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|jobtitle = Botanist
|jobtitle = Botanist
|access = [[Locations|Hydroponics]]
|access = Hydroponics
|difficulty = Easy
|difficulty = Easy
|superior = [[Head of Personnel]]
|superior = [[Head of Personnel]]
|duties = Grow plants, provide ingredients for the Chef. That's all.
|duties = Grow plants, provide ingredients for the Chef. That's all.
|guides = [[Guide to Hydroponics]]
|guides = [[Guide to Hydroponics]]
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As a '''Botanist''', it's your job '''to grow stuff for the [[Chef]] to keep the crew fed'''. There are plenty of vegetables to grow, and if you're feeling adventurous, there are some other less edible plants to experiment growing with.
As a '''Botanist''' (also known as '''Hydroponist''' or '''Botanical Researcher'''), it's your job '''to grow stuff for the [[Chef]] to keep the crew fed'''. There are plenty of vegetables to grow, and if you're feeling adventurous, there are some other less edible plants to experiment growing with.
Other tasks that are likely to come up is providing the Science Department's RnD with particular mutated plants, and cargo with certain rare seeds for profit.   
Other tasks that are likely to come up is providing the Science Department's RnD with particular mutated plants, and cargo with certain rare seeds for profit.   
For the most part, a botanist has a lot of free time to experiment, but don't forget that your first duty as a botanist is to keep the station fed.
For the most part, a botanist has a lot of free time to experiment, but don't forget that your first duty as a botanist is to keep the station fed.
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So you've just arrived to the station and you can't tell a potato from a killer tomato. Well, here's a little guide to get you started!
So you've just arrived to the station and you can't tell a potato from a killer tomato. Well, here's a little guide to get you started!


First, lets start with the tools and materials you might need:
== Initial Objectives ==
 
While you can grow food for the chef right from the start, if you don't do any setup you'll be stuck taking care of plants that grow slowly and produce very little. As such you should take some steps to improve your plants and environment first:
*Grab the [[Guide to Hydroponics#Disks|plant disks]] from all the lockers along with a hydroponics HUD, cultivator, hatchet, portable seed extractor and spade
*Unsecure the grinder and drag it where it would be easy to access. There is no need to anchor it there.
*Decide which trays you'd like to use for mutating. Connect them with [[Guide to Hydroponics#Irrigation|irrigation]] pipes and fill them with Mutrient(at least 40u per pour; alt-click the jug)
*Make a perennial growth disk
*Make a 50 Potency 1 Production speed [[Guide to Hydroponics#Disks|core stat disk]] by growing a plant with these stats in a tray filled with robust harvest and no mutagens then extracting all the stats from its seeds. '''This disk will help with both production and mutation since more produce also means more seeds.'''
*Use [[Guide to Hydroponics#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Unstable Mutagen</span>]] from the vendors or radium from glowshrooms to mutate Glowshrooms, Pumpkins and Ambrosia(Vulgaris to Deus and Deus to Gaia) to get access to unstable mutagen and ammonia, as well as the plants sci need.
 
Achieving these initial goals will give you the ability to make self sustaining trays and plants with okay stats, allowing you to easily keep up with the chefs demands without much effort. You will also have the genes needed to make unstable mutagen and ammonia yourself.


== Tools of the Trade ==
== Tools of the Trade ==
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* '''Portable Seed Extractor''' A plant bag that can also <span title="alt+shift+click">turn it's contents into seeds<span/>
* '''Portable Seed Extractor''' A plant bag that can also <span title="alt+shift+click">turn it's contents into seeds<span/>
* '''Hydroponics HUD''' Shows you the level of weeds and pests on a soil plot and also when a plant is ready for harvest.
* '''Plant Analyzer''' Use on plants or seeds to get information about their traits and stats. Use on a container containing unsorted seeds to [[Guide to Hydroponics#Sorting Seeds|sort]] them.
* '''Hydroponics HUD''' Shows you the level of weeds and pests on a soil plot and also when a plant is ready for harvest. Also allows you to see seed stats by hovering over them with your mouse.
* '''Cultivator:''' This one is meant to claw, or perhaps filter, out weeds from the hydroponic trays. If weeds are allowed to grow, they will eventually kill your plant and take their place!
* '''Cultivator:''' This one is meant to claw, or perhaps filter, out weeds from the hydroponic trays. If weeds are allowed to grow, they will eventually kill your plant and take their place!
* '''Spade''' Used to remove plants from trays and soil plots. Can also be used to dig sand to make sand piles, from you can make sandstones, and from those soil plots.
* '''Spade''' Used to remove plants from trays and soil plots. Can also be used to dig sand to make sand piles, from you can make sandstones, and from those soil plots.
* '''Plant-B-Gone Spray bottle:''' Kills plants slowly and can be filled with other chemicals. Does minor toxin damage.
* '''Plant-B-Gone Spray bottle:''' Kills plants slowly and can be filled with other chemicals. Does minor toxin damage.
* '''Bucket:''' Fill these up and use them to water your trays.
* '''Bucket:''' Fill these up and use them to water your trays.
* '''Wire Cutters''' Use them to connect trays with [[Guide to Hydroponics#Irrigation|irrigation]] pipes.
* '''Wrench''' Use it to anchor or unanchor trays or other machinery like your grinder allowing you to move them about.


Things you should get from the outside:
Things you should get from the outside:
* A multitool to hack your vendors with. You can ask cargo to make you one.
* A multitool to hack your vendors with. You can ask cargo to make you one.
* A chem dispenser to make useful chemicals. Science will usually give you one of their own.
* '''Toxin Medical Kit:''' Just in case you eat something nasty.
* '''Toxin Medical Kit:''' Just in case you eat something nasty.
* Various chemicals to mutate or treat your plants with.
* Various chemicals to mutate or treat your plants with.
* [[Guide to hydroponics#Beekeeping|Beekeeping Equipment]]: Allows you to cultivate beehives and produce honey for the chef/crew to enjoy, as well as copious amounts of just about any chem. Do be careful though. Bees are dangerous once let loose.
* [[Guide to Hydroponics#Beekeeping|Beekeeping Equipment]]: Allows you to cultivate beehives and produce honey for the chef/crew to enjoy, as well as copious amounts of just about any chem. Do be careful though. Bees are dangerous once let loose.
 
=== Machines ===
 
*'''Seed Extractor''': This machine extracts the seeds from plants and also stores them.
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#DNA_Manipulator|'''Plant DNA manipulator''']]: The bread and butter of hydroponics. This machine allows you to extract plant genes from seeds onto [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Disks|disks]] and insert those genes into other plants.
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Biogenerators|'''Biogenerator''']]: This machine can make a variety of items and reagents such as fertilizers, soil, milk, leather and monkey cubes from biomass gained by processing plants.
=== Useful Chemicals ===
=== Useful Chemicals and Where to find them ===
There is an [[Guide to Hydroponics#Chemicals|expanded list of chemicals]] in the guide to hydroponics, but these are some of the most useful and common:
There is an [[Guide to Hydroponics#Chemicals|expanded list of chemicals]] in the guide to hydroponics, but these are some of the most useful and common:


General chems:
'''Doping chems:'''
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Saltpetre|<span title="1u potassium + 1u nitrogen + 3u oxygen = 1u Saltpetre">'''Saltpetre'''</span>]]: Increases potency by 1 point per 2u used on the plant. Also had a chance to reduce production speed with each addition.
*'''{{Tooltip|[[#Saltpetre|Saltpetre]]|{{RecursiveChem/Saltpetre}}}}''': Increases mutations strength for Potency. Can be produced by filling a [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Compost_Bin|compost bin]] also available in a hacked Nutrimax Vendor.
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">'''Unstable Mutagen'''</span>]]: Use it to mutate your plants. 2u is enough for stat mutations and a chance for a new trait, while 5u will give a chance for species mutation. The plants use the it immediately so you can keep adding it as quickly as you'd like.  
*'''{{Tooltip|[[#Ammonia|Ammonia]]|{{RecursiveChem/Ammonia}}}}''': Increases mutations strength for Yield. Produced by [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Blumpkin|Blumpkins]].
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Diethylamine|<span title= "Available directly from hacked Nutrimax vendor or an upgraded chem dispenser. In addition: 1u ammonia + 1u ethanol heated to 374K(100C) = 2u Diethylamine. Heat the beaker, jug or bucket with an igniter, welding tool, or bonfire until you hear the reaction">'''Diethylamine'''</span>]]: Increases Yield by 1 for every 50 units added. This is counted '''per addition''', so adding less than 50u at a time does nothing. '''Always add in multiples of 50u'''
*'''{{Tooltip|[[#Cryoxadone|Diethylamine]]|{{RecursiveChem/Diethylamine}}}}''': Increases mutations strength for Production Speed. Can be made in a chem dispenser(requires heating)
 
*'''{{Tooltip|[[#Cryoxadone|Cryoxadone]]|{{RecursiveChem/Cryoxadone}}}}''': Increases mutations strength for Endurance. Can be made in a chem dispenser. Mebay uses it, so they should have some lying around.
 
*'''{{Tooltip|[[#Omnizine|Omnizine]]|{{RecursiveChem/Omnizine}}}}''': Increases mutations strength for Lifespan. Produced by [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Lifeweed|Lifeweed]].
 
*'''{{Tooltip|[[#Saline-Glucose Solution|Saline-Glucose Solution]]|{{RecursiveChem/Saline-Glucose Solution}}}}''': Weed Growth Rate and Weed Vulnerabiliity. The ingredients can be found in [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Olive|Olives]], [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Watermelon|Watermelon]] and [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Whitebeet|White Beet]].
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Ammonia|<span title= "Produced by blumpkins, also available directly from hacked Nutrimax vendor or an upgraded chem dispenser. In addition: 1u nitrogen + 3u hydrogen = 3u Ammonia">'''Ammonia'''</span>]]: Increases yield by 1 for every 100 units added. '''needs to be added in multiples of 100u'''
'''Fertilizers:'''
 
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#E-Z Nutriment|<span title="Available directly from the Nutrimax vendor or the Biogenerator>'''E-Z Nutriment'''</span>]]: Doesn't increase mutation level or affect yield.
 
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Robust Harvest|<span title="Available directly from the Nutrimax vendor or the Biogenerator>'''Robust Harvest'''</span>]]: Does not increase mutation level. It increases yield by 30%. Doesn't increase the stat itself, just the harvested amount.
Fertilizers:
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Mutriment|<span title="Available directly from the Nutrimax vendor or the Biogenerator>'''Mutriment'''</span>]]: Increases mutation level by 10.


*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Robust Harvest|<span title="Available directly from the Nutrimax vendor or the Biogenerator>'''Robust Harvest'''</span>]]: One of the 3 main fertilizers you get access to and the only one you should use once you have a steady supply of [[#Unstable Mutagen<|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]]. It increases yield by 30% and prevents random mutation from ruining your plants' stats. Doesn't increase the stat itself, just the harvested amount.
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Left 4 Zed|<span title="Available directly from the Nutrimax vendor or the Biogenerator>'''Left 4 Zed'''</span>]]: Increases mutation level by 15. Will drop yield to 1, so change fertilizer once you are content with the stat changes.
 
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#E-Z Nutriment|<span title="Available directly from the Nutrimax vendor or the Biogenerator>'''E-Z Nutriment'''</span>]]: The cheapest fertilizer available, this will give minor mutations with each harvest. Avoid using it if you wish to keep your plants' stats.
All fertilizers can be found in the Nutrimax vendor, and the biogenerator can make more of them.
 
''Hover over each of the chemicals to learn how to create them, for further details check [[Guide to Chemistry]].''
 
'''Mutagens:'''
 
Mutagens fill up the mutagen tank, which increases mutation level by 1 per 1u in it, up to 15. Goes down by 1 each harvest and needs to be replenished.


*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Left 4 Zed|<span title="Available directly from the Nutrimax vendor or the Biogenerator>'''Left 4 Zed'''</span>]]: Provides heavier mutations than EZ-Grow and may mutate a plant into another type entirely. Will drop yield to 1, so change fertilizer once you are content with the stat changes.
*'''{{Tooltip|[[#Unstable Mutagen|Unstable Mutagen]]|{{RecursiveChem/Unstable Mutagen}}}}''': Does not poison the tray. 2 bottles can be found in a hacked Nutrimax vendor, and the ingredients can be found in [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Blumpkin|Blumpkins]] and [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Glowshroom|Glowshrooms]].
''Hover over each of the chemicals for a how to obtain them. for further details: [[Guide to Chemistry]]''
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Uranium|<span title="Found In Glow Berries">'''Uranium'''</span>]]: poisons the tray. Found in [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Glow-berry|Glowberries]].
*[[Guide to Hydroponics#Radium|<span title="Found in Glowshrooms or a Chem Dispenser">'''Radium'''</span>]]: poisons the tray. Found in [[Guide_to_Hydroponics#Glowshroom|Glowshrooms]].


== To cultivate ==
== To cultivate ==
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=== Making things grow ===
=== Making things grow ===
The MegaSeed Servitor gives you the seeds to start growing. There are a couple of hidden seeds too if you get the tools to hack it, though you could also ask an engineer or scientist to hack it and they'll probably have the tools and knowledge to do it for you. Plant the seeds in a tray and begin your [[Guide to hydroponics|cultivation journey]].
The MegaSeed Servitor gives you the seeds to start growing. There are a couple of hidden seeds too if you get the tools to hack it, though you could also ask an engineer or scientist to hack it and they'll probably have the tools and knowledge to do it for you. Plant the seeds in a tray and begin your [[Guide to Hydroponics|cultivation journey]].


You can drop anything edible you make in the fridge for the chef, though you may want to plant whatever they need frequently in the chef's garden. You can also use the fridge to store anything that isn't restricted or dangerous, for those experiments you'd want a second fridge. Anything you don't want to store can go into the biogenerator(except for certain plants like death nettles) and be turned into biomass that can be made into a variety of things.
You can drop anything edible you make in the fridge for the chef, though you may want to plant whatever they need frequently in the chef's garden. You can also use the fridge to store anything that isn't restricted or dangerous, for those experiments you'd want a second fridge. Anything you don't want to store can go into the biogenerator(except for certain plants like death nettles) and be turned into biomass that can be made into a variety of things.
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=== Duties ===
=== Duties ===
Your main duties are supplying the chef, getting science their plants and keeping the biogenerator stocked with biomass to be more specific:


*For food, make whatever the chef asks for, and preferably plant it in his garden to save tray space. Don't forget to put Gaia branches in the soil plots.   
*For food, make whatever the chef asks for, and preferably plant it in his garden to save tray space. Don't forget to put Gaia branches in the soil plots.   


*Science will ask you for [[Guide to hydroponics#Which Plants to Grow?|plants]] too, maybe even giving a chem dispenser to do so. Try to provide them as best you can.
*Science will ask you for plants they need for research. Glowshrooms, Glowcaps and Ambrosia Gaia are the most common ones.


*The [[Guide to Hydroponics#Biogenerators|Biogenenerator]] can take just about any plant, but the higher the nutriment and plant matter content the better, so watermelons are one of the best choices. Use the biogenerator to make products like cloth and leather for the crew.
*The [[Guide to Hydroponics#Biogenerators|Biogenenerator]] can take just about any plant, but the higher the nutriment and plant matter content the better, so watermelons are one of the best choices. Use the biogenerator to make products like cloth and leather for the crew.
Those however are only your basic duties, a good botanists can make all sorts of beneficial plants to suit the needs of a station. A few examples include:


*If you expect power issues, grow some potatoes. They can be made into potato batteries by clicking them with wires, and with high potency and the electrical activity trait from glow caps are as good as any power cell science can make.
*If you expect power issues, grow some potatoes. They can be made into potato batteries by clicking them with wires, and with high potency and the electrical activity trait from glow caps are as good as any power cell science can make.
*Healing plants are always useful, and there are countless varieties that can be eaten, thrown or squished to achieve their effect. And Medbay can always use some lazarus reagent, omnizine, bicaridine, kelotane and blood.
*Plant some Steelcaps near the ORM if the miners aren't getting enough metal in.
== Actually Getting Set Up ==
Now that you know some basics let's run you down a more comprehensive to-do list for the beginning of the shift:
*Go to the backroom, grab a botany HUD and seed extractor from one of the closets, and the plant data disk box from each.
*Put the plant disk boxes near the [[#DNA Extractor|DNA Extractor]]
*Get a multitool from tool storage or cargo and a screwdriver from the backroom and use it to [[Hacking#Major_Hackables|hack your vendors]].
*Extract perennial growth from a plant
*Plant 2 or 3 Glowshrooms and a plant with 1 production. Make sure you put perennial growth on all of them.
*While those are growing use a pair of wirecutters to connect the glowshroom tray to some others with irrigation pipes. Those will be for mutating for mutating.
*Fertilize the 1 production plant and one glowhsroom with robust harvest, fertilize the other glowshrooms with mutriment, using at least 30u at a time so the connected trays are also fertilized
*Harvest the plant and make a [[Guide to Hydroponics#Disks|core stat disk]] from it
*Put the stats from the [[Guide to Hydroponics#Disks|core stat disk]] on some pumpkin, grass and ambrosia vulgaris seeds, then plant and fertilize with [[Guide to Hydroponics#mutriment|mutriment]]
*Use either 15u of [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]] or 3-4 glowshrooms on each tray. Use the analyzer to verify they are filled with mutagen.
*Harvest and sort the seeds to get Glowcap Blumpkin and ambrosia deus seeds. Repeat the process with ambrosia deus to get gaia, and plant the glowcaps to make some for sci.
== Not Relying On Science ==
*Put the core disk stats on grass or preferably carpet seeds(better if you have mutagen production since it cannot change species) and put ammonia from the blumpkins on them. Plant and fertilize with robust harvest
So you didn't get your chem dispenser, are you screwed? Well, not really, you can do hydroponics in other ways! To start with you still need your vendors hacked. Then go to the chemists with a bucket and ask them to fill it with [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Unstable Mutagen</span>]]. Use this bucket to mutate Pumpkins into Blumpkins and also grow some Glowshrooms. Now extract the radium gene from the Glowshroom seeds onto a disk, and insert it into a pack of Blumpkin seeds using the [[#DNA Extractor|DNA Extractor]]. Remove all other chemicals from it and you should be left with a plant that produces pure [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]]. You can now use the grinder in the back room to grind those plants into [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]] that you can use on your plants and continue from there.  
 
*Harvest the grass, plant 4-6 copies of it and fertilize with nutriment then fertilize with the grass(that should have ammonia on it).


For [[#Saltpetre|<span title="1u potassium + 1u nitrogen + 3u oxygen = 1u Saltpetre">Saltpetre</span>]] you will need [[#Beekeeping|bees]], which you can also use for [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]], or [[#Diethylamine|<span title= "1u ammonia + 1u ethanol heated to 374K(100C) = 2u Diethylamine">Diethylamine</span>]]. But even without the <span title="1u potassium + 1u nitrogen + 3u oxygen = 1u Saltpetre">Saltpetre</span>, you can still manage by recording plant stats onto disks. Not optimal, especially not without upgrades for your machines, but sometimes you have to make do.
*Harvest those grass plants, and extract seeds until you fill a seed extractor or plant bag
Now, if worst comes to worst and you can't get any [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]] to start with you can use Left4Zed to make your plants mutate each time they are harvested. This process is slow, but once you get your Blumpkins things start going a lot faster. 
Without a chem dispenser you won't be getting [[#Diethylamine|<span title= "1u ammonia + 1u ethanol heated to 374K(100C) = 2u Diethylamine">Diethylamine</span>]], but you can still make [[#Ammonia|<span title="Produced by blumpkins, also available directly from hacked Nutrimax vendor or an upgraded chem dispenser. In addition: 1u nitrogen + 3u hydrogen = 3u Ammonia">Ammonia</span>]]. You should already have blumpkins for mutagen production, so take a blumpkin seed, remove the other chems from it, grow it, and grind it in the all-in-one grinder to make Ammonia. This is a reliable process, but a slow one, especially with an unupgraded grinder. Don't forget that you need to transfer the Ammonia to the tray '''in multiples of 100u''' so the smallest container you can use a large beaker, jugs won't work. 


Another thing that might happen is you have a chem dispenser but no upgrades, in which case it won't dispense [[#Diethylamine|<span title= "1u ammonia + 1u ethanol heated to 374K(100C) = 2u Diethylamine">Diethylamine</span>]]. It still does make the basic chems needed to make it: 1u Nitrogen + 3u Hydrogen makes 3u Ammonia + 3u Ethanol = 6u Diethylamine, or you can grow Blumpkins to make [[#Saltpetre|<span title="1u nitrogen + 3u hydrogen = 3u Ammonia">Ammonia</span>]] and only use the chem vendor for ethanol. Either way you still need to heat them up. The easiest way is with an [[Assemblies#Igniter|<span title="Purchased from the Vendomat in tool storage">igniter'''</span>]], and a [[Engineering Items#Tools|<span title="Purchased from the YouTool in tool storage">welding tool</span>]] can also be used, though it requires refuling. Another option is to make a [[Crafting#Tribal|<span title="Made with 5 towercap logs. Ignited with any source of fire">bonfire</span>]], which can heat up as many containers as you can fit in the tile it's on, but comes with the disadvantages of burning the containers placed on it to ash if they remain on it too long, and setting you on fire if you step into it.
*Sort with an analyzer, keeping the grass seeds with the highest yield and 1 production
<br/>In addition to all that you will want to [[#Chem Upgrade|upgrade your chem dispenser]]. Ideally you want to use a battery made from a potato with 100 potency and the [[#Electrical Activity|<span title="Extract to disk from Glowcaps then insert to potato seeds">Electrical Activity</span>]] trait.
 
*Plant those seeds instead of the first grass plant and repeat until 10 yield.(If you have ammonia in the trays and they are filled with mutagen it would usually be the first time)
 
*Get saltpetre from the vendor, using a jug or dropper to dispense 1u into each tray or soilplot, then repeat the process until you get 100 10 1 seeds.
 
*Plant those seeds and use them to make a new [[Guide to Hydroponics#Disks|core stat disk]]
 
*Make [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]] grass by inserting the chems from Blumpkins and Glowshrooms and use it for the rest of the mutation.
 
*Remember to improve the stat of each plant before mutating so that it yield more seeds and grows quicker.
Would you look at that, you just made yourself useful! Good job!
As an aside, this is just a basic list. There are many improvements to be made, and many of the steps can be done in parallel, though that can be a bit overwhelming for a new botanist.


== Helping other departments ==
== Helping other departments ==
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=== Cargo ===
=== Cargo ===
Cargo Bay department can sell a number of rare plant seeds for supply points. Most of the mutated species of plants are considered rare. Plant analyzer tells you if a plant seed is rare and it rarity score
Cargo Bay department can sell a number of rare plant seeds for supply points. Most of the mutated species of plants are considered rare. Plant analyzer tells you if a plant seed is rare and its rarity score
when used on a growing plant or its products (if the plant is not rare, there is no corresponding line). Only one sample of a plant is needed to gain point, more is unnecessary. Points are awarded for two
when used on a growing plant or its products (if the plant is not rare, there is no corresponding line). Only one sample of a plant is needed to gain points, more is unnecessary. The number of points awarded are the sum of the discovered plant's potency and rarity, and if you send in the same plant with better potency you will be awarded the difference between the new sample's potency and the previous one's.
different things: discovering a rare plant and getting better potency for the rare plant. The more potency obtained, the better reward. This means that to sell plant samples for the most price, you should
first ship the new plant with the poorest potency possible (first shipment does not reward for potency). Then you should sell the same plant but with as much potency as you can get since the
subsequent shipment rewards scale based on the difference between the biggest potency shipped before.
{{Template:Plant Values}}
{{Template:Plant Values}}


== Green Thumb, Bloody Hands [[File:Swordred.gif]] ==
== Green Thumb, Bloody Hands [[File:Swordred.gif]] ==
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Notably for Vampires, the Biogenerator can make monkeys to stave off hunger; this is useful when you're working on your perfect killer fruit.
Notably for Vampires, the Biogenerator can make monkeys to stave off hunger; this is useful when you're working on your perfect killer fruit.


== Space Almanac ==
Now that you know some basics let's run you down a basic to-do list for the beginning of the shift:
*Go to the backroom, grab a botany HUD and seed extractor from one of the closets, and the plant data disk box from each.
*Put the plant disk boxes near the [[#DNA Extractor|DNA Extractor]]
*Ask Science for a chem dispenser, and bolt it near some trays so you don't have to walk back and forth all the time. '''However, Science doesn't have to give you the chem dispenser, so keep this in mind'''.
*Ask cargo for a multitool and screwdriver and use it to [[Hacking#Major_Hackables|hack your vendors]].
*Take a jug of Robust Harvest from the Nutrimax vendor and use it once on each of 8 trays. Those trays will "remember" they have robust harvest in them once they become self sustaining. You should do this on every tray and soil plot, but preferably after you got your Gaia growing nicely.
*Plant Ambrosia Vulgaris.
*Put a jug, bucket or beaker in your chem vendor and make some [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Unstable Mutagen</span>]].
*Set your [[Guide to Hydroponics#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]] container to dispense 5u at a time(alt-click) and add [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Unstable Mutagen</span>]] to the tray until the Ambrosia Vulrgaris mutates into Ambrosia Deus, then Ambrosia Gaia. Note that Ambrosia Gaia gets easily taken over by weeds, so make sure to rake the tray often, and keep a watchful eye on it.
*If the yield is very low use [[#Unstable Mutagen|<span title="1u radium + 1u plasma + 1u chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen">Mutagen</span>]] 2u at a time(can only be done with a jug, pipette or syringe) to boost it a bit.
*Boost the Yield some more with [[Guide to Hydroponics#Diethylamine|<span title= "1u ammonia + 1u ethanol heated to 374K(100C) = 2u Diethylamine">Diethylamine</span>]] from the Nutrimax vendor. Make sure you pour all the bottles into a bucket and add to the tray in multiples of 50.
*Make [[Guide to Hydroponics#Saltpetre|<span title="1u potassium + 1u nitrogen + 3u oxygen = 1u Saltpetre">Saltpetre</span>]] and use it on the Ambrosia Gaia until you get to 100 potency, and at most 5 production speed.
*Make more [[Guide to Hydroponics#Diethylamine|<span title= "1u ammonia + 1u ethanol heated to 374K(100C) = 2u Diethylamine">Diethylamine</span>]] and boost the yield to 10
*Extract the Perennial Growth trait from some seeds that have it(e.g:apple seeds)
*When the Gaia finishes growing use one branch on the [[#seed extractor|seed extractor]], to get seeds, then insert the Perennial Growth trait to it in the [[#DNA Extractor|DNA Extractor]].
*Put whatever branches you have left into trays and save one for science
*Plant 2 Glowshrooms and 1 Nettle and mutate the Nettel into Death Nettle and one of the Glowshrooms by spamming Mutagen 5u at a time. Glowshrooms can mutate into shadow shrooms instead of glowcaps, so you may have to wait until your Glowshrooms finish growing so you can make some seeds.
*Get 2 of each shroom, 1 Death Nettle, and 1 Gaia branch to science. And make sure to keep one of each to make seeds from. Also make 3 leather in the Biogenerator if you have the biomass for it and make botanists gloves so sci don't sting themselves on the Death Nettle.
Would you look at that, you just made yourself useful! Good job!
As an aside, you can do a lot of these steps in paralel, but with how easy it is to lose your gaia to weeds it's better to keep it slow at first, at least until you have some backup gaia seeds. 


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SERVICE

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Botanist

Superiors: Head of Personnel
Difficulty: Easy
Guides: Guide to Hydroponics
Access: Hydroponics
Duties: Grow plants, provide ingredients for the Chef. That's all.

Service Department

As a Botanist (also known as Hydroponist or Botanical Researcher), it's your job to grow stuff for the Chef to keep the crew fed. There are plenty of vegetables to grow, and if you're feeling adventurous, there are some other less edible plants to experiment growing with. Other tasks that are likely to come up is providing the Science Department's RnD with particular mutated plants, and cargo with certain rare seeds for profit. For the most part, a botanist has a lot of free time to experiment, but don't forget that your first duty as a botanist is to keep the station fed.

Your First Shift

So you've just arrived to the station and you can't tell a potato from a killer tomato. Well, here's a little guide to get you started!

Initial Objectives

While you can grow food for the chef right from the start, if you don't do any setup you'll be stuck taking care of plants that grow slowly and produce very little. As such you should take some steps to improve your plants and environment first:

  • Grab the plant disks from all the lockers along with a hydroponics HUD, cultivator, hatchet, portable seed extractor and spade
  • Unsecure the grinder and drag it where it would be easy to access. There is no need to anchor it there.
  • Decide which trays you'd like to use for mutating. Connect them with irrigation pipes and fill them with Mutrient(at least 40u per pour; alt-click the jug)
  • Make a perennial growth disk
  • Make a 50 Potency 1 Production speed core stat disk by growing a plant with these stats in a tray filled with robust harvest and no mutagens then extracting all the stats from its seeds. This disk will help with both production and mutation since more produce also means more seeds.
  • Use Unstable Mutagen from the vendors or radium from glowshrooms to mutate Glowshrooms, Pumpkins and Ambrosia(Vulgaris to Deus and Deus to Gaia) to get access to unstable mutagen and ammonia, as well as the plants sci need.

Achieving these initial goals will give you the ability to make self sustaining trays and plants with okay stats, allowing you to easily keep up with the chefs demands without much effort. You will also have the genes needed to make unstable mutagen and ammonia yourself.

Tools of the Trade

You get a few fun tools as a Botanist that will make your life easier when growing plants; attainable from the NutriMax vendor and the closets in the back room:

Tools

  • Portable Seed Extractor A plant bag that can also turn it's contents into seeds
  • Plant Analyzer Use on plants or seeds to get information about their traits and stats. Use on a container containing unsorted seeds to sort them.
  • Hydroponics HUD Shows you the level of weeds and pests on a soil plot and also when a plant is ready for harvest. Also allows you to see seed stats by hovering over them with your mouse.
  • Cultivator: This one is meant to claw, or perhaps filter, out weeds from the hydroponic trays. If weeds are allowed to grow, they will eventually kill your plant and take their place!
  • Spade Used to remove plants from trays and soil plots. Can also be used to dig sand to make sand piles, from you can make sandstones, and from those soil plots.
  • Plant-B-Gone Spray bottle: Kills plants slowly and can be filled with other chemicals. Does minor toxin damage.
  • Bucket: Fill these up and use them to water your trays.
  • Wire Cutters Use them to connect trays with irrigation pipes.
  • Wrench Use it to anchor or unanchor trays or other machinery like your grinder allowing you to move them about.

Things you should get from the outside:

  • A multitool to hack your vendors with. You can ask cargo to make you one.
  • Toxin Medical Kit: Just in case you eat something nasty.
  • Various chemicals to mutate or treat your plants with.
  • Beekeeping Equipment: Allows you to cultivate beehives and produce honey for the chef/crew to enjoy, as well as copious amounts of just about any chem. Do be careful though. Bees are dangerous once let loose.

Machines

  • Seed Extractor: This machine extracts the seeds from plants and also stores them.
  • Plant DNA manipulator: The bread and butter of hydroponics. This machine allows you to extract plant genes from seeds onto disks and insert those genes into other plants.
  • Biogenerator: This machine can make a variety of items and reagents such as fertilizers, soil, milk, leather and monkey cubes from biomass gained by processing plants.

Useful Chemicals and Where to find them

There is an expanded list of chemicals in the guide to hydroponics, but these are some of the most useful and common:

Doping chems:

  • Saltpetre
    1 part Potassium
    1 part Nitrogen
    3 parts Oxygen
    : Increases mutations strength for Potency. Can be produced by filling a compost bin also available in a hacked Nutrimax Vendor.
  • Ammonia
    3 parts Hydrogen
    1 part Nitrogen
    : Increases mutations strength for Yield. Produced by Blumpkins.
  • Diethylamine
    1 part
    Ammonia
    3 parts Hydrogen
    1 part Nitrogen

    1 part Ethanol
    Temperature 374 K
    : Increases mutations strength for Production Speed. Can be made in a chem dispenser(requires heating)
  • Cryoxadone
    1 part Plasma
    1 part
    Acetone
    1 part
    Oil
    1 part
    Welding Fuel
    Found in welding fuel tanks.

    1 part Carbon
    1 part Hydrogen

    1 part
    Welding Fuel
    Found in welding fuel tanks.

    1 part Oxygen

    1 part
    Unstable Mutagen
    1 part Chlorine
    1 part Plasma
    1 part Radium

    1 part
    Cryostylane
    1 part Water
    1 part Plasma
    1 part Nitrogen
    : Increases mutations strength for Endurance. Can be made in a chem dispenser. Mebay uses it, so they should have some lying around.
  • Omnizine
    Found in warm Donk Pockets or rainbow cotton candy.
    : Increases mutations strength for Lifespan. Produced by Lifeweed.

Fertilizers:

  • Robust Harvest: Does not increase mutation level. It increases yield by 30%. Doesn't increase the stat itself, just the harvested amount.
  • Left 4 Zed: Increases mutation level by 15. Will drop yield to 1, so change fertilizer once you are content with the stat changes.

All fertilizers can be found in the Nutrimax vendor, and the biogenerator can make more of them.

Hover over each of the chemicals to learn how to create them, for further details check Guide to Chemistry.

Mutagens:

Mutagens fill up the mutagen tank, which increases mutation level by 1 per 1u in it, up to 15. Goes down by 1 each harvest and needs to be replenished.

To cultivate

Now that you know your tools and materials, it's time to get familiar with how you actually get plants growing:

Making things grow

The MegaSeed Servitor gives you the seeds to start growing. There are a couple of hidden seeds too if you get the tools to hack it, though you could also ask an engineer or scientist to hack it and they'll probably have the tools and knowledge to do it for you. Plant the seeds in a tray and begin your cultivation journey.

You can drop anything edible you make in the fridge for the chef, though you may want to plant whatever they need frequently in the chef's garden. You can also use the fridge to store anything that isn't restricted or dangerous, for those experiments you'd want a second fridge. Anything you don't want to store can go into the biogenerator(except for certain plants like death nettles) and be turned into biomass that can be made into a variety of things.

  • Perennial growth is the most important trait, and the first one you should extract to a disk in the DNA Extractor. This is what makes your plant not disappear as you harvest it.

Doing your part

As you can see, getting something going isn't too difficult. But if you want to be useful, you need to grow the right stuff, and make it grow well.

Duties

Your main duties are supplying the chef, getting science their plants and keeping the biogenerator stocked with biomass to be more specific:

  • For food, make whatever the chef asks for, and preferably plant it in his garden to save tray space. Don't forget to put Gaia branches in the soil plots.
  • Science will ask you for plants they need for research. Glowshrooms, Glowcaps and Ambrosia Gaia are the most common ones.
  • The Biogenenerator can take just about any plant, but the higher the nutriment and plant matter content the better, so watermelons are one of the best choices. Use the biogenerator to make products like cloth and leather for the crew.

Those however are only your basic duties, a good botanists can make all sorts of beneficial plants to suit the needs of a station. A few examples include:

  • If you expect power issues, grow some potatoes. They can be made into potato batteries by clicking them with wires, and with high potency and the electrical activity trait from glow caps are as good as any power cell science can make.
  • Healing plants are always useful, and there are countless varieties that can be eaten, thrown or squished to achieve their effect. And Medbay can always use some lazarus reagent, omnizine, bicaridine, kelotane and blood.
  • Plant some Steelcaps near the ORM if the miners aren't getting enough metal in.

Actually Getting Set Up

Now that you know some basics let's run you down a more comprehensive to-do list for the beginning of the shift:

  • Go to the backroom, grab a botany HUD and seed extractor from one of the closets, and the plant data disk box from each.
  • Get a multitool from tool storage or cargo and a screwdriver from the backroom and use it to hack your vendors.
  • Extract perennial growth from a plant
  • Plant 2 or 3 Glowshrooms and a plant with 1 production. Make sure you put perennial growth on all of them.
  • While those are growing use a pair of wirecutters to connect the glowshroom tray to some others with irrigation pipes. Those will be for mutating for mutating.
  • Fertilize the 1 production plant and one glowhsroom with robust harvest, fertilize the other glowshrooms with mutriment, using at least 30u at a time so the connected trays are also fertilized
  • Put the stats from the core stat disk on some pumpkin, grass and ambrosia vulgaris seeds, then plant and fertilize with mutriment
  • Use either 15u of Mutagen or 3-4 glowshrooms on each tray. Use the analyzer to verify they are filled with mutagen.
  • Harvest and sort the seeds to get Glowcap Blumpkin and ambrosia deus seeds. Repeat the process with ambrosia deus to get gaia, and plant the glowcaps to make some for sci.
  • Put the core disk stats on grass or preferably carpet seeds(better if you have mutagen production since it cannot change species) and put ammonia from the blumpkins on them. Plant and fertilize with robust harvest
  • Harvest the grass, plant 4-6 copies of it and fertilize with nutriment then fertilize with the grass(that should have ammonia on it).
  • Harvest those grass plants, and extract seeds until you fill a seed extractor or plant bag
  • Sort with an analyzer, keeping the grass seeds with the highest yield and 1 production
  • Plant those seeds instead of the first grass plant and repeat until 10 yield.(If you have ammonia in the trays and they are filled with mutagen it would usually be the first time)
  • Get saltpetre from the vendor, using a jug or dropper to dispense 1u into each tray or soilplot, then repeat the process until you get 100 10 1 seeds.
  • Make Mutagen grass by inserting the chems from Blumpkins and Glowshrooms and use it for the rest of the mutation.
  • Remember to improve the stat of each plant before mutating so that it yield more seeds and grows quicker.

Would you look at that, you just made yourself useful! Good job!

As an aside, this is just a basic list. There are many improvements to be made, and many of the steps can be done in parallel, though that can be a bit overwhelming for a new botanist.

Helping other departments

Apart from cooking, plants are also useful for Research & Development, selling rare plants at Cargo, providing Medical department and chemists with ready-to-use reagents. Also, sometimes plants are needed for the DNA Vault station goal, in which case many different plants should be grown to be scanned.

Science

Scientists at R&D can use plants in the Destructive Analyzer to get tech levels. Notable plants that help in that are:

  • Tomato (biotech=5)
  • Bluespace Tomato (bluespace=5)
  • Killer-Tomato (combat=5)
  • Bluespace Banana (bluespace=5)
  • Glowcap (powerstorage=6, plasmatech=4)
  • Glowshroom (plasmatech=6)
  • Shadowshroom (plasmatech=4, magnets=4)
  • Walking Mushrooms (programming=5)
  • Glow-Berry Bush (plasmatech=6)
  • Gatfruit Tree (combat=6)
  • Death Nettle (combat=5)
  • Ghost Chili (magnets=5)
  • Golden Apple (materials=5)
  • Ambrosia Gaia (biotech=6, materials=5)

Cargo

Cargo Bay department can sell a number of rare plant seeds for supply points. Most of the mutated species of plants are considered rare. Plant analyzer tells you if a plant seed is rare and its rarity score when used on a growing plant or its products (if the plant is not rare, there is no corresponding line). Only one sample of a plant is needed to gain points, more is unnecessary. The number of points awarded are the sum of the discovered plant's potency and rarity, and if you send in the same plant with better potency you will be awarded the difference between the new sample's potency and the previous one's.

Plant Values

Name Type Seed Potting Product Rarity/ Discovery Value
Ambrosia deus Normal Ambrosia deus seed.png Ambrosia deus stage harvest.gif Ambrosia deus.png 40
Ambrosia gaia Normal Ambrosia gaia seed.png Ambrosia gaia stage harvest.gif Ambrosia gaia.png 30
Blood Tomato Normal Bloodtomatoseed.png Bloodtomatoplant.png Bloodtomato.png 20
Bluespace Banana Normal Bluespacebananaseed.png Bluespacebananaplant.png Bluespace Banana.gif 30
Bluespace tomato Normal Bluespacetomatoseed.png Bluespacetomatoplant.gif Bluespacetomato.gif 50
Blue cherry Normal Bluecherryseed.png Bluecherrytree.png Bluecherry.png 10
Blue tomato Normal Bluetomatoseed.png Bluetomatoplant.png Bluetomato.png 20
Blumpkin Normal Blumpkinseed.png Blumpkinplant.png Blumpkin.png 20
Carpet Normal Carpetseed.png Growncarpet.png Carpet.png 10
Cherry Bomb Normal Cherrybombseed.png Cherrybombtree.png Cherrybomb.png 60
Coffee robusta Normal Coffeerobustaseed.png CoffeerobustaTree.png Coffeerobusta.png 20
Death berry Normal Deathberryseed.png Deathberrytree.png Deathberrypile.png 30
Death nettle Weed Deathnettleseed.png Deathnettleplant.png Deathnettle.png 20
Deathweed Normal Deathweedseed.png Deathweedplant.png Deathweed.png 40
Destroying angel Mushroom Angleseeds.png Angleplant.png Angle.png 30
Gatfruit Normal Gatfruitseed.png Gatfruittree.png Gatfruit.png 60
Glow-berry Normal Glowberryseed.png Glowberrytree.png Glowberrypile.png 20
Ghost chili Normal Chillighostseed.png Chillighosttree.png Chillyghost.png 20
Glowshroom Mushroom Glowshroommycelium.png Glowshroomplant.png Glowshroom.png 20
Shadowshroom Mushroom Mycelium-shadowshroom.png Shadowshroomplant.png Shadowshroom.png 30
Glowcap Mushroom Glowcapseed.png Glowcapplant.gif Glowcap.png 30
Gold apple Normal Goldappleseed.png Goldappletree.gif Gold Apple.png 40
Holymelon Normal Holymelonseed.png Holymelonplant.png Holymelon.gif 20
Chilly Pepper Normal Icepepperseed.png Icepepperplant.png Icepepper.png 20
Killer tomato Normal Killertomatoseed.png Killertomatoplant.png Killertomato.png 30
Koibean Normal Koibeanseed.png Koibeanplant.png Koibeans.png 20
Kudzu Weed Kudzuseed.png Kudzuplant.png Kudzu.png 30
Lifeweed Normal Lifeweedseed.png Lifeweedplant.png Lifeweed.png 40
Mimana Normal Mimanaseed.png Mimanatree.png Mimana.png 15
Moonflower Normal Moonflowerseed.png Moonflower.png Moonflower.png 15
Novaflower Normal Novaflowerseed.png Novaflower.png Novaflower.png 20
Omega weed Normal Omegaweedseed.png Omegaweedplant.gif Omegaweed.gif 69
Poison-berry Normal Poisonberryseed.png Poisonberrytree.png Poisonberries.png 10
Rainbow weed Normal Rainbowweedseed.png Rainbowweedplant.gif Rainbowweed.gif 40
Snapcorn Normal Snapcornseed.png SnapcornPlant.png Snapcorn.png 10
Space tobacco Normal Spacetobaccoseed.png SpacetobaccoTree.png Spacetobacco.png 20
Steelcap Mushroom Towercapseed.png Steelcapplant.png Steelcap.png 20
Tea astra Normal Teaastraseed.png TeaastraTree.png Teaastra.png 20
Walking mushroom Mushroom Walkingmushroomseed.png Walkingmushroomplant.png Walkingmushroom.png 30


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A competent botanist makes for a terrifyingly effective antagonist by virtue of how plants can be modified in the DNA machine. If you have an easy objective, quickly rush out and get it out of the way, then head back and get your plants growing. If not, getting creative with your plants may provide a significant advantage, and in the meantime other antagonists may open opportunities to use them. Mix dangerous plant traits such as Liquid Contents and Gaseous Decomposition or Hypodermic Prickles with plants that produce poisons, and suddenly you have access to a deadly weapon that can incapacitate victims with ease. Such examples include acid smoke bombs and powerful contact-poison fruits. You can also adulterate some food; you have access to syringes in the NutriMax vendor that can serve this purpose. Just make sure your give it to the right person! Your leather gloves give no prints onto a crime scene, so Detectives will have their work cut out for them to pin anything on you in particular.

Botanists can also grow powerful medicines that keep them healthy against Security. Traitor Botanists in particular have access to Ambrosia Cruciatus, which features a high amount of bath salts production (useful for anti-stun or poisoning via overdose!), as well as a briefcase of bees. The briefcase full of bees works for a powerful unique traitor weapon, although the classic NOT THE BEES sound file will tell everyone that you're probably an agent.

Notably for Vampires, the Biogenerator can make monkeys to stave off hunger; this is useful when you're working on your perfect killer fruit.


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