Chloroplasts in later stages

If you get chloroplasts in to your cell in Microbe stage and than keep them in Multicellular+ stage, will you be able to produce small amounts of enegry/food with them?

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Yes, the devs have confirmed you can play as a plant.

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I mean like an animal but with some of it’s parts doing photosynthesis.

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There are animals that do photosynthesis.

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Well that’s good to hear.

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Although, if we’re going for scientific accuracy, the energy chloroplasts produce will be limited as compared to the needs of a motile animal. Particularly if your animal is warm blooded or big brained.

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the generating their own electrical current part of that article made me think about how one would make a protein that synthesizes atp with the energy source being electric current
edit: i didn’t realize this thread was dead for 3 years

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