Terrain thought idea - Reclaimation Center

[Smigs]

scrouging for some ideas on this...
the core thought... fertilizer isn't exactly common Hive Worlds.... but for toxins and animals, you'd want to be able to grow green stuff...
so... the night soil buisness must be a thing...
with trade outside the city being in trashy suburbs... plumbing probably isn't super reliable...
which leads to the idea of a "Hanratty's Reclaimation" business terrain peice... "Get Paid to do your Business." ...
night soil collectors who trade in fertilizer mixes from the outer territory towns.... stuff with less corpse starch, more megafauna bits...

question is, how to build it...

 

[MedMos]

Something with some big vats, tubes and a row of stalls out front? Proper grungy, industrial setup. With a big sign, displaying the name and slogan.

 

[rustedchrome]

Google "compost farm" for more ideas.

If you're looking for other ideas, think about grow labs (my mom used to grow tomatoes and other plants indoors during the winter), hydroponic and mushroom farms.

With the proliferation of energy in the future I can't imagine why giant indoor grow facilities with huge lighting arrays don't actually exist, even ones full of full grown trees and whatnot.

 

[Wasteland]

Or how about agricultural domes? Just take a half of a styrofoam ball and paint it accordingly.

 

[Kitcar]

I am thinking an outhouse. A loo. A pit potty.
My boy scout son and his clan thought it funny to drop glowsticks in the public campground loo,,,which was a vault under seats right. SeatS. So they also think it's funny to drop the biggest rock they can find in and splash their compatriots with blue stained boo boos. Fun kids.

 

[rustedchrome]

I guess if I was going to model an underhive waste to soil composter type system I'd go with 2-3 water tower type containers in a row, each with a chute and pullchain underneath so a vehicle could drive up under it or next to it and get a "load". I'd make a ladder up to a catwalk surrounding the open topped vats/towers so workers could stir and agitate the compost mixture with long paddles or rakes.

As a bonus, a 'Main Office' building with a pay window could be made, sorta like when you take stuff to the dump.

 

[Biggle_Bear]

I guess if I was going to model an underhive waste to soil composter type system I'd go with 2-3 water tower type containers in a row, each with a chute and pullchain underneath so a vehicle could drive up under it or next to it and get a "load". I'd make a ladder up to a catwalk surrounding the open topped vats/towers so workers could stir and agitate the compost mixture with long paddles or rakes.

As a bonus, a 'Main Office' building with a pay window could be made, sorta like when you take stuff to the dump.


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How about that combined with outhouses built above a reclaimed quarry stone crusher / conveyor belt? It then carries the the night soil up to the water towers

 

[Punktaku]

Either low containers (recessed into floor) with narrow walkways between them (open topped, of course) or taller containers (open topped, or course) with catwalks between them. Maybe even going over them.

I made chemical storage ponds ages ago from unused CD storage racks turned upwards.

 

[rustedchrome]

I'd imagine in a hive of billions there wouldn't be much value in selling turds/waste. They probably just tie a pipe into an existing hive sewer line, skim off the solids and pump the liquid back into the system. A separate pump house might be good as well.

 

[rustedchrome]

A "moonshine still" style water purifier would work well in tandem with a night soil seller. Boil the good water out, collect and sell it, the leftover solids go into the compost tank.

 

[Kitcar]

I am starting to feel ill...

 

[Mr. M]

I second @MedMos 's idea - model up some stalls attached to a huge, leaky vat with plenty of pipes, and a tentacle or two! Maybe there are some dollhouse toilets available somewhere, and if not just use balsa wood and drill holes in a plank! Of all the horrors of the underhive - from the sump, to the mutants and brainleaf zombies, to the squalor and hopelessness - the most terrible of all may very well be the public reclamation latrines!

Go easy on the "wet mud" terrain effects products.

 

[Smigs]

Thanks for all the ideas.. I'll post stuff up when I figure it out

 

[MedMos]

Looking forward to pictures! Quite a few of us here enjoy a bit of kit- and trashbashing.

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Makes me think of this:

Gong farmer - Wikipedia

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but for necro I envisage it being a more mechanised system to meet demand, like, scoop hand servitors maybe?
also, historically, aristocratic poop was deemed more valuable because of their richer diet, perhaps spire logs are a thing?

 

[Punktaku]

“Spire Logs” were sold at a hefty price until it was discovered they really came from the Sump Sea shanty towns…

“Spyrer Logs” are rare finds, ejected from battle suits in remote locations.

 

[Kitcar]

DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE A BIDET!

 

[Grognard Gluefingers]

Toilets, etc.

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In a city of billions, the business idea doesn't even have to make total sense. It just has to be an attempt.

 

[daveh]

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• daveh
• Jun 4, 2022