Botanist

's beginning skill, and one that he is usually expected to take. Besides making you the official gardener of the ship, it allows you to read the effects of fruit so you can tell your crew that it's totally safe to eat that weird alien eggplant - especially if you do not have a to do that.

can take this skill to assist with the plant caring and to find more fruits when going on expeditions.

candidates include, who can then combine Cycle 8 gardening with some Cycle 1 cooking, or  to give them something to do after the Mush hunt (Chao can combine this with ) or  to have her help out with large late-game gardens once she is done with her Comms work. would also be an option, but if she has her skill, that may be better combined with more difficult tasks, like those of a.


 * Try and use your for the more expensive tasks like treating diseases, while getting others to help you with simple watering.

Affected actions
(Fruits) (Plants) (Plants)
 * Requires an empty in the room.
 * If any are available, 1  is used instead of.
 * If a specific pot is not designated, it will select a random plant that is thirsty, dry, or diseased.

Others

 * Bonus to efficiency on NERON Projects:

Affected items
Fruits: Plants:
 * Effects of consumption can be read.
 * Can view Fruit Productivity (fruit per day).
 * Can view O2 Productivity (oxygen per day).
 * Can view how many cycles are left before the plant matures.

General effects

 * Gains 2 per day, to a maximum of 4.
 * When on an Expedition, any number of fruit gained from Harvest events will be raised by 1. This effect stacks, if you have more than one botanist on the expedition.