Function: metabolise()
lifecycle-kit / chem / metabolise
Function: metabolise()
metabolise(
state,food,activity,backbone?):MetabolicState
Defined in: chem/metabolism.ts:147
Convert intake into tissue.
A tissue is only built if the food supplied its inputs AND the pet's activity called for it, so feeding protein to a sedentary pet banks lipid rather than building muscle. Scarcer tissues build more slowly, which is how phosphorus scarcity becomes something the player feels.
backbone defaults to carbon, so every existing caller (and every
pre-existing test) is unaffected. A caller that knows the creature's world
— currentBackbone() in the pet game — passes it through, and the demand
AND build-speed discount both then read from the same world chemistry
rather than assuming carbon regardless of which backbone actually won.
Parameters
state
food
activity
backbone?
Backbone = "C"
