Gardening

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Gardening is a mechanic in Barotrauma allowing submariners to grow renewable resources from the safety of their submarine. There are five different growable plants that produce special fruits which can be crafted into different items or used offensively in some cases.

Seeds can be bought at City and Research Outpost merchants, looted from Wrecks, or by deconstructing fruits.

Fruits and Seeds can be deconstructed.

Method

To start a garden, first place a Small Planter Box inside the submarine, then, use the desired plant seed on the Planter Box to plant it. The bud consumes water over time and grows vines on the wall. A Watering Can is used to refill the Planter Box with fresh water. Planter Boxes in contact with seawater will be drained of their fresh water supply. When fully grown, the plant drops fruits from flowers on the vines. If the fresh water in the Planter Box runs out, the plant will die. Dead plants can be uprooted by hand, allowing the Planter Box to be repotted or removed entirely. Fertilizer can be used on the Planter Box to double the growth speed and fruit production rate of the plant inside.

A Planter Box can take up to 100 units of Fertilizer, which decays at -0.1/s, meaning an entire fill lasts for 16 minutes and 40 seconds.

• Fertilizer has 800 durability - enough for exactly 8 full fillings.
• In case a Planter Box is already partially filled up with fertilizer, it only takes as much durability as it needs to fill up, so none is wasted.

Plants

Plant Item	Time to fully grow	Time to decay when fully watered		Produced Fruit	Fruit Spawnrate
		Base	Flooded
Banana	39 minutes, 28 seconds	41 minutes, 39 seconds	17 minutes, 51 seconds	Banana	2.02 / hour
Pomegrenade Seed	57 minutes, 8 seconds	55 minutes, 33 seconds	15 minutes, 9 seconds	Pomegrenade (95%) Mutated Pomegrenade (5%)	7.92 / hour
Raptor Bane Seed	1 hour, 32 minutes, 18 seconds	1 hour, 27 minutes, 21 seconds	11 minutes, 43 seconds	Raptor Bane (40%) Mutated Raptor Bane (60%)	7.92 / hour
Salt Vine Seed	39 minutes, 28 seconds	38 minutes, 34 seconds	17 minutes, 15 seconds	Salt Bulb	2.02 / hour
Tobacco Vine Seed	2 hours, 3 minutes, 4 seconds	1 hour, 57 minutes, 22 seconds	14 minutes, 35 seconds	Tobacco Bud	2.02 / hour

Trivia

• Gardening was added in 0.10.50
• While pomegrenade are called pomegrenades in-game, the name "creepingorange" is used for console commands and in-code identifier
• In-game, plants display flowers that are the same color as their respective seeds and fruits, which helps discerning them once they've grown. Pomegrenade plants have orange seeds / flowers / fruits, Salt Vine's are light green, Raptor Bane's are pink and Tobacco's are blue.

Media

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  A matured Pomegrenade plant.

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  A matured Tobacco plant.

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  A matured Saltvine plant.

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  A matured Raptorbane plant.