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=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=
 
=Basic Botany=
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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
 
 
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! Machine !! Name !! Description
 
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| [[File:nutrimax_vend.png|frameless|Nutrimax Vending Machine]] || Nutrimax || Botany vendor
 
| [[File:nutrimax_vend.png|frameless|Nutrimax Vending Machine]] || Nutrimax || Botany vendor
 
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To grow plants you will need the following:
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* Seeds
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* A container for liquids
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* A minihoe or shovel
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* E-Z-Nutrient
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* A patch of soil
   
 
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.
 
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.
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If there is a plant growing in a plot you don't want it in, you can kill the plant by attacking it with a cutting tool like a knife.
   
 
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.
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Note that harvesting certain plants removes them from the tray. Luckily, the Seed Extractor machine can extract seeds from the gathered fruit so you can plant a new generation of crops.
   
 
=Advanced Botany=
 
=Advanced Botany=
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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
 
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! Machine !! Name !! Description
 
! Machine !! Name !! Description
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| [[File:Ballisticsystem.png|frameless|Bio-Ballistic Delivery System]] || Bioballistic Delivery System || Applies donor seed trait from buffer
 
| [[File:Ballisticsystem.png|frameless|Bio-Ballistic Delivery System]] || Bioballistic Delivery System || Applies donor seed trait from buffer
 
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Moebius and Neotheology both have access to more advanced equipment to maximize the yields of their plants.
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* Hydroponics Trays
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* Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge
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* Bioballistic Delivery System
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* Plant Analyzer
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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:
 
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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* Relative Water consumption
 
* Relative Water consumption
   
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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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! Indicator Light !! Plant ...
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! Indicator Light !! Plant status
 
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| Blinking Red || ... needs to be weeded
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| Red || Needs weeding or pest removal
 
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| Yellow || ... needs additional nutrients
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| Yellow || Needs additional nutrients
 
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| Blue || ... needs additional water
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| Blue || Needs additional water
 
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| Green || ... is ready for harvest
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| Green || Can be harvested
 
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| Red || ... is in poor health and may die if left unattended
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| Red bars || In poor health and may die soon
 
|}
 
|}
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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.
   
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Hydroponics trays also have a set of indicator lights to allow the grower an at-a-glance update as to what the plant needs to thrive.
===Modified Crops===
 
   
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===Gene Splicing Plants===
Each species of plant has attributes that can be spliced onto other species. These attributes are as follows:
 
   
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Each species of plant has attributes that can be spliced onto other species. Traits from the donor plant, when applied to the recipient plant, are either appended to or overwrite the recipient plant's traits depending on the trait. Traits like Biochemistry which is non-exclusive appends, while traits such as Appearance replaces since a plant can only have one appearance.
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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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This disk can then be ejected and loaded into the Bio-Ballistic Delivery System, where the attribute data is loaded into the buffer. Applying traits damages the receiving seed which limits how many traits can be added in a generation. Higher Biology skills reduces the damage adding a trait deals to the receiving seed.
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<span style="font-size:1.2em;">'''Plant Traits'''</span>
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| Special || The ability to teleport the thrower or target when thrown.
 
| Special || The ability to teleport the thrower or target when thrown.
 
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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.
 
 
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.
 
 
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<span style="font-size:1.2em;">'''Unnatural selection and mutations'''</span>
 
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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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===Plant Evolution===
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Some plants when examine might say they show a high degree of genetic shift. This means that the plant can be evolved into a new species with the right inputs and a bit of luck. To evolve a plant, you must expose it to mutating radiation. There are three sources of radiation that can mutate a plant.
<span style="font-size:1.2em;">'''Mysterious Plants'''</span>
 
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* Unstable Mutagen
[[File:Fungoartiglieria.png|frameless|right|Tunnel Mushroom]]
 
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* Left-4-Zed fertilizer
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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* Floral Somatoray
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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* Liquid Biomatter
   
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None of these methods however are guaranteed to evolve a plant and may instead change a trait to a new random value. Don't worry! Take a clipping of the plant and restart the process. You will know a plant has evolved into a new form if it resets it's growth stage.
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=Beekeeping=
 
=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 [[Nullaurelian/Guide_To_Beekeeping_ErisEN_Draft|in this guide to 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 [[Guide_To_Beekeeping_ErisEN|in this guide to beekeeping]].
   
=The List=
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=List of Common Plants=
   
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This section contains a selected list of plant species available from the MegaSeed Servitor and possible mutations. Additional exotic variants and xenospecies may be found in the Moebius Xenobotany lab or bought from the MTV 'Faith' through the Aster's trading guild.
   
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! SPOILER WARNING
 
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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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<span style="font-size:1.2em;">'''Plants List'''</span>
 
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! Seed Packet !! Plant Species !! Chemicals !! Mutates To !! Notes
 
! Seed Packet !! Plant Species !! Chemicals !! Mutates To !! Notes
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| [[File:SeedSunflower.png|frameless|center]]|| Sunflower || - || -
 
| [[File:SeedSunflower.png|frameless|center]]|| Sunflower || - || -
 
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| [[File:SeedTobacco.png|frameless|center]]|| Tobacco || Nicotine || - || Cannot be made into cigarettes (yet)
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| [[File:SeedTobacco.png|frameless|center]]|| Tobacco || Nicotine || - || Can be dried for use in smoking pipes
 
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| [[File:SeedTomato.png|frameless|center]]|| Tomato || Nutriment, Tomato Juice || Blue Tomato, Blood Tomato ||
 
| [[File:SeedTomato.png|frameless|center]]|| Tomato || Nutriment, Tomato Juice || Blue Tomato, Blood Tomato ||
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| [[File:SeedWhitebeet.png|frameless|center]]|| White Beet || Nutriment, Sugar || - ||
 
| [[File:SeedWhitebeet.png|frameless|center]]|| White Beet || Nutriment, Sugar || - ||
 
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=Tips=
 
=Tips=
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* Want to grow a modified crop in the public garden? Ask the Agrolyte or Moebius Science to modify seeds for you.
 
* 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
 
* 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
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* Each generation of plants can have one additional trait grafted to it.
   
 
=Related Guides=
 
=Related Guides=
 
* [[Guide_to_Chemistry_ErisEn|Guide to Chemistry]]
 
* [[Guide_to_Chemistry_ErisEn|Guide to Chemistry]]
 
* [[List_of_Cooking_Recipes_ErisEn|List of Cooking Recipes]]
 
* [[List_of_Cooking_Recipes_ErisEn|List of Cooking Recipes]]
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[[Category: Guides]]

Latest revision as of 08:22, 16 April 2024

Basic Botany

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 plants you will need the following:

  • Seeds
  • A container for liquids
  • A minihoe or shovel
  • E-Z-Nutrient
  • A patch of soil

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 with a cutting tool like a knife.

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 extract seeds from the gathered fruit so you can plant a new generation of crops.

Advanced Botany

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

Moebius and Neotheology both have access to more advanced equipment to maximize the yields of their plants.

  • Hydroponics Trays
  • Lysis-Isolation Centrifuge
  • Bioballistic Delivery System
  • Plant Analyzer

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
Indicator Light Plant status
Red Needs weeding or pest removal
Yellow Needs additional nutrients
Blue Needs additional water
Green Can be harvested
Red bars In poor health and may die soon

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 set of indicator lights to allow the grower an at-a-glance update as to what the plant needs to thrive.

Gene Splicing Plants

Each species of plant has attributes that can be spliced onto other species. Traits from the donor plant, when applied to the recipient plant, are either appended to or overwrite the recipient plant's traits depending on the trait. Traits like Biochemistry which is non-exclusive appends, while traits such as Appearance replaces since a plant can only have one appearance.

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 Bio-Ballistic Delivery System, where the attribute data is loaded into the buffer. Applying traits damages the receiving seed which limits how many traits can be added in a generation. Higher Biology skills reduces the damage adding a trait deals to the receiving seed.

Plant Traits

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.

Plant Evolution

Some plants when examine might say they show a high degree of genetic shift. This means that the plant can be evolved into a new species with the right inputs and a bit of luck. To evolve a plant, you must expose it to mutating radiation. There are three sources of radiation that can mutate a plant.

  • Unstable Mutagen
  • Left-4-Zed fertilizer
  • Floral Somatoray
  • Liquid Biomatter

None of these methods however are guaranteed to evolve a plant and may instead change a trait to a new random value. Don't worry! Take a clipping of the plant and restart the process. You will know a plant has evolved into a new form if it resets it's growth stage.

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.

List of Common Plants

This section contains a selected list of plant species available from the MegaSeed Servitor and possible mutations. Additional exotic variants and xenospecies may be found in the Moebius Xenobotany lab or bought from the MTV 'Faith' through the Aster's trading guild.

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 - Can be dried for use in smoking pipes
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
  • Each generation of plants can have one additional trait grafted to it.

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