Руководство по гидропонике

Словарик

Так как игра не переведена, то для мало ориентирующихся в переведённых терминах оставляю это:

• Potency - Потенция
• Yield - Урожайность
• Endurance - Выносливость
• Maturation - Созревание
• Production speed - Скорость производства
• Lifespan - Период жизни.

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Hydroponics. This is your home.

Основы Ботаники

Гидропоника и ботаники работающие там важны для станции, особенно в долгих раундах. Ботаники выращивают растения, которые Повар может использовать для приготовления пищи. Без ботаники, станции прийдётся жить на вяленой говядине и космических твинки, или умереть с голоду.

Ваш отдел

Гидропоника разделена на две части. Большая южная секция та, где вы будете проводить много времени выращивая продукты. Гидропонные желобы доступны для выращивания растений, и два торговых автомата, один с семенами, другой с разными вещами, как удобрения и инструменты. Биогенератор используется для измельчения растений и производства вещей для станции. В паре с раздатчиком семян применяется для повторного производства. В северной зоне вы можете найти все нужные инструменты для работы в гидропонике.

Растениям нужна вода и удобрения для роста. Также им докучают сорняки и вредители. В желоба изначально установлены датчики со специальными лампочками, сообщающие вам что происходит с вашим растением.

Слева направо -

• Зеленый: Готово к сбору.
• Красный: Низкое здоровье.
• Мерцающий красный: Сорняки/вредители/токсины.
• Жёлтый: Низкий уровень удобрений.
• Синий: Низкий уровень воды.

Инструменты используемые в ботанике -

• Гаечный ключ: Для перемещения желобов и не только.
• Кусачки: Для прокладки ирригации. Если 30ед. или больше воды выливают в желоб когда проложена ирригация, вода равномерно распределится между желобами. Также распределит вещества вроде мутагена и "plant killer".
• Топорик: Рубит брёвна (tower-caps) в доски, рубит другие штуки. Хорошая штука для робаста, помещающаяся в рюкзаке.
• Лопата: Вскапывает травяной пол. Используется для выкапывания растений.
• Культиватор: Убирает сорняки.
• Сумка для растений (Plant Bag): Может содержать до 50 овощей или 100 семян.
• Портативный изыматель семян (Portable Seed Extractor): Можно найти в шкафчиках подсобки, может собрать, переработать растения, а также хранить в себе до 100 семян.

Plants 101

Возьмите семена из автомата и посадите в желоб. Убедитесь, что они хорошо политы, удобрены и прополоты.Некоторые растения растут быстрее, некоторые медленнее. Пшеница растёт быстрее, в то время как арбузы или яблоки требуют больше времени, чтоб дать урожай. Sometimes these and other stats of a plant are effected 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.

Biogenerators

Биогенератор создаёт вещи из питательных веществ (nutriment) в плодах, как арбузы или тыквы с геном производства 20% питательных веществ. Чтобы получить биомассу, возьмите ведро и поместите его в машину, когда ведро внутри положите растения внутрь. Откройте интерфейс и переработайте растения. Если в торговых автоматах закончится удобрение помните, вы всегда можете напечатать стандартные удобрения тут. Вы можете переработать любое растение (кроме крапивы), даже не имеющего питательных веществ, но в таком случае эффективность будет низка.

DNA Extractor

Note: Sometimes these don't appear in outdated maps, if this is the case, you can adminhelp and see if they will put one if they are nice

A recent addition, this allows you to extract genes and stats from seeds. This is a very useful machine for mass producing plants, saving time and is super easy.

Как использовать: 1. Идите к шкафчикам и возьмите коробку с дискетами (box of plant data disks) 2. Загрузите диск в машину вместе с семенами на выбор 3. Изымите нужный ген (extract) (семя будет уничтожено) 4. Вставьте другое семя 5. Теперь вы можете оперировать с его генами на основе записанных на диске.

Полезные семена для увеличения производительности:

• On some maps, there's wheat on the table, this wheat has 50 потенции и 1 production speed
• Древесина (Treecaps) появляется с большой выносливостью, сопротивляемостью и 50 потенции
• Табак в автомате имеет 10 урожайности
• Пшеница в автомате имеет 1 скорость производства
• В самом начале DNA modifier может хранить 50 потенции на диске, задалбывайте научный отдел чтобы улучшили вашу технику и вы могли хранить по 95 потенции

Растения

Существует 3 типа растения. Самая большая категория это "нормальные растения". Поменьше грибы и сорняки. Они немного отличаются от обычных растений:

• Грибам нужно меньше света, они менее страдают от его нехватки.
• Грибам не нужна вода для роста. Всё же они её потребляют.
• Сорняки не страдают от высокого уровня сорняков.
• Грибы и сорняки не могут быть захвачены сорняками в желобе.
• Урожайность грибов не может упасть до 0. Всегда будет по крайней мере 1.

Желобы, пустые или занятые обычными растениями могут случайно быть заняты, если уровень сорняков 5 или больше. В этом случае старое растение уничтожается и на его месте вырастает новое. Новые растения могут быть:

• 1/6 шанс на Reishi.
• 1/9 шанс на Nettle.
• 1/9 шанс на Harebell.
• 1/9 шанс на Amanita.
• 1/9 шанс на Chanterelle.
• 1/9 шанс на Tower Cap.
• 1/9 шанс на Plump Helmets.
• 1/6 шанс на 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	Gold apple
Banana	Normal				10% banana juice, 10% potassium, 4% vitamin, 2% plant-matter	Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, Exotic Seeds Crate	Mimana, Blue-space 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
Blue-Space Banana	Normal			Файл:Bluespacebanana.png	20% singulo, 10% banana juice, 4% vitamin, 2% nutriment	Slippery Skin, Bluespace Activity, Perennial Growth	Mutate Banana
Blue-space 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	Blue-space 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, Deathweed, Lifeweed, Omega weed
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, Ice Pepper
Cocoa	Normal				10% plant-matter, 25% cocoa	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
Corn	Normal				10% plant-matter, 20% corn oil, 4% vitamin		MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate	Snapcorn
Death berry	Normal				10% plant-matter, 8% coniine,10% tirizene, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	Mutate Poison-berry
Death nettle	Weed				50% fluorosulphuric acid, 50% 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
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
Fungus	Mushroom				35% space fungus	Fungal Vitality	MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), can overtake a tray
Gatfruit	Normal				10% sulfur, 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, Separated Chemicals, 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 (hacked)	Glowcap
Glowcap	Mushroom				10% teslium. Restores up to 100% battery charge.	Electrical Activity, Bioluminescence, Fungal Vitality	Mutate Glowshroom
Gold apple	Normal				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				20% holy water, 4% vitamin, 10% nutriment	Perennial Growth	Mutate Watermelon
Ice 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.
Lemon	Normal				5% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor	Combustible Lemon
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
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
Meatwheat	Normal				4% protein		Mutate Wheat
Mimana	Normal				10% nothing, 10% capulettium plus, 2% nutriment	Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth	Mutate Banana	Mimana, Blue-space banana
Combustible Lemon	Normal				5% plant-matter	Perennial Growth	Mutate Lemon
Moonflower	Normal				2% plant-matter, 2% vitamin, 20% moonshine		Mutate Sunflower
Nettle	Weed				50% sulphuric acid	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
Oat	Normal				4% plant-matter		Mutate Wheat
Omega weed	Normal				15% space drugs, 15% lysergic acid diethylamide, 15% mercury, 15% lithium, 15% atropine, 15% haloperidol, 15% methamphetamine, 15% Suicider, 15% hairgrowinium, 15% bath salts, 15% itching powder, 15% crank, 15% krokodil, 15% histamine, 15% psilocybin, 15% ectoplasm	Perennial Growth	Mutate Cannabis
Orange	Normal				5% plant-matter, 4% vitamin	Perennial Growth	MegaSeed Servitor, mutate Lime	Lime
Parsnip	Normal				5% vitamin, 5% plant-matter		Mutate Carrot
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	Perennial Growth	Mutate Cannabis
Redbeet	Normal				5% plant-matter, 5% vitamin	Densified Chemicals	Mutate Whitebeet
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
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 powder, 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

Fertilizers

• E-Z-Nutrient: Мутирует ваше растение один раз за урожай, не влияет на урожайность.
• Left 4 Zed: Мутирует ваше растение дважды за урожай, Но растение будет производить максимум 1 плод - если урожайность 0, тогда ничего производить не будет. Нужно будет использовать другое удобрение чтобы собрать достаточно растений.
• Robust Harvest: Заставляет растение производить при сборе в 2 раза больше, и не мутирует его. Полезно если у вашего растения хорошие характеристики, или вы использовали нестабильный мутаген, и хотите чтобы случайные мутации не мешали, или не хотите заниматься мутированием вовсе.
• Питательные вещества: Удобрение. Можете взять у Шефа, или используя собственные растения. Лечит растение.
• Ammonia: Также удобрение, same effect as nutriment. Get it from the Chemist or hack the Nutri-Vend to get this.
• Diethylamine: A very powerful fertilizer. Twice as effective, meaning 1 unit diethylamine adds 2 units nutrient. Heals the plant AND also kills pests. Get it the same way you get Ammonia.

Pest Removal

• Pest Killer: Kills pests, and adds a small amount of toxicity.
• Weed Killer: Same as above, but for Weeds.

Stats

• Unstable Mutagen: Used to randomly mutate plants without harming them directly with toxins. Only use 1 or 2 units for optimized results.
• Radium and Uranium: Same chance to mutate plants, but you need 10 units, they also damage the plant and add toxicity.
• Saltpeter: Ask the chemists for this, this increases potency and has a chance to increase yield as well

Plant Meds

• Charcoal: Makes your plant less toxic. You can get it by whining to anyone who works in Medbay.
• Cryoxadone: Heals your plant, via miracles. Also lowers toxicity. Get it from the Chemist, or find a nice doctor to steal some from cryogenics.
• Holy water: If you can get the Chaplain's attention and make him bless your water, it will heal your plant a bit.
• Ash: Heals your plant and adds nutriment. Also kills weeds.
• Saltpetre: Heals your plant, increases potency and decreases production time.

Plant Killers

• Plant-B-Gone: Seriously damages the plant. Also lowers toxicity by magic and kills weeds.
• Toxins, Acids, Fluorine, Chlorine: Damage the plant.
• Sugar: Makes pests and weeds grow stronger. Unless you plan to use some mutagen to unleash giant spiders upon the station, it's of no use.
• Phosphorus: Damages plant, drains water, kills weeds and, surprisingly, adds nutriment. If you manage to get your hands on a lot of it, you can use it to kill useless plants without hurting the next plant.

Advanced Botany

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

Use your plant analyzer on a growing plant. You should get something like this:

• Plant Age: 5
• Plant Endurance: 15
• Plant Lifespan: 25
• Plant Yield: 4
• Plant Production: 1
• Plant Potency: 5
• Weed level: 2/10
• Pest level: 3/10
• Toxicity level: 0/100
• Water level: 86/100
• Nutrition level: 7/10

You can also scan the growns:

• Plant type: Normal plant
• Potency: 5
• Yield: 4
• Maturation speed: 6
• Production speed: 1
• Endurance: 15
• Nutritional value: 1
• Other substances: 0

And seeds (you can also see these stats from inside the seed extractor storage):

• Plant Endurance: 15
• Plant Lifespan: 25
• Species Discovery Value: 0
• Plant Yield: 4
• Plant Production: 1
• Plant Potency: 5

These names may be confusing at first. Here is what they all mean:

• Age: Age of the plant. Only relevant in terms of the lifespan stat.
• Endurance: Max health. Between 10 and 100. Not very useful, unless you leave your garden often.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maturation Speed: Age cycles before the plant can start production. The first harvest will be (Maturation Speed + Production Speed).
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Separated Chemicals: Makes plant reagents not react until squashed.
• 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

To change the stats, you need to mutate your plant. Keep in mind that mutations are completely random, but you can do a more efficient job depending on how much you're willing to cooperate with other departments.

• Of your starting fertilizers, E-Z Nutriment makes the plant mutate once every time it's ready to harvest. Left 4 Zed makes it mutate twice, but you'll have to replace the nutriment to actually harvest something! Finally, regular nutriment has a very small chance to mutate the plant into a different specie.

• You can speed up the process by asking the chemist for some unstable mutagen. The effects of mutagen depend on how much you use. Best applied after transferring it to an empty fertiliser bottle, for greater control over amount used (Right-click > Set transfer amount). Pour 5 units on your plant and prepare for...

• • 10% chance of the plant losing lots of health instantly. The plant can die because of this
  • 10% chance of mutation into a related species. This destroys the old plant and plants a new one. See the plants table for the information on these mutations.
  • 15% chance of heavy stat mutation with a 3% chance of a new trait appearing.
  • 15% chance of normal stat mutation.
  • 20% chance of nothing. You get a message when this happens.
  • 10% chance of weeds mutating. If weed level is less than 5, nothing happens, otherwise you get a random mutated weed.
  • 10% chance of pests mutating. Again, if pest level is less than 5, nothing happens. Otherwise, three spiderlings are spawned. Shout for help and try to explain to security why you didn't use pest spray.

Or, if you don't want to bother with species mutation, pour 2 units for a guaranteed heavy stat mutation with a 3% chance of a new trait appearing, or even 1 for a guaranteed normal stat mutation. This method is safe even if you don't have backup seeds, but you need a dropper for this.

• You can use radium and uranium, but they cause ill effects, and if you can get radium, you can get mutagen.

• R&D can also make a wonderful thing called a Floral Somatoray. It has two options: increase yield and mutate the plant. In yield more mode, every time you fire it at the plant, there is a chance the yield will increase. The chance becomes very small when you reach high levels, but it's very useful for low-yield plants. It can even raise yield from zero! In mutation mode, it will always induce a normal stat mutation.

Replica Pod Cloning

Replica pod is a very special plant. It can be used to grow dead people back to life, in the case that genetics is destroyed. 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.

A cloned person will become a fully grown diona.

If you grow a replica pod without any blood, there's a chance that it will produce more than one seed, and this chance depends on both luck and the plant's yield. Cabbage can be mutated into a replica pod.

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 bee visits a plants, it'll inject a small portion of that chemical into the plant, essentially creating a somewhat automated chemical distribute system. Great for chemicals that heal plants or boost productivity. In addition, 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!

Other Notes

Kudzu

Kudzu is a special plant that can appear as a random event or you can grow it by adding Unstable Mutagen to a tray filled with weeds. (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 sheet 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 passing its tiles or dealing damage to it.
	Toxic	Makes the kudzu deal toxic damage to whoever passing its tiles or eating 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 make it with a Chem Dispenser.
• Aliens do not slash vines upon attacking them but eat them.

Sandstone and Soil

If you pick up the grass and use it (click on it in your hand), you will prepare astroturf. Get a crowbar and remove some floor tiles, then place astroturf in their place. In addition to looking nice, it can be used to get some sand. Just dig it with your spade and you'll get two piles. Now, pick up the sand and use it; you will make a sandstone brick. Using three bricks, you can make a soil plot, which is like a tray, except you can walk over it and there are no lights. You can also build a sandstone door with 10 bricks.

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.

Ambrosia Gaia leaves can be added to soil plots to make them self sustaining, the same way you can make hydroponics trays self sustaining.

Wood and Drying Racks

First you need to get some tower-caps, grow them and harvest them. You can then use hatchet (and some other things, but it's not important) on the logs to chop some planks. They 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.

Note: 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.

Unique things to do with plants

• Add some cable to a plant with Capacitive Cell Production to make a plant battery, add the electrical activity gene for an even better battery.
• Glowberries and glowshrooms, as the name suggests, glow.
• 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 make a cob-pipe out of a corn cob.
• 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.
• Add dried ambrosia, wheat, tea aspera tips or tobacco leaves to a tower cap log to make a torch.
• Dried ambrosia, tobacco or any mutations of those are able to be smoked from wrapping paper, found in smoking vending machines.
• Novaflowers ignite people you hit them with and deal burn damage depending on potency.
• Ambrosia Gaia will make trays self sustaining, removing the need for water or nutriment.
• Comfrey and Aloe can be crushed to make healing poultices for brute and burn damage respectively
• Combustible lemons are basically grown IEDs, be responsible with them.