• Tar_Alcaran
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    3 months ago

    They accumulate it in a specific organ, but they aren’t magical alchemy machines. It stays in their bodies until they die, then they decompose and it goes back into the ground.

    • Deceptichum
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      3 months ago

      So it’s more like moving heavy metal from soil?

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, unless you’re going around and picking up all the tiny little bugs, you’re not really doing anything to fix the pollution…

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      3 months ago

      Need a new survival craft game where you can tame isopods to collect precious metals.