Putting aside the fact that it’s weird to sonar scan for animals, wouldn’t it make more sense if I was, I don’t know, airdropping or releasing these animals, rather than looking for them? I’m not trying to be pedantic here, I struggled with this bit of the game until I realised exactly what was going on. How does this make any sense?!? My sonar scans clearly weren’t detecting existing deer and wolves they were bringing them into existence. So then I go to scan the same bit of forest again (the old scan now helpfully and suspiciously reading as “outdated” unlike other results) and yes, the wolves appear. I did another sonar scan in the grassland, which detected deer. Sure enough, the forest was there, but not any nearby prey in the adjacent grassland. I thought I’d satisfied those conditions, so I did a sonar scan in one of my forests. To fully restore a biome, it’s not enough to introduce a healthy mix of plants, you also need to add at least three species of animals, all of which have their own special conditions for example, timber wolves need forests and nearby prey. It’s toward the end of a level where things get confusing. Other concepts also fall into the “weird but fine” category, like the solar amplifier that sets land on fire to generate nutritious ash one would have thought that a flamethrower would’ve worked, but the building does look pretty. After that, irrigators enable plants to grow on clean land, but they can only spray water in two directions, so you need to rotate and fit them together efficiently, because all of these buildings consume some of your limited resources. I would have guessed that in the real world this is an incredibly intensive activity involving lots of trucks and treatment plants, but a “toxin scrubber” building works well enough here. It’s a little odd that you can only build them on rocks given that the platonic image of a windmill sits in the countryside, but that’s a small problem. That makes sense! We’ve all heard of windmills and we know they’re green. These generate power for nearby buildings. Your first building in the first biome is a windmill.
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