Biogenerator Biomass Buffer [Thursday]

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About the PR

Creates a biomass resource buffer for the biogenerators. They generate biomass slowly to a certain limit, which is used before the material stacks.

Why / Balance

This feature has been discussed quite a few times and it was something requested by a few chef mains. Turned into something a little bigger than it should, but essentially, this is what it does.

Technical details

So, this is a weird one. Biogenerators are lathes so I had to fundamentally alter lathe code. I did my best to minimize the changes to base systems as little as possible by putting everything else in partial classes that are isolated to the _CS namespace.
I do not like how much code needed to be done for this, but I essentially had to rewrite the lathe's material quantity detection and deduction systems to account for this.

Do I like this? No. But I do not know if I could make this more modular and less intrusive than it already is. If you have ideas, let me know as I'm still learning these things.

How to test

Spawn a biogenerator, look at the pretty buffer. It lets you print things that use biomass!

Media

2026-03-23.22-32-10.mp4

Requirements

• I have read CONTRIBUTING.md and and am following the Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an ingame showcase.
• I have reviewed the Ship Submission Guidelines if relevant.
• I confirm that AI tools were not used in generating the material in this PR.

Breaking changes

Changelog

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• add: Biogenerators now have a buffer system! They generate biomass slowly to a certain limit, which is used before the material stacks.