Tomato

The tomato needs patience but pays it back. According to the game data it is only ripe after 11,701 s, about 3¼ hours. After that it is perennial: after harvesting it regrows from stage 3 instead of being sown again. Each harvest gives up to three fruit; it carries seeds from 14,401 s.

It is more sensitive than the standard plants. In cold, heat, too low or too high pressure it takes damage after only 120 s instead of 300 or 600 s, and without water after 1,200 s instead of 1,800 s. The ideal range is the same: 20 to 30 °C and 50 to 100 kPa. It needs 480 s of light and 300 s of darkness per day.

Raw, a tomato has 15 nutrition and no mood penalty. Cooked in the Microwave it has 25. The packaging machine gets the most out of it: five tomatoes, 1 steel and 1 oil make a Tomato Soup with 125 nutrition. A burger takes two tomatoes in the microwave.

Because of the long first growing time it pays to plant tomatoes early and grow fast crops such as potato or wheat alongside. Stacks hold 20. More in Farming: light, water, temperature and air for plants.