#Crossbreeding

##General Crossbreeding is the key for renewable resources. But before starting there are a few important informations:

• PlantTech 2 crops act different then vanilla crops. They share some behaviors, but not all.
• The crops have traits that can be improved with crossbreeding. But the starting values are often causes behavior worse than vanilla behavior, but with better traitslevel they will beat the vanilla behaviour. Example: Water source needs to be 1 block near on beginning, but at the end it is 9 blocks away. These traits-effected behaviours are:
  • grow speed, starts with 90s per stage.
  • water source distance, starts with 1.
  • light level needed, starts with 14.
  • temperature tolerance, starts with 0.
• Each crop have a soil block that the crop needs to be planted on to grow.
• Each crop needs a specific temperature to grow.
• For getting the seeds/soil/temperature information, use the plant encyclopedia.
• To get the temperature of a biome, just use the thermometer in the biome.
• Bonemeal doesn´t work on PlantTech 2 crops.

##Getting started To start your career as a crossbreeder, you just need cropbars(crafting: 4 sticks in 2x2 square) and a vanilla seed (or plantium nugget). Place the cropbars and rightclick with the seeds on the cropbars. And if the conditions are ok, than the crop will grow. If not, have a look at the next chapter.

##"Crop is not growing" - troubleshooting The easiest way to check, if the conditions are matched, is using the analyser. Just rightclick on the crop and you will get a message with every condition that is not matched. The conditions are:

• Water source near enough
• Light level high enough
• Right soil
• Right temperature

##How to multiply crops/seeds There are two ways of multiply your crops/seeds without increase the traits:

1. Replant the crop again and again and get more seeds. Like when you try to get more carrots in vanilla. A higher fertility trait will help a lot.
2. When fully grown, crops will grow over nearby,empty cropbars. When the traits are known, the traits of the new crops will be known too.

##How to crossbreed When trying to get better traits or new croptypes you need to crossbreed. The selection of the new traits/type is random with the following logic:

Type: It will be one of the parents type or, when the parentcrops have matching crossbreedingresult, with a small chance, a new type.

Traits: For each trait, the traits of the parents are compared. If they are equal, with a small chance the trait will inceased by one. Else, the traits of the new crop will be in range of the parents traits

The traits of the new crops are unknown and needs to be identified in the identifier.

##Auto replanting All the crops in PlantTech 2 have a auto-replanting. Just rightclick the crops when fully grown and it is harvested and replanted again. It will calculates the drops and shrink the dropped seeds by one. It is possible that this will result in no drops. Then you would just get one seed, which was used to replant the crop.

##Croptraits + Growspeed - Minimum level: 0 - Maximum level: 10 - Increase the growspeed of the crop. - Seconds for increasing one stage = 90s - level * 6

• Sensitivity

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level 10
  • Not used yet.

• Lightsensitivity

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level: 14
  • Defines which lighlevel is needed to grow.
  • Minimum needed lightlevel = 14 - level

• Watersensitivity

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level: 8
  • Defines how near/far a water source needs to be that the crop can grow.
  • It starts with one, but ends at 9
  • Max distance for water source = 1 + level

• Temperaturetolerance

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level: 4
  • Allows that the crop grow in more than the default temperature.
  • Allowed temperature = default temperature +- level

• Productivity

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level: 5
  • Increases the amount of products dropped

• Fertility

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level: 5
  • Increased the amount of seeds dropped

• Spreedingspeed

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level: 10
  • Not used yet

• Genestrenght

  • Minimum level: 0
  • Maximum level: 10
  • Not used yet

• Energyvalue

  • Minimum level: 20
  • Maximum level: 200
  • Increase the amount of energy earned in the seedsqueezer when squeezing the seed (increases by 20 per level)

##Identifier The identifier is a machine that uses energy to identify the unknown traits of crops. Just put the seeds with the unknown traits in the correct slot and the seeds will be identfied in a bit. For more information, have a look at the way of the planttechian.

##Fertilizer It is possible to speed up the crops with fertilizers, which almost acts like bonemeal. PlantTech 2 fertilizers just works with a chance and only increase the stage by one. To obtain the fertilizer, you put bonemeal in the infuser(LINK when chapter is done). To increase the chance of the fertilizer, just put it in the infuser again.

##Genetic engineering To make the life a bit easier, it is possible to extract genes of crops and make seeds with these genes. This process is a bridge between the way of crossbreeding and the way of planttechian. You find more informations here