K'ois: How not to die miserably to the deadly alien fungi

[Gangstafary]

I have become motivated to do this guide because I have seen multiple times people talking "scarily" about k'ois when it's not really a big deal. If you're not a xenobotanist nor anything related, it's logical for you to not to know much about its handling, so this guide is intentionally for xenobotanist.

New to xenobotanics? We all have been there at some point. Have already been rushed to the medbay with mycosis and have felt the hate around you as tangible as your mouse? It's okay, no great xenobotanist has ever achieved their status without passing through that, and surely the medbay players deserved it.

Well, first. Why k'ois?  K'ois is a great plant species to begin figuring out the plant genome by contrast cause it's a highly different plant from all the rest. Also K'ois is a Vaurca necessity but who cares, right? Also in the worst of the scenarios, you could be providing at least your department with some phoron, but that'd mean everyone else is being really incompetent. Besides that, it has already some interesting traits to use in your future plant projects which nobody will ever care about.

So. Start using K'ois to figure out the plant genome. Luckily, you'll find the appeareance gene before being left with the last k'ois spores in the seed vendor, so you can ditch whatever non-sporing appeareance to K'ois to be able to keep using it for plant genome mapping. If you don't find the appeareance gene before being left with only one K'ois spore, this is where this guide comes to help:

1 Head to your hazardoes specimens activate pumps and filters.
2 Get botanist gloves and a plant bag.
3 Get into the biohazard suit and, FOR GOD'S LOVE, get internals too.
4 Make sure the room airlocks are closed and pumps running.
5 Plant the K'ois, toggle the lid close and set lighting to 1 lumen, which is what K'ois likes.
6 Enjoy watching plants grow.
7 Even if you wait for K'ois to naturally spore (which you should do btw), harvesting it will make the spore cloud blast your face so, besides the biohazard suit, wear and USE internals. 
8 Once you're done, kill every K'ois growing outside the tray.
9 Wash your hands, remove biohazard helmet, wash it, wash hands, remove biohazard suit, wash hands, remove gloves, wash gloves. This is a bit OCD, yes, but preventions is key.
10 You're done, you've successfully bred the death shroom without getting a nasty mycosis. Was it that hard you nerds?

If you fail in any of the steps from the 5th onward, head to medbay telling them the horrible things you did. Go and show the rest how you're now a big kid who knows how to handle their K'ois. 




 

Edited December 13, 2019 by Gangstafary

[Garnascus]

Good guide. If this stops even one medbay turning into a kois fiesta then you've done good work here.