Rice plant

Rice plant

A short, fast-growing crop that yields small edible grains. Its great nutritional output and ease of cultivation has made it the economic core of many great civilizations. While rice grows quickly, it is sensitive to soil fertility and will not fare well in poor soil.

Base Stats

Type

Plant – Domesticated

Beauty

0 (1)

HP

85

Flammability

100%

Path Cost

14 (48%)

Ingestion

Nutrition

0.175

Plant Stats

Time to grow

3 days (5.54 days)

Work to Sow

170 ticks (2.83 secs)

Work to Harvest

200 ticks (3.33 secs)

Base Harvest Yield

6

Min Fertility

70%

Fertility Sensitivity

100%

Min light to grow

50%

Technical

sowTags

Ground, Hydroponic

Rice plants yield rice, a fast growing crop. While its speed nets a high overall yield per tile per day, each plant gives the least food per harvest, so rice takes a high amount of labor for a given amount of food. Therefore, it is a good option for newer colonies, but may be gradually phased out as a food reserve is established. For further details, see Analysis.

Conditions

• Maximum growth temperature 58 °C (136.4 °F)
• Minimum growth temperature 0 °C (32 °F)
• Some Rice plants may die around -13 °C (8.6 °F)
• Most Rice plants may die around -15 °C – -18 °C (5 °F – -0.4 °F)
• At least 51% light is required to grow.

Growing

Ground Type	Gravel	Soil	Rich Soil	Hydroponics
Fertility (%)	70	100	140	280
Real Grow Time (days)	7.91	5.54	3.96	1.98
Base Yield/day	0.76	1.08	1.52	3.03

Analysis

Grows quickly, so food supply is less likely to be interrupted by winter. Some or all plants may even die during winter.

Rice plants' daily nutrition is fractionally higher than corn and potatoes (102.7% and 105.4% in regular soil), though rice's greatest strength is its quick growth: the short maturation time makes it ideal for establishing a colony, as an 'emergency' food crop when food runs low, for biomes with short growing seasons, and as a 'last planting' crop when winter is fast approaching. The frequent harvests also mitigate the damage of losing of a crop to blight, cold snap, heat wave, or fire, and provides a steadier flow of nutrition than slower-growing crops. The fast speed also has a use in leveling up the Plants skill.

However, this also means rice requires far more labor to reap and sow for the same nutrition compared to potatoes (183%) and especially corn (366%). While corn gives less nutrition per tile, most colonies can use the extra time to simply plant more tiles of corn, assuming they have the space. Rice is usually not recommended past the midgame unless the colony is limited by growing space (or is otherwise in an emergency).

While rice is no more affected by soil fertility than corn, rice will grow even faster with high fertillity, magnifying the innate strengths (quick food) and weakensses (work) of that fact. While rice provides significantly more nutrition over time than any other hydroponics basin crop, it requires a harvest and replant every other day to do so.

See also

• Hydroponics basin

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Plants

Domesticated plants

Cocoa tree • Corn plant • Cotton plant • Devilstrand mushroom • Haygrass • Healroot • Hop plant • Potato plant • Psychoid plant • Rice plant • Smokeleaf plant • Strawberry plant • Tinctoria • Fibercorn • Gauranlen pod • Nutrifungus • Toxipotato plant

Decorative plants

Dandelions • Daylily • Rose • Bonsai tree

Wild plants

Agarilux • Agave • Alocasia • Ambrosia bush • Astragalus • Berry bush • Brambles • Bryolux • Bush • Chokevine • Clivia • Giant rafflesia • Glowstool • Grass • Low shrubs • Moss • Pincushion cactus • Tall grass • Wild healroot • Anima grass • Gauranlen moss

Trees

Bamboo tree • Birch tree • Cecropia tree • Cypress tree • Drago tree • Maple tree • Oak tree • Palm tree • Pine tree • Poplar tree • Saguaro cactus • Teak tree • Willow tree • Timbershroom • Gray pine tree • Pebble cactus • Rat palm tree • Witchwood tree

Special

Anima tree • Gauranlen tree • Polux tree • Harbinger tree

Tree stumps

Burned stump • Chopped stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger ) • Smashed stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger )

Version history

• 0.9.722 - added.