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When can biomatter stand in for kelp or steelplast?

The rulebook states this in its ACTION SLOTS AND CARD EFFECTS section.

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Only when paying the kelp or steelplast part of a build cost for a tunnel, building or city, including a card-specified cost such as 3 steelplast for a city. It cannot pay surcharges or buy a card, and it is not turned into kelp or steelplast for end-of-game scoring cards. Feeding unfed cities and selling leftovers at game end have their own biomatter rules.

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