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| RESEARCH | ||
| Должность не определена  Xenobotanist |
Руководители: Research Director |
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Arguably one of the most dangerous places, Xenobotany deals with the growth, maintenance, study, and splicing of plants. The Xenobotany laboratory consists of three rooms: the main laboratory, where you will modify plants; the storage room, where you will find two xenobotanist's lockers; the containment area, where you will grow plants; and the Hazardous Specimens room, for dangerous plants.
The Machines
In your laboratory are several machines that you will need to learn to use.
All-in-one Grinder
Reduces produce to its chemical ingredients. Insert produce; grind; remove beaker of chemicals.
Bioballistic Delivery System
Transfers a gene from a disk into a seed; the traits that the gene coded for will now be expressed in the new seed. For instance, isolating the gene that allows berries to grow in bushes, and injecting it into a wheat seed, would yield a bush that grows wheat and can be harvested repeatedly like a berry bush.
A single seed can only take so much alteration; too much, and it would be rendered sterile. The machine will prevent this from happening by refusing to alter a seed when doing so would kill it. However, fresh seeds, extracted from fresh fruit, are fully stable regardless of how much you modified the parent seed; so it is possible to completely change a plant through an iterative process of modification and growth.
Biogenerator
Generates all sorts of items from plant matter. Feed it your unwanted produce and generate food, fertilizer, construction materials, medicine, and more.
Chemical Dispenser
Dispenses chemicals into containers. Useful for making mutagen and fertilizer. Use a screwdriver to remove cartridges.
ChemMaster 3000
Isolates and bottles chemicals; makes pills. Insert a beaker of chemicals to use.
Flora Data Disk
Holds the genetic blueprint of a plant. Alone, it is not very useful. However, when used with the two machines below, it becomes a tool for splicing plants together to create a new species. Gene data stored on a disk is perfectly preserved and never decays, regardless of how many time it is spliced into a plant. To erase a disk for re-use, activate it.
Atmospherics Control System
Pipes laid along the floor of the Hazardous Specimens room and Containment area, used for dealing with plants that produce gases or have special temperature requirements. Use the gas heater or cooler to change temperature. See Atmospherics for more details.
Hydroponics Trays
Grow plants in 'em. See Guide to Hydroponics for more details.
Lysis-isolation Centrifuge
Isolates a gene from a seed. Insert a data disk and a plant seed (or a mushroom spore), open the machine's interface, and select "Process Genome" to see the plant's genome. This destroys the seed and lets you load one of the plant's twelve genes onto the disk. A genetic sample stored in the centrifuge is not stable; the more you extract from it, the more integrity it will lose, to the point where it will not be viable. Most plant genomes can survive two or three extractions before a fresh sample is needed.
NutriMax
Contains the chemicals that you will use to help manage your plants. Doing so is essentially identical to Hydroponics; but your NutriMax also carries Unstable Mutagen, which you can use to modify plants.
Seed Dispenser
Dispenses the base seeds needed for your job. Beware, however - it has limited stores, so if you want to avoid running out, you should generate new ones by extracting seeds from fruit or taking clippings from plants.
Seed Extractor
Insert produce; get a few packets of seeds.
SmartFridge
Store your fruit here. Your seeds too, if you're lazy and don't care about seeing seed stats.
The Tools
| Name | Uses | Source |
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| Backpack Water Tank | Watering your plants. Wear on your back, right-click to toggle mister. Refill at a sink or water tank. | Storage; Hydroponics Locker (x2) |
| Bio Suit & Bio Hood | Protects from dangerous chemicals in the air. | Containment; Level-3 Biohazard Locker (x2) |
| Chemical Dispenser Cartridges | Holds chemicals; can be filled and inserted into your chemical dispenser, or delivered to other departments for their use. | Laboratory. |
| FarmBot | Assists you by automatically taking care of nearby plants. Unlock the interface with your ID. | Containment |
| Gas Mask; Face Mask | Protects you from toxic gases and chemicals in the air. The gas mask protects your eyes as well. | Storage (Hydroponics Locker) |
| Hatchet | Killing plants; chopping tower cap mushrooms into planks. | Storage (Hydroponics Locker); Containment |
| Leather Gloves | Protecting your hands from spines | Storage (Hydroponics Locker) |
| Mini-Hoe | Removing weeds from the trays | Storage (Hydroponics Locker); Containment |
| Pill Bottles | For storing pills you may create with your ChemMaster 3000. | Laboratory |
| Plant-B-Gone | Kills plants; also kills wallrot fungus. | Storage (Hydroponics Locker); Containment |
| Plant Analyzer | Provides information on the current plant and it's contents. Works on plants in trays, fruit and seeds. | Storage (Hydroponics Locker); Containment |
| Plant Bag | Collects all plant items (produce, seeds/spores). Can be used on certain other machines (SmartFridge, Seed Dispenser, Biogenerator) to transfer parts of/all of the contents of the bag into them. | Storage (Hydroponics locker); Containment (NutriMax) |
| Shears | Allows you to take a sample of plant, creating a seed or spore. This reduces the plant's health, and may kill it. | Storage (Hydroponics locker) |
| Sink & Shower | For decontamination. The sink can serve as a water source. | Storage |
| Spray Bottles | For filling with cleaner, weed killer, or whatever your heart desires. | Laboratory |
| Syringe | Extracting chemicals from plants; injecting chemicals into plants. | Laboratory; Containment (NutriMax) |
Getting Started
First, follow Guide to Hydroponics to get your plants growing.
Once that's done, there are three paths you may follow:
Splice
Difficulty: Easy
Potential: Low
Using the plants available to you, combine the genes to create a custom plant. The process is simple: Extract a gene from one plant using the Centrifuge and splice the gene into a second plant with the injection machine. Use the plant analyzer to figure out what changes you have made.
Mutate
Difficulty: Medium
Potential: Medium
Add a mutagen to a plant's hydroponics tray or soil and watch its genes change randomly. Some plants have the potential to change subspecies, as well. Mutagens include radium and the Unstable Mutagen from your NutriMax. Mutagens can kill your plants, and some mutations are dangerous.
Design
Difficulty: High
Potential: Extreme
Splicing + Mutation. Using mutation, you access the full range of possible plant genes; using splicing, create a customized plant.
Mutants & Rare Plants
Most of the plants available to you are the common plants also available in Hydroponics. These are the exceptions:
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 | Other | Source | Mutations | ||
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| Ambrosia Deus | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1u Nutriment 4u Ambrosia Extract 1u Synaptizine 1u Bicaridine |
293K | 6 | Multiple harvests | Mutation | ||
| Blood Tomato | 3 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1u Nutriment 10u Sulphuric Acid |
293K | 6 | Multiple Harvests |
Mutation | ||
| Blue Tomato | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1u Nutriment 1u Space Lube |
293K | 5 | Multiple Harvests Juicy |
Mutation | Bluespace Tomato | |
| Bluespace Tomato | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1u Nutriment 12u Singulo |
293K | 5 | Multiple Harvests JuicyTeleportation |
Mutation | ||
| Death Berry | 3 | 5 | 4 | 70 | 1u Nutriment 26u Toxin 15u Lexorin 8u Death Berry Juice |
293K | 5 | Multiple Harvests Juicy |
Mutation | ||
| Fine Tobacco | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | ??? | 299K | 7 | Mutation | |||
| Fly Amanita | 4 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1u Nutriment 6u Amatoxin 1u Psiolocybin |
288K | 5 | Weed, Xenobotany Seed Storage | Plastellium Destroying Angel Panocelium Mushrooms |
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| Glowberry | 2 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 3u Nutriment 12u Glow Berry Juice 8 units Uranium |
293K | 5 | Multiple Harvests Juicy Bioluminescent |
Mutation | ||
| Glowshroom | 3 | 15 | 1 | 30 | 2u Radium | 293K | 6 | Bioluminescent Spreads From Tray |
Xenobotany Seed Storage | ||
| Golden Apple | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 3u Gold 2u Apple Juice |
293K | 4 | Multiple harvests | Mutation | ||
| Green Grapes | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 2u Nutriment 3u Sugar 11u Grape Juice |
293K | 6 | Multiple Harvests |
Mutation | Green Grapes | |
| Harebell | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1u Nutriment | 293K | 5 | Grows as a weed | |||
| Ice Pepper | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 1u Nutriment 7u Capsaicin Oil |
298K | 7 | Multiple harvests |
Mutation | ||
| Kois | 3 | 5 | 1 | 60 | 42u K'ois 8u Phoron |
293K | 1 | Bioluminescent Spreads From Tray |
Xenobotany Seed Storage | ||
| Liberty Cap | 4 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 1u Nutriment 8u Soporific 1u Psilocybin |
288K | 5 | Xenobotany Seed Storage | Ghost Mushroom | ||
| Low-grade Tobacco | 4 | 6 | 6 | 10 | ??? | 293K | 5 | Multiple Harvests | Mutation | Tobacco | |
| Nettle | 4 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 1u Nutriment 10u Sulphuric Acid |
293K | 5 | Spines Multiple Harvests |
Xenobotany Seed Storage | Death Nettle | |
| Poison Apple | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2u Nutriment 11u Apple Juice |
293K | 4 | Multiple harvests | Mutation | ||
| Poison Berry | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1u Nutriment 12u Poison Berry Juice 5u Toxin |
293K | 5 | Multiple Harvests Juicy |
Mutation | Glowberry Poison Berry Blueberry |
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| Succulent Tobacco | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | ??? | 299K | 7 | Mutation | |||
| Walking Mushroom | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2u Nutriment | 288K | 5 | Multiple Harvests |
Mutation | ||
Hazards
Gas Production
Some mutant plants create gases, some of which can poison or suffocate you. Protect yourself with a gas mask and an oxygen supply, and flip the lid on a hydroponics basin to isolate a plant. Grow gas-producing plants in the Hazardous Specimens room.
K'ois
K'ois is a Vaurca delicacy which is highly poisonous because it contains phoron. When it matures, it spreads spores in a gaseous cloud that will poison anyone who inhales it. If you inhale it, call for Medical immediately. Protect yourself with a gas mask or face mask. K'ois will also inject K'ois into any nearby containers or produce. Best grown in the Hazardous Specimens room.
Spines, Explosions, and Juiciness
Plants that mutate spines can apply the chemicals they contain to anyone who touches them. Protect yourself with thick gardening gloves. Plants that explode, or are very juicy, will also spread their contents when thrown.
Vines
Plants with the "Vine" trait will spread out of their tray and onto the ground. If they're harmless plants, they're merely annoying. But beware of modifications: If they have spines, they will inject you with whatever chemical they hold.
Research Department
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| Head of department | Research Director |
| Personnel | Scientist - Xenobiologist - Xenoarcheologist - Roboticist |
| Useful guides | Guide to Research and Development - Guide to Xenobiology - Guide to Xenobotany - Guide to Xenoarchaeology - Integrated Electronics - Guide to Telescience - Guide to Modular Weaponry |