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=Basic Botany=
  
=Basic Botany=
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To grow plants you will need the following:
  
To grow plants you will need the following:
 
* Seeds
  
* Seeds
 
* A bucket of water
  
* A bucket of water
 
* A tool with shoveling quality 10 or greater
  
* A tool with shoveling quality 10 or greater
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* EZ Grow or another fertilizer chemical
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* E-Z-Nutrient or another fertilizer chemical
 
* A patch of soil
 
* A patch of soil
   
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{| class="wikitable"
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To grow the plants you will need to use a packet of seeds on an empty patch of soil. As the plant grows you may need to add water, fertilizer or remove weeds from the soil patch. You can find out what your plant needs to grow by examining it.
  
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|-
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! Machine !! Name !! Description
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| [[File:Soil.png|frameless|Soil Patch]] || Soil Patch || You plant seeds here
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| [[File:Seedextractor.png|frameless|Seed Extractor]] || Seed Extractor || Convert crops into seeds
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|-
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| [[File:seedservitor_vend.png|frameless|Mega Seed Servitor]] || Mega Seed Servitor || Seed vendor
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|-
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| [[File:nutrimax_vend.png|frameless|Nutrimax Vending Machine]] || Nutrimax || Botany vendor
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|}
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To grow the plants you will need to use a packet of seeds on an empty patch of soil. As the plant grows you may need to add water, fertilizer or remove weeds from the soil patch. You can find out what your plant needs to grow by examining it. Seeds, Fertilizers and tools can be found either in the public garden crates or from the Super Seed Servitor/Nutrimax Vending machines.
   
 
If there is a plant growing in a plot you don't want it in, you can kill the plant by attacking it, or by digging it up in the Aggressive stance.
  
If there is a plant growing in a plot you don't want it in, you can kill the plant by attacking it, or by digging it up in the Aggressive stance.
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When the plant finally matures, the plant icon should look like it has the crops on it. You can pick the fruits of your labors with you hands, or with a produce bag.
  
When the plant finally matures, the plant icon should look like it has the crops on it. You can pick the fruits of your labors with you hands, or with a produce bag.
 
Note that harvesting certain plants removes them from the tray. Luckily, the Seed Extractor machine can transmute one of your crops into multiple seeds for further planting.
  
Note that harvesting certain plants removes them from the tray. Luckily, the Seed Extractor machine can transmute one of your crops into multiple seeds for further planting.
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''Need images for the Mega Seed Servitor, soil plot, Nutrimax, and seed extractor''
  
   
 
=Advanced Botany=
  
=Advanced Botany=
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* Bioballistic Delivery System
  
* Bioballistic Delivery System
 
* Plant Analyzer
  
* Plant Analyzer
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Machine !! Name !! Description
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|-
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| [[File:Hydrotray.png|frameless|A hydroponics tray]] || Hydroponics Tray || A more precise way to grow plants
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|-
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| [[File:Lysisdevice.png|frameless|Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge]] || Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge || Extracts traits from a seed and saves to disk
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|-
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| [[File:Ballisticsystem.png|frameless|Bio-Ballistic Delivery System]] || Bioballistic Delivery System || Applies donor seed trait from buffer
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|}
 
These tools, when properly used, can improve your crop yields by a noticeable margin.
  
These tools, when properly used, can improve your crop yields by a noticeable margin.
   
 
===Hydroponics===
  
===Hydroponics===
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The hydroponics trays and the plant analyzer tool allow for a more fine-tuned approach to growing plants. By using a plant analyzer on a planted plot or tray, you can find out:
   
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* What plant species is growing in the plot
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''Explain Hydroponics Tray and Plant Analyzer''
  
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* Ideal growing light
  +
* Ideal temperature
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* Relative Nutrient consumption
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* Relative Water consumption
  +
  +
The hydroponics trays allow you to modify the plant's local environment by setting the tray's light level and sealing the tray with a lid to pump in air of a different temperature or composition.
  +
  +
Hydroponics trays also have a visual UI to allow the grower an at-a-glance update as to what the plant needs to thrive.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Indicator Light !! Plant ...
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|-
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| Blinking Red || ... needs to be weeded
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|-
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| Yellow || ... needs additional nutrients
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|-
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| Blue || ... needs additional water
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|-
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| Green || ... is ready for harvest
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|-
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| Red || ... is in poor health and may die if left unattended
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|}
   
 
===Modified Crops===
  
===Modified Crops===
   
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Each species of plant has attributes that can be spliced onto other species. These attributes are as follows:
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''Explain modifying crops''
  
   
 
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! Plant Characteristic !! Effect
  
! Plant Characteristic !! Effect
 
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| Vigour || How long the plant takes to mature and produce fruit. How much fruit it produces. Whether it can spread out of its tray(vine).
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| Vigour || How long the plant takes to mature and produce fruit. How much fruit it produces. Whether it can spread out of its tray (ie, vines).
 
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| Biochemistry || Which reagents the fruit contains; which gases the plant generates.
  
| Biochemistry || Which reagents the fruit contains; which gases the plant generates.
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|}
  
|}
   
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If you have a plant that you want to splice a particular attribute from, it can be placed into the Lysis-Isolation centrifuge and processed. Processing the seed consumes it but allows you to select a specific trait and save it to a blank data disk, up until the genetic structure is too damaged to be used.
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=Mysterious Plants=
  
   
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This disk can then be ejected and loaded into the Bioballistic Delivery System, where the attribute data is loaded into the buffer.
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Placing the recipient seed in the Bioballistic Delivery System, you can then apply the new attribute to the receiving seed. The donor attribute disk may be used an indefinite number of times.
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="background-color:black;width:99%" align="center">
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<span style="font-size:1.2em;">'''Unnatural selection and mutations'''</span>
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="background-color:#343241">
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In addition to genetic hybridization, plants may also be mutated into special variants of themselves. Mutations may be induced by applying Unstable Mutagen to a plant, or Left 4 Zed. Note that mutant plants are often fragile and will need extra care.
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</div></div>
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="background-color:black;width:99%" align="center">
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<span style="font-size:1.2em;">'''Mysterious Plants'''</span>
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="background-color:#343241">
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[[File:Fungoartiglieria.png|frameless|right|Tunnel Mushroom]]
 
On occasion special mushrooms or plants may start growing from cracks in the floor or from burrows. These plants, or more specifically the mushrooms can generate chemicals not normally found in growable plants and can potentially make interesting genetic donors for your super plants.
 
On occasion special mushrooms or plants may start growing from cracks in the floor or from burrows. These plants, or more specifically the mushrooms can generate chemicals not normally found in growable plants and can potentially make interesting genetic donors for your super plants.
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To harvest seeds from these plants, use a tool with a cutting attribute in a non-Aggressive stance to gather a sample of the plant. This sample can be used to grow a tamed version of the fungus for testing purposes.
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To harvest seeds from these plants, use a tool with a cutting attribute in a non-Aggressive stance to gather a sample of the plant. This sample can be used to grow a tamed version of the fungus for testing purposes.
   
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</div></div>
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=Beekeeping=
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Enterprising botanists will also notice that it is possible to create bee hives to generate honey. Honey can be used in certain recipes while Beeswax can be used to craft candles. Further information can be found [[Nullaurelian/Guide_To_Beekeeping_ErisEN_Draft|in this guide to beekeeping]].
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=The List=
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{| align="center"
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|-
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! SPOILER WARNING
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|}
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This section contains a selected list of plant species available from the MegaSeed Servitor and possible mutations. This is not a complete list; some species have been left out deliberately to encourage players to play around rather than rush specific cultivars.
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="background-color:black;width:99%" align="center">
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<span style="font-size:1.2em;">'''Plants List'''</span>
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="background-color:#343241">
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Seed Packet !! Plant Species !! Chemicals !! Mutates To !! Notes
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|-
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| [[File:Seed Apple.png|frameless|center]]|| Apple || Nutriment || Golden Apple, Poison Apple ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedAmbrosiaVulgaris.png|frameless|center]]|| Ambrosia Vulgaris || Nutriment, Space Drugs, Kelotane, Bicardine, Toxin || Ambrosia Deus ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedBanana.png|frameless|center]]|| Banana || Banana Juice || - || Eating a banana gives you a banana peel
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|-
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| [[File:SeedBerry.png|frameless|center]]|| Berry || Nutriment, Berry Juice || Glowberry, Poison Berry, Atroberry ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedCabbage.png|frameless|center]]|| Cabbage || Nutriment || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedCacao.png|frameless|center]]|| Cocao || Nutriment, Coco || - || Yes, it is misspelled in game
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|-
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| [[File:SeedCarrot.png|frameless|center]]|| Carrot || Nutriment, Carrot Juice, Imidazoline || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedChanterelle1.png|frameless|center]]|| Chanterelle || Nutriment || Plump Helmet, Reshi, Fly Amanita ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedCherry.png|frameless|center]]|| Cherry || Nutriment, Sugar, Cherry Jelly || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedChili.png|frameless|center]]|| Chili || Nutriment, Capsaicin || Ice Chili ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedCorn.png|frameless|center]]|| Corn || Nutriment, Corn Oil || - || Eating corn leaves you a corn cob
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|-
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| [[File:SeedEggplant.png|frameless|center]]|| Eggplant || Nutriment || Egg Plant ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedGrape.png|frameless|center]]|| Grape || Nutriment, Sugar, Grape Juice || Green Grape ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedGrass.png|frameless|center]]|| Grass || Nutriment || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedLemon.png|frameless|center]]|| Lemon || Nutriment, Lemon Juice || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedLime.png|frameless|center]]|| Lime || Nutriment, Lime Juice || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedOrange.png|frameless|center]]|| Orange || Nutriment, Orange Juice || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedPeanut.png|frameless|center]]|| Peanut || Nutriment || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedPlastellium.png|frameless|center]]|| Plastellium || Plasticide || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedPlumpHelmet.png|frameless|center]]|| Plump Helmets || Nutriment || Walking Mushroom ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedPoppy.png|frameless|center]]|| Poppy || Nutriment, Bicardine || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedPotato.png|frameless|center]]|| Potato || Nutriment, Potato Juice || - || Roaches like potato
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|-
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| [[File:SeedPumpkin.png|frameless|center]]|| Pumpkin || Nutriment || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedRice.png|frameless|center]]|| Rice || Nutriment, Rice || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedSoybean.png|frameless|center]]|| Soybean || Nutriment, Soymilk || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedSugarcane.png|frameless|center]]|| Sugarcane || Sugar || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedSunflower.png|frameless|center]]|| Sunflower || - || -
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|-
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| [[File:SeedTobacco.png|frameless|center]]|| Tobacco || Nicotine || - || Cannot be made into cigarettes (yet)
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|-
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| [[File:SeedTomato.png|frameless|center]]|| Tomato || Nutriment, Tomato Juice || Blue Tomato, Blood Tomato ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedTowerCap.png|frameless|center]]|| Tower Cap || Wood Pulp || - || Tower Cap fruit may be cut up into wood
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|-
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| [[File:SeedWatermelon.png|frameless|center]]|| Watermelon || Nutriment, Watermelon Juice || - ||
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|-
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| [[File:SeedWheat.png|frameless|center]]|| Wheat || Nutriment, Flour || - || Can be fed to Cows and Chickens
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|-
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| [[File:SeedWhitebeet.png|frameless|center]]|| White Beet || Nutriment, Sugar || - ||
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|}
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</div></div>
   
 
=Tips=
  
=Tips=
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[[File:Farmbot.png|right|Farmbot (old sprite)]]
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* One of the biggest boosts to plant productivity is a Farming Robot.
 
  +
* One of the biggest boosts to plant productivity is a Farming Robot: it can water, weed, fertilize and harvest plants.
  +
** Farmbots have terrible pathing AI: Agrolytes are recommended to have multiple bots or rearrange the trays to be more accessible.
 
* Buckets (and all containers) can have the transfer amount set via the dropdown menu. Setting the transfer amount to the full 200u will allow for you to 1-click refill a soil plot or hydroponics tray.
  
* Buckets (and all containers) can have the transfer amount set via the dropdown menu. Setting the transfer amount to the full 200u will allow for you to 1-click refill a soil plot or hydroponics tray.
  +
* Not satisfied with the options available in the Mega Seed Servitor? You can hack it to give you a wider range of seeds for planting. Do so at your own risk!
−
*
  
  +
* Be careful when working with tunnel fungus. It may contain anything from potent healing chemicals to transformation toxins.
  +
* Run out of fertilizer? Additional E-Z-Nutrient can be created from chemistry or from the Church Bioprinter. Certain other chemicals can also be used to feed your crops.
  +
* Want to grow a modified crop in the public garden? Ask the Agrolyte or Moebius Science to modify seeds for you.
  +
* Plant attributes require 10GQ of data storage, plan your disk purchases accordingly
  +
* A seed created by sampling a plant can have a trait applied to it, regardless of it's previously modified status
  +
  +
=Related Guides=
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* [[Guide_to_Chemistry_ErisEn|Guide to Chemistry]]
  +
* [[List_of_Cooking_Recipes_ErisEn|List of Cooking Recipes]]

Latest revision as of 23:06, 2 September 2021

What is Botany

Botany is the care of plants on the CEV Eris. While these plants are mostly consumed for food, there are some that can be ground up for medicinal or recreational chemicals.

Basic Botany

To grow plants you will need the following:

  • Seeds
  • A bucket of water
  • A tool with shoveling quality 10 or greater
  • E-Z-Nutrient or another fertilizer chemical
  • A patch of soil
Machine Name Description
Soil Patch Soil Patch You plant seeds here
Seed Extractor Seed Extractor Convert crops into seeds
Mega Seed Servitor Mega Seed Servitor Seed vendor
Nutrimax Vending Machine Nutrimax Botany vendor

To grow the plants you will need to use a packet of seeds on an empty patch of soil. As the plant grows you may need to add water, fertilizer or remove weeds from the soil patch. You can find out what your plant needs to grow by examining it. Seeds, Fertilizers and tools can be found either in the public garden crates or from the Super Seed Servitor/Nutrimax Vending machines.

If there is a plant growing in a plot you don't want it in, you can kill the plant by attacking it, or by digging it up in the Aggressive stance.

When the plant finally matures, the plant icon should look like it has the crops on it. You can pick the fruits of your labors with you hands, or with a produce bag. Note that harvesting certain plants removes them from the tray. Luckily, the Seed Extractor machine can transmute one of your crops into multiple seeds for further planting.

Advanced Botany

Scientists and Agrolytes both have access to more advanced equipment to maximize the yields of their plants.

  • Hydroponics Trays
  • Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge
  • Bioballistic Delivery System
  • Plant Analyzer
Machine Name Description
A hydroponics tray Hydroponics Tray A more precise way to grow plants
Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge Extracts traits from a seed and saves to disk
Bio-Ballistic Delivery System Bioballistic Delivery System Applies donor seed trait from buffer

These tools, when properly used, can improve your crop yields by a noticeable margin.

Hydroponics

The hydroponics trays and the plant analyzer tool allow for a more fine-tuned approach to growing plants. By using a plant analyzer on a planted plot or tray, you can find out:

  • What plant species is growing in the plot
  • Ideal growing light
  • Ideal temperature
  • Relative Nutrient consumption
  • Relative Water consumption

The hydroponics trays allow you to modify the plant's local environment by setting the tray's light level and sealing the tray with a lid to pump in air of a different temperature or composition.

Hydroponics trays also have a visual UI to allow the grower an at-a-glance update as to what the plant needs to thrive.

Indicator Light Plant ...
Blinking Red ... needs to be weeded
Yellow ... needs additional nutrients
Blue ... needs additional water
Green ... is ready for harvest
Red ... is in poor health and may die if left unattended

Modified Crops

Each species of plant has attributes that can be spliced onto other species. These attributes are as follows:

Plant Characteristic Effect
Vigour How long the plant takes to mature and produce fruit. How much fruit it produces. Whether it can spread out of its tray (ie, vines).
Biochemistry Which reagents the fruit contains; which gases the plant generates.
Fruit Whether the fruit is juicy and will splatter when thrown; whether the plant has stinging spines and will inject its reagents into anyone coming in contact with it.
Diet Whether the plant consumes gases in its environment; whether the plant is carnivorous (eats pests) or eats tray weeds; how much water and fertilizer it consumes.
Metabolism Whether the plant requires water or fertilizer. Whether it alters the ambient temperature.
Environment Plant's preferred temperature and light levels, and how much tolerance it has for changes in light level.
Atmosphere The plant's tolerance for changes in temperature and pressure away from its preferred levels.
Output Whether the plant produces electrical power or bioluminescent light.
Appearance The "shape" of the plant. Also affects whether it can be harvested only once or multiple times.
Pigment The color of the plant and its fruit; the color of any bioluminescence.
Special The ability to teleport the thrower or target when thrown.

If you have a plant that you want to splice a particular attribute from, it can be placed into the Lysis-Isolation centrifuge and processed. Processing the seed consumes it but allows you to select a specific trait and save it to a blank data disk, up until the genetic structure is too damaged to be used.

This disk can then be ejected and loaded into the Bioballistic Delivery System, where the attribute data is loaded into the buffer.

Placing the recipient seed in the Bioballistic Delivery System, you can then apply the new attribute to the receiving seed. The donor attribute disk may be used an indefinite number of times.

Unnatural selection and mutations

In addition to genetic hybridization, plants may also be mutated into special variants of themselves. Mutations may be induced by applying Unstable Mutagen to a plant, or Left 4 Zed. Note that mutant plants are often fragile and will need extra care.

Mysterious Plants

Tunnel Mushroom

On occasion special mushrooms or plants may start growing from cracks in the floor or from burrows. These plants, or more specifically the mushrooms can generate chemicals not normally found in growable plants and can potentially make interesting genetic donors for your super plants. To harvest seeds from these plants, use a tool with a cutting attribute in a non-Aggressive stance to gather a sample of the plant. This sample can be used to grow a tamed version of the fungus for testing purposes.

Beekeeping

Enterprising botanists will also notice that it is possible to create bee hives to generate honey. Honey can be used in certain recipes while Beeswax can be used to craft candles. Further information can be found in this guide to beekeeping.

The List

SPOILER WARNING

This section contains a selected list of plant species available from the MegaSeed Servitor and possible mutations. This is not a complete list; some species have been left out deliberately to encourage players to play around rather than rush specific cultivars.

Plants List

Seed Packet Plant Species Chemicals Mutates To Notes
Seed Apple.png
 Apple Nutriment Golden Apple, Poison Apple
SeedAmbrosiaVulgaris.png
 Ambrosia Vulgaris Nutriment, Space Drugs, Kelotane, Bicardine, Toxin Ambrosia Deus
SeedBanana.png
 Banana Banana Juice - Eating a banana gives you a banana peel
SeedBerry.png
 Berry Nutriment, Berry Juice Glowberry, Poison Berry, Atroberry
SeedCabbage.png
 Cabbage Nutriment -
SeedCacao.png
 Cocao Nutriment, Coco - Yes, it is misspelled in game
SeedCarrot.png
 Carrot Nutriment, Carrot Juice, Imidazoline -
SeedChanterelle1.png
 Chanterelle Nutriment Plump Helmet, Reshi, Fly Amanita
SeedCherry.png
 Cherry Nutriment, Sugar, Cherry Jelly -
SeedChili.png
 Chili Nutriment, Capsaicin Ice Chili
SeedCorn.png
 Corn Nutriment, Corn Oil - Eating corn leaves you a corn cob
SeedEggplant.png
 Eggplant Nutriment Egg Plant
SeedGrape.png
 Grape Nutriment, Sugar, Grape Juice Green Grape
SeedGrass.png
 Grass Nutriment -
SeedLemon.png
 Lemon Nutriment, Lemon Juice -
SeedLime.png
 Lime Nutriment, Lime Juice -
SeedOrange.png
 Orange Nutriment, Orange Juice -
SeedPeanut.png
 Peanut Nutriment -
SeedPlastellium.png
 Plastellium Plasticide -
SeedPlumpHelmet.png
 Plump Helmets Nutriment Walking Mushroom
SeedPoppy.png
 Poppy Nutriment, Bicardine -
SeedPotato.png
 Potato Nutriment, Potato Juice - Roaches like potato
SeedPumpkin.png
 Pumpkin Nutriment -
SeedRice.png
 Rice Nutriment, Rice -
SeedSoybean.png
 Soybean Nutriment, Soymilk -
SeedSugarcane.png
 Sugarcane Sugar -
SeedSunflower.png
 Sunflower - -
SeedTobacco.png
 Tobacco Nicotine - Cannot be made into cigarettes (yet)
SeedTomato.png
 Tomato Nutriment, Tomato Juice Blue Tomato, Blood Tomato
SeedTowerCap.png
 Tower Cap Wood Pulp - Tower Cap fruit may be cut up into wood
SeedWatermelon.png
 Watermelon Nutriment, Watermelon Juice -
SeedWheat.png
 Wheat Nutriment, Flour - Can be fed to Cows and Chickens
SeedWhitebeet.png
 White Beet Nutriment, Sugar -

Tips

Farmbot (old sprite)
  • One of the biggest boosts to plant productivity is a Farming Robot: it can water, weed, fertilize and harvest plants.
    • Farmbots have terrible pathing AI: Agrolytes are recommended to have multiple bots or rearrange the trays to be more accessible.
  • Buckets (and all containers) can have the transfer amount set via the dropdown menu. Setting the transfer amount to the full 200u will allow for you to 1-click refill a soil plot or hydroponics tray.
  • Not satisfied with the options available in the Mega Seed Servitor? You can hack it to give you a wider range of seeds for planting. Do so at your own risk!
  • Be careful when working with tunnel fungus. It may contain anything from potent healing chemicals to transformation toxins.
  • Run out of fertilizer? Additional E-Z-Nutrient can be created from chemistry or from the Church Bioprinter. Certain other chemicals can also be used to feed your crops.
  • Want to grow a modified crop in the public garden? Ask the Agrolyte or Moebius Science to modify seeds for you.
  • Plant attributes require 10GQ of data storage, plan your disk purchases accordingly
  • A seed created by sampling a plant can have a trait applied to it, regardless of it's previously modified status

Related Guides

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