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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
- Thomas Fuller, 1608 - 1661
Trees. Apex of plantlife, lording over the world in a continuum of balance and growth. Learning Fruit Orchards readies the Pilgrim with the necessary patience and teachings to cultivate seasonal fruit trees, that they might enjoy the boughs' bounties!
About
Fruit Trees cycle through three distinct phases: A dormant stage, a blossoming stage, and a ripe stage. A Fruit Tree spends each Coldsnap and begins each Everbloom in the Dormant Stage. At a point determined by chance, during an Everbloom, a Fruit Tree will transition into the blossoming stage, denoted by flowers blossoming on the Fruit Tree. If a Fruit Tree is pollinated during this stage it will switch to the ripe stage. This is the stage where Fruit can be picked.
Potable Fruits
How to Plant in a Gardening Pot
- Select 1x
Humus and left-click it onto your Gardening Pot.
- If not, Select a Vessel with at least .20L of filled with
Potable Water and left-click it onto your Gardening Pot. A Gardening Pot can hold up to 1L of Potable Water. Each planting will reduce the filled amount by .20L.
- Select the Potable item you wish to plant and left-click it onto your Gardening Pot. Planting in Gardening Pots lowers Insanity.
- Wait 3 days. Learning the Horticulture and Green Thumb Skills will reduce the time for plants to ripen.
- Once ripe, the plant's model will change. The base Yield for non-bushes and Trees is two. When planting you will receive a bonus Yield up to a max of 8 which is determined by chance and your
Herbs & Sprouts Proficiency. You will see your bonus Yield pop up in green as you add your Potable plant. At any point you may check the current Yield by right-clicking on your planted Gardening Pot.
- Ripe plants can now be picked by right-clicking the Gardening Pot and selecting "Pick". Bushes and Trees which have sprouted can be planted by
Lifting the Gardening Pot and then right-clicking the ground and selecting "Plant".
For Bushes and Trees there is a chance for your planting will fail and you will instead receive a single Branch. This chance is determined by your Herbs & Sprouts and Natural Philosophy Proficiencies and additionally for some Trees, the Flora & Fauna of the pilgrim who took the Cutting.
Butterfly & Moth Pollination
A Butterfly Conservatory, when Any Butterflys or Any Moths are placed inside, will pollinate nearby Fruit Trees during an Everbloom. For each unique Butterfly added the Butterfly Conservatory will gain 5% efficiency, each unique Moth will add 10%. A Butterfly Conservatory has a longer range than a Bee Skep but cannot transfer Purity onto the Fruit Trees.
How to Pollinate Fruit
- Place 1x
Queen Bee and 6 to 10x Drone Bees in a Bee Skep.
- Every other day open your Bee Skep and remove any
Delphic Bees additional or Queen Bees. Add more Drone Bees if you fall below 6.
- Bees will occasionally die, this is normal, add more Drone Bees if you fall below 6.
- Slowly your Bee Keep will fill with Worker Bees.
- Once your Worker Bees reach 60,000, or at any time before, you may remove all your Bees.
- Each Everbloom
Fruit Trees within your Bee's Skep range will blossom and riped by chance.
- Each time a Fruit Tree ripens it gain up to 10% of the Purity difference between the Fruit Tree and your Bee Skep. This gain is reduced if you have less than 60k Worker Bees.
CAUTION: Opening a a Bee Skep will cause you to get stung. The severity of the sting is proportionate to the number of Worker Bees in the Bee Skep; generally between 5-15 Blood damage.
Fruit Purity
Each Everbloom that a Fruit Tree ripes with a Bee Skep in range, will cause your Fruit Tree to gain 10% of the difference between the Fruit Tree's Purity and the Purity of Bee Skep that pollinates it, multiplied by the percent fill of your 60,000 Worker Bees. For instance, if your Fruit Tree is at 0% Purity and your Bee Skep at 90% filled with 30k Worker Bees your Fruit Tree will gain 4.5% (90% x 50% (60k/30k). The Purity of a Bee Skep is equal to the average Purity of the Hay used in it's
Forestry Skills
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