Wheat

Wheat grows fast and plenty. According to the game data it is ripe after 2,701 s, so after 45 minutes, and carries seeds after 3,601 s. Each harvest gives up to five, and stacks hold up to 100. It has no special demands: the standard values apply with 600 s of light, 300 s of darkness, 20 to 30 °C and 50 to 100 kPa.

Raw, wheat is hardly worth mentioning at 5 nutrition, and it is not listed as a microwave ingredient. Its value lies in flour: the Reagent Processor grinds one wheat in 0.1 s into five packs of Flour, each holding 50 units of flour.

A worked example: a Bread Loaf needs 200 units of flour and 5 units of oil in the microwave. A single wheat already supplies the flour (5 × 50 = 250). The oil comes from five soybeans that the grinder presses into soy oil. The result is a loaf with 340 nutrition – many times what the ingredients would give raw.

Flour also goes into burgers, muffins, cakes and pumpkin pie. That makes wheat the plant you need for a varied kitchen. How growth and yield relate is covered in Farming: light, water, temperature and air for plants.