Ambrosia bush

Ambrosia bush

A rare wild bush which yields the ambrosia fruit. Ambrosia fruit is delicious and produces a drug-like mood boost. Ambrosia cannot be farmed, which makes wild ambrosia groves very valuable.
Its rarity, beauty, and desirability are why ambrosia was named after the food of the ancient Greek gods.

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Type

Plants – Plants

Base Stats

Flammability

1

Max Hit Points

100

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Stat Modifiers

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For the food and social drug, see Ambrosia.

All information here is up-to-date as of Alpha 17b.

Ambrosia bushes are an exotic plant in RimWorld which only naturally occur through the ambrosia sprout event, and therefore can't be grown by the player. A mature ambrosia bush yields 4 pieces of ambrosia fruit.

Growing

Ambrosia bushes have a base growing time of 6 days, need a minimum soil fertility of 30%, and have a fertility sensitivity rating of 15%. The following table details how long it takes for Ambrosia to grow in each growable ground type, factoring in the plant resting time and being in ideal growing conditions:

Ground Type	Gravel	Soil	Rich Soil	Hydroponics
Fertility (%)	70	100	140	230
Grow Time (days)	8	7.64	7.2	-
Base Yield/day	0.5	0.52	0.56	-

Food Production

As a food production plant, Ambrosia isn't the greatest despite its decent nutrition output per day, which in turn is owing to ambrosia's very high nutrition per fruit. Ambrosia cannot be made into any meals. The following details shows how many plants it takes to sustain one colonist, but only factors in the nutritional value of the yield; and the yield per day:

Ground Type	Gravel	Soil	Rich Soil	Hydroponics
Raw	16	16	15	-
Lavish	-	-	-	-
Paste	-	-	-	-
Fine	-	-	-	-

Economy

The ambrosia bush's raw product is ambrosia, which has a market value of 15 silver. Ambrosia can't be made into any refined products. The following table details silver per day, per plant. It only factors in the 50% selling markdown; the market value of the products; and the yield per day:

Ground Type	Gravel	Soil	Rich Soil	Hydroponics
Raw	3.75	3.93	4.16	-
Refined	-	-	-	-

The ambrosia bush has the highest silver/day out of any plant in the base game as of Alpha 17b.