botany plant idea dump

[UrsulaMejor]

suggest ideas for botany plants here.

also please sprite them if you think they're cool.

Random shit from discord:

C-ant-aloupe (netted melons)
- melon mutation
- brews into midori
- contains ants reagent
- can be shorn for nets? (nets aren't a thing)

Paper Tree
- leaves harvest into paper

Ancient Tree
- Requires lifespan gene 100
- on harvest gives 1 fruit
- no idea what the fruit does but it sounds cool

Gas Tree
- Periodically smokes pure oxygen in an area around it
- leaves contain oxygen reagent
- maybe could also gas its other associated reagents?

Houttuynia Cordata (fish mint)
- contains mercury

Wholetuna Cordata
- mutation of Houttuynia
- literally harvests into fish

Espresso Plant
- mutation made by infusing coffee plant seed with steam
- contains espresso

Very Purple Grapes
- contains plasma

Clear Corn
- contains pure grain ethanol

Jello Shot Grapes
- contains... whatever is in a jello shot

[Mouse]

For paper you could just go with papyrus reeds.

[sartorius]

Here's recolored and transparent corn for clear corn. I hope someone does better than this.
I'd like to see some sort of space muskmelon that causes area of effect vomitting due to its awful smell, I.E. Durian.

[UrsulaMejor]

very cool corn!

if you sprite them the likelihood that I code an idea is very high

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[SwaggerLEL]

you have no idea what horrors you have unleashed upon this realm...

Tripleskin Banana:
-Requires potency 60
-has one peel for every 20 potency it has
-actual banana contains regular old potassium

BIGnana:
-BIG banana peel
-slip on it and get your heckin' skull cracked open as you fall unconscious for a while
-Really big bulky item, can't fit in produce satchels
-Can only harvest them one at a time

Wailing Watermelon:
-Contains ectoplasm
-ghosts can make it do things (maybe like a soulsteel item? idk)

Soy BEEns:
-Infuse Bee (reagent) into soybeans
-Contains bee or royal jelly

Purgative Peanuts:
-Contains calomel. that's it.


Other, less-thought-through plant idea:

Growvine:
-fastgrowing vines that spread up to 4x4 around the tray
-they occasionally interact by doing things like remove the player's hat, rifling through their pockets, and just generally being annoying

-It can mutate into Hugvine when endurance is high enough. Hugvines hug people, healing a small amount of brute/burn/oxy/tox/brain

-It can mutate into Stranglevine when potency is high enough. Stranglevine will attempt to grab nearby players, slowly making their way to a neck grip and a stranglehold.

[UrsulaMejor]

caterwaulermelon

[Crazyabe]

Wild Space grass- Grows across tiles on its own rather then only growing naturally
Mutagenic Space grass- Converts Airlocks, windows, and walls in addition to flooring
Tall Grass- Grows tall enough to block sight and slowdown non botanists when grown upon flooring

[SwaggerLEL]

   

Edit: sorry its so small.
i havent figured out attachments yet.

[Mordent]

Packing peanuts. Have zero nutritional value, no useful reagents inside them, and make a crunch noise when you walk on them.

[Frank_Stein]

Crewcumbers: A mutation of cucumbers when infused with human blood. Makes a tiny green plant clone of the person whose blood was used

[LovelyMimic]

(Credits to Flourish for the entire concept, Flourish and Warcrimes for giving me feedback)

Grapefruit: A grape mutation. Yields grapefruits, which can be eaten, extracted for their reagent (grapefruit juice), or sliced into wedges with a knife just like other citrus fruits, for snacking or for decorating the rims of glassware.

EDIT: Maybe grapefruit juice should interfere with certain medications like it does in real life? Either by inhibiting their function or by significantly increasing their depletion rate.



growth.gif: 

grapefruit (fruit):

grapefruit wedge: 

sloppy screenshot of wedge overlays for glassware (individually viewable in .grapefruit_wedges_drinks_stuff.dmi):

[LuigiThirty]

Farm-Raised Tuna

This is a Farm-Raised Tuna.
Dolphin safe! Warning: May contain mercury.

Tuna fish that grow on a stalk like synthorgans. Contains 1u of mercury and 0u of dolphin.

[UrsulaMejor]

(Credits to Flourish for the entire concept, Flourish and Warcrimes for giving me feedback)

Grapefruit: A grape mutation.

Done:
https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=13307

[Mouse]

Another mutation of grapes: Apes.

Grows monkeys.

[Sundance]

Botany could do with chems specific to their own Dept (i.e Cannabis or chems that are otherwise finicky to synthesize, but with botany you could do by the bucketful. Example below - Ancient tree produces Agenium). Although, i'd like to see more uses outside of chemistry and have botany be a "jack of all trades, but goofier and green", stuff like synth organs, etc. 

Some ideas I like:

Ancient Tree
- Requires lifespan gene 100
- on harvest gives 1 fruit
- no idea what the fruit does but it sounds cool

I would suggest Agenium. It's a fun chem and having this ancient tree produce a chem that ages you to hell after a long harvest sounds fairly balanced.

Gas Tree
- Periodically smokes pure oxygen in an area around it
- leaves contain oxygen reagent
- maybe could also gas its other associated reagents?

I really like this idea. By smoke, i'm assuming it releases it as a gas (could be used to replenish breaches). Could look like a giant redwood (the strongest producer of oxygen afaik)
It could have a nastier cousin, a smog tree, which shits out C02.

Here's some ideas:

Whomping Willow
- Mutation of Lasher plant
- Basically a really buff version of the the lasher that won't occur naturally.
- Can be chainsawed like the lasher, but with difficulty, as the whomping willow will knock players physically away, dealing damage.
- Will *flex its big wooden biceps at players at random
- Useful for nefarious purposes.

Worshipping Willow
- Mutation of the Whomping willow
- Completely harmless, will constantly hug targets, producing Pure Hugs in their bloodstream.
- Could effectively use to farm Pure Hugs by caging a monkey in with Worshipping Willow
- If no target is available, will hug itself

Synthmouth
- A really annoying mutation of a synth organ, producing a mouth instead.
- Basically the same functionality as parrots - will hear words and repeat them ad nauseam. If you put an radio beside it and have the mic open, it will blab into the radio.
- Harvests nothing
- Screams when being cut down
- "Help Maint!" - Annoying Synthmouth

Miraculous Tree
- Mutation of one of the alien strange seeds?
- Acts as a teleporter between each tree if interacted with.
- If only one tree exists, will teleport the player randomly. 
- If two trees exists, will teleport the player between those specific trees
- If +2 trees exists, the destination will be a random choice between the existing trees.
- Basically a shittier green version of a mechanics teleporter.
- Perhaps can produce Port if harvested?