Plant

Plants have several functions in Oxygen Not Included from purely improving decor to being a source of food. They can be found growing in different biomes, dug up and replanted. They are all made of Genetic Ooze, along with their seeds.

List of Plants

Plant	Can grow in	Height	Decor		Temperature		Atmosphere		Light	Irrigation	Fertilization	Produces	Mature Time		kcal Per Cycle		Max Rads/Cycle	Recipes	Germs
			#	R	Min	Max	Range	Gas					Domestic	Wild	Domestic	Wild
Mealwood		2	-10	2	10 °C / 50 °F	30 °C / 86 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	10 kg Dirt	1 Meal Lice	3	12	200	50	4600	Liceloaf Pickled Meal	-
Dusk Cap		2	+15	2	5 °C / 41 °F	35 °C / 95 °F	150 g to 10 kg		0 lux	-	4 kg Slime	1 Mushroom	7.5	30	320	80	4600	Fried Mushroom Mushroom Wrap	-
Bristle Blossom		2	+15	2	5 °C / 41 °F	30 °C / 86 °F	150 g to 10 kg		200+ lux	20 kg Water	-	1 Bristle Berry	6	24	266.67	66.67	4600	Gristle Berry Berry Sludge Stuffed Berry Allergy Medication	Floral Scents
Sleet Wheat		1	+15	2	-55 °C / -67 °F	5 °C / 41 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	20 kg Water	5 kg Dirt	18 Sleet Wheat Grain	18	72	400	100	12200	Frost Bun Berry Sludge Pepper Bread Soufflé Pancakes	-
Waterweed		2	+10	1	22 °C / 71.6 °F	65 °C / 149 °F	10 g to 950 kg		-	5 kg Salt Water	500 g Bleach Stone	12 Lettuce	12	48	400	100	7400	Mushroom Wrap Frost Burger Mushroom Quiche	-
Nosh Sprout		2	+15	2	-25 °C / -13 °F	0 °C / 32 °F	25 g to 10 kg		-	20 kg Ethanol	5 kg Dirt	12 Nosh Bean	21	84	600	42.86	9800	Tofu Spicy Tofu Curried Beans	-
Pincha Pepper		3	+15	2	35 °C / 95 °F	85 °C / 185 °F	150 g to 10 kg	-	-	35 kg Polluted Water	1 kg Phosphorite	4 Pincha Peppernut	8	32	-	-	9800	Pepper Bread Stuffed Berry Spicy Tofu Immuno Booster	-
Bog Bucket		2	-10	2	10 °C / 50 °F	30 °C / 86 °F	150 g to 10 kg		0 lux	40 kg Polluted Water	-	1 Bog Jelly	6.6	26.4	278.79	69.70	4600	Swampy Delights	-
Grubfruit Plant		2	+15	2	15 °C / 59 °F	50 °C / 122 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	10 kg Sulfur	8 Grubfruit	8	32	250	62.5	9800	Grubfruit Preserve Mixed Berry Pie	-
Spindly Grubfruit Plant		2	-5	1	15 °C / 59 °F	50 °C / 122 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	10 kg Sulfur	1 Spindly Grubfruit	4	16	200	50	9800	Roast Grubfruit Nut	-
Plume Squash Plant		2	-10	2	-55 °C / -67 °F	-14 °C / 6.8 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	15 kg Ethanol	-	1 Plume Squash	9	36	444.44	111.11	4600	Squash Fries	-
Pikeapple Bush		2	-10	2	-55 °C / -67 °F	-14 °C / 6.8 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	5 kg Phosphorite	1 Pikeapple	3	12	266.67	66.67	4600	Pikeapple Skewer	-
Balm Lily		2	+15	2	35 °C / 95 °F	85 °C / 185 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	2 Balm Lily Flower	12	48	-	-	4600	Medical Pack	-
Thimble Reed		3	+10	1	22 °C / 71.6 °F	37 °C / 98.6 °F	-		-	160 kg Polluted Water	-	1 Reed Fiber	2	8	-	-	4600	Snazzy Suit Warm Coat Atmo Suit	-
Dasha Saltvine		2	-10	2	-25 °C / -13 °F	50 °C / 122 °F	25 g to 10 kg		-	-	7 kg Sand	65 kg Salt	6	24	-	-	7400	Table Salt	-
Gas Grass		3	+25	4	-273.2 °C / -459.76 °F	75 °C / 167 °F	150 g to 10 kg	-	10k+ lux	500 g Liquid Chlorine	-	1000 g Gas Grass	4	16	-	-	12200	Diet for Gassy Moo	-
Arbor Tree		2	+15	2	15 °C / 59 °F	40 °C / 104 °F	150 g to 10 kg	-	-	70 kg Polluted Water	10 kg Dirt	300 kg Wood (per branch)	4.5	18	-	-	9800 (Cannot mutate)	Ethanol Sauna Hot Tub	-
Bonbon Tree		2	-10	2	-75 °C / -103 °F	-15 °C / 5 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	100 kg Snow	75 kg Wood (per branch) Nectar	4.5	18	-	-	12200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Alveo Vera		2	+15	2	-80 °C / -112 °F	0 °C / 32 °F	25 g to 10 kg		-	-	20 kg Ice	36 kg Oxylite	2	8	16	4.5	2200	-	-
Oxyfern		2	-10	2	0 °C / 32 °F	40 °C / 104 °F	25 g to 10 kg		-	19 kg Water	4 kg Dirt	18.78 kg/cycle Oxygen	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Wheezewort		2	+15	2	-60 °C / -76 °F	95 °C / 203 °F	-	-	-	-	4 kg Phosphorite	-	-	-	-	-	(Cannot mutate)	-	-
Saturn Critter Trap		2	+15	2	-90.1 °C / -130.18 °F	-0.1 °C / 31.82 °F	-	-	-	10 kg Polluted Water	1 Critter	10 Plant Meat 900.1 g Hydrogen	30	120	40	10	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-
Bluff Briar		1	+25	4	10 °C / 50 °F	30 °C / 86 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Buddy Bud		1	+15	2	20 °C / 68 °F	40 °C / 104 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	Floral Scents
Mirth Leaf		1	+25	4	20 °C / 68 °F	50 °C / 122 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Jumping Joya		1	+25	4	0 °C / 32 °F	100 °C / 212 °F	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Sporechid		1	+80	7	-15 °C / 5 °F	240 °C / 464 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12200 (Cannot mutate)	-	Zombie Spores
Bliss Burst		1	+25	4	20 °C / 68 °F	50 °C / 122 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Mellow Mallow		1	+25	4	10 °C / 50 °F	30 °C / 86 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	900 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Tranquil Toes		1	+25	4	-90.1 °C / -130.18 °F	-0.1 °C / 31.82 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Idylla Flower		1	+25	4	-70 °C / -94 °F	5 °C / 41 °F	150 g to 10 kg		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2200 (Cannot mutate)	-	-
Buried Muckroot	-	1	+15	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1 Muckroot	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Hexalent	-	2	+15	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1 Hexalent Fruit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swamp Chard	-	1	+15	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1 Swamp Chard Heart	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sherberry Plant	-	2	+15	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1 Sherberry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Requirements

Plants have a number of requirements in order to grow:

• Temperature: Plants only grow in a range of temperature which is related to the biome where you find them. Whatever this range is, all plants like the conditions which are acceptable for your duplicants and can be tended without Exosuits. Plant temperature can be directly inspected and may take some time to match the environment.
• Atmosphere: Some plants can grow in any atmosphere while others need specific gasses such as Carbon Dioxide or Chlorine.
• Pressure: Most of the plants require at least 150g of pressure to grow. See details here: Atmospheric pressure
• Illumination: Some plants prefer a strong light source, while others enjoy soothing darkness.
• Fertilization: Productive plants typically require some combination of liquid or solid resources to continue growing. Hydroponic Farms and Auto-Sweeper be useful for these tasks.

Failure to meet any requirement will cause a plant to become stifled and become wilted. Stifled plants will stop growing and consuming resources. They are otherwise unharmed and will resume normal growth after their needs are met.

Ripe plants will continue to draw resources before harvest. They will automatically drop their product after four cycles and begin anew.

Grown plants continue to consume resources (irrigation and fertilization) despite no progress is being made.
Note: this is fixed by the "Fix Plants" setting from the Stock Bug Fix mod.

Kinds of Plants

There are four general kinds of plants in the game.

Decorative Plants

Decorative plants give significant Decor bonus but have different requirements regarding the atmosphere and the temperature. They all have a height of 1 and can be planted in all kinds of Pots. Once planted they do not require any further attention from the duplicants and will passively contribute to Decor. However, if their requirements are not being met, they become stifled and will give a negative Decor bonus instead. Decorative plants do not grow and do not drop seeds.

Using decorative plants inside your base is a cheap way to reduce the Stress since they usually can live in Oxygen and prefer the same temperature range as your duplicants. Sporechid while technically being a decorative plant is not advised to be utilized in that way and thankfully lives only in Carbon Dioxide.

Food Plants

The primary function of the food plants is to provide edible items and cooking ingredients. They can be planted in either Planter Box (with some exceptions), Farm Tile or Hydroponic Farm. Besides the temperature and atmosphere requirements they usually require either some sort of fertilization and some sort of irrigation in form of a daily supply of Water or Polluted Water. Growing of the food plants can be further accelerated by using Micronutrient Fertilizer. Food plants have a chance to drop seeds.

Because of specific requirements it's usually a good idea to make a dedicated area for each farm and isolate it from the base (e.g. make a U-shaped dark farm for Mushrooms to collect the Carbon Dioxide).

There are three special food plants that only grow wild and can only be harvested once, Buried Muckroot, Swamp Chard, and Hexalent. They primarily serve as a limited early-game food source.

A plant will automatically harvest itself 4 cycles after becoming fully grown.

Industrial Plants

Industrial Plants share the farming mechanics with the food plants but produce Industrial Ingredients or other resources instead. They usually require less attention from the duplicants with Thimble Reed needing only irrigation and Balm Lily requiring nothing at all, but they still require certain temperature and atmosphere conditions. Some of them also feed on specific type of gas.

Utility Plants

Utility plants perform specific unique functions. The Wheezewort cools down the environment and Oxyfern converts carbon dioxide to oxygen. Utility plants do not grow and cannot be harvested. Additional seeds may be acquired from either uprooting existing plants, receiving them from space missions or getting them randomly from the Printing Pod. Utility Plants have the same farming mechanics as food plants.

Seeds

Plants always produce a seed when uprooted or killed. For food and industrial plants there is a base 10% chance that a seed is produced once every harvest, though there is an additional 3.3% chance per level of Agriculture, including skill bonuses, so with 20 Farming the chance is 76%. More bonus levels of agriculture can increase the chance to 100%.

Each seed weighs 1 kg.

Plant Mutation

Selection of Mutation Variant in a Farm Tile.

Plant Mutation is a game mechanic introduced in the Spaced Out DLC. Radiation can mutate seeds to give a plant additional traits.

Mechanism

Whenever a non-mutated Plant is affected by Radiation and is harvested by a duplicant, any seed that drops has a chance of being a mutated seed. The chance of getting mutated seeds is equal to (the radiation on the plant / max radiation the plant can handle) * 80%, and is checked only at the time of harvest. In order to produce mutant seeds, plants therefore only need radiation right before being harvested. Currently only non-tree plants which can be renewably harvested are capable of having mutated seeds.

These mutated Seeds need to be analyzed in a Botanical Analyzer before they can be used, even if that type of mutation is already known.

As an added requirement, any mutated plant needs 250 rads/cycle of radiation in order to grow.

Mutation Types

Mutation	Fertilizer	Yield	Temp Range	Life Cycle	Illumination	Bonus Harvest	Misc
Blooming							+20 decoration
Easygoing	-50%	-25%	+50%
Juicyfruit	+25%						drops to the floor immediately when ripe (as opposed to remaining on the plant for 4 cycles)
Wildish	-90%			+350%
Licey	+25%					+600 kcal of Meal Lice
Exuberant	+50%			-75%	Darkness	+4000 g Rot Pile	+10000 Food Poisoning on crop
Leafy	+25%			-50%	+1000 lux
Bountiful	+20%	+100%			+200 lux		+400% harvest duration (10 cycles of ripe, 10 cycles of wilt, then auto-harvest)
Specialized		+50%	-50%
Superspecialized		+100%	-80%

Tips

• The Crashed Satellites world trait makes for excellent areas for producing and growing mutated plants.
• Exuberant removes the light requirement of Bristle Blossom and Gas Grass, which can help significantly in farming them.
• Mealwood can be Licey, therefore doubling its yield
• Juicyfruit is good for automated farms, but is only fertilizer-efficient for plants that have a growth period of less than 16 days, since regularly they need 16+4=20 days of fertilizer, but with Juicyfruit they need 16*1,25 = 20. Only Nosh Sprout and Sleet Wheat take longer to cultivate.

See Also

• Agriculture Guide