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[[File:Hydroponics.png|frame|right|Hydroponics. This is your home.]]
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== Basics ==
== Basics of Botany ==


[[Hydroponics]] and the [[Botanist]]s 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.
[[Hydroponics]] and the [[Botanist]]s 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.
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* Wrench: Used to move your trays around.
* 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.
* 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.
* Hatchet: Used to chop wood that you get from tower-caps into planks.
* Hatchet: Chops tower-caps into planks, chops other things.
* Shovel: Used to dig up grass floors and cleaning the dirt.
* Shovel: Digs up grass floors and cleaning the dirt.
* Cultivator: Kills Weeds.
* Plant Bag: Collects up to 50 items from your harvest.
* Plant Bag: Collects up to 50 items from your harvest.


=== [[File:Seed_Extractor.gif|Seed Extractor]] [[File:Biogenerator.gif|Bio-generator]] Growing the Plants and Biogenerators ===
=== [[File:Seed_Extractor.gif|Seed Extractor]] 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 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.
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 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.


=== [[File:Biogenerator.gif|Bio-generator]] 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.
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.


== Plants ==
=== 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.


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


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


=== Stats ===
=== Stats ===
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* 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.
* 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.


== "Why is my banana so tiny?" ==
== 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!
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!


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* 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.
* 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 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:
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:
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If you grow a replica pod without any blood, there's a chance that it will produce more than one seed. Cabbage can be mutated into a replica pod.
If you grow a replica pod without any blood, there's a chance that it will produce more than one seed. Cabbage can be mutated into a replica pod.
== Mushrooms and Weeds ==
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.
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 Starshittle.


== Other Notes ==
== Other Notes ==
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