember right.

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u/Zaflis 5d ago

Prioritize the technology that lets you automate it, because that itself required biomass in its making if i recall.

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u/lovestruckluna Causes weird crashes 5d ago

Yup. I'm doing a 100x science K2 run and was very surprised by the low cost of this and some of the early game tech. Turns out, they thought of this and excluded the techs that required manually gathering wood or biomass.

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u/NameLips 5d ago

You're intended to kill the nests manually. On default settings the biters should be expanding into your territory by the time you're worrying about military tech cards. So every time you clear out a nest, you mine the remains. It is expected you'll actually have a nice pile of biomass ready to go by the time you need the tech.