Biomass

alaindustrial:biomass

MaterialsImplementedmaterialbiomassagriculturebyproduct

Summary

Biomass is the dense organic residue that sometimes survives fermentation. Of the two outputs of the fermenter it is the unguaranteed one: biofuel is always brewed, while biomass drops on a roll. That is exactly the point of the split: the fluid is what fermentation inevitably yields, the solid lump is a matter of luck.

Biomass has no use yet. It is registered, it is made out of organic matter, it sits in the inventory — and that is all. No recipe in the mod accepts it, and it does not serve as furnace fuel. This is a deliberate placeholder for a future machine of the organic branch; the recycler's "material scrap" already lives in the mod the same way. It is written down honestly so the player does not go looking for a use that is not there.

Obtaining

The only source is the fermenter. The chance by the recipe and depends on the feedstock tier; each batch yields 1 biomass or nothing at all.

Feedstock tier	Eats	Biomass chance	Batches per item (on average)
Poor (garden litter)	4 items	6 %	~17
Common (harvest, raw meat, eggs)	2 items	20 %	5
Rich (cooked, golden, honey, hay bales)	1 item	50 %	2

A batch costs 600 EU/FE and 300 ticks regardless of the tier, so biomass from cheap litter works out at roughly 10 000 EU/FE apiece, and from rich feedstock at 1 200 EU/FE. The difference is deliberate: the chance is a second, rarer reward for expensive feedstock.

A datapack can switch the lottery off entirely: a recipe with no chance field yields biomass on every batch.

Item Properties

What	Value
Type	an ordinary item with no behaviour
Stack	64
Furnace fuel	no
Recipes that consume it	none

Progression

It appears together with the fermenter — a by-product of the start of the organic chain.
The chain's main line runs past biomass: fermenter → biofuel → distillation column → nutrient solution → sprinkler. There is no need to hoard biomass for that chain.