stone_upgrades_old.txt

    stoneUpgrades: {
        crystalBite: {
            name: "Crystal Bite-Gear",
            desc: "Bite the crystals we have into something to help biting!",
            researchedMessage: "Weird teeth-wear has been developed, and sharks can now catch fish better as a result.",
            effectDesc:
                "Sharks are twice as effective with their new biting gear. Turns out they work better outside the mouth!",
            cost: {
                science: 50,
                fish: 10,
                crystal: 5,
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shark: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        crystalScoop: {
            name: "Crystal Scoopers",
            desc: "Gathering crystals is hard. Maybe science can make it easier??",
            researchedMessage: "We have developed weird little trowels for the crabs. Progress?",
            effectDesc: "Crabs are twice as effective at gathering crystals.",
            cost: {
                science: 75,
                crystal: 10,
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    crab: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        crystalContainer: {
            name: "Crystal Containers",
            desc: "Make weird bottle things from the crystals we have. Maybe useful??",
            researchedMessage:
                "Well, things can go into these containers that aren't water. This makes science easier!",
            effectDesc: "Scientists are twice as effective at making with the science.",
            cost: {
                science: 100,
                crystal: 50,
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    scientist: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        statsDiscovery: {
            name: "Storage Caverns",
            desc:
                "It's about time to start moving the stores we have to a better place. We've found one but it needs setting up.",
            researchedMessage:
                "All the goods we've acquired are now being stored and itemised in a mostly flooded cavern system. No more stray currents washing it all away hopefully!",
            effectDesc:
                "By storing things in a centralised location, we now finally have an idea of what we're doing. Sort of.",
            cost: {
                science: 150,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["crystalContainer"],
            },
        },

        underwaterChemistry: {
            name: "Underwater Chemistry",
            desc: "With the weird bottles, we can now put things and other things into them and see what happens.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Well, nothing useful was determined, but if we keep on doing it we make tremendous leaps for science!",
            effectDesc: "Scientists are twice as effective with their new chemical insights.",
            cost: {
                science: 200,
                crystal: 50,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["crystalContainer"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    scientist: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        seabedGeology: {
            name: "Seafloor Geology",
            desc: "Study the bottom of the ocean to determine the rich, deep, juicy secrets it contains.",
            researchedMessage:
                "The rays found that there was a bunch of rocky sediment on the seafloor. This requires further study!",
            effectDesc:
                "Rays find twice as many fish by understanding their hiding spots. Also, gravel has been discovered. This is...useful??",
            cost: {
                science: 250,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["crystalContainer"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    ray: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        thermalVents: {
            name: "Thermal Vents",
            desc: "Investigate the boiling vents that just seem to keep on heating things up.",
            researchedMessage: "This is a wondrous, unending source of heat! Something good must come from this.",
            effectDesc: "A power source for future technologies has been discovered.",
            cost: {
                science: 350,
                gravel: 300,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["seabedGeology"],
            },
        },

        crystalShovel: {
            name: "Crystal Shovels",
            desc: "Perhaps this gravel stuff has a use. Let's see if collecting it does any good.",
            researchedMessage: "Operation shovel-it-up has been a complete success! The rays are ecstatic.",
            effectDesc: "Rays can now specialise in shovelling gravel.",
            cost: {
                science: 450,
                crystal: 100,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["seabedGeology", "crystalScoop"],
            },
        },

        spongeCollection: {
            name: "Sponge Collection",
            desc:
                "We can see these things littering the rocks and boulders, but we don't know how to collect them without breaking them.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Understanding the fragile nature of sponges and their weird porous texture, we can now collect sponges by not biting so hard.",
            effectDesc: "Sponge can be collected manually, 2 at a time.",
            cost: {
                science: 250,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["seabedGeology"],
            },
        },

        clamScooping: {
            name: "Clam Scooping",
            desc: "We see these things all over the seabed but we can't tell which are clams and which are rocks.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Patient observation has shown that clams and rocks are in fact different and distinct things. Now we won't be scooping up any more rocks (at least, not on accident)!",
            effectDesc: "Clams can be collected like fish.",
            cost: {
                science: 750,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["seabedGeology"],
                resources: ["clam"],
            },
        },

        pearlConversion: {
            name: "Pearl Conversion",
            desc:
                "There's these things inside the clams that look shiny like crystals. Maybe we can transmute them to crystals?",
            researchedMessage:
                "Well, we can transmute pearls to crystals now, but we need more of the clam. The whole clam. Yes. The entire clam.",
            effectDesc:
                "We can turn clams into crystals using the pearls inside them as a focus. Maybe one day we won't need to use the entire clam.",
            cost: {
                science: 1500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["clamScooping", "transmutation"],
                resources: ["clam"],
            },
        },

        jellyfishHunting: {
            name: "Jellyfish Hunting",
            desc:
                "Jellyfish are plenty in the farther waters, but our attempts to catch them is met only with pain. We need better tactics.",
            researchedMessage:
                "The trick to catching jellyfish is caution and avoiding the stinging tendrils. They burn. Oh, they burn.",
            effectDesc: "Jellyfish can be caught like fish. Hey, a fish is a fish, right?",
            cost: {
                science: 800,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["seabedGeology"],
                resources: ["jellyfish"],
            },
        },

        prospectorSharks: {
            name: "Prospector Sharks",
            desc: "The caves of the grotto have lots of crystals, but they're all stuck to the walls!",
            researchedMessage:
                "The heat from thermal vents lets us sharpen existing crystals enough to break new ones off the walls!",
            effectDesc: "Sharks can now leave fish duty for the mines in search of better socioeconomic opportunities.",
            cost: {
                science: 950,
                gravel: 500,
                sand: 150,
                crystal: 275,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["statsDiscovery", "thermalVents", "agriculture"],
                resources: ["shark", "gravel"],
            },
        },

        automation: {
            name: "Automation",
            desc: "Using sharkonium, we can make things to do things so we don't have to do the things!",
            researchedMessage: "Now we don't have to do all the work, machines can do it for us! Future!!",
            effectDesc: "Machines can be built to supplement population duties. This is efficient.",
            cost: {
                science: 2500,
                sharkonium: 250,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["thermalVents", "transmutation"],
            },
        },

        engineering: {
            name: "Engineering",
            desc: "The machines sort of suck. Let's make them better by learning how!",
            researchedMessage: "The machines are twice as good now! We've figured out new designs in the process, too!",
            effectDesc: "Machines are twice as effective. Skimmers and auto-transmuters are now possible to create.",
            cost: {
                science: 2500,
                sharkonium: 1750,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["automation"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    crystalMiner: 2,
                    fishMachine: 2,
                    crusher: 2,
                    pulverizer: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        gravelPulverizing: {
            name: "Gravel Pulverizing",
            desc: "Sure, crabs can break down gravel into sand, but it's really slow.",
            researchedMessage:
                "A tight set of tumblers destroys anything inserted into its gaping maw. It's a wonder of science! And extremely lethal! Heed the caution signs!",
            effectDesc: "Pulverizers efficiently turn gravel into sand.",
            cost: {
                science: 7500,
                sharkonium: 250,
                gravel: 2500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["automation", "prospectorSharks"],
            },
        },

        rockProcessing: {
            name: "Rock Processing",
            desc:
                "Despite all of our advancements, we still can't seem to break stone quickly! Maybe a machine can help?",
            researchedMessage: "We've invented an incredibly dangerous machine which tumbles stones into gravel!",
            effectDesc: "Crushers can now be built, efficiently converting stone directly into gravel.",
            cost: {
                science: 7500,
                sharkonium: 500,
                stone: 2500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["automation", "prospectorSharks"],
            },
        },

        recyclerDiscovery: {
            name: "Recycler",
            desc:
                "Devise a system of pulverising unwanted resources into a component paste, and reusing them as something else.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Well this thing is frankly terrifying. I wouldn't swim anywhere near the input holes if I were you. Maybe it'll help though!",
            effectDesc:
                "Allows recycling of materials by virtue of a horrifying mechanical maw that consumes all that ventures near it. Future?",
            cost: {
                science: 20000,
                sharkonium: 25000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["iterativeDesign"],
            },
        },

        sprongeBiomimicry: {
            name: "Spronge Biomimicry",
            desc:
                "The cephalopod school of thought is that a machine that mimics life is a better machine. We don't understand this so well yet.",
            researchedMessage:
                "For machines that mimic life, these things sure put out a lot of pollution. It's sort of alarming. Very alarming, even.",
            effectDesc:
                "We can mimic some of the life-mimicking biotechnology the octopuses use, but it gums up the oceans so quickly. So very dangerous.",
            cost: {
                science: 3000,
                spronge: 3000,
                junk: 1500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["automation", "industrialGradeSponge"],
                resources: ["sponge", "junk"],
            },
        },

        agriculture: {
            name: "Agriculture",
            desc:
                "The hunter-gatherer lifestyle will only work so well for us. Maybe we should gather these animals in one place and let them grow.",
            researchedMessage:
                "It is so much easier to get things when they're all in one place. It's like the ocean is our grotto now!",
            effectDesc: "Various roles are twice as effective thanks to farming regions for various types of sponges.",
            cost: {
                science: 1000,
                sand: 50,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["seabedGeology", "gravelMilling"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    worker: 2,
                    harvester: 2,
                    treasurer: 2,
                    scavenger: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        biology: {
            name: "Biology",
            desc: "What is a shark? What is inside a shark, except for large amounts of fish?",
            researchedMessage:
                "With a new understanding of their own biology, sharks can now specialise in the manufacture of new sharks.",
            effectDesc:
                "Sharks are twice as effective. Did you know shark eggs don't actually form just because a shark wills them to exist?",
            cost: {
                science: 400,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["underwaterChemistry", "agriculture"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shark: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        rayBiology: {
            name: "Ray Biology",
            desc:
                "Though kindred to the sharks, we know so little about the rays. If only we could fix this. We need to bait a sand trap.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Apparently we could have just asked. We learned how rays make more rays. It's kinda similar to sharks, really, but rays.",
            effectDesc:
                "Rays and shoveler rays are twice as effective. We may never repair the shark-ray relations to their former state after how awkward this whole affair was.",
            cost: {
                science: 700,
                gravel: 250,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["biology", "crystalShovel"],
                resources: ["ray"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    ray: 2,
                    shoveler: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        gravelMilling: {
            name: "Gravel Milling",
            desc:
                "We've hit a dead end, but the crabs just had an idea. Maybe with all this gravel we've been collecting, we could find a way to make sand?",
            researchedMessage:
                "As it turns out, we were totally onto something. Specialized equipment lets crabs grind up gravel into sand!",
            effectDesc: "Crabs can specialize in the reduction of gravel into sand.",
            cost: {
                science: 750,
                gravel: 550,
                crystal: 200,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["thermalVents", "crystalShovel"],
                resources: ["crab", "gravel"],
            },
        },

        crabBiology: {
            name: "Crab Biology",
            desc:
                "Crabs are a mystery. They keep to themselves and dig up crystals or break down pebbles. What is even up with that? What ARE crabs??",
            researchedMessage:
                "It turns out crabs are friendly crustaceans that have revealed to the sharks the secrets of crab generation. It involves eggs, or something. Squirmy eggs.",
            effectDesc:
                "Crabs and miller crabs are twice as effective. Crabs are alright but they are also sort of terrifying and weird. Good job they're on our side!",
            cost: {
                science: 500,
                fish: 450,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["biology", "sunObservation", "gravelMilling"],
                resources: ["crab"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    crab: 4,
                    miller: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        crustaceanBiology: {
            name: "Crustacean Biology",
            desc: "These strange creatures related to crabs require further investigation. What is with exoskeletons?",
            researchedMessage: "We've figured out how these shellfish function. There's far too many limbs involved.",
            effectDesc:
                "Shrimp and lobsters are twice as effective. Lobsters can now gather other things or cover themselves in shiny eggs, also called 'berries'. What's a berry?",
            cost: {
                science: 500,
                clam: 100,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["biology"],
                resources: ["shrimp", "lobster"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shrimp: 2,
                    lobster: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        rockBreaking: {
            name: "Rock Lobsters",
            desc: "Look at all this stone! It's too big for the crabs to break down! Useless!!",
            researchedMessage:
                "Okay, so given some specialized training, it's not too big for lobsters to break. Noted.",
            effectDesc: "Lobsters can be trained in the art of breaking stones, which makes gravel.",
            cost: {
                science: 1750,
                stone: 250,
                clam: 1500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["crustaceanBiology", "prospectorSharks"],
            },
        },

        eusociality: {
            name: "Eusociality",
            desc:
                "The shrimp are weirder than we thought. They have some advanced social system beyond our comprehension. What is the deal?",
            researchedMessage:
                "We have learned far more than we needed to about the duties of egg bearing queens in eusocial colonies.",
            effectDesc:
                "Shrimp are twice as effective. Shimp queens and dedicated shrimp workers are available, and we'll never sleep soundly again.",
            cost: {
                science: 1000,
                sponge: 500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["crustaceanBiology"],
                resources: ["shrimp"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shrimp: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        wormWarriors: {
            name: "Worm Warriors",
            desc:
                "Shrimp sponge hives are under constant threat from outside invaders that aren't us. A collaboration effort might help them out.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Primordial shark techniques of self-defense have lead to the establishment of a new shrimp caste - the worm warrior.",
            effectDesc:
                "Shrimp, shrimp queens and shrimp workers are twice as effective now that they don't need to worry about worms eating them.",
            cost: {
                science: 3000,
                shrimp: 300,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["eusociality"],
                resources: ["shrimp"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shrimp: 2,
                    queen: 2,
                    worker: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        octopusMethodology: {
            name: "Octopus Methodology",
            desc: "The octopuses claim they know ways to improve their routines and machines.",
            researchedMessage:
                "We have no idea what thought processes guide these cephalopod allies of ours, but they know how to get results.",
            effectDesc:
                "Octopuses can specialise in different tasks, and their machines are constructed to be twice as efficient.",
            cost: {
                science: 8888,
                clam: 88,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["exploration"],
                resources: ["octopus"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    clamCollector: 2,
                    eggBrooder: 2,
                    sprongeSmelter: 2,
                    seaScourer: 2,
                    prostheticPolyp: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        octalEfficiency: {
            name: "Octal Efficiency",
            desc: "The octopuses wish to further enhance their productivity for collective gain.",
            researchedMessage:
                "The instructions constructed and disseminated by the octopuses are complex and only understood to other octopuses. Head hurts. Something about the number eight.",
            effectDesc:
                "Octopuses and their specialists are twice as effective, as our their machines. Find unity in efficiency.",
            cost: {
                science: 88888,
                clam: 888,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["octopusMethodology"],
                resources: ["octopus"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    clamCollector: 2,
                    eggBrooder: 2,
                    sprongeSmelter: 2,
                    seaScourer: 2,
                    prostheticPolyp: 2,
                    octopus: 2,
                    collector: 2,
                    scavenger: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        sunObservation: {
            name: "Sun Observation",
            desc: "We must determine what is with the weird glare on the surface of the water.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Shark science has discovered the sun! It has also discovered that looking directly into the sun hurts.",
            effectDesc:
                "Planter crabs are twice as effective, and shrimp are four times as effective. Is a suns worth many fish? We can see a sun, but where is it really? And by what is it made of?",
            cost: {
                science: 5000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["agriculture"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shrimp: 4,
                },
            },
        },

        transmutation: {
            name: "Transmutation",
            desc: "By heating things up and doing science things to them, maybe new things can be made!",
            researchedMessage:
                "A new form of material has been discovered! It has been named after its discoverer, Dr. Sharkonium.",
            effectDesc:
                "Enables transmutation of some random junk we have lying around into sharkonium, material of the future.",
            cost: {
                science: 2000,
                crystal: 1500,
                sand: 1000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["thermalVents", "underwaterChemistry", "gravelMilling"],
            },
        },

        industrialGradeSponge: {
            name: "Industrial-Grade Sponge",
            desc:
                "Our octopus contacts inform us that sponge is highly useful with a little augmentation. Let's figure this out.",
            researchedMessage:
                "By infusing sponge with processed matter, we have devised spronge, a versatile super-material that kind of freaks us out!",
            effectDesc:
                "Enables creation of spronge, the backbone... uh... the core material in cephalopod technology.",
            cost: {
                science: 1000,
                sponge: 2000,
                junk: 4000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["thermalVents", "octopusMethodology", "recyclerDiscovery"],
                resources: ["sponge", "junk"],
            },
        },

        sharkoniumMillingGear: {
            name: "Sharkonium Milling Gear",
            desc: "Sand grinding is really hard! The pulverizers have taught us that sharkonium makes it easier.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Yes, as it turns out, sharkonium does make it easier. Sharkonium grinding tools are way harder than any rock.",
            effectDesc: "Miller crabs are four times as effective. Manual labor!",
            cost: {
                science: 7500,
                sharkonium: 1000,
                gravel: 10000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["crabBiology", "pulverizer", "engineering"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    miller: 4,
                },
            },
        },

        sharkoniumBreakingGear: {
            name: "Sharkonium Breaking Gear",
            desc: "Design better gear for breaking rocks, because it's really difficult!",
            researchedMessage:
                "Sharkonium rock-crackers have been developed and are being deployed to all rock lobsters.",
            effectDesc: "Rock lobsters are four times as effective. Manual labor!",
            cost: {
                science: 7500,
                sharkonium: 1250,
                stone: 7500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["crabBiology", "crusher", "engineering"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    rockLobster: 4,
                },
            },
        },

        sharkoniumPickaxes: {
            name: "Sharkonium Pickaxes",
            desc: "These crystal pickaxes keep breaking! Maybe we should make some new ones...",
            researchedMessage:
                "As it turns out, sharkonium is perfect for the job! Crystals are literally flying off the walls! It's dangerous, but productive!",
            effectDesc: "Better pickaxes mean prospectors can break stone and crystal twice as fast.",
            cost: {
                science: 1200,
                sharkonium: 200,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["transmutation", "prospectorSharks"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    prospector: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        miningLights: {
            name: "Mining Lights",
            desc:
                "Now that I think about it, I guess it IS really dark in the caves...maybe we could invent some sort of...miniature suns to help?",
            researchedMessage: "It just so happens that seeing is beneficial to productivity. Who would've guessed?",
            effectDesc: "Being able to SEE makes prospectors four times faster underground.",
            cost: {
                science: 12000,
                sharkonium: 3500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["engineering", "sunObservation"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    prospector: 4,
                },
            },
        },

        iterativeDesign: {
            name: "Iterative Design",
            desc:
                "The machines are good, but they could totally be better! Let's keep building them until they're better!",
            researchedMessage:
                "After hundreds of hours of testing, the final product has our machines running faster than ever!",
            effectDesc: "Machines are twice as fast.",
            cost: {
                science: 25000,
                sharkonium: 17500,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["engineering"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    crystalMiner: 2,
                    fishMachine: 2,
                    sandDigger: 2,
                    autoTransmuter: 2,
                    skimmer: 2,
                    crusher: 2,
                    pulverizer: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        exploration: {
            name: "Exploration",
            desc: "Swim beyond the home seas to see what can be found!",
            researchedMessage:
                "Found lots of schools of fish! So many different schools! And such untapped gravel reserves!",
            effectDesc: "Sharks, rays, and shovelers are twice as effective. Did you know oceans are big? Fascinating!",
            cost: {
                science: 5000,
                fish: 5000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["sunObservation"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shark: 2,
                    ray: 2,
                    shoveler: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        farExploration: {
            name: "Far Explorations",
            desc: "Explore the vast reaches beyond the home ocean.",
            researchedMessage: "Crystal-rich deposits were found, as well as strange, deep chasms.",
            effectDesc:
                "Crabs are four times as effective, and prospectors are doubly effective. Did you know oceans are actually even bigger than big? Remarkable!",
            cost: {
                science: 8000,
                fish: 15000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["exploration"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    crab: 4,
                    prospector: 2,
                },
            },
        },

        gateDiscovery: {
            name: "Chasm Exploration",
            desc: "A campaign of risky, foolhardy expeditions to the deeps, to find whatever can be found.",
            researchedMessage:
                "A strange structure was found from clues within the chasms. The cost was great, but the discovery is greater!",
            effectDesc: "Something ancient lurked in the depths.",
            cost: {
                science: 1e6,
                shark: 1000,
                fish: 50000,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["farExploration"],
            },
        },

        // SUPERSCIENCE

        ancestralRecall: {
            name: "Ancestral Recall",
            desc:
                "The sharks and rays know we share some features among ourselves. Using the vague glimpses of dreams, let's piece together the puzzle.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Our giant ancestors and the creatures of a long distant past have inspired us to become even greater!",
            effectDesc:
                "Sharks, rays and chimaeras, and their roles, are all four times as effective. We have had a glorious past. Now, on to a glorious future.",
            cost: {
                science: 1e10,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["gateDiscovery"],
                resources: ["shark", "ray", "chimaera"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    shark: 4,
                    diver: 4,
                    science: 4,
                    nurse: 4,
                    ray: 4,
                    maker: 4,
                    laser: 4,
                    chimaera: 4,
                    transmuter: 4,
                    explorer: 4,
                },
            },
        },

        utilityCarapace: {
            name: "Utility Carapace",
            desc: "The exoskeleton is good enough, but with some adjustments, perhaps coralglass can improve it.",
            researchedMessage:
                "Coralglass carapace augmentation is a go! The crustaceans now carry their protection and their tools everywhere they go.",
            effectDesc:
                "Crabs, shrimp and lobsters, and their roles, are all four times as effective. A shell protects, and a shell interfaces.",
            cost: {
                science: 1e10,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["gateDiscovery", "coralglassSmelting"],
                resources: ["crab", "shrimp", "lobster"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    crab: 4,
                    brood: 4,
                    planter: 4,
                    shrimp: 4,
                    worker: 4,
                    queen: 4,
                    lobster: 4,
                    berrier: 4,
                    harvester: 4,
                },
            },
        },

        eightfoldOptimisation: {
            name: "Eightfold Optimisation",
            desc: "Enhance productivity. Optimise. Improve. Improve.",
            researchedMessage: "Peak productivity attained. Maintain course. Maintain efficiency.",
            effectDesc:
                "Octopuses and their roles, as well as their machines, are all four times as effective. Optimised.",
            cost: {
                science: 8e10,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["gateDiscovery", "octalEfficiency"],
                resources: ["octopus"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    octopus: 4,
                    collector: 4,
                    scavenger: 4,
                    clamCollector: 4,
                    eggBrooder: 4,
                    sprongeSmelter: 4,
                    seaScourer: 4,
                    prostheticPolyp: 4,
                },
            },
        },

        mechanisedAlchemy: {
            name: "Mechanised Alchemy",
            desc: "Better engineering and transmutation processes lead to a refinement of our machines.",
            researchedMessage: "We are blurring the line between science and magic more than ever before!",
            effectDesc:
                "Shark machines are all four times as effective. We work better with the machines, not against them.",
            cost: {
                science: 1e10,
            },
            required: {
                upgrades: ["gateDiscovery", "iterativeDesign"],
                resources: ["sharkonium"],
            },
            effect: {
                multiplier: {
                    fishMachine: 4,
                    crystalMiner: 4,
                    sandDigger: 4,
                    autoTransmuter: 4,
                    skimmer: 4,
                    crusher: 4,
                    pulverizer: 4,
                },
            },
        },
    },