List of alternate/custom resources in mods

[munseeker]

Some of the early comments on my greenhouse mod ( http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/84246-0-23-5-MunSeeker-Greenhouse-Mk1-%28TAC-Life-Support-add-on%29-Update-6-27-2014 ) for TAC LS have suggested a new "bio waste" resource - I'm hesitant to create another unique resource, but maybe something like this already exists in established mods that I don't know about...

Is there a list of custom resources across popular mods?

[XanderTek]

You might want to take a look at Biomass and MKS. Both encoporate a greenhouse into a life support system with various resources. Is there some reason you don't want to just use TAC's "waste" resource?

I agree that it's a good idea to work with existing resources whenever possible.

Edited June 28, 2014 by XanderTek

[somnambulist]

Ackander's hUnified Resource Guidelines and Catalog for Modders might be what you're looking for but I don't believe it's up-to-date. Any thoughts on simple handwavium and saying that the Kerbals simply eject any unusable bio waste? That would account for the mass loss.

[munseeker]

Is there some reason you don't want to just use TAC's "waste" resource?

I agree that it's a good idea to work with existing resources whenever possible.

My greenhouse uses waste as one of its inputs - it uses waste, waste water and carbon dioxide with a good helping of electricity to make some oxygen, clean water and food. I intentionally built it with a loss of mass, since I wanted less than 100% efficiency. And since I use waste as an input, the loss had to be a magical loss of material. I figured that whatever is unusable in this process is vented into space.

So if I want to be a completist about this and not lose mass, I will have to find a good common resource that is already in use by somebody or actually invent some sort of bio-hazard with its own containers. I'm not against that, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel for no reason.

[munseeker]

Ackander's hUnified Resource Guidelines and Catalog for Modders might be what you're looking for but I don't believe it's up-to-date. Any thoughts on simple handwavium and saying that the Kerbals simply eject any unusable bio waste? That would account for the mass loss.

Thanks for that link - that is a great reference to keep around. And there's no bio hazard / bio waste in that one. Doh.

Handwavium is my current explanation. The bio waste that is left over from the reaction is simply vented into space (slowly and diffuse).

I'm now reconsidering and I may add something like 100 units of storage of bio waste (not sure about the name yet) to the greenhouse and it will vent the overflow (that's the default for all TACLS recyclers for all products). And then maybe add bio waste containers as extra units for people who want to ship that stuff around. :-)