Guide to Hydroponics

Welcome to Botany, sometimes also referred to as Hydroponics, and not to be confused with the Garden on the surface level. This is where a Botanist or two would reside to watch grass grow grow produce and synthesize useful tidbits with their biogenerator for the ship to use. This guide will cover how to do all of that and more!

Hydroponics workplace

The hydroponics bay is located on the main floor south of medical and north of the kitchen and bar. Your main work area contains:

• Hydroponics Trays - Plant your plants here. LED sensors light up to show plant status.
• Garden Seed Storage - Stores seeds and mushroom spores.
• NutriMax - Dispenses fertilizer, pest spray, syringes, and plant bags.
• Seed Extractor - Insert produce to extract its seeds. Typically yields anywhere between two to seven seeds.
• Water Tank, Sink, Bucket, & Hydro Tank - For watering the plants.
• ChemMaster 3000 - Used to separate chemicals from a reagent container into bottles.
• Chemical Dispenser - Yours is empty, but you can add cartridges to it to dispense their chemicals into containers. You also have empty reagent containers to fill with reagents from your plants.
• Drying Rack - Add produce to the rack to dry it and make it smokeable.
• Biogenerator - Add produce to it and process it to create biomass, which can be processed into a wide variety of products.
• SmartFridge - Shared with the chef. Put produce here to make it available to the kitchen.
• Hydroponics Crate containing the materials for Apiculture.
• Botanist's Locker - Contains your equipment:
  • Plant Clippers - For taking samples from a plant, which you can grow into new plants.
  • Mini Hoe - Removes weeds.
  • Steel Hatchet - Chops down plants, so you can remove them and grow something else.
  • Plant Analyzer - Tells you the status of a plant or the traits of a piece of produce.
  • Backpack Water Tank - Wear it as a backpack; right-click with an empty hand to activate the mister. Fill with water and use to water plants.
  • Plant Bag - Click on a tile or a piece of produce to automatically load all produce into the bag. Click on a SmartFridge, Drying Rack, or All-In-One Grinder to empty your produce into it.
  • Plant-B-Gone - Weed killer. Also kills wallrot mold.

Growing plants

Plants need water and nutrients, and they need to be grown at the right temperature and lumens (light level). You can find each plant's preferences by scanning the plant, fruit, or seed packet with your scanner, or get a rough estimate by examining the seed packet.

Water & Fertilizer

Some plants need only water or only nutrients. Some need more water or nutrients than others. If you refill the water or the nutrients when the trays indicate it should be done, the plant should be happy.

Light Level

To set light level, close the tray lid (alt+click) and set the light level (right-click) to the plant's preferred level--usually either 3, 5, or 7 lumens for the established varieties you'll be working with.

Temperature

The ship's atmosphere is generally maintained at 297 K, and many of your plants will be quite happy to grow at that temperature; but some plants are hot-weather plants, or fungi that like lower temperatures. Tajaran or Unathi plants need very cold and very hot temperatures, respectively.

Plants will grow slightly outside their light or temperature preferences, but more slowly and with smaller harvests. Too far outside their preferences, and they'll stop growing and die.

There are atmospheric heating and cooling units in the top-right corner of your hydroponics room, near the stairs. The pressure and temperature can be set. None of your plants need different pressure settings, so the temperature setting is what's relevant here.

To adjust the temperature in hydroponics trays for simultaneously growing plants at multiple temperatures:

1. Plan ahead; don't plant yet. The tray atmospherics system has pipes that deliver heated or cooled air, but the whole system is connected. First, look at your plants and see what temperature they need. Divide them into groups based on temperature.
2. Turn each atmospherics unit on and set the temperature to your first group of plants' desired temperature.
3. Locate the cutoff valves that separate each section of piping, and notice where the pipes are laid. You can lever off floor tiles or use a T-ray scanner if you really need a closer look. The cutoff valves can be used to divide the trays into groups: Two groups of three at the top of the room, another group of three to the right of the seed storage, and a group of six below them. Groups are connected to each other.
4. Wait a couple of minutes for the air in the system to warm or cool.
5. Close a cutoff valve (closed = red light) to isolate the portion of the system you want to stay at that temperature.
6. Plant the first group of plants in the section you have just isolated. Remember to set the lights and close the tray lids; if the lids are open, the plants will be growing in room air and lighting.
7. Change the temperature on the heater/cooler to the temperature your second group of plants, and repeat starting from step 3 until you are out of groups of plants.

Hydroponics Trays

You can always check these variables, and even the plant's status, by examining the tray, which will probably look something like this:

That's a tray (#68).

Apples are growing here.
Water: 100/100
Nutrient: 10/10
The tray thermometer displays a temperature of 303.725K, placing it outside its heat preferences, slowing growth and reducing yield. The tray light meter displays a light level of 5 lumens, placing it within its light preferences, accelerating growth. Stasis is disabled.

Trays have indicator lights that show the plant's status.

• Green Light: Ready for harvest - Click empty handed or with a plant satchel to harvest.
• Blue Light: Low water - Click with a container that holds water to refill.
• Yellow Light: Low nutrients - Click with container that holds nutrients (E-Z-Nutrient, Robust Harvest, etc.) to refill.
• Red Light: Low health - Ensure the plant has water and nutrients, isn't ready for harvest, is at the right light level, and doesn't have pests or weeds draining its health.
• Flashing Red Light: Weeds - Click with your mini-hoe to get rid of weeds. If this isn't done, the weeds will take over the tray.

If you have to leave your plants alone, or if you don't need any more produce from a plant but don't want to chop it down, close the trays and click on the closed tray. This will turn on the stasis function, which slows the plant's metabolism drastically and keeps it in the same state for when you return.

Plant Varieties

Plant Chart

Mouse over any white-box text to view that trait's corresponding gene for Xenobotany.
Yi = Yield. Determines how many products per harvest.
Ma = Maturation time. A lower number means faster maturation time.
Pr = Produce time. A lower number means faster product growth.
Po = Potency. Determines the amount of reagents, and strength of special effects.(Needs confirmation)

Name	Yi.	Ma.	Pr.	Po.	Reagents	Temp	Light	Harvest	Traits	Source	Mutations
Aghrassh	4	6	6	15	1u Nutriment	333	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Ambrosia Vulgaris	6	6	6	5	1u Nutriment, 4u Ambrosia Extract, 1u Kelotane, 1u Bicaridine, 1u Toxin	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Ambrosia Deus
Apple	5	6	6	10	2u Nutriment, 2u Apple Juice	293	5	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Golden Apple, [Poison] Apple
Banana	3	6	6	10	10u Banana Juice	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Barnacle	3	10	1	1	3u Mollusc Protein	283	3	Single		Vendor (All)
Bell Pepper	4	4	5	5	1u Nutriment	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Chili
Berry	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Berry Juice	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Blueberry, Glowberry, Poison Berry
Blackberry	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Black Raspberry Juice	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Berry, Glowberry, Poison Berry
Blizzard Ears	4	6	1	1	10u Blizzard Ear Flour	257	3	Single		Vendor (All)
Blue Raspberry	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Blue Raspberry Juice	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Berry, Glowberry, Poison Berry
Blueberry	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Blueberry Juice	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Berry, Glowberry, Poison Berry
Cabbage	4	3	5	10	2u Nutriment	293	5	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Cacao	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 6u Coco Powder	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Carrot	5	10	1	10	1u Nutriment, 10u Carrot Juice, 5u Oculine	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Chanterelle	5	7	1	1	1u Nutriment	283	5	Single		Vendor (All)	Fly Amanita, Plump Helmet, Reishi
Cherry	3	5	5	10	1u Nutriment, 1u Sugar, 10u Cherry Jelly	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Chickpea	3	4	4	5	1u Nutriment	293	5	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Chili	4	5	5	20	1u Nutriment, 7u Capsaicin Oil	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Ice Pepper
Clam	3	10	1	1	3u Mollusc Protein	283	3	Single		Vendor (All)
Coffee Beans	4	3	3	2	2u Coffee Grounds	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Corn	3	8	6	20	3u Nutriment, 3u Corn Oil	303	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Cranberry	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Cranberry Juice	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Berry, Glowberry, Poison Berry
Diona	1	5	10	30	[Produces A Diona Nymph]	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Dirt Berries	2	5	5	10	1u Nutriment, 3u Oil, 11u Dirt Berry Juice	257	3	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Dyn	3	10	10	10	7u Dyn Juice, 10u Dylovene	303	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Earthen-Root	5	7	5	8	1u Nutriment, 2u Sugar, 5u Earthenroot Juice	257	3	Single		Vendor (All)
Eggplant	2	6	6	20	3u Nutriment	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Huge Eggplant
Eki	4	10	5	15	8u Nutriment	283	5	Single	SPREAD	Vendor (All)
Fjylozyn	6	8	3	5	4u Nutriment, 3u Toxin	303	5	Single	SPREAD	Vendor (All)
Garlic	5	10	1	12	3u Garlic Juice	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Glowshroom	3	15	1	30	2u Radium	283	5	Single	BIOLUM, SPREAD	Vendor (Hydroponics & Xenoflora Only)
Grape	4	3	5	10	2u Nutriment, 2u Sugar, 11u Grape Juice	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Green Grapes
Grass	5	2	5	1	1u Nutriment	293	5	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Guami Fruit	3	15	0	30	8u Nutriment	303	5	Single	BIOLUM	Vendor (All)
Gukhe Bloom	4	3	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Capsaicin Oil	333	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Jaekseol	2	3	3	2	4u Jaekseol Leaves	293	7	Single		Vendor (All)
K'ois	3	5	1	60	42u K'ois, 8u Phoron	293	5	Single	BIOLUM, SPREAD, SPOROUS	Vendor (Hydroponics & Xenoflora Only)
Lemon	4	6	6	15	1u Nutriment, 10u Lemon Juice	303	7	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Liberty Cap	4	10	1	15	1u Nutriment, 8u Soporific, 1u Psilocybin	283	5	Single		Vendor (Hydroponics & Xenoflora Only)	Ghost Mushroom
Lime	4	6	6	15	1u Nutriment, 10u Lime Juice	303	7	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Messa's Tear	4	3	5	10	2u Honey, 5u Kelotane	257	3	Single		Vendor (All)
Mint Leaf	3	3	3	2	2u Mint	293	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Mollusc	3	10	1	1	3u Mollusc Protein	283	3	Single		Vendor (All)
Moss	5	2	5	1	1u Nutriment	293	5	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Nettle	4	6	6	10	1u Nutriment, 10u Sulphuric Acid	293	5	Multiple	STINGS	Vendor (Hydroponics & Xenoflora Only)	Death Nettle
Onion	4	10	1	10	3u Onion Juice	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Oracle	6	6	6	5	2u Nutriment, 4u Oracle	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Vedamor Oracle
Orange	4	6	6	15	1u Nutriment, 10u Orange Juice	303	7	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Peanut	6	6	6	10	2u Nutriment	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Peas	3	3	3	5	1u Nutriment	293	5	Multiple		Vendor (All)	Chickpeas
Peppercorn	3	4	4	5	10u Black Pepper	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Plastellium	6	5	6	20	3u Plasticide	283	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Plump Helmet	4	8	1	0	2u Nutriment	283	5	Single		Vendor (All)	Tower Cap
Poppy	6	8	6	20	2u Nutriment, 3u Morphine	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Potato	4	10	1	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Potato Juice	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Pumpkin	3	6	6	10	6u Pumpkin Pulp	293	5	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Q'lort Bulb	5	10	1	10	5u Nutriment	303	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Raspberry	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Raspberry Juice	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Berry, Glowberry, Poison Berry
Rasval Clam	3	10	1	1	2u Seafood Protein	283	3	Single		Vendor (All)
Reishi	4	10	5	15	1u Nutriment, 6u Psilocybin	283	5	Single		Vendor (All)	Liberty Cap, Glowshroom
Rice	4	6	1	5	1u Nutriment, 10u Rice	303	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Sarezshi Berry	2	5	5	10	7u Nutriment, 2u Sarezhi Berry Juice	333	7	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Seaweed	5	2	5	1	1u Nutriment	283	3	Multiple		Vendor (All)
S'erki Flower	2	6	1	1	1u Nutriment	333	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Soybean	3	4	4	5	1u Nutriment, 10u Soy Milk	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
S'rendarr's Hand	4	3	5	10	3u Space Tobacco, 5u Bicaridine, 4u Nicotine	257	3	Single		Vendor (All)
S'th Berry	2	5	5	10	7u Nutriment, 5u S'th Berry Juice	333	7	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Strawberry	2	5	5	10	2u Nutriment, 11u Strawberry Juice	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Berry, Glowberry, Poison Berry
Sugar Tree	2	9	5	1	2u Sugar	257	3	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Sugarcane	4	3	6	10	6u Sugar	303	7	Multiple		Vendor (All)
Sunflower	2	6	1	1	1u Nutriment	293	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Tea Leaf	3	3	3	2	2u Tea Grounds	293	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Tieguanyin	3	3	3	2	3u Tieguanyin Leaves	293	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Tobacco	5	6	6	1	1u Space Tobacco	303	7	Single		Vendor (All)	Fine Tobacco, Low-Grade Tobacco, Succulent Tobacco
Tomato	2	8	6	10	2u Nutriment	293	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)	Blood Tomato, Blue Tomato
Tower Cap	5	15	1	1	11u Wood Pulp	283	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Vanilla	2	7	1	1	3u Vanilla Extract, 1u Nutriment	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Watermelon	3	6	6	1	1u Nutriment, 10u Watermelon Juice	303	7	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)
Wheat	4	6	1	5	1u Nutriment, 15u Flour	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
White-Beet	6	6	6	10	1u Nutriment, 3u Sugar	293	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Wulumunusha	3	8	3	5	4u Wulumunusha Extract	303	5	Single		Vendor (All)
Xuizi	6	6	6	10	5u Xuizi Juice, 7u Nutriment	333	7	Single		Vendor (All)
Ylpha Berry	2	5	5	10	5u Nutriment, 11u Ylpha Berry Juice	303	5	Multiple	JUICY	Vendor (All)

Plant Care and Maintenance

As mentioned above, plants can have a variety of issues affecting their growth if you're not tentative to their needs. What exactly does a plant need? Well, that depends on the plant! As a general rule fungus-type plants (reishi, chanterelle, plump helmet, fly amanita) only need nutrients, weed-type plants (nettles) only require water and true plants will require a mixture of both depending on their species. Nutrients (also called fertilizer) can be retrieved from the NutriMax - there are multiple types that each have their own effects, these will be covered later - and will vend in the form of a bottle, just pour some of this into the tray and examine your plant, once it's at a level the plant will be happy with, you're good! To water your plants, just take a bucket and fill it by clicking on a water tank or sink until you get a message that the bucket is full, then pour it into the tray until it's at a comfortable water level. Do note that the water level variable does not change the moment you fill it with water.

Along with nutrient and water, plants also have a requirement for light and temperature preferences too. All of the plants you'll be growing in hydroponics will thrive at a temperature of 293 kelvin, which is room temperature - don't worry about this! Light is still relevant to you however, and is measured in 'lumens', which demonstrate how much visible light is being emitted. While being at the wrong lumen level won't kill plants, correctly lighting their trays will make them grow faster and stay healthier overall. Use a plant analyzer on a seed or plant growing in a tray/mound to to determine how much light they need.

The plant analyzer is an important tool because it allows you to know what temperature, lumens, nutrient and water your plants need, as well as gives you general information on the plant's reagents (if any), and stats. The only stats that are relevant to you are a plants requirements and maturation time - these tell you what your plant needs to be healthy and how long it'll take to grow! As an example, an apple tree should be kept at room temperature, given four lumens, have roughly the same level of water for the duration of it's growth, and 10/10 nutrients at all times to be the healthiest it can be.

To set a plant's lumen level, all you have to do is alt-click (or, if you prefer, right click and choose Toggle-Tray-Lid) on the tray. This will lower the lid and turn on the lights to a level that you can set. Right-clicking a tray with a closed lid will give you the option to 'set lights', at which point you can select how many lumens you would like the tray to receive. Make sure you raise the lid when you go to harvest the plant, as you can't harvest from a closed tray. You can, however, pour water and nutrients into a tray while it's closed.

Now, what if your plant becomes infested with weeds - or worse, unhealthy! Don't fear, you're given (almost) all the tools you need to keep your plants in peak condition. If a tray becomes infested with weeds all you have to do is click on it with your gardening hoe, but what about if they become unhealthy? You have a couple options for improving their health all of which are liquid/chemical in nature, the most basic treatment however is nutriment (not to be confused with nutrients), which is found in all food stuffs, so start grinding up those pizzas or tomatoes and pouring the juice into your tray!

If your plants die they'll go an off-grey or brown color and have to be removed from the tray with a single click. Before re-planting, make sure you top up the tray's nutrients and water (lack of these probably killed the plant) and to click your hoe on the tray a few times to ensure there's no leftover weeds that took advantage of the dead plant. If you want or need to kill your plants - you can use your hatchet to hack it down after a few swings or you can spray Plant-B-Gone into the tray. Plant-B-Gone can be found in the botany lockers, but kills more slowly unless you spray a lot onto the plant.

If you didn't kill off your plants by now, you probably have a lot of produce on your hands! Go ahead and use your plant satchel on any trays with green lights, and load the bag into the kitchen smartfridge.

Advanced Hydroponics

Bedsides simply planting seeds and growing them, there are several other things you can do within hydroponics that will supplement your farming work. This includes becoming an apiarist, generating various items from plant-matter, and further propagating your plants.

Hydroponics Machines

Seed Extractor The seed storage only has a finite amount of seeds, so use the seed extractor to get more seeds. To use the seed extractor you must take a fully grown plant and click the extractor with it. Once placed in the seed extractor, the plant will be replaced with multiple packets of seeds of the same plant type. Using the seed extractor means you can have a virtually infinite supply of seeds, as long as you always have at least one of said fully grown plant. Make sure you don't let the chef use your last potato!

Biogenerator The biogenerator is a machine which takes fully grown plants and turns them into biomass. Biomass can then be converted into food, condiments, plant nutrients, and various leather products. Each unit of nutriment in an item of produce creates 10 units of biomass; produce without nutriment in it creates 1 unit of biomass. To use the biogenerator just place a stock of grown plants into the machine and then open up the interface. Much like the smartfridge, you can use a plant satchel on the generator to dump plants into it instead of feeding it all in by hand. The interface will tell you how many biomass points are currently in the generator, and how much biomass various items will require to produce. An in-depth look into what you can produce will be covered in the Biogeneration section below.

ChemMaster 3000 A ChemMaster stolen from Chemistry that allows you to separate various individual reagents into other sections of the machine, which lets you make bottles or pills out of them. Of particular use would be the ability to grind up potatoes in your reagent grinder and making bottles of ketchup - or, perhaps, a condiment paste/sauce of some other fruit/vegetable.

Reagent Grinder An all-in-one grinder that you can throw stuff into to grind down into reagents. In particular, you'll want to toss plants and produce into it to grind down into nutrients and juice for medical or even the bar.

Biogeneration

The biogenerator is perhaps one of the greatest tools you'll be using to do more than just watching grass grow. Besides one useful feature of it being able to turn plants into meat (or at least a weird and smelly synthetic version of it), it can also make a number of other things with biomass. Below you'll find a list of what it can make.

Name	Description	Cost
Bio Meat	A weird version of meat, but it will substitute any recipe that requires meat.	25
Soylent Veridians	A set of hearty berry waffles. Probably Not made of people.	75
Flavored Vitamin	A pill with nutrients packed into it, plus a little extra fruity flavor. Good for your blood!	25
Food Ration	So that's where LiquiFood rations come from... Chalky and bland, but ready to feed.	15
Space Milk (50u)	Fifty units of milk ready to cool someone off from eating something spicy. Maybe.	50
Nutri-spread	A butter substitute that will, like the bio meat, substitute in for anything that requires butter.	40
Universal Enzyme (50u)	An enzyme used in cooking that pretty much condenses your pantry filled to the brim with spices and the like down to one bottle. Science!	100
E-Z-Nutrient (60u)	Funny how you can just make nutrients from the stuff you're feeding it to. Standard nutrient bottle.	30
Left 4 Zed (60u)	Sacrifices nutrient power for a better chance to mutate the plant. Use with caution!	60
Robust Harvest (60u)	Puts everything into nutrient power to achieve the highest yield from crops.	90
Empty Cigarettes (6x)	Six empty cigarette rolls, ready to have WEED your substance of choosing shoved inside to be smoked.	250
Tape Roll	Basically duct tape made from plants, adhesive and all. Now you can tape ad papers all over the ship about your ambroisa farm.	125
Botanical Gloves	Gloves of the thick brown variety. Lets you handle poky plants with ease, otherwise just completes the gruff gardener look.	125
Utility Belt	A tool belt for storing your tools and such, not that you're an electrician or anything, but it can store your hatchet, hoe, clippers, and analyzer.	150
Leather Wallet	A small wallet to hold stuff like your identity and frustrate medical because their HUDs can't comprehend how to read an ID inside of a wallet and money.	50
Leather Satchel	A satchel of the brown leather variety, for when someone somehow loses their bag.	200
Cash Bag	A bag to hold your ludicrous amounts of money! Money not included.	200
Soap	A bar of soap cobbled together to promote hygiene among other things.	100
Towel	A towel for drying off.	150
Animal Hide	Raw hide skinned from dangerous, vicious, wild plants for you to do whatever the heck you want with.	50
Leather	Like above, just not so pelt-y.	50
Cloth	A piece of cloth to pad stuff with.	25
Cardboard	For when no one wants to give up their internals box so you can run around as a cardborg.	25
Wax	Wax for candle-making! Light them up all over the place and annoy people with the resulting mess.	50
Mushroom Friend	Animate, walking mushrooms WITH DARK SECRETS.	500

Apiculture

Apiculture, or 'beekeeping', is a fun additional activity you can carry out while working in hydroponics. Bees provide a double benefit; they generate wax and honey in their combs and they increase the health of all nearby plants. But how do you start a colony?

At the entrance to the hydroponics bay on the right is a crate of beekeeping supplies. In here, you'll find a hive assembly, a single queen bee packet, two beehive frames, a net, and a smoking device. You'll also need the crowbar from your tool box and the honey extractor machine nearby.

1. Fill your bee smoker with welding fuel; or, resign yourself to bee stings.
2. Pick up your beehive assembly and click on it to assemble it.
3. Put the two beehive frames into your hive. You may craft more beehive frames (and more beehives) with wooden planks, which you can craft by cutting up tower cap logs with your hatchet.
4. Load the Bee Pack into the hive.
5. Close the beehive by clicking it with your crowbar.
6. The hive has five indicators, each representing one frame. If the indicator is dark, there is no frame in that space; if it is yellow, the frame is empty; if green, the frame is full. Wait until the indicators turn green.
7. Open the hive again by clicking it with your crowbar.
8. Optionally, smoke the hive to calm down the bees.
9. Click the hive with an empty hand to remove the filled frames.
10. Put the frames, one by one, into the honey extractor. The extractor will spit out beeswax and empty frames.
11. Collect honey by clicking on the extractor with a container.

If your bees escape the hive, use the net to collect them and put them back.

Chemicals: Good and Bad

A variety of chemicals will have different effects on your plants if you inject them or pour them into a tray. Some of them will have beneficial effects such as healing them, increasing their nutrient count or making them more potent, but others will mutate, damage or kill your plants! The two primary chemicals a botanist should be concerned with however are ammonia and diethylamine.

Ammonia and diethylamine are both effective fertilizers, better than the three standard nutrients you have available to you in the Hydroponics Vending Machine. To get these chemicals however, you'll need to ask chemistry, as none is available to you at round start. If you're going to be growing a lot, these chemicals can be helpful. But if there's no chemists, a few other chemicals can also keep your plants healthy on top of using nutrients. Below is a chart of both beneficial, and harmful chemicals that interact with plants in various ways - some of them are blatantly obvious, while others may not be.

Chemical	Water	Nutrient	Health	Yield	Mutation chance	Weeds	Pests	Toxins	Mutation
Anti-Toxin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	0
Toxin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Fluorine	-0.5	0	-2	0	0	-4	0	2.5	0
Chlorine	-0.5	0	-1	0	0	-3	0	1.5	0
Sulfuric Acid	0	0	-1	0	0	-2	0	1.5	0
Polytrinic Acid	0	0	-2	0	0	-4	0	3	0
Plantbgone	0	0	-2	0	0.2	-8	0	3	0
Cryoxadone	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	-3	0
Radium	0	0	-1.5	0	0.2	0	0	2	8
Milk	0.9	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Beer	0.7	0.25	-0.05	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phosphorous	-0.5	0.1	-0.75	0	0	-2	0	0	0
Sugar	0	0.1	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Soda Water	1	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ammonia	0	1	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diethylamine	0	2	1	0	0	0	-2	0	0
Nutriment	0	1	0.5	0.1	0	0	0	0	0
EZnutrient	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Robustharvest	0	1	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0
Left4Zed	0	1	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0
Water	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Unstable Mutagen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15