Seeds
Seeds are items that drop occasionally when digging up defensive flora. When planted, they grow into the flora of that seed type. Digging up the plants gives the same Research Samples, Research Items and seeds that naturally-occurring flora gives.
"Mutant Seeds" are harmless versions of offensive flora. These seeds can be planted, but cannot be used for Bytes in a Research Chamber. These seeds, along with the plants they germinate, have their glowing, red parts replaced by glowing, blue parts, allowing players to easily distinguish between them and their non-mutated counterparts. Mutant seeds are most useful for feeding Galastropods.
Types of Seeds
There are four main kinds of seeds, defensive, harmless, mutant and offensive flora seeds. The mutant seeds mutate the offensive flora to just be decorative, removing the plants' ability to harm the player, while defensive flora grown from seeds may still affect the player.
Defensive Flora Seeds
Popcoral seed
Bouncevine seed
Daggeroot seed
Wheezeweed seed
Lashleaf seed
Thistlewhip seed
Spinelily seed
Mutant Flora Seeds
Mutant Hissbine seed
Mutant Spiny Attactus seed
Mutant Volatile Attactus seed
Mutant Noxious Cataplant seed
Mutant Volatile Cataplant seed
Mutant Boomalloon seed
Mutant Noxious Spewflower seed
Mutant Elegant Spewflower seed
Harmless Flora Seeds
Other Seeds
Sturdysquash seed
Smiling Spookysquash seed
Fractal Rose seed
Uses
To use a Seed the player must place them on the ground then hold the Use key (PC: , Xbox: , PS4: , Switch: ) to plant the seed. Seeds take a couple of minutes to harvest. When ready, the player may either dig the plant up or, depending on the type, may press the Use key on the plant to harvest (or utilize Proximity Repeater for automation). Mutant flora will produce 2 seeds (with the exception of mutant Boomalloons, which produce 3 seeds), and other types of flora will produce one, with a chance of more.
Notes
- Seeds cannot be planted on Hardness 3 Terrain, such as the terrain in the outer core of Atrox.
- However, they can be planted on all structures of the Gateway Fast Travel Network.