Bonsai tree

Bonsai tree

A small tree, pruned and shaped to look visually pleasing.

Base Stats

Type

Plant – Tree

Beauty

15 (15)

HP

85

Flammability

80%

Path Cost

0 (100%)

Building

Minifiable

False

Passability

pass through only

Cover Effectiveness

1%

Blocks Wind

False

Ingestion

Nutrition

0.25

Plant Stats

Time to grow

1.5 days (2.77 days)

Lifespan

13.5 days

Work to Sow

750 ticks (12.5 secs)

Work to Harvest

800 ticks (13.33 secs)

Base Harvest Yield

2

Min Skill

6 Plants

Min Fertility

70%

Fertility Sensitivity

50%

Min light to grow

30%

Technical

sowTags

DecorativeTree

Bonsai trees are decorative trees added by the Ideology DLC. They must be grown in bonsai pots. Both tree and pot are available when the Tree sowing research is completed. With a much longer lifespan than either roses or daylilies and similar beauty, bonsai trees may be a good alternative for decorating your base. They also satisfy the requirements of the Trees: Desired precept, giving followers a positive +2/+4 "Mini Tree"/"Mini Trees" moodlet^[Template] even with no natural trees available. Cutting them also does not give a mood penalty to those with a precept against cutting trees.

Like decorative plants, they only require 30% light to grow, allowing them to grow in the light of a torch or standing lamp, instead of requiring a sun lamp. However, they will grow slower in light levels below 100%.

Growing

Ground Type	Gravel	Soil	Rich Soil	Hydroponics
Fertility (%)	70	100	140	280
Real Grow Time (days)	3.26	2.77	2.31	N/A
Base Yield/day	0.61	0.72	0.87	N/A

Analysis

As a wood source

Bonsai trees are a very poor source of wood. They have the lowest wood-per-work of all trees, being over 3x more work inefficient than even the lowly fibercorn, which takes no research at all. They're also very middle of the road when it comes to wood per day, coming 10th overall. They also must be planted in bonsai pots, and cannot be planted directly into the ground, requiring an additional resource investment. Finally, they will not be auto-harvested when fully grown, so the player must manually designate them for chopping, adding inconvenience on top of their inefficiency.

That said, bonsai trees do have a few advantages over other sources of wood. Like fibercorn, they only require 30% light, and can be grown under roofs. In situations where the soil cannot be planted on at all (such as in the sea ice biome or on hard rock), they can still be planted into the pots and grow normally. While fibercorn is similar in this aspect, as it can be planted in hydroponics basins, bonsai trees provide a superior wood-per-day (at the cost of an inferior wood-per-work) and do not require power to grow. Finally, its +15 beauty means that, when resources are scarce, they can double as both a source of beauty and a source of wood.

Please note that when grown in a 50% light level (such as under a standing lamp), bonsai trees will only grow at 29% of their normal speed. To achieve their optimal growth speed, they must be planted in sunlight or under a sun lamp.

Gallery

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  Bonsai tree variant A

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  Bonsai tree variant B

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  Bonsai tree variant C

Version history

• Ideology DLC release - Added
• 1.3.3069 - Bonsai trees no longer are auto-harvested on reaching max growth
• 1.4.3523 - Fix: Bonsai tree reminds of unharvested resources even though it's a decorative plant.

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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

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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 )