Environmental Conditions

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There are a number of environmental conditions in Thrive. These affect the processes of certain Organelles, such as Sunlight sunlight affecting Photosynthesis in Chloroplasts.

Physical Conditions

There are three main conditions that affect the processes of organelles:

  • Sunlight sunlight
  • Pressure
  • Temperature temperature

Currently only Sunlight sunlight and Temperature temperature have any real affect:

These conditions are treated similarity to Compounds, but are more unique to each patch, and do not appear as compound clouds.

Environmental gasses

These are Compounds that are only present as percentages in the environment. Similarly, they change the rate at which certain processes happen. They affect most Organelles.

The day/night cycle

The day/night cycle is a setting which can be enabled in the new game menu. When the day/night cycle is enabled, patches with Sunlight sunlight cycle between 0 and 100 % lux in a set amount of time (which can also be changed in the settings).

This causes Photosynthesis to become much more unreliable and harder to survive with. Autotrophs using Sunlight sunlight need to evolve storage (for example by using Vacuoles) to survive the night.