Guide to Hydroponics

Hydroponics and the Botanists who work there are important to the station, especially in longer rounds. Botanists grow plants that the Chef can use for food. Without Botany, the station will have to live off of beef jerky and space twinkies, or starve to death. Hydroponic plants are also useful for RnD, Cargo, and the crew aside from food. Grinding plants to create biomass can be very useful for someone needing a snappy toolbelt or boots.

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Basics of Botany

Your Area

Hydroponics is your place of work and cultivation. Trays are available where you grow plants and two vending machines, one with seeds and the other with miscellaneous items such as nutriments and tools for your job. The bio-generator can be used to grind plants and produce things for the station. In tandem is the seed dispenser used to reproduce your product. The northern area is where you can grab most of the equipment needed to work in botany.

Plants require nutriment and water to grow. They are also bothered by pests and weeds. Trays come equipped with alerts that flash specific colors to tell you what's happening with your plant.

From left to right -

• Green: Ready to harvest.
• Red: Low health.
• Red: Weeds/pests/toxins.
• Yellow: Low nutriment.
• Blue: Low water.

Tools that are of use in botany -

• Wrench: Used to move your trays around.
• Wirecutters: Used to set up the irrigation system. If 30u or more of water is put into trays while the irrigation is set up, water will be shared across trays. This will also distribute things like mutagen and plant killer.
• Hatchet: Chops tower-caps into planks, chops other things. This is also a very robust tool that can be hidden in backpacks.
• Spade: Used to remove unwanted or dead plants from your trays.
• Cultivator: Kills Weeds.
• Plant Bag: Collects up to 50 items or 100 seeds from your harvest.
• Portable Seed Extractor: Found in the lockers of the back room, this can harvest and pick up plants and turn up to 100 plants into seeds. Can be alt-clicked to turn the contained plants into seed.
• Plant analyzer: Gives information about plants and seeds and is the best tool for sorting seeds.
• Seed Sorting Tray: Not as good at sorting as the plant analyzer, but better than sorting by hand.

Plants 101

Take some seeds from the vendor and put them into the trays. Make sure to keep them weeded with a cultivator and watered. Some plants have a varied growth times, such as wheat growing faster while watermelons or apple trees take a little longer before you can harvest from them. Sometimes these and other stats of a plant are affected if you ignore them after the light warns you of their status. You have a choice of 5 nutriments, depending on if you hacked your machine or not. Once your tray flashes green, you're set to harvest. If you want to replicate the plant to continue growing more, just insert it into the seed extractor.

Sorting Seeds

If you grow your seeds in a tray with a mutation level of 0 they will not mutate, and thus will be all the same. However, when the mutation level is greater than zero the seeds may be different, and thus need to be sorted. These seeds can't be planted or put into the seed extractor.
Seed sorting is done in one of 3 ways:

• Plant Analyzer: Use the plant analyzer on a container holding seeds, such as a plant bag or portable seed extractor. This takes half a second per seed and gives a mutation boost of 50% after the 4th consecutive seed sorter and 100% after the 8th one.
  This means that for the most mutations you want to sort as many seeds at once.
• Seed Sorting Tray: A dedicated seed container for sorting. Half as fast as the analyzer and only gives a bonus of 50% for seeds past the 4th.
• Using in hand: One seed pack at a time, one second each. You can't sort seeds consecutively so there's no bonus.

Biogenerators

The bio-generator makes items out of the nutriment in plants, such as watermelons and pumpkins which have a 20% nutriment boost trait. To get biomass, grab a spare bucket and equip the machine with it then put your growns inside. Open its interface and process the plants. If you somehow run out of nutriment in the vendors, remember you can print the three standard nutriments here. You can recycle any plant, though if they don't have nutriment like bananas, the efficiency is very low.

DNA Extractor

This allows you to extract genes and stats from seeds. This is a very useful machine for mass producing plants, easily saving lots of time.

How to use:

• 1. Go to the locker in the back and take out the box of plant data disks.
• 2. Load a disk into the machine along with any seed of choice.
• 3. Extract a stat, trait or reagent gene to the disk (seed will be destroyed) or extract all of the core stats(seed is also destroyed, and it requires extracting multiple seeds with the same exact stats).
• 4. Put in another seed.
• 5. You can now modify the seed's stats and genes based on what's in the plant data disk.

Useful seeds for maxing production:

• On some maps, there's wheat on the table, this wheat has 50 potency and 1 production speed.
• Treecaps have naturally high endurance and resistance, as well as 50 potency.
• The tobacco in the seed vendor has 10 yield.
• The wheat and potatos in the seed vendor have 1 production speed.
• At the start the DNA modifier can only store 50 potency on a disk, but it can store all-core-stat disks without a limit on the stats' values.

Don't forget that you can rename seed packs with a pen to keep track of your modified seeds!

Plants

There are three types of plants. The biggest category is "normal plants". The much smaller ones are mushrooms and weeds. They are a little different from the normal plants:

• Mushrooms need less light, and suffer less from lack of it.
• Mushrooms don't need water to grow. They still use it, though.
• Weeds don't suffer from high weed level.
• Mushrooms and weeds can't be overtaken by weeds in a tray.
• Mushrooms' yield can't drop to 0. It will always be at least 1.

In addition to those types, some individual plants have their own unique features that aren't bound to a trait:

• You can carve a pumpkin with a hatchet. Carved pumpkins can be worn and you can toggle them to emit a weak light.
• You can carve a corn cob (eaten ear of corn) with a hatchet to make a corn cob pipe.
• Wheat can be used to feed chickens in the Hydroponics near the kitchen (just give them wheat directly) for them to lay eggs.
• You can carve a carrot with a hatchet to make a shiv. It's not very strong but it's good at slicing things.
• Flowers and ambrosia can be worn on your head. Works nicely with Strong Bioluminescense.
• Add dried ambrosia, wheat, tea aspera tips or tobacco leaves to a tower cap log to make a torch.
• Novaflowers ignite people you hit them with and deal burn damage depending on potency.
• Death-Nettles will sting when picked up without protective gloves, stunning and dealing burn damage. They will also deal burn damage on hit, which gets lower with each hit.
• Comfrey and Aloe can be crushed to make healing poultices that apply the plant's reagents to the skin.
• Combustible lemons can be armed and thrown like grenades and create a fiery explosion after a 5 second delay, be responsible with them.
• Killer Tomatos will wake up and start attacking anything in sight after being used in hand. If the liquid contents trait wasn't removed they will squish when you throw them and will not wake up, so you would need to drop them instead.
• Grass and Carpet Grass can be used in hand to make Grass or Carpet tiles.
• Replica pod can be used to grow dead people back to life. To clone someone, follow these simple steps:

• • Take a blood sample from the body using a syringe.
  • Inject it into the bag of seeds.
  • Plant the seeds.
  • Let the plant grow and harvest it. The person will come back as a Diona.

Trays, whether empty or occupied by plants, can be occasionally overtaken by a weed if their level is 5 or more. In that case the old plant is destroyed, and a new one will sprout in its place. Possible plants include:

• 1/6 chance for Reishi.
• 1/9 chance for Nettle.
• 1/9 chance for Harebell.
• 1/9 chance for Amanita.
• 1/9 chance for Chanterelle.
• 1/9 chance for Tower Cap.
• 1/9 chance for Plump Helmets.
• 1/6 chance for Starthistle.

Here's a chart for reference on what you can grow.

Plant Chart (mouse over the reagents to have a brief effect description)

Name	Type	Seed	Potting	Product	Reagent Production	Traits	Available from	Mutates into
Aloe	Normal				10% silver sulfadiazine	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor
Ambrosia cruciatus	Normal				5% plant-matter, 15% tetrahydrocannabinol, 10% bicaridine, 15% kelotane, 20% bath salts, 5% plant-matter	Perennial Growth	Traitor uplink only
Ambrosia deus	Normal				5% plant-matter, 15% diluted omnizine, 15% synaptizine, 10% space drugs, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Ambrosia vulgaris	Ambrosia gaia
Ambrosia gaia	Normal				6% nutriment, 5% earthsblood, 5% vitamin		Mutate Ambrosia deus
Ambrosia vulgaris	Normal				5% plant-matter, 10% bicaridine, 10% kelotane, 15% space drugs, 10% toxin, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Ambrosia deus
Apple	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, mutate Pineapple	Gold apple
Bamboo	Normal					Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor
Banana	Normal				10% banana juice, 10% potassium, 4% vitamin, 2% plant-matter	Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, Exotic Seeds Crate	Mimana, Bluespace banana
Berry	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Glow-berry, Poison-berry
Blood Tomato	Normal				10% plant-matter, 20% blood, 4% vitamin	Liquid Contents, Perennial Growth	Mutate Tomato	Killer tomato
Bluespace Banana	Normal				20% singulo, 10% banana juice, 4% vitamin, 2% nutriment	Slippery Skin, Bluespace Activity, Perennial Growth	Mutate Banana
Bluespace tomato	Normal				10% plant-matter, 20% singulo, 20% space lube, 4% vitamin	Slippery Skin, Bluespace Activity, Liquid Contents, Perennial Growth	Mutate Blue tomato
Blue cherry	Normal				7% nutriment, 7% sugar	Perennial Growth	Mutate Cherry
Blue tomato	Normal				10% plant-matter, 20% space lube, 4% vitamin	Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth	Mutate Tomato	Bluespace tomato
Blumpkin	Normal				20% ammonia, 10% chlorine, 20% plant-matter, 10% plasma	Perennial Growth	mutate Pumpkin
Cabbage	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Replica pod
Cannabis	Normal				15% tetrahydrocannabinol	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked)	Rainbow weed, Lifeweed,
Carpet	Normal				2% plant-matter, 5% hydrogen	Perennial Growth	Mutate Grass
Carrot	Normal				5% plant-matter, 4% vitamin, 25% oculine		MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Parsnip
Chanterelle	Mushroom				10% nutriment	Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray
Cherry	Normal				7% nutriment, 7% sugar	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Blue cherry
Cherry Bomb	Normal				10% plant-matter, 10% sugar, 70% blackpowder	Perennial Growth	Only available from Xenobiology
Chili	Normal				4% plant-matter, 25% capsaicin, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Ghost chili, Chilly Pepper
Cocoa	Normal				10% plant-matter, 25% cocoa powder	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Vanilla
Comfrey	Normal				10% styptic powder	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor
Coffee arabica	Normal				10% coffee grounds, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Coffee robusta
Coffee robusta	Normal				10% coffee grounds, 4% vitamin, 10% ephedrine	Perennial Growth	Mutate Coffee arabica
Combustible Lemon	Normal				5% plant-matter	Perennial Growth	Mutate Lemon
Corn	Normal				10% plant-matter, 20% corn oil, 4% vitamin		MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Snapcorn
Durathread	Normal						Mutate Cotton
Death berry	Normal				10% plant-matter, 8% coniine,10% tirizene, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Poison-berry
Death nettle	Weed				25% fluorosulphuric acid, 25% sulphuric acid	Perennial Growth, Weed Adaptation, Hypodermic Prickles	Mutate Nettle, weed mutation
Deathweed	Normal				35% cyanide, 15% tetrahydrocannabinol	Perennial Growth	Mutate Cannabis
Destroying angel	Mushroom				4% nutriment, 4% Psilocybin, 20% amanitin	Fungal Vitality	Mutate Fly amanita
Cotton	Normal						MegaSeed Servitor
Eggplant	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Egg-plant
Egg-plant	Normal				10% nutriment	Perennial Growth	Mutate Eggplant, Exotic Seeds Crate
Fly amanita	Mushroom				35% amanitin, 4% Psilocybin, 10% growth serum, 4% nutriment	Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray	Destroying angel
Fruiting cactus	Normal				8% Vitrium Froth, 4% nutriment, 4% vitamin	Fire Resistance	Lavaland Plant
Fungus	Mushroom				35% space fungus	Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), can overtake a tray
Garlic	Normal				15% garlic juice, 10% plant matter		MegaSeed Servitor
Gatfruit	Normal				10% sulphur, 10% carbon, 7% nitrogen, 5% potassium	Perennial Growth	Only available from Xenobiology
Geranium	Normal				5% plant-matter, 20% bicaridine		Mutate Poppy
Glow-berry	Normal				10% plant-matter, 25% uranium, 20% iodine, 4% vitamin.	Strong Bioluminescence, Perennial Growth	Mutate Berry
Ghost chili	Normal				4% plant-matter, 55% capsaicin, 30% condensed capsaicin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Chili
Glowshroom	Mushroom				10% radium, 10% phosphorus, 4% nutriment.	Bioluminescence, Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor	Glowcap Shadowshroom
Shadowshroom	Mushroom				20% radium, 4% nutriment.	Shadow Emission, Fungal Vitality	Mutate Glowshroom
Glowcap	Mushroom				10% teslium. Restores up to 100% battery charge.	Electrical Activity, Bioluminescence, Fungal Vitality	Mutate Glowshroom
Gold apple	Normal			File:Goldapple.gif	10% plant-matter, 20% gold, 4% vitamin		Mutate Apple
Grapes	Normal				10% plant-matter, 10% sugar, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Green grapes
Grass	Normal				2% plant-matter, 5% hydrogen	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Carpet
Green grapes	Normal				10% plant-matter, 20% kelotane, 10% sugar, 4% vitamin		Mutate Grapes
Harebell	Weed				4% plant-matter	Weed Adaptation	Can overtake a a tray
Holymelon	Normal			File:Holymelon.png	20% holy water, 4% vitamin, 10% nutriment	Perennial Growth	Mutate Watermelon
Chilly Pepper	Normal				2% plant-matter, 25% frost oil, 2% vitamin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Chili
Killer tomato	Normal				10% protein, 4% vitamin	Liquid Contents	Mutate Blood Tomato
Koibean	Normal				5% plant-matter, 10% carpotoxin, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Soybean
Kudzu	Weed				2% nutriment, 4% charcoal	Perennial Growth, Weed Adaptation	Weed mutation	Special, see this.
Leafy mushroom	Normal				6% nutriment, 8% Vitrium Froth, 4% nicotine	Fire Resistance, Fungal Vitality	Lavaland Plant
Lemon	Normal				5% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Combustible Lemon
Lettuce	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor
Liberty-cap	Mushroom				2% nutriment, 4% Psilocybin	Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, weed mutation
Lifeweed	Normal				35% omnizine, 15% tetrahydrocannabinol	Perennial Growth	Mutate Cannabis	Deathweed,Omega weed
Lily	Normal				5% plant-matter, 20% bicaridine	Perennial Growth	Mutate Poppy
Lime	Normal				5% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, mutate Orange	Orange
Large mushroom	Normal				6% sugar, 4% ethanol, 6% stabilizing agent, 2% mint toxin	Fire Resistance, Fungal Vitality	Lavaland Plant
Meatwheat	Normal				4% protein		Mutate Wheat
Mimana	Normal				10% nothing, 10% capulettium plus, 2% nutriment	Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth	Mutate Banana	Mimana, Bluespace banana
Mint	Normal				3% mint, 3% plant-matter		MegaSeed Servitor
Moonflower	Normal				2% plant-matter, 2% vitamin, 20% moonshine		Mutate Sunflower
Nettle	Weed				15% wasabi	Perennial Growth, Weed Adaptation	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray	Death nettle
Novaflower	Normal				25% condensed capsaicin, 30% capsaicin, 4% vitamin		Mutate Sunflower
Numerous mushroom	Normal				4% Tinea Luxor, 2% vitamin, 2% space drugs	Fire Resistance, Fungal Vitality, Bioluminescence	Lavaland Plant
Oat	Normal				4% plant-matter		Mutate Wheat
Olive	Normal				20% plant-matter, 2% vitamin, 20% salt	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor
Omega weed	Normal				5% space drugs, 5% lysergic acid diethylamide, 5% mercury, 5% lithium, 5% haloperidol, 5% methamphetamine, 5% Suicider, 5% hairgrowinium, 5% bath salts, 5% itching powder, 5% crank, 5% krokodil, 5% histamine, 5% psilocybin, 5% ectoplasm	Perennial Growth	Lifeweed,Rainbow Weed
Onion	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin		MegaSeed Servitor
Orange	Normal				5% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, mutate Lime	Lime
Parsnip	Normal				5% vitamin, 5% plant-matter		Mutate Carrot
Peanuts	Normal				10% plant-matter		MegaSeed Servitor
Pineapple	Normal				20% plant-matter, 2% vitamin, 4% water	Capacitive Cell Production	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Apple
Plump helmet	Mushroom				10% nutriment, 4% vitamin	Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray	Walking mushroom
Poison-berry	Normal				10% plant-matter, 15% cyanide, 20% tirizene, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Berry	Death berry
Poppy	Normal				5% plant-matter, 20% bicaridine		MegaSeed Servitor	Geranium, Lily
Potato	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Capacitive Cell Production	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Sweet Potato
Pumpkin	Normal				20% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Blumpkin
Rainbow weed	Normal				15% lysergic acid diethylamide, 15% tetrahydrocannabinol, 15% happiness	Perennial Growth	Mutate Cannabis	Omega weed,Deathweed,
Redbeet	Normal				5% plant-matter, 5% vitamin	Densified Chemicals	Mutate Whitebeet
Red Onion	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin, 5% onion juice		Mutate Onion
Rice	Normal				4% plant-matter		MegaSeed Servitor
Reishi	Mushroom				35% charcoal, 35% morphine, 4% nutriment	Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), can overtake a tray
Replica pod	Normal						MegaSeed Servitor, Exotic Seeds Crate, Mutate Cabbage
Snapcorn	Normal				10% plant-matter, 20% corn oil, 4% vitamin		Mutate Corn
Soybean	Normal				5% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Koibean
Space tobacco	Normal				3% plant-matter, 8% nicotine, 5% salbutamol		Mutate Tobacco
Starthistle	Weed					Weed Adaptation	Can overtake a tray
Steelcap	Mushroom					Fungal Vitality	Mutate Towercap
Sugarcane	Normal				25% sugar	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
Sunflower	Normal				8% corn oil, 4% plant-matter		MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Moonflower, Novaflower
Sweet Potato	Normal				10% plant-matter, 10% sugar, 10% vitamin		Mutate Potato
Tall mushroom	Normal				4% lysergic acid diethylamide, 8% Entropyc Polypnium, 4% Psilocybin	Fire Resistance, Fungal Vitality	Lavaland Plant
Tea aspera	Normal				10% ground tea leaves, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Tea astra
Tea astra	Normal				10% ground tea leaves, 10% synaptizine, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Tea aspera
Tobacco	Normal				3% nicotine, 3% plant-matter		MegaSeed Servitor	Space tobacco
Tomato	Normal				10% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Liquid Content, Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Blood Tomato, Blue Tomato
Towercap	Mushroom					Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor, can overtake a tray	Steelcap
Vanilla	Normal				25% vanilla, 10% plant-matter	Perennial Growth	Mutate Cocoa
Walking mushroom	Mushroom				15% nutriment, 5% vitamin	Fungal Vitality	Mutate Plump helmet
Watermelon	Normal				20% plant-matter, 20% water, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Holymelon
Wheat	Normal				4% plant-matter		MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Oat, Meatwheat
Whitebeet	Normal				5% plant-matter, 20% sugar, 4% vitamin		MegaSeed Servitor	Redbeet

Chemicals

Certain chemicals can affect your plants in various ways; from healing your plants, changing its stats, or just killing it outright. You'll likely need to ask Chemistry for help in obtaining some of these chemicals.

Chemical Chart; Effects are per unit. Hover over the names of chemicals to find where they are obtained.

Name	Purpose	Nutrients	Water	Health	Toxin	Bonus Effects
E-Z Nutriment	Fertilizer	1	0	0	0	Does not increase mutation level.
Mutriment	Fertilizer	1	0	0	0	Increases mutation level by 10
Left 4 Zed	Fertilizer	1	0	0	0	Increases mutation level by 15,but reduces the yield of each harvest to 1(no effect on the yield stat).
Robust Harvest	Fertilizer	1	0	0	0	Does not increase mutation level. Increases yield by 30%.
Earthsblood	Fertilizer	1	0	0	0	Does not increase mutation level., makes the tray self sustain after 28u were added.
Unstable Mutagen	Mutations	0	0	0	0	Inceases mutation level by 1 per 1u added, up to 15.
Uranium	Mutations	0	0	-1	2	Inceases mutation level by 1 per 1u added, up to 15. Poisons the tray
Radium	Mutations	0	0	-1	3	Inceases mutation level by 1 per 1u added, up to 15. Poisons the tray
Ammonia	Stats	1	0	0.5	0	Increases Yield mutations.
Diethylamine	Stats	2	0	1	0	Kills Pests. Increases Production Speed mutations.
Saltpetre	Stats	0	0	0.25	0	Increases Potency mutations.
Cryoxadone	Stats	0	0	3	-3	Increases Endurance Mutations
Omnizine	Stats	0	0	3	-3	Increases Lifespan Mutations
Saline Glucose Solution	Stats	0	0	3	-3	Increases Weed Vulnurability and Weed Grow Rate Mutations
Atrazine	Weed Killer	0	0	0	0.5	Kills Weeds. Commonly known as Weed Killer.
Pest Killer	Pest Killer	0	0	0	0.5	Kills Pests.
Water	Water	0	1	0	0
Holy Water	Water	0	1	0.1	0
Soda Water	Water	0.1	1	0.1	0
Fish Water	Water/Fertilizer	0.75	1	0	0	Increases nutrient level without changing nutrient type
Milk	Water	0.1	0.9	0	0
Beer	Water	0.25	0.7	-0.05	0
Nutriment	Fertilizer	1	0	0.5	0	Increases nutrient level without changing nutrient type
Plant-matter	Fertilizer	1	0	0.5	0	Increases nutrient level without changing nutrient type
Ash	Fertilizer	0.5	0	0.25	0	Kills Weeds and Heals plants
Charcoal	Healing	0	0	0	-2
Sugar	Plant Killer	0.1	0	0	0	Creates weeds and pests.
Blood	Fertilizer	1	0	0	0	Creates pests.
Virus Food	Fertilizer	0.5	0	-0.5	0	Increases nutrient level without changing nutrient type
Phosphorus	Plant Killer	0.1	-0.5	-0.75	0	Kills weeds (along with your plant).
Toxin	Plant Killer	0	0	0	2
Sulphuric Acid	Plant Killer	0	0	-1	1.5	Kills Weeds (along with your plant).
Chlorine	Plant Killer	0	-0.5	-1	1.5	Kills weeds (along with your plant).
Fluorine	Plant Killer	0	-0.5	-2	2.5	Kills weeds (along with your plant).
Fluorosulphuric Acid	Plant Killer	0	0	-2	3	Kills Weeds (along with your plant).
Glyphosate	Plant Killer	0	0	-5	6	Efficient against Kudzu.
Napalm	Plant Killer	0	0	-6	7	Kills Weeds (along with your plant).
Lazarus Reagent	Evil	0	0	0	0	Creates hostile plant-life.

Modifying Your Plants

Maybe you want to grow something more impressive than the tiny potatoes your plants probably produced. Or perhaps you got unlucky and harvested only one of each. A plant's stats determine all this and more, and true botanists are unafraid to PLAY GOD and change them!

Stats

• Age: Age of the plant, measured in cycles. Can be used to determine how a close a plant is to maturation or the next harvest. If it exceeds the plant's lifespan the plant starts taking damage each cycle
• Potency: The most important stat. Between 0 and 100. Basically, this determines plant power. Mostly affects the amount of chemicals in the plant, though some have additional effects, such as stun length for bananas. To get the amount of a given chemical in a plant, multiply the reagent in the chart by the potency: for example, 10% nutriment will be 5 nutriment at 50 potency.
• Yield: How much product you get each harvest. Between 0 and 10. Pay attention to this, because if it drops to 0, you won't harvest anything.
• Production Speed: How fast your plant reaches harvest. Between 1 and 10—the lower the faster. The plant has to wait (Production Speed) age cycles before each harvest.
• Endurance: Max health. Between 10 and 100. Not very useful, unless you leave your garden often. Only truely relevant for Killer Tomatos
• Lifespan: When the age is above lifespan, the plant starts losing health. Between 10 and 100. Not important at all in plants that can only be harvested once, unless they die before harvest. Barely useful for the other ones, because you can always plant it again.
• Maturation Speed: Age cycles before the plant can start production. The first harvest will be (Maturation Speed + Production Speed).
• Weed vulnerability: The chance that weeds will grow each cycle. Goes from 0 to 100. With 100 being 100% chance of weeds growing and 0 being 0%.
• Weed Growth Rate: The amount weeds grow by when they do. Goes from 0 to 10, with 10 completely filling a tray with weeds and potentially causing an immediate overtake and 0 meaning weeds don't grow at all.

Traits

Some plants have special traits, that can be tranferred through the Plant DNA Manipulator.

• Bioluminescence: Causes the plant to glow, emitting light equal to 10% of potency.
• Bluespace Activity: Gives the plant bluespace properties, making it teleport people hit if the plant has Liquid Contents, and on slip if it has Slippery Skin.
• Capacitive Cell Production: Plants with this trait can be made into batteries with the addition of wire. Electrical Activity increases the cell's maximum charge.
• Densified Chemicals: Doubles the reagent capacity of the plant.
• Electrical Activity: Gives the plant electrical charge, making it recharge batteries when used; it will also electrocute on slip if it also has Slippery Skin and on hit if it has Liquid Contents.
• Fungal Vitality: The plant acquires mushroom-like properties, making it not need light or water.
• Gaseous Decomposition: Plants with this trait emit a smoke cloud when squashed, spewing reagents everywhere. Requires Liquid Contents to be useful.
• Hypodermic Prickles: Plants with this trait will sting when thrown, transferring a portion of their chemicals to the target.
• Liquid Contents: Causes the plant to squash when thrown, applying the reagents inside on the target and destroying the plant.
• Perennial Growth: Plants with this trait can be harvested more than once.
• Shadow Emission: Causes the plant to emit slightly purple shadows.
• Slippery Skin: Causes the plant, or any products of the plant, to become slippery. The stun time is (Potency * 0.08), divided by 3 unless the plant has lube or is a banana. Maximum stun is 7 seconds.
• Strong Bioluminescence: Causes the plant to glow, emitting light equal to 20% of potency.
• Weed Adaptation: The plant acquires weed-like properties, making it not need nutrients and immune to weeds in the tray.

Mutations

Plants mutate each harvest cycle, mutating more strongly the higher the mutation level of the tray. Those mutations only show up in the seeds, however, so those must be extracted, then sorted. Mutation level is increased by 3 things:

• Fertilizers: E-Z Nutriment, Robust Harvest and Earthsblood give 0 mutation level, Mutriment gives 10 and Left 4 Zed gives 15. It's important to note that Left 4 Zed also reduces yield to 1(this doesn't affect the stat, only the actual yield).

• Mutagens: Unstable Mutagen, as well as Radium or Uranium each increase mutation level by 1 per 1u added when added to the tray, up to 15 extra mutation level. This reduces by 1 each harvest cycle. note that crude radioactives will make the tray poisenous so should be added with care.

• Floral Somatoray: Will give +5 mutation level for one harvest.

There are a few mutation level thresholds to be aware of:

• Above a mutation level of 10, the final seed may become a different species, with higher levels increasing the chance.
• Above a mutation level of 20, a random trait may be added to the final seed, with higher levels increasing the chance.
• Above a mutation level of 30, the final seed will always become a different species if possible.

Do note that those are applicable for the 9th seed sorted and onwards when using a seed analyzer. For sorting in hand these are doubled, meaning you can't get new traits, and with a seed sorting tray they are 15, 30 and 45 respectively.

Increasing Stats

Disks

Any stat can be stored on a disk which can be used in the DNA Extractor to replace the same stat on any seed.
The best and most important type of stat disk, however, is the core stat disk, which is created by extracting all core stas of a plant(aside from maturation) to a single disk. This requires multiples copies of seeds with the exact same stats and does not have any limit on the stat values,
meaning you can get perfect stats without any upgrades to your machines. The core stat disk is your primary way of getting good stats on your plants so you want to get one with 100 potency, 1 production and 10 yield as soon as you can.

Stat Mutation Increasing Chemicals

To make your core stat disk you will need seeds with the stas you need. Most stats, however, can only be modified by mutations, which are random. And while we can and do mutate many plants to pick the best ones there is also a way to focus on one specific stat at a time.
A tray or soil plot can be doped with one of 6 chemicals. Each increases the amplitude of mutation for a certain stat, and halves it for the others. Doping a tray with any reagent will override the previous one. Additionally charcoal will remove the doping agent from a tray.
The doping chemicals for each stat are:

• Potency: Saltpetre

• Production Speed: Diethylamine

• Yield: Ammonia

• Endurance: Cryoxadone

• lifespan: Omnizine

• Weed Growth rate And Weed vulnerabiliity: Saline Glucose Solution

The general way of imporving stats in this manner is as follows:

• Plant a plant with starting stats of your choosing in a tray or plot with a mutation level of 0.
• Harvest and extract seeds
• Plant enough seeds so that a full harvest will fill a plant bag with seeds.
• Sort the seeds, preferably using an analyzer.
• Take the best seed and plant it in place of the first one. Then repeat.

Since this requires many harvesting and planting cycles you'd ideally want plants that grow as fast as possible, so use plants with maturation and production rate that are as low as possible.
Getting stats from a low production plant onto a low maturation plant before starting the process is ideal, at which point you can focus on yield, to get more seeds, then potency.

Bees

Bees will passively increase the yield and potency of plants and they polinate them. They will also boost the amount harvested from the plants up to 20, but only if the trays they are in are not self sustaining.
This is technically more consistent than mutating, but it is much slower than a good mutation procedure and requires bees from cargo besides.

Advanced Hydroponics

Plant Chemistry

Plants have a normal capacity of 50u, independent of potency, which goes up to 100u with the densified chemicals trait.
The order of operations when determining which chemicals will end up in the plant, and in what amount, is:

• Add the reagent from the current gene in an amount that is potency multiplied by the amount specified in the gene, bound from above by the amount of space remaining for reagents.
• Perform all reactions between reagents in the plant as they would happen in any other container.
• Look at the next gene.

These two effects mean the plant will only have the reagents it has space for, with any excess being deleted.

For an example a plant with the reagent genes:

• 35% charcoal
• 20% ammonia

Will contain at 100 potency:

• 35u charcoal
• 15u of ammonia

And at 80 potency:

• 28u of charcoal
• 16u ammonia

An another example is a plant with 100 potency and the following reagent genes:

• 20% corn oil
• 25% sulphuric acid
• 20% ammonia

It will contain:

• 6u of glycerol
• 2u of corn oil
• 19u of sulphuric acid
• 20u of ammonia

However, with the same genes in a different order:

• 20% corn oil
• 20% ammonia
• 25% sulphuric acid

The plant would contain:

• 6u glycerol
• 2u corn oil
• 20u ammonia
• 4u sulphuric acid

Note that the total amount of reagents is changed because now the reaction happens after the last reagent was added to the plant, rather than before.

Trait Interactions

For the most part traits are quite straight forward, but some have interactions either with each other or plants with unique features that are worth noting:

• Strong Bioluminescence makes a plant produce a green light, but it changes to white light on wearable plants or on placeble plants(eg: glowcaps, glowshrooms, shadowshrooms) once they are placed.
• If a plant has both the Bluespace Activity and Liquid Contents traits and is squished in hand, or by being thrown at another creature, it will teleport before being squished, meaning any reagents will apply to the tile teleported to and any gas cloud that would be formed by Gaseous Decomposition would also be placed there.
• Gaseous Decomposition both applies reagents to the skin and makes them breathable, so they act both inside and out. In addition, the effects of the cloud all apply at the moment a mob enters it, so all reagents are applied to the skin and breathed in immediately.

Additional Features

Beekeeping

So, you want to keep those little flying demons and extract their sweet honey? First you need to request a Beekeeping starting kit from your local cargo bay. The starter kit will contain the items that you will need to create a happy bee colony from scratch. We'll get through all of them later. Before we begin, keep in mind that when a starter kit is ordered from cargo you are expected to have complete responsibility for the bees in your future colony, so don't fuck up!

Preparing Your New Colony

Now that your crate has arrived it's time to get your hands dirty! Take your crate and head to the desired place where your colony will reside and open it there. Of course, as a botanist, the obvious place will be at hydroponics. Lets set up the apiary.

• Put the beekeeper suit and hat on. (Optional for now, it's more useful for bigger colonies.)

• Pick up the queen bee and place it comfortably in the apiary.

• Place the honey frames in the apiary respectively.

Aaand... Your first colony is ready!

Apiary Management

If you right-click and examine your apiary, it'll show some stats. The resource supply represents the amount of honey contained in the apiary. You need to have plants around your apiary so the bees can produce resources. While the bees fly around the plants the resource supply will rise, simple as that. When you check the apiary, it'll show the amount of resources needed to create a new honeycomb or a new bee in the moment that you checked it. A new bee costs 50 resources, while a new honeycomb costs 100 resources. These honeycombs can be ground up into honey, a sweet substance that has minor healing properties, and can be used to make certain foods and drinks.

Genetic Manipulation

The queen bee can also be injected with chemicals to cause the resulting bees to have special properties. To do so, simply use a syringe with the chemical of your choice on the queen bee before putting it in the apiary. You can change the queen's chemical as many times as you want. When a bee is created from an altered queen, it'll carry the same chemical that the queen was injected with.

When a honeycomb is created by an altered bee, half of its chemical content will be the same as the chemical injected in the bee, with the other half being honey. This creates an easy method of 'farming' chemicals that may be hard to get. The last effect that the chemical will have is the bee sting. When stung, a small amount of chemical will be delivered in the sting. Although not an ideal method, this can be used to inject people with healing chemicals, or possibly harmful chemicals for those traitors looking to cause chaos.

Keep'em Tame

Better protect your apiary, a single greytide can disrupt the bees and throw them in a rampage. That said, desrupting a colony can be done by attacking the apiary or attacking the bees directly. Keep the bees in their assigned space and don't let them roam around the station, they'll 100% cause trouble if that happens. Although, with the overpopulation problem there is no way you will be able to control ALL the bees. Expect the crew to see the insects at least one time flying around outside Hydroponics. Equip the beekeeper suit and hat in case they get angry!

Dealing with Kudzu

Kudzu is a special plant that can appear as a random event or you can grow it by allowing weeds to overtake Soybeans. (That might result in other weed-type plants, too.) It is a type of space vine that grows and mutates on its own.

Usual plant stats affect active kudzu in the specific way:

• Potency: The higher the potency, the more the kudzu will mutate on spread. The chance to mutate on each new piece is [potency / 10].
• Production Speed: It determines how fast the kudzu spreads. By default, it spreads at a rate of 20% of the amount of pieces per tick but no more than 30. Production Speed changes the cap by [30 * production / 50] and the percent of processed pieces per tick by [20 * (production / 50)].

Killing the last piece of kudzu will create a kudzu seed on its place with all the mutations of the piece saved in the seed, so if you reactivate it, the new first piece will have all the same mutations the seed has and will spread it to all the progenitors. Kudzu can gain mutations on spread or by adding special chemicals to it while the seed is growing (see below).

Mutations

Positive

Color	Name	Description
	Glassy	Makes the kudzu occasionally drop a glass sheet upon destroying it.
	Glimmering	Makes the kudzu occasionally drop a diamond, gold, or silver sheet upon destroying it.
	Light	Makes the kudzu emit light.
	Metallic	Makes the kudzu occasionally drop a metal sheet upon destroying it.
	Plasticine	Makes the kudzu occasionally drop a plastic sheet upon destroying it.
	Space Protective	Makes the kudzu grow in space.
	Transparency	Makes the kudzu transparent.
	Wooden	Makes the kudzu occasionally drop a wood plank upon destroying it.

Minor Negative

Color	Name	Description
	Bluespace	Makes the kudzu grow through walls and objects.
	Fireproof	Makes the kudzu resistant to every kind of fire (including plasma fire).
	Vine-Eating	Makes the kudzu eat every non-vine-eating kudzu tiles.
	Virulently Spreading	Makes the kudzu spread thicker.

Negative

Color	Name	Description
	Aggressive Spreading	Makes the kudzu deal a small explosion upon spreading, destroying windows and other weak objects. It cannot get through reinforced walls.
	Explosive	Makes the kudzu explode upon death. It induces a chain reaction.
	Flowering	Makes the kudzu occasionally spawn aggressive flower buds. Every tile can snare passersby.
	Hardened	Makes the kudzu resistant to sharp objects (halves their damage). Every hardened tile has doubled health.
	Thorny	Makes the kudzu deal brute damage to whoever passes its tiles, or is deals damage to it.
	Toxic	Makes the kudzu deal toxic damage to whoever passes its tiles, or eats it.

Mutating Kudzu

Adding special chemicals to the tray when the seeds are growing will affect the specific kudzu mutations:

• Adding 5u of welding fuel will remove random positive mutation with a 20% probability
• Adding 5u of phenol will remove a random minor negative mutation with a 20% probability
• Adding 5u of sterilizine will remove a random negative mutation with a 20% probability
• Adding 15u of blood will change the production value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -5 to +15
• Adding 5u of amatoxin will change the production value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -15 to +5
• Adding 5u of plasma will change the potency value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -15 to +5
• Adding 10u of holy water will change a potency value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -5 to +15

Notes

• Scythes, sharp objects, and fire deals four times more damage to kudzu.
• Crossing kudzu can snare the crosser, but it doesn't deal damage. Unless it has the Thorny or Toxic mutations.
• Only destroying every vine tile stops the kudzu from spreading.
• The Chef's goat can destroy vines rapidly.
• Vines cannot spread diagonally.
• One tile can only capture one person.
• Glyphosate can wither kudzu with a 50% chance. You can find it in Plant-B-Gone bottles or ask the chemist for some.
• Aliens do not slash vines upon attacking them but eat them.

Expanding Your Growing Space

Whether you wish to grow plants in other places, or simply need more space, you can easily do so by construciting soil plots from either sandstone or soil clumps. Soil clumps can be made in the biogenenerator or in the compost bin, while sandstone can be made by using either sand or volcanic ash in hand(same way as with grass). By using three sandstone bricks or soil clumps you can make a soil plot, which is like a tray, except you can walk over it and there are no lights. Sandstone can also be used to make other structures.
Additionally, science can build hydroponics trays. They can also upgrade them by replacing the matter bins, and this increases the water and nutrient capacity of the tray.

Wooden Products

Wood and wood-based accessories can be made with the Towercap mushroom. Use the hatchet (or other sharp object) on Towercap logs to chop some planks. These have many uses: you can make chairs, tables, wooden floors and so on.

• A unique thing here is a drying rack. You can use it to dry a plant, and then smoke it. First, build a rack with 10 planks. Then, grab a plant you want to dry and put it in the rack. Click on the rack and toggle drying so that the red arrows light up. Give it a few seconds and it's done. You can dry any plant, and smoking it will give you all chemicals that were in it. You can smoke dried apples if you want, and get nutriment from them.

• You can use planks to also build fermenting barrels. Shove some plants in and they become fermented alcohols with their various reagents over time.

• Using 10 planks you can make a compost bin. It converts plants to biomass at the same rate as an unupgraded biogenenerator and converts 20% of the stored biomass into compost every 10 seconds(minimum 10 converted). Soil clumps can be made from the compost at the cost of 25 compost per clump.