Crop Boosting Fertilizer I

Crop Boosting Fertilizer I is the only fertilizer that increases the harvest itself: it adds 2 steps to every crop on its bed. A bed where every step succeeds then gives 7 crops and 7 seeds instead of 6 and 6. 2 Peat and a Dream Dust make one, with Anatomy 2; it is the first fertilizer you can make, with Fertilizers I (10 green). You make it at the Formulation Bench, which uses Anatomy mastery, not Farming; the Compost Chemist perk doubles each batch.

On cabbage, onions, pumpkins and grapes it is also a way to better stars: steps from the 11th on give crops and seeds one star higher, and the two extra steps are both past it (see Farming).

How to obtain

Craft

Workbench Ingredients Yields Mastery Duration Tech points
Formulation Bench
Peat ×2
Dream Dust ×1
× 1 ( Compost Chemist +1 ) 2 3 2

Used for

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Duration Tech points
Garden Bed
Vine Trellis
Crop Boosting Fertilizer I ×1
— 0 1

Study

Study requires: Tech points Duration
Science ×5 5010 6 ( Researcher −2 )

Each item is studied once, on the Study Table. Studying does not use the item up. With the Scientist perk, a 30% chance of a Story.

Notes

  • Its description says “Adds 1 craft length”, but it adds 2. The game shows the text of a Crop Boosting I that was never made.
  • The crop also takes 2 steps longer to grow.
  • It stays on the bed. A harvest does not use it up; it only goes when you put a different fertilizer in its slot. Unconfirmed: this follows from the game’s code and has not been checked in play.
  • Studying one costs 5 Science and gives 50 green and 10 blue.