Gardenia is a little game about plant breeding.

You'll manage a garden on unfriendly, arid planet and create new plant species by cross-breeding to achieve wanted properties.

Published version does not have a way to fail, so feel free to experiment and have fun with numbers going up and new plants showing up.

Help is available in-game but also below:

How to manage a garden on another planet

A guide for future colonists

Introduction

Hello! Thanks for picking up my book. I'll try to guide you step by step in how to manage your own garden to make your colony completely self-sufficient!

Ground preparation

Well tilled soil is a must to make sure your plants will grow fast and big thanks to easier access to deeper, higher quality soil.

After preparing the ground with tilling tool of your choice, it's highly advised to put crops in your new farming spot. Support will help your plants grow and it'll make breeding easier and more manageable for you.

There are two types of crops. Regular one that can be used for planting and as ground for natural spreading and cross-crops used for breeding.

Spreading

Every plant can spread around in a shape of "+" as long as there's tilled and cropped ground available. New plant will be exact clone of its parent.

Breeding

By planting two plants of any type with cross-crop in the middle there's a chance for you to get a new, mutated plant in the place of cross-crop. Child of two different parents will have it's statistics in the middle with slight variations. This mechanic can be used to make your plants bigger, more nourishing and in the end, make them evolve into completely new species!

Additional information about plants

How much you get from a plants depends on it's size, it's root size and it's nutrition. Keep that in mind while breeding new types.

Speed of growth depends on plant's size and moisture absorption. Small plants with huge absorption grow the fastest.

Spreading is a chance for your plant to mutate or spread to nearby tiles every hour.

In order for your plant to produce food on picking up it must be in it's fully grown state. It's also true for both breeding and spreading.

Compost

You can drop seed you don't need anymore here to get rid of them.

Team Management, Food and Actions

Gardening is a hard job, and it's intergalactic edition is even harder. It may be helpful to get your friends to work.

Every healthy team member will grant you one additional action per turn. Keep them filled and happy to make sure you won't lose your precious action points.

Every team member needs one unit of food every 8 hours to keep working. In case you've forgotten, our specie cannot die from starvation thanks to our hibernation mechanism. So if your friend seems dead, you put a nice veggie in front of their face to put them on their feet.

In order to skip turn, click on your ship. It'll move the clock by one hour, tick your plants and refresh action points.

Some more info:

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