Fun fact: you can grow almost any crop that grinds into a valuable material and cross-pollenate it with eggs. This allows the person to just pick up an egg and crack it into the beaker instead of grinding. It's so much easier. Now we wait for the ability to add genes to modify color of crops...
Possibly the most powerful syndicate role. No responsibilities so you can do what you want, free weapons (scythe and hatchet), unlimited poisons and medicine, AND dangerous mutations to "accidentally" unleash
A note about swabbing: it is a probabilistic process. The swab always grabs the properties of the last plant it has swabbed, and the carries the properties to the next swab, but it probabilistically transfers them. You have basically a 50/50 chance to transfer the chems, same for yield and other properties but they actually randomly take from a range. A good strategy is to plant a row of donor and a row of target plants, and go down the line and swab between them. This way every swab is clean and you can use one swab. Then watch them grow and pick the one with the good properties (fastest growth, proper chems). Also, egg-plants can take chems like flour and then you can just crack them in a bucket and make loads of flour!
Fun fact: This video was published the day after the Lizard server of WizDen had such a severe kudzu outbreak that the entire station was covered before 20 minutes had passed. Only time I’ve seen kudzu be the sole reason for a shuttle call.
You say botany is a chill job, but my first time trying to learn, I came across the sweatiest service worker trying to run the kitchen, botany and the bar all at once. Me and this other guy were chastised several times for trying to learn. Be carful on leviathan
One time in botany we were growing glowing apples, after awhile we had like 100 in a crate. whenever we opened the crate it was a flashbang that literally lit up all the hallways and dropped everyone's frames by 30 while causing really weird shader bugs lol.
I remember using Botany as my preferred role when I was learning the game and when introducing new players on SS13. If you're just gonna do the normal thing it's a pretty easy role with no pressure, especially if you have a more experienced player with you. On the other hand once you're more used to the game you can branch off (pun intended) in all sorts of directions. Farm increasingly useful crops, making you very popular with many different department. Be a real mad scientist and produce some of the wackiest stuff in the game including plant people. Or you could just produce a ton of drugs ranging from mildly intoxicating to almost instant death by blissful overdose. Hope SS14's Botany is like that.
i feel the drugs part in my soul, i had a shift where we worked with chem to smuggle meth into botany so we could make meth-infused bananas, which we then dumped in piles all around the station at 6u each with 50-ish per pile people were ODing everywhere, we ended up stopping after sec basically just posted up inside botany
Finally. Hopefully this will get newbies to use clippers and mutations. Weeds suck up slightly more water and severely limit growth speed. Something uncovered is that the Weed light can also indicate bad air, and further or even stop growing. I recommend growing some galaxy thistle, aloe and poppies for Chem, so they would be more willing to give out mutagen. Fruit juices can be used in a pinch if you run out of nutrition, and plants can be composted back into trays if you really need nutrition for them. I heavy advice new botanists to grind up produce to investigate what they yield, even peels can have interesting things in them.
There are a few mutations that aren't listed in places such as self harvesting. I was mutating with another one time and we made several pineapple(I think) plants that self harvested and by the end of evac there were 500 laying on the floor due to their growing time being so fast.
I've never dared myself to play botany, I mean it's simple, but if you go deeper it gets too complicated for me. This helped me understand more! Thanks lilten!
this mutation thing is interresting, it did make complete sense on how you explained its just up to trail and error to get to desired result from your batch of crops and combine swaps with other favorable crops in order to get even more insane yields and results. Thnx for the explanation.
botany regular here (Kadeo Ketoni) swabbing is weird, I recommend using at least 3 swabs on a plant (swabbing once then getting a new swab), as this guarantees a cross pollenation from my experience. Also, remember to cross cocoa onto gatfruits for fast growing and 6 yield.
@@shadowcz9872 Salvage has a VERY rare chance to find them on salvage expeditions I think. They are still considered contraband so don't plant them in a tray near a window or something.
About weeds in hydroponics. If you add some mutagens in hydroponic with plant and weed, there is chance that you can crate kudzu. Also, if you want to crate kudzu asap, use left-4-zeat.
Yesterday i did an in depth play with botany for the first time by following the russian guide on steam( i used google translate) and i managed to crosspollinate a nettle with a fly amanita and made a 2 hit to crit nettle that deals heat and amatoxin poison damage, some steam guides in russian are great, they also have some paper work examples on their wiki, and i love to do forms (used to do them all the time in ss13,cant wait someone adds fill in option on forms and logos formatting) , btw great video!
@@karev9945 they are in the guide section of the steam page of the game, lemme grab the link tho i suggest you open it in browser so you can copy and paste it in google translate.
As a real life botanist this guide helped tremendously. I was so stressed over my job but I never realized it isn't essential or important! I told my boss that I'm far too busy talking to the chef and relaxing to work on the plants and he should just order a pizza instead. Anyway, I was fired but I think that was because that traitorous syndicate was disgruntled that I knocked him out.
Botany is the perfect zen gameplay experience. You just do you thing, grow plants, enjoy life. Occasionally, you poison half the crew. You know, the usual.
I'm thinking about it now. It would be interesting if kudzu could also mutate on its own or in contact with certain liquids. That would be a real problem then.
Actually, there is ONE thing that CAN happen when you use unstable mutagen carelessly and that botany can accidently mutate weeds, causing Kidzus to grow. Kidzu, for those not aware, are wild vines that can damage players over time because of their thorns. This is really, REALLY bad! Depending on the servers, they can be the least threatening thing on the station or the WORSE. If left unchecked, it can take over the station and delay work for EVERYONE. I had shifts end so quickly because of how bad kidzus get out of control. So if the heads denies the use of unstable mutagen, this is why. The best thing to do is to seal up the kidzu until it's stops growing, then trim/burn them down. Wield the doors shut, check the mants, make sure it doesn't spread. For antags, this is the best way to cause a distraction, but even they are not safe from the wrath of kidzus.
oh yeah i ones got murdered in SS13 on goonstation for using too much salpeter solution, being alone and having all the trays and nutrients for yourself makes for the best shifts.
you're not wrong, botanists really need their own niche with at least 3 trays to be able to _play_ botany properly and have fun, but good luck with that
yea. i havn't had one botany shift with another botanist, that didn't end in frustration. i'm always like :" i take these trays, you the others" first they agree and the second you come back from chem, they used your trays too for some mutation and entered the zone. it's a job that is much much more fun when you are alone.
I actually watch all your videos because I want to have some great experience on all roles in ss14 leviathan server. They are great though, keep up the good work man
If nothing else, this guide had helped me understand the differences from other codebases. Kinda used to the plant dna manipulator. I know how to do thing, just not how to do thing HERE.
I kinda don't like swab will also have chance to override the cham of the plant that get swabed, i would like it to just make a crossbreed version that have both cham inside of it.
Guide to methnanas [chem not needed] Step one: plant ambrosisus vulgaris and banana Step two: swab ambrosius onto banana (throw away swab and do it like 3 more times with new swabs) Step three: add 15u robust harvest Boom, methnana. Remember to tell people to only eat one, or they will Overdose and take poison damage.
@@shadowcz9872water + potassium = kaboom , tho strangely it doesn't work, i crosspollinated a banana tree with pineapple to make a banana that tastes like pineapple but managed to transfer only the water, luckily it didnt go boom.
It differs depending on the server. If you pick the role at start, you should spawn in Botany, again depending on the server. If you spawn somewhere else, ask for directions or look at the specific server wiki. If there isn't a specific server wiki, that's a red flag.
It'd be cool to organise your videos in the playlist so that the difficulty increases. It's sad that you didn't mention the seed extractor in a basic gameplay loop, - plant the seed (or fruit) - water it - watch it grow - harvest - replant (if necessary) - save a fruit/seed in the seed extractor to see the stat evolution - pick up with the plant bag - place in the fridge or on the table. - start again.
@@Liltenhead Yes, you mentioned it quickly, but you didn't explain what the seed machine does (or the dna viewer). but since it's a basic beginner role recommended for learning to play, and you're one of the best references on ss14, encouraging the learning of a complete gameplay loop would be interesting.
Fun fact: you can grow almost any crop that grinds into a valuable material and cross-pollenate it with eggs. This allows the person to just pick up an egg and crack it into the beaker instead of grinding. It's so much easier.
Now we wait for the ability to add genes to modify color of crops...
I would be so happy about color coded crops
5:45 every chefs and botanists reaction when the cow gets loose
Possibly the most powerful syndicate role. No responsibilities so you can do what you want, free weapons (scythe and hatchet), unlimited poisons and medicine, AND dangerous mutations to "accidentally" unleash
Id argue janitor is more powerful, but this comes in close second
Salvage is more powerful
5:42 the real botany experience.
A note about swabbing: it is a probabilistic process. The swab always grabs the properties of the last plant it has swabbed, and the carries the properties to the next swab, but it probabilistically transfers them. You have basically a 50/50 chance to transfer the chems, same for yield and other properties but they actually randomly take from a range.
A good strategy is to plant a row of donor and a row of target plants, and go down the line and swab between them. This way every swab is clean and you can use one swab. Then watch them grow and pick the one with the good properties (fastest growth, proper chems). Also, egg-plants can take chems like flour and then you can just crack them in a bucket and make loads of flour!
Fun fact: This video was published the day after the Lizard server of WizDen had such a severe kudzu outbreak that the entire station was covered before 20 minutes had passed.
Only time I’ve seen kudzu be the sole reason for a shuttle call.
I was there in fist row it was instant it took me 15 second to get spray and it already was in whole botany and few seconds later in whole hallway
You say botany is a chill job, but my first time trying to learn, I came across the sweatiest service worker trying to run the kitchen, botany and the bar all at once. Me and this other guy were chastised several times for trying to learn. Be carful on leviathan
Ahelp them, that isn't cool. Service workers ARE the service assistants.
One time in botany we were growing glowing apples, after awhile we had like 100 in a crate. whenever we opened the crate it was a flashbang that literally lit up all the hallways and dropped everyone's frames by 30 while causing really weird shader bugs lol.
I remember using Botany as my preferred role when I was learning the game and when introducing new players on SS13. If you're just gonna do the normal thing it's a pretty easy role with no pressure, especially if you have a more experienced player with you. On the other hand once you're more used to the game you can branch off (pun intended) in all sorts of directions. Farm increasingly useful crops, making you very popular with many different department. Be a real mad scientist and produce some of the wackiest stuff in the game including plant people. Or you could just produce a ton of drugs ranging from mildly intoxicating to almost instant death by blissful overdose. Hope SS14's Botany is like that.
i feel the drugs part in my soul, i had a shift where we worked with chem to smuggle meth into botany so we could make meth-infused bananas, which we then dumped in piles all around the station
at 6u each with 50-ish per pile people were ODing everywhere, we ended up stopping after sec basically just posted up inside botany
The fact that not even you know what the weeds do you just think its annoying too is incredibly hilarious
Finally. Hopefully this will get newbies to use clippers and mutations.
Weeds suck up slightly more water and severely limit growth speed.
Something uncovered is that the Weed light can also indicate bad air, and further or even stop growing.
I recommend growing some galaxy thistle, aloe and poppies for Chem, so they would be more willing to give out mutagen.
Fruit juices can be used in a pinch if you run out of nutrition, and plants can be composted back into trays if you really need nutrition for them.
I heavy advice new botanists to grind up produce to investigate what they yield, even peels can have interesting things in them.
There are a few mutations that aren't listed in places such as self harvesting. I was mutating with another one time and we made several pineapple(I think) plants that self harvested and by the end of evac there were 500 laying on the floor due to their growing time being so fast.
I've never dared myself to play botany, I mean it's simple, but if you go deeper it gets too complicated for me. This helped me understand more! Thanks lilten!
A 15 minute video about botany, epic
I never laughed more during an introduction. First the cow's charge, then the screaming wood-hard wheat.
this mutation thing is interresting, it did make complete sense on how you explained its just up to trail and error to get to desired result from your batch of crops and combine swaps with other favorable crops in order to get even more insane yields and results. Thnx for the explanation.
botany regular here (Kadeo Ketoni) swabbing is weird, I recommend using at least 3 swabs on a plant (swabbing once then getting a new swab), as this guarantees a cross pollenation from my experience. Also, remember to cross cocoa onto gatfruits for fast growing and 6 yield.
How do you get gatfruits tho without being sindie?
@@shadowcz9872 Salvage has a VERY rare chance to find them on salvage expeditions I think. They are still considered contraband so don't plant them in a tray near a window or something.
About weeds in hydroponics.
If you add some mutagens in hydroponic with plant and weed, there is chance that you can crate kudzu. Also, if you want to crate kudzu asap, use left-4-zeat.
Yesterday i did an in depth play with botany for the first time by following the russian guide on steam( i used google translate) and i managed to crosspollinate a nettle with a fly amanita and made a 2 hit to crit nettle that deals heat and amatoxin poison damage, some steam guides in russian are great, they also have some paper work examples on their wiki, and i love to do forms (used to do them all the time in ss13,cant wait someone adds fill in option on forms and logos formatting) , btw great video!
Damn OP nettle still exists? I was told it was deleted
@@qwer_yt4822they work very well!
what's the link?
@@karev9945 they are in the guide section of the steam page of the game, lemme grab the link tho i suggest you open it in browser so you can copy and paste it in google translate.
@@karev9945 ok i cant access it strangely, you should be able to find it in the guide section tho. Sorry but im dumb so idk how to find it again
As a real life botanist this guide helped tremendously. I was so stressed over my job but I never realized it isn't essential or important! I told my boss that I'm far too busy talking to the chef and relaxing to work on the plants and he should just order a pizza instead. Anyway, I was fired but I think that was because that traitorous syndicate was disgruntled that I knocked him out.
I really appreciate you making all of these Introduction videos, it has gotten me interested in so many jobs that I never would have touched normally
Botany is the perfect zen gameplay experience. You just do you thing, grow plants, enjoy life.
Occasionally, you poison half the crew. You know, the usual.
I'm thinking about it now. It would be interesting if kudzu could also mutate on its own or in contact with certain liquids. That would be a real problem then.
I got bwoinked once playing hos growing gatfruit in perma. They only grow one type of weapon.
I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. Gotta have some fun in botany.
Wow I never even tried mutations on my one botany run so now I want to try another just for that.
this is a great video but... have anyone seen the cow?
Uhhhhh
Just started playing a few days ago, I had the basics down but this video showed me that I was doing things extremely inefficient. Thank you
Actually, there is ONE thing that CAN happen when you use unstable mutagen carelessly and that botany can accidently mutate weeds, causing Kidzus to grow. Kidzu, for those not aware, are wild vines that can damage players over time because of their thorns. This is really, REALLY bad! Depending on the servers, they can be the least threatening thing on the station or the WORSE. If left unchecked, it can take over the station and delay work for EVERYONE. I had shifts end so quickly because of how bad kidzus get out of control. So if the heads denies the use of unstable mutagen, this is why. The best thing to do is to seal up the kidzu until it's stops growing, then trim/burn them down. Wield the doors shut, check the mants, make sure it doesn't spread. For antags, this is the best way to cause a distraction, but even they are not safe from the wrath of kidzus.
Botany is great, but in my experience it's one of those jobs where the more botanists you have the less fun it is.
oh yeah i ones got murdered in SS13 on goonstation for using too much salpeter solution, being alone and having all the trays and nutrients for yourself makes for the best shifts.
you're not wrong, botanists really need their own niche with at least 3 trays to be able to _play_ botany properly and have fun, but good luck with that
Same with chef sometimes tbh
yea. i havn't had one botany shift with another botanist, that didn't end in frustration.
i'm always like :" i take these trays, you the others"
first they agree and the second you come back from chem, they used your trays too for some mutation and entered the zone.
it's a job that is much much more fun when you are alone.
Smoke wheat everyday
I actually watch all your videos because I want to have some great experience on all roles in ss14 leviathan server. They are great though, keep up the good work man
Finally I have been waiting for this moment
doing botany while playing as a diona, thats how you know botany is gonna be MVP's this round
damn you just made me wanna play botany again
weeds can smother your seed, sometimes it won't take, or will die slowly,
if you allow weeds to develop, fungi can appear.
i've found using 5 fresh swabs is the best to bring genes from one plant onto another
If nothing else, this guide had helped me understand the differences from other codebases. Kinda used to the plant dna manipulator. I know how to do thing, just not how to do thing HERE.
Good job, lad
Love the profile picture
thanks, very helpful vid
How the hell is a botany video making me want to play ss14 and play botany now
Botany is fun, try it out.
Man thank you botany has so little information to start do advanced stuff also what is purpose of L4Z?
Can't wait till we get job specific traitor items. Must grow man eater plants!
I kinda don't like swab will also have chance to override the cham of the plant that get swabed, i would like it to just make a crossbreed version that have both cham inside of it.
or a seed analyzer that can make by sci or buy by cargo to quickly analyze the seed's trait and cham.
Guide to methnanas [chem not needed]
Step one: plant ambrosisus vulgaris and banana
Step two: swab ambrosius onto banana (throw away swab and do it like 3 more times with new swabs)
Step three: add 15u robust harvest
Boom, methnana. Remember to tell people to only eat one, or they will Overdose and take poison damage.
NewliltenvideoWOOOO
Just makes me wanna dump 50 units of mutage into a botany pitcher
Some plants can be used to make chemicals, clothing or simply alcohol.
OH MY GOD THE COW
What about kudzu from mutagen?
Really good for syndicate botanist
nice, i can finally learn how to actually grow something other than weed!
That poor cow
Finally.
Cow: Im about to ruin this mans video
General tip from 13 that's still applicable: don't cross bananas and watermelons
Why?
@@shadowcz9872water + potassium = kaboom , tho strangely it doesn't work, i crosspollinated a banana tree with pineapple to make a banana that tastes like pineapple but managed to transfer only the water, luckily it didnt go boom.
@@shadowcz9872 What does Potassium and Water mix to create?
@@ShadaOfAllThings gets you fired from chemistry
@@ShadaOfAllThings an explosion. There's a ton of videos of idiots on RUclips who drop potassium into water. You can see for yourself.
The opening is wrong, botany is arguably the most important job on the station as they can make marijuana and methapples.
First time I've got into botany, chem asked me can I do an omnesine. How to get it?
Dang Bot's changed a lot since I last played, last I played Weed didnt even get you high yet
How do I find where to go on the map for this role? I pick a role, but never know how to get to the place for the job!
It differs depending on the server. If you pick the role at start, you should spawn in Botany, again depending on the server. If you spawn somewhere else, ask for directions or look at the specific server wiki. If there isn't a specific server wiki, that's a red flag.
One of the best jobs, making a cannabis empire
What about golding trays? How does that work and what does it do?
I once at bananas Botany made, never will I take anything from them again
So what happens if you cross pollinate a gatfruit tree?
It can loose it's gun same with bungo
oh, so botany can be the virologist for plants basically lol
Man why botany in SS14 feels so weak compared to SS13 botany
Botany 🤓🌱
It'd be cool to organise your videos in the playlist so that the difficulty increases.
It's sad that you didn't mention the seed extractor in a basic gameplay loop,
- plant the seed (or fruit)
- water it
- watch it grow
- harvest
- replant (if necessary)
- save a fruit/seed in the seed extractor to see the stat evolution
- pick up with the plant bag
- place in the fridge or on the table.
- start again.
I did mention it and mentioned everything else?
@@Liltenhead Yes, you mentioned it quickly, but you didn't explain what the seed machine does (or the dna viewer).
but since it's a basic beginner role recommended for learning to play, and you're one of the best references on ss14, encouraging the learning of a complete gameplay loop would be interesting.
@@Fr_Dae it doesn't view dna though it just makes seeds from the plant as if you clipped it
@@Liltenhead you don't have the seed stat on the list ? to the the evolve ?
the seed extractor are sometime named Plant growing 101