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'''Guide written by honk AKA refticano.'''
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|jobtitle = Botanist
|access = [[Hydroponics]], [[Morgue]]
|difficulty = Medium
|superior = [[Head of Personnel]]
|duties = Grow plants for the kitchen, mutate them in the name of science, grow less legal substances
|guides = [[Guide to hydroponics|Guide to Hydroponics]], [[Guide to plants|Guide to Plants]]
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As a Botanist, you are in charge of growing the <s>good stuff</s> healthy food for the [[Jobs|Crew]] and [[Chef]]. This advice is coming from a 1 month botanist, I know my shizzle.
It is like... you know man, when you grow little... the little plants in the ground?  And like, you go and grow happy mushrooms? And like, when people harsh your mellow, you can just take a nettle out, and whack them to death with flower power, maaaaaan.
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= Learn the Workplace and Colors! =
A good botanist knows his/her workplace, let's consult the map. <br>
[[File:BHv5kse.png]] <br>
=== Growing Room ===
This is where you will grow your produce!
Nutrimax vendor supplies​:


*Plant Bags​
Well, ahem, yes! You are a hippie. You can make some of the best healing foods in the game, and the most lethal too. Also, you can grow hallucinogens and toxins! Just make sure you know what plants you are growing, or you will wind up dead from eating a bad shroom, total bummer.
*Syringes​
*Nutriment​
*Left 4 Zed​
*Robust Harvest​
*Pestspray​


The Megaseed Servitor provides you with the seeds. More can be accessed by hacking.
[[File:Hydroponics.png|frame|right|[[hydroponics]] ]]<br>
To get more seeds, place produce in the Seed extractor located above the Nutrimax.


=== Biogenerator ===
==Plants are people too!==
By placing crops inside this, you can turn them into biomass to produce more nutriment solution, gloves and
a lot more stuff.


The water tanks can be used to refill your BUCKET and S.U.N.S.H.I.NE Nozzle. You can change how much the water
For the full chart with plant types, what they look like, and what they do, please check out the [[Guide to hydroponics]].
tanks dispense by changing the transfer amount (right click it!), same applies to the Bucket and S.U.N.S.H.I.NE Nozzle.


=== Tool Storage ===
===Fertilizer types===
The lockers provide some smexy clothing and tools, the usual stuff. The crate is a more open locker, but with only tools.
'''EZ-Grow:''' An in-between version of the two other fertilizers. Raises harvest amount (but not as much as Robust Harvest), and lets the plant's stats mutate (but not as much as Left-4-Zed)
On the table, there should be a S.U.N.S.H.I.NE, put it on your back, take off the nozzle (right click!) and use it on a water tank/sink. At
default, a S.U.N.S.H.I.NE dispenses 50 water each use, making it a faster way to feed your crops.


=== Fridge ===
'''Left-4-Zed:''' Increases the chance of plant stat mutations. The stats can either increase or decrease! Downside: Plants take longer to harvest.
Shove produce into here for the chef to use. Self explanatory.


=== Mutagen Dispenser ===
'''Robust Harvest:''' Doubles the amount of plants you'll get when it's time to harvest. Does not change stats.
Latest update to botany, now you dont need to pester the chemists!


== What Do the Colours Mean Cap'n? ==
===THIS'S WHERE TH' SEEDS LIVE! GIT YOU SOME!===
Lets cover the colours that are used to grow your produce
Head to the vending machine, get some seeds. There may be hidden seeds in the machine, if you know how to '''PROPERLY HACK IT''', then do so and collect the rewards.
GREEN = Ready for Harvesting, use your plant bag on it.
RED = Ill, cannot be cured
FLASHING RED = Weeds or Pest. Use a Mini Hoe if weeds and pest spray if pests.
YELLOW = Low nutrient, replace nutriment solution.
BLUE = Low water, spray the plant with water.


== Mutation Splutation ==
===The [[Chef]]===
Before you ask, I dont know what the title is meant to be saying.
Take your yummy vegetables to the fridge on the left side where the chef will be, then have him cook them up! There are many different dishes the chef can make from different foods you grow. Only YOU can prevent all-burger diets!
You have probably seen botanists growing amazing food that just doesnt appear in the seed vendor, thats because they are
MUTATED PLANTS.
"How do I mutate a plant?" I hear you ask. It's quite simple! Lets go step by step for this.​


#Pester chemists for Unstable Mutagen, or you can just use the mutagen dispenser now​.
==Tools of the Trade==
#Get a syringe from the Nutrimax Vendor​.
You get a few fun tools as a botanist that will make your life so easy when growing plants:
#Draw Mutagen and inject it into a baby plant. (MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ATLEAST 1 PACKET IN THE VENDOR)​
#Hope that it doesn't kill the plant.​


A mistake made commonly is injecting mutagen into a plant which cannot be mutated, so here's a quick list of valid mutations.
* Hatchet. It's a rather robust small cutting tool used to <s>murder people</s> make wood planks, pumpkin helmets and corn cob pipes.
*Tomato > Blood Tomato OR Blue Tomato OR Killer Tomato
* Mini Hoe. '''NOT THAT KIND'''. This one is meant to claw, or perhaps filter, out weeds from the hydroponic trays.
*Blue Tomato > Blue Space Tomato
* Plant-b-Gone Spray bottle. Kill hydroponic plants, kill alien weeds too, can be filled with other chemicals. Does minor toxin damage, but absolutely '''''devastates''''' plant persons.
*Ambrosia Vulgaris > Ambrosia Deus
* Plant analyzer. It tells you basically everything about your plant, including its killing / drugging / healing properties.
*Lemon Tree > Cash Tree (LODS OF EMONE)
* Backpack irrigation system. Makes watering the plants much less annoying.
*Coffee Arabica > Coffee Robustia
* Buckets, in case you want to water the plants the annoying way. These function as beakers, so you can mix chemicals inside them too.
*Berries > Death Berries OR Glow Berries
* Chemical grinder and a large beaker, so you can extract chemicals from your plants.
*Chilli > Ghost Chilli OR Ice Pepper
*Nettle > Death Nettle
*Eggplant > Eggy (produces eggs)
*Apple > Golden Apple
*Grapes > Green Grapes
*Soibeans > Koibeans
*Tobacco > Space Tobacco
*Tea Aspera > Tea Astra
*Fly Amanita > Destroying Angel (don't consume!)
*Plump Helmet > Walking Mushroom
(Up to date from February 16th 2014)


== The Poddening ==
There is a crate in the back room. It contains:
Replica Pods are a work of nature, these things clone humans with just a blood sample! But very rarely will you get to do this!
* A bucket.
"How do I revive someone with a Replica Pod?" You say to your monitor.
* A screwdriver. To set up the irrigation system.
It's time for a step by step guide! (Since i'm too lazy to produce a super detailed guide)​
* A wrench. To rearrange the trays.


#Find a dead human.​
Things you should get from the outside:
#Get a blood sample with a syringe.​
* A multitool. To hack the seed vendor. If you can't get one, use two signallers.
#Inject into a Replica Pod seed packet.​
* Toxin Med kit. Because sometimes you can get TOO high.
#Place the seed packet and care for it.​
* Insulated Gloves. In case you fail to hack it the first time.
#When the green light comes on, click the pod to reveal your pod person!​
* An engineer. Because electricity will fucking kill you.
* Poly acid, in a spray bottle. It will melt down your fail crops.
* Space cleaner, in a spray bottle. It will clean the goo left behind from the acid.  
* Various chemicals from chemistry to mutate or treat your plants with.
* A dropper. So you can mutate plants more precisely.


The flaw with this is that 50% of the time, the human that comes out will be more plant than man and should be wary of forks.
===So Harsh, Bro===
Replica Pods should only be used when genetics is down and cannot be brought back up for a while.
People like to break into hydro and steal your spray bottles, because they can fill them with <del>water</del> polyacid. Keep all the bottles in a safe enough spot in hydro, or actually stay in the hydroponics bay. You can also hand them out like candy. It's not like you need all of them.


== Pimpin' Out Your Workplace. ==
=== Chemicals ===
Right now, your workplace is very barren, with awful metal flooring.
BEG the chemist to make you stuff, namely unstable mutagen. You will go through this stuff fast, so make sure they aren't stingy. If chemistry is helpful they can also give you a dropper for more precise mutations.
Luckily, at botany you can produce wood flooring! (tower cap mushrooms)
You can also prepare Astroturf by clicking on grass in your hand.
Grab a crowbar from the tool storage and get replacing that manky floor!
I decided to pimp out my weed factory
http://puu.sh/6YOEZ.png


== Smokin and The Amazing Drying Rack. ==
Different chemicals do different things to your plants when injected. Experiment until you find a blend you like!
With the newest update, botanists can dry out Ambrosia vulgaris/deus and Tobacco (both space and normal) to make a homemade cigarette/blunt.
Apart from the swagger that will irradiate from you, the Ambrosia Vulgaris and Deus will make you higher for longer than consuming the plant, but
alot of the healing properties are lost in the drying process (citation needed), expect people to come banging on your window for a sample of your delicious
weed ambrosia. Rolling paper can be found in any Cigarette machine.
The drying rack, while able to dry out smoking ingredients (mentioned above), can also dry out tea leaves for the chef to use.


Most of your crops can be blended down into chemicals themselves. Keep this in mind.


== THESE STATS, WHAT DO THEY DO?! ==
An alternative to chemicals is a floral somatoray. You can get it from the scientists unless they and/or the shaft miners are being lazy fucks (which is always). It is a gun that shoots mutation rays that either increases yield or tries to change the plant's stats. ([[Guide to hydroponics]]).
Using your plant analyser, you can see the stats of a plant, You can fuck around
with them by jabbing mutagen into them or changing the nutriment solution to Left 4 Zed.
There's a basic overview on them which is explained here.
*Plant Age = How long the plant has been alive.
*Plant Endurance = How much abuse the plant can take.
*Plant Lifespan = A rough estimate for how long the plant will live.
*Plant Yield = How many crops you get from a harvest.
*Plant Production = Rough estimate for how long it takes to harvest again.
*Plant Potency = The size and strength of a plant.
Let's go over potency, the size is self explanatory, but the strength requires
a small amount of explanation.
Drug plants with a higher potency will have a higher effect. (you can use this on weed to make
SUPER WEED)
Shrooms and Nettles potency determines how much damage it could do.
Chilli potency determine the heat/coldness of the plant.
Banana and Tomato potency increases slip time.
Everything else is additional nutriment.


== The Rotten Fruit. ==
===Dirt===
So, you was unlucky enough to be a traitor as botanist? Dont commit suicide yet!
If you happen to come across a [[Shaft Miner]] that hasn't taken a hardsuit and gone off to explore space, then you're halfway there. Get some sand, use it to make sandstone, then take three sandstone to make dirt.  
Along with the PDA items, you have amazing plants that can kill, such as a Destroying Angel or a Death Nettle branch.
Another method is to grow grass in your existing hydroponics trays, then plant the grass tiles and dig them up with the spade found in the back room! This will dig up some sand.
You can also brew up a poison by using a blender and injecting the toxic into a piece of food!
Congratulations, you are no longer restricted to tiny water tubs for growing now! Be warned though, it is not the most efficient method of planting, as there are no lights to indicate needs for water, fertilizer, etc. Have fun surrounding theatre with bananas and watching the clown collapse in sheer joy.
Your gloves do not leave a print, so its harder to pinpoint that you killed your target.
Need to steal something? You are pretty much screwed.
Hijack the shuttle? Grow kudzu everywhere to make people lost and make sure that the meddling goat is dead. Also hand out tainted fruit.
Your actions are not watched as much as the other jobs.


 
==Little Shop of Horrors==  
== Conclusion ==
As a traitor, if you are lucky and fast you have access to so many horrifying things: death nettles that are as strong as e-swords and automatically disintegrate, plants that slip people, multiple robust poisons, koibeans to grind for free parapen juice, bluespace tomatoes for breakins and getaways, and so much more! If you have an easy objective, quickly rush out and get it out of the way, head back and get your plants growing. Your leather gloves give no prints onto a crime scene, so if you ditch your equipment (or hide it) you should be fine enough so no one knows it was you. You can also intoxicate some food if you get your hands on a [[Dropper|dropper]] -- just hope whoever you want to die eats it.
Botany is a very relaxing job and is newbie friendly. Give it a shot now and then and you'll be suprised at how fun it is.
Heck, maybe even start a ambrosia vulgaris empire where everyone must don a piece of ambrosia in their hair?
 
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