Title speaks for itself

i am tryna make like idk a lot of CV (centivis) for my thaumcraft endeavours invoolving those requiring CV
as far as i know sometimes when i capture nodes it has a chance to make them worse at producing CV like pale nodes are like 80% efficiency compared to an unaffected one. rn i do have a node but its kinda shit honestly. any tips to get good nodes with maybe 100+ of each primal aspect?

0. Prologue

Hello everybody. Today I will be sharing with you my CropsNH journey since starting 2.9.0 and most importantly, discuss on how to actually use CropsNH. Even though I liked the questbook explanations, I think the most confusing part for me in this whole thing was literally how to breed stone lilies and any other crop easily. And right now CropsNH information is a bit limited. This guide is intended to be read with the questbook. So, read what the quest has to say first, anything you do not understand you can try to cross-check here. Lastly, if there is any information error or something I missed please let me know in the comments. Without further ado, lets go!

1. Why CropsNH??? Is it better than b**s?

To put it, its amazing for passive generation. Have you seen what certain seeds can do? For example, oilberries literally remove the need for oil drilling rigs and you can just simply 'make' an oil pool yourself, at your base, in your convenience. Its just SO good that I have to make a guide to tell everyone to use it NOW!!! It will save tons of time and so you dont have to go through painstaking grinding like me when i didnt update to 2.9.0 of materials and rather just grow it at base.

So, is it better than b**s? this view is biased and opinionated but honestly, CropsNH is comparable with b**s. The process is SO simple you just need to take a good look at where your seed belongs in what pool and find a way to breed it. Seems tedious but it takes less than 3 hours. (from experience) Seriously. Just do crops!!

2. Crop stats

Yes I have to agree this will be the more boring part of CropsNH but the foundation that you are going to work on. The first major milestone of CropsNH you will be achieving is getting a full stat plant or a 31/31/31 (Gain, Growth, Resistance). A bit of context as to why you should get a fully statted crop is right below, but you can refer to image 2.1 to skip the reasoning.
This will seem boring but trust me it is worth it. it basically reduces the pain in grinding CropsNH

3. how to actually 31/31/31

Anyways, for those who do not want to read, here is a pretty optimal way of propagating your seed of choice. I recommend potato or berries as it can be pool bred to many other more useful seeds and is quick to grow.

Step 1: Till farmland + plant seed
Plant seed in this formation:

formation of crop sticks

step 2: water + fertilizer

May be a bit difficult to craft the fertilizer in earlier ages but it is still possible. The more cheap ones i recommend after mid lv will be the apatite + sulfur dust in chem reactor as it gives a good amount of fertilizer to work with and it is also cheap! The reason for fertilizer is to ensure the stat spread for each stat (Gain, Growth, Resistance) goes from -2 to 4 to 0 to 4, basically guaranteeing a stat to be increased or just stay the same. water is just to speed up growth

Step 3: wait until potato is around 75% or above and check in again

You may have seen weeds on your cropsticks. if so, remove them and place them again. Ensure they do not stay too long or else you will ruin a portion of the farmland and cropsticks. By now, your potato should have propagated into the other sticks! if so, proceed with step 4.

weed, they really suck...

Lucky! 3 crops have propagated!!

Step 4: find the best stat spread and remove the other crops

Now, all 4 sticks should have a seed (hopefully), if not, it is okay since as long as you apply fertilizer you are guaranteed a stat increase or just stay the same, which means you just need one seed that have been propagated. to the crop stick to proceed with the stat but this means you have less seeds to compare with potentially better stat spreads.

Now, DO NOT break your chosen seed. Remove all crop sticks around it. It should be isolated.

So what do you do now? Drum roll please...

Restart from step 1. Yes, just place the double crop sticks again and do not forget to apply fertilizer and water!

4. POOL BREEDING!!!

Pool breeding works by checking the parent plant(s) mutation pools to randomly select what seed to mutate to. For example, potato and potato can mutate into seeds in Root, Yellow and Food seed types. In those categories, it randomly selects a seed to plant

seriously, i cannot thank pool breeding much enough. Even though deterministic breeding exists, pool breeding offer shortcuts that most deterministic breeding dont offer. For example, stone lily - an important seed for breeding metal resources and oilberries - breeding comes from vines and pumpkin seeds. The funny part is, the vine seed loops by itself. By clicking through the recipes, you will quickly find out that you will need Blue Orchid seeds, which require water lily seeds, which requires VINES, the sole seed you needed for your deterministic breeding has become the seed that you need to BREED for the deterministic breeding to occur. it loops and it is so stupid. OR you can do pool breeding. Using the same example to explain how overpowered pool breeding is, potato with potato and double crop sticks at the middle. wait for a while and saltyroot should appear. if not, just remove the crop in the middle and restart. Then, use the saltyroot seed and do the same thing as the potato. If you see carefully, saltyroot is in the gray seed pool. I wonder what else is in that pool too... (stone lily). I digress, and if you look EVEN closer, the ONLY requirement that the stone lily seed needs is just 2 stone blocks below it. THAT means MOST of the seeds that cannot accept stone as a growing field, and they are not allowed to be planted. Funnily enough, it just becomes "deterministic" breeding. Try this out and see how it goes.

a good example of how pool breeding can be better than deterministic breeding (fertilia)

5. Stone lilies, whats next?

Congrats! You just finished the CropsNH tutorial. Now go breed your favourite seed! As you may have seen, it is tedious to literally plant and harvest, plant and harvest, plant and harvest... the resource crops you have right? so an amazing upgrade i like to suggest is the industrial farm unlocked in MV+. It is a very scalable and modular machine that is soon going to be your best buddy in this whole journey of passive resource automation. If you are not in MV yet, maybe consider the crop manager. It is still amazing and reliable like before.

Tips and Tricks:

1. Fertilizers can be bought in the vending machine at a low cost. If you have a hard time crafting them, just buy the 2 stacks from the shop.

2. Propagation not doing you well? Don't worry, get a reinforced spade to triple your seed gains! Every right-click harvest from a crop that is 31/31/31 is guaranteed for a 3 seed drop and a 10% chance to drop a fourth seed.

3. Even though pool breeding is still good, deterministic breeding is actually still useful in its own ways. Always check NEI for any good and cheap recipes that you can use. My personal favourite was breeding pumpkins as i had a hard time getting it from pool breeding. I also have seen some niche uses for getting crops too so CHECK NEI!!

4. For your starter 31/31/31 you can either use potatoes or berries. Berries are faster than potatoes and can also breed into useful seeds! For me, i started with potatoes as i felt that it requires less steps to pool breed to my targeted seed but it is a personal choice

Last Notes:

All in all, this is really an amazing mod developed by the GTNH devs. If you want to learn more about CropsNH, i recommend going on youtube and finding visual guides, read the questbook and interact with NEI often. This whole guide is mostly based on my experience, so if there is any information inaccuracies or some tweaks needed to be made please let me know!

ok guide end

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