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- "It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
– Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
Recycling Tanks is a base facility in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
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The Recycling Tanks provides +1 nutrient, mineral, and energy per turn in the base square of the base in which it is built. The Pressure Dome can serve the same function as a Recycling Tanks but also protects the base in case it gets submerged in the sea...but it costs twice as much to build. Sea bases are automatically equipped with a Pressure Dome (so Svensgaard will rarely have to worry about Recycling Tanks).
These are generally a waste of resources to build, except at the very beginning of the game or for a base in a particularly resource-poor area. Make a former instead, and use it to build a farm, a mine, and a solar panel. This will produce a much greater payoff in a much shorter time. Plus you'll have the former afterward to use for other things.
| Alpha Centauri Base facilities | |
|---|---|
| Build | AquafarmX • Brood PitX • Energy Bank • Genejack Factory • Headquarters • Hologram Theatre • Hybrid Forest • Nanoreplicator • Nessus Mining Station • Paradise Garden • Punishment Sphere • Quantum Converter • Recreation Commons • Recycling Tanks • Robotic Assembly Plant • Stockpile Energy • Thermocline TransducerX • Tree Farm |
| Conquer | Aerospace Complex • Bioenhancement Center • Command Center • Covert Ops CenterX • Naval Yard • Orbital Defense Pod • Perimeter Defense • Psi Gate • Skunkworks • Subspace GeneratorX • Tachyon Field |
| Discover | Fusion Lab • Nanohospital • Network Node • Orbital Power Transmitter • Quantum Lab • Research Hospital • Subsea TrunklineX |
| Explore | Biology Lab • Centauri Preserve • Children's Creche • Flechette Defense SystemX • Geosynchronous Survey PodX • Hab Complex • Habitation Dome • Pressure Dome • Sky Hydroponics Lab • Temple of Planet |
| X Added in Alien Crossfire | |