Growth vat

Growth vat

A vat of fluid which can gestate an embryo or accelerate a child's growth.
While growing or gestating, the vat must be fed with a constant supply of nutrition to provide the feedstock for growth. Gestating an embryo takes twice the nutrition of accelerating a child's growth.
Embryos are gestated for 9 days before a baby is formed. There is a risk of health complications.
Child growth can only be accelerated up to age 18, but not beyond. While growing, a child's skills will slowly increase. Children raised in growth vats will have lower skills and gain fewer passions than normal.
The device uses chemical injections, electrical stimulation, and simple mechanite treatments to push the body to grow. Growth vats are often used to quickly manufacture engineered workers or warriors.

Base Stats

Type

Building

Building

Power

-80 W

Creation

Resources to make

150 + 4

Deconstruct yield

75 + 2

Destroy yield

37 - 38 + 1

Summary

Is used to speed up aging of pawns under 18 or to create new pawns from an embryo Embryo will take 9 days to become a child.

Can also be used to speed up aging of children 20x the speed of normal aging.

Analysis

Growth vats can be used to age pawns up to 18. Aging a teen (13-17) to 18 is usually worthwhile, as pawns under 18 have lots of workspeed penalties.

Babys can be placed in the growth vat to to speed up reaching toddler age. There are no apparent ill effects, apart from parents having a -4 moodlet. Also, it negates the mood buffs from having a happy baby in the colony ^{[Not been extensively checked?]}.

Placing babys in the vat also reduces your need for baby food as normal nutriton can be used. ^{[Maybe even nutrient paste?]}.

^{[Any penalty to growth if child has reached growth tier 8?]}.