I don’t think they are “vital” for the ecosystems to function…
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The plants in question need much less sunlight than their higher evolved outdoor relatives. Because a simpler plant needs less energy and therefore can survive deeper in the cave where less sunlight reaches.
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They still can’t survive with no sunlight through.
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I who learn botanics for his works in the labs can answer this:
Plants even in important set stone in energy pyramid, if the right condisone, they can survive without sunlight for some time and over time even lose they chloroplase
that whats happen to the most devistaed plant pest:
The Oomycete - consider close relative of the diatoms that act like fungi:
Cistanche - a fully parasitic plant of plants
All the Lampenflora type of plants
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Consider this: Brown Algae can survive up to 115 feet below the waters surface, and Red Algae can survive at a depth of over 800 feet down, where humans cannot perceive light at all. The type of photosynthesis used by Red Algae allows some primitive plants to acquire enough sunlight to live DEEP inside caves.
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I guess so. But don’t expect them to thrive in caves where no light can get in at all.
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Excuse me, this is a scientific game we are making, so I cannot tolerate this invasion by weird units that aren’t part of the SI units.
In case it isn’t obvious, I’m partly joking.
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There is no rule banning the eagle units…
Will it be possible to develop flight in macroscopic?
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But there can be one
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So you’ve considered adding such a ban?
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Feet? Its the measurement the article I read used.
Perhaps you prefer this?
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03mex/background/seaweeds/seaweeds.html
It says they can grow up to 295 Meters down. Which is deeper than the other article.
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Any article not using scientific units is very questionable source in my opinion. Like if they didn’t even bother to use proper units, what else are they doing wrong?
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For the record, there are currently 38 posts on this forum that use “feet” as a measurement, not a body part. And I am happy to post links to each and every one of them. And that is only partially a joke as well.
I either have just quickly read it determined it was whatever (so I wasn’t involved in the ongoing discussion), or I didn’t have energy to bother saying anything.
Also I’ve already apparently expressed my dislike of the units back in 2022 already:
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I am agree with hhy about not reliable info source.
that site its for me, one who work with scientifically articles in weekly basis its for me and form my moderator, not seen like a good enough for some real science
This how real one looks like:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0503674102
" An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent", and ARTICLES about some possible discovery about photosythsis on deep-sea hydrothermal vent
that better info from what have u send and its from reliable info that I can accsas from my university 
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Well there’s no way these bacteria are making their way into Thrive.
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It says its from “Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Science” and comes with 36 references at the bottom.
Its says Algae can grow up to 295 meters down. And it doesn’t mention needing chemotrophy to do it.
Edit:
While it wasn’t quite the plant I was talking about, I have actually been looking for an article confirming the existence of plants that grow in vents without needing sunlight, so thank you.
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How much light is down there when compared with the surface?
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It has a lot of “blue” light, although not enough for a human eye to detect. Its actually requires a different type of photosynthesis than what green plants use, which is another problem for a different day. The devs may not be interested in branching out photosynthesis at this time, but, when Aware comes around, modders or future devs that have not joined yet might.
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That’s probably why these plants are red and not green…
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