Cherimoya Rotsac

-![Cherimoya Rotsac](Cherimoya_Rotsac.png)-  | Property | Details | | :--- | :--- | | **Species** | *Rotsac cherimoya* | | **Attitude** | Passive | | **Type** | Anchored | | **Category** | Tunics | | **Biome** | Coral Gardens | | **Nutrition** | Food +10 / Health 0 / Water +5 |  +![Cherimoya Rotsac](Cherimoya_Rotsac.png)+  The **Cherimoya Rotsac** is a sessile, edible lifeform similar to Earth's tunicates. They can be found within Cage Gorgons and can be grown by the player.   When eaten raw, it provides +10 to the food meter and +5 to the water meter. However, it can be used to make Pavlova and Cherimoya Chutney, both of which recover significantly more food points than the raw cherimoya rotsac.   ## Appearance The Cherimoya Rotsac has a green body that resembles Cherimoya fruit.   ## Recipe-The Cherimoya Rotsac can be planted using the Habitat Builder.+The Cherimoya Rotsac can be propagated using the Habitat Builder.   | Machine | Input | Output | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Habitat Builder | 1x Cherimoya Rotsac | 1x Cherimoya Rotsac |   ## Uses in Crafting The Cherimoya Rotsac is an ingredient in the following recipes: *   Pavlova *   Cherimoya Chutney   ## Databank **Source:** Scan a Cherimoya Rotsac   *Rotsac cherimoya*. A tunicate-like animal which collects alcohol from decaying matter to produce a creamy, flavorful mucus.   1.  **Cherimoya**     Named for its resemblance to the terrestrial cherimoya fruit (or custard apple). It can be eaten whole or sucked on through a straw; the exterior tunic is soft but the heart, nervous system, and other organs should be spat out. The rotsac contains mercury sulfide, which will eventually accumulate to dangerous levels in the human body.   2.  **Peculiar metabolism**     As a rough inverse of the lucifer rotsac, the cherimoya rotsac converts alcohols to sugars rather than decomposing sugars to alcohols. The cherimoya achieves this with a chemical pathway that does not occur on Earth. Aqueous cinnabar provides a source of mercury to oxidize alcohols into simple sugars. The cherimoya has no other behaviors: it simply stores sugars as it grows into a taut, full adult.   3.  **Symbiotic partner**     Because of its plentiful stored sugars, the cherimoya is a common symbiotic partner for organisms like the cage gorgon.   4.  **Enteric reproduction**     The cherimoya rotsac is gonochoric - either male or female. However, it does not release eggs or sperm into the seawater. Instead, its reproductive cells are eaten by organisms feeding on the cherimoya. They seek out other cherimoya rotsacs' gametes in the digestive tract of the host. The fertilized embryos are then expelled by the host organism, providing them with nutritious waste to bootstrap their growth.          *Assessment: edible. Your digestive tract may briefly become pregnant.*   ## Gallery ![The Rotsac encased in the Cage Gorgon symbiote in the Plateaus](Cage_Gorgon_and_Cherimoya_Rotsac.png)+The Rotsac encased in the Cage Gorgon symbiote in the Plateaus+  ![The Rotsac freed from the Cage and free-floating. It will eventually sink](Cherimoya_Rotsac_1.png)-![The Rotsac is easily seen from a distance at night in the Plateaus](Cage_and_Rotsac_at_night.png)+The Rotsac freed from the Cage and free-floating. It will eventually sink+ +![The Rotsac is easily seen from a distance at night in the Plateaus](Cage_and_Rotsac_at_night.png)+The Rotsac is easily seen from a distance at night in the Plateaus