Gardening

  One of the features of a Moghouse, which can take great amounts of patience but can yield very profitableresults, is gardening. Gardening is growing your own plants from seeds found as loot on some plant type creatures, using crystals and good timing to produce different results. Although the products attained from gardening are somewhat random, using specific combinations can yield somewhat reliable results.

  To start with, the player needs to obtain a flowerpot. Flowerpots are sold in various places; others can only be crafted. All are available in the Auction House, although usually at inflated prices. Deciding which type of pot is the first ingredient in gardening, as each type of flowerpot has its own base element. Since gardening results are the products of the mixture of elements, the player will want to make an educated purchase as to which pot they will want. At the same time, a player can have up to ten flowerpots active, meaning different combinations are possible. Reference the chart below to examine flowerpots and the places they can be obtained.

Item	Element	Acquired By
Earthen Flowerpot	Earth	Windhurst Waters, Ensasa's Catalyst Shop (H-6)
Ceramic Flowerpot	Water	San d'Oria North, Pirvidiauce (Vendor)(D-8)
Brass Flowerpot	Fire	Bastok Mines, Boytz's Knick Knacks (H-7)
		Crafting - Blacksmithy
Porcelein Flowerpot	Wind	Crafting - Alchemy

  Once the player has a flowerpot, they must place it the layout of their Moghouse. This is done similar to all other pieces of furniture. The flowerpot is placed inside the Moghouse Mogbank, and the option layout is selected from the Moghouse menu. When the screen switches to the floor plan, select the option Layout, select the flowerpot, and scroll around the room to decide where to place it. Location will not matter to the plant, it will grow just as easily on the floor as it would if were on the table or on a Flower Stand. As long as the pot is placed, the gardening option in the Moghouse menu will open for the player to use.

  Once the flowerpot in placed in the room, the next step is to obtain seeds. Seeds are found on various plant creatures through out the land, with different seeds available in different regions and from different plant creatures of varying difficulty. Seeds are also available from a few of the quests, and can also be the product of gardening. As with pots, all seed types are available at the Auction House, again at likely inflated prices. As with flowerpots, each type of seed has its own element, so how the player intends on growing the plant can be just as important as what the player wishes to achieve from the gardening attempt. Below is a sample chart to reference seed locations and elements of seeds. (The question comes up occasionally, how can the people that create these charts be sure seeds and pots have an element. The answer is that when the rare case arises that plants survive not being fed, the usual result is a colored stone. The pots and seeds had been analyzed according to the stone colors recieved to assume the elements attributed to them.)

  Once the seeds and the flowerpot are together, the rest of gardening is timing, more waiting than action. Each seed type has a different growth period, ranging from two days until full bloom to two weeks to bloom, real-life time. The first step is to plant the seeds. The player ensures that the seeds are in the Moghouse Mogbank, then selects the gardening option from the Moghouse menu. This will raise the menu listing the flowerpots available in the Moghouse. The player selects one of the flowerpots from the list, and the view will change to examine the flowerpot in particular. With an empty pot, there are three options available. The options are Examine, Plant Seeds, and Exit. Examine is the option to get the status of the existing pot or plant, Plant Seeds is the option to start a new plant from a bag of seeds, and Exit returns the player to the flowerpot list. To start a new plant, the player selects Plant Seeds, which opens a menu listing the seed types available in the Mogbank. The player selects one of the seed types from the list, and then will be asked to confirm the selection. Once the player confirms the seed selection, the seeds are forever lost.

  Once the cycle of growth is started, the player will want to monitor the plants regularly. Selecting the pot in particular, the new options are Examine, Dry Flowers, Empty Pot, and Exit. Examine will give the current status of the plant, with any details in particular added by the Mog. The status may be that the plant is healthy, blooming, or withered. Healthy suggests that the plant is progressing along the growth path normally. Dry Flowers is the option to turn the plant into a decoration only. Be warned, once a plant has been dried, it will never produce resources. Empty Pot is the option to discard the plant and return the flowerpot to empty status. Empty Pot should only be selected once the plant is withered, or the owner no longer wants the decorative plant.

  If the plant remains healthy for a certain time (varies by seed type as above), then an option will appear in the plant menu. When the player Examines the plant, the status becomes Unhealthy, and this plant requires attention. The option that appears is Feed Crystal. This is the next pillar moment in the growth of the plant. What the plant requires to survive, although there are rare cases where the plant survives not being fed, is a crystal. The player will want to take a couple considerations in mind before feeding the crystal however, because this moment is the second greatest impact on the plant product.

  The first consideration is the current day of the week. The player can check this information by typing /clock in game. The element of the day of the week relates mildly to the product of the plant, but more so to the quantity of the harvest. Using a crystal that is weak to the day will produce less yield, or using a crystal that is the same element or is strong against the element of the day of the week tends to produce more yield. If the player does not have a good understanding of elements, then the best advice is to use the same element crystal as the day of the week that the feeding is on.

  However, the second consideration to make is saturation. Taking into consideration the elements of the seeds and pots, using the same element over and over tends to produce saturation of the plant. Saturated plants will most likely produce rock salt as the product, which isn't entirely useful or valuable. Conversely, using a crystal that is in opposite to the pot and seed elements tends to yield a diseased plant. Diseased plants will most likely yield little worms, which again aren't entirely useful or valuable. This is actually more of a decision that needs to be made before ever placing the flowerpot, or at the least before planting the seeds, as if the player is aiming for the product produced from a saturated or diseased feeding, they take a large chance. The player can not go back after planting and change the seed or pot type. Alternatively, feeding a plant on light day or dark day tends to, but does not always, yield a crystal type as the product.

  The third consideration uses the chart below. Along the chart is listed a large portion of the products of the different seed, pot, and fed crystal outcomes. The harvest item itself will be listed, but in most cases there is a quantity of the item that is yielded. As above, the quantities yielded are largely by the strength of the crystal of the day of the feeding.

Crystal	Herb Seeds	Vegetable Seeds	Grain Seeds
Fire	Ice Crystal	Ice Crystal	Ice Crystal
	Kazham Peppers	Popoto	Red Rock
	Little Worm	Little Worm	Tarutaru Rice
	-	-	Little Worm
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
Earth	Lightning Crystal	Lightning Crystal	Lightning Crystal
	Yellow Rock	Yellow Rock	Yellow Rock
	Carnation	Frost Turnip	Tarutaru Rice
	Bay Leaves	Little Worm	-
	Black Pepper	Gyshal Greens	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
Water	Fire Crystal	Fire Crystal	Fire Crystal
	Bay Leaves	La Theine Cabbage	Rock Salt
	Blue Peas	Rock Salt	Kukuru Beans
	La Theine Cabbage	Saruta Cotton	Bay Leaves
	Marguerite	-	Blue Peas
	Rock Salt	-	-
	-	-	-
Wind	Earth Crystal	Earth Crystal	Earth Crystal
	Green Rock	Rock Salt	Millicorn
	Sage	Millicorn	-
	Little Worm	Gyshal Greens	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
Ice	Wind Crystal	Wind Crystal	Wind Crystal
	Chamomile	Saruta Cotton	Kukuru Bean
	Rock Salt	-	Saruta Cotton
	Saruta Cotton	-	-
	Sleepshroom	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
Lightning	Water Crystal	Water Crystal	Water Crystal
	Sobbing Fungus	Wild Onion	Coral Fungus
	Mhuara Garlic	Sunflower Seeds	Marguerite
	Little Worm	Kukuru Bean	-
	-	Tarutaru Rice	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
Light	Dark Crystal	Dark Crystal	Dark Crystal
	Mhuara Garlic	Ginger	Sunflower Seeds
	White Rock	White Rock	Ginger
	Puffball	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
Dark	Light Crystal	Light Crystal	Light Crystal
	Deathball	Screaming Fungus	Coral Fungus
	Coral Fungus	Black Rock	Tarutaru Rice
	Black Rock	Deathball	Deathball
	Amaryllis	Woozyshroom	Woozyshroom
	Mhuara Garlic	Coral Fungus	Screaming Fungus
	Screaming Fungus	-	-
None	Carnation	Lilac	Puffball
	Rock Salt	Yellow Rock	Marguerite
	Sobbing Fungus	Rock Salt	Rock Salt
	Green Rock	Rain Lilly	Red Rock
	Amaryllis	Woozyshroom	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-

  An exception to the above chart is fruit seeds and those beyond, as those plants differ from standard seeds in two major aspects. One is their rarity. Fruit seeds and beyond will only be obtained from special or very powerful monsters, or in other cases can only be grown. The other aspect is feeding. Fruit Seeds and beyond will require a much longer growth period, and will require two feedings. For this case, the chart below list each type of those seeds, but columns and rows for dual crystal combinations. Similar to above, seed type and pot type can yield saturated and diseased plants, but fruit seeds and beyond tend to have a much higher resistance to those outcomes. (The information on these charts isn't completely collected, but should help as a reference, and will be updated when possible)

Fruit Seeds
Crystal	Fire	Earth	Water	Wind	Ice	Lightning	Light	Dark	None
Fire	Ice Crystal	San d'Oria Carrot	Watermelon	Rolanberry	Wind Crystal	Delfland Pear	Red Rock	Light Crystal	Delfland Pear
	Red Rock	Lightning Crystal	Little Worm	Saruta Orange	Mithran Tomato	Rock Salt	-	Yagudo Cherry	-
	Yagudo Cherry	-	-	-	-	-	-	Saruta Orange	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Red Rock	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Earth	Ice Crystal	Lightning Crytal	Little Worm	Rolanberry	Mithran Tomato	Delfland Pear	-	Saruta Orange	Earth Crystal
	Saruta Orange	Eggplant	Watermelon	Earth Crystal	-	Rock Salt	-	Light Crystal	Delfland Pear
	-	Yellow Rock	Eggplant	-	-	-	-	Yagudo Cherry	Rock Salt
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Lightning Crystal
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Yellow Rock
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Water	Ice Crystal	Eggplant	Reishi Mushroom	San d'Oria Grape	Wind Crystal	Coral Fungus	-	Blue Rock	Little Worm
	Saruta Orange	Watermelon	Blue Rock	-	Buburimu Grape	Thunder Melon	-	Danceshroom	Watermelon
	Yagudo Cherry	-	Watermelon	-	-	Rock Salt	-	-	-
	-	-	Eggplant	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	Fire Crystal	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind	Saruta Orange	San d'Oria Carrot	Watermelon	Earth Crystal	Mithran Tomato	Delfland Pear	-	Yagudo Cherry	Delfland Pear
	Yagudo Cherry	-	-	San d'Oria Grape	-	-	-	Light Crystal	Green Rock
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Green Rock	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Danceshroom	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Rock Salt	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Saruta Orange	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ice	Saruta Orange	Lightning Crystal	Little Worm	Rolanberry	Wind Crystal	Delfland Pear	-	Yagudo Cherry	Wind Crystal
	Ice Crystal	San d'Oria Carrot	Watermelon	Buburimu Grape	Rock Salt	-	-	Saruta Orange	Rock Salt
	Yagudo Cherry	-	-	Blue Rock	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lightning	Saruta Orange	San d'Oria Carrot	Fire Crystal	Rolanberry	Kukuru Beans	Coral Fungus	Dark Crystal	Light Crystal	Purple Rock
	-	-	Thunder Melon	Earth Crystal	Mithran Tomato	Rock Salt	-	Purple Rock	-
	-	-	Watermelon	Rock Salt	-	Purple Rock	-	Yagudo Cherry	-
	-	-	Little Worm	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Light	Yagudo Cherry	-	Fire Crystal	-	Mithran Tomato	Delfland Pear	Reishi Mushroom	-	Light Crystal
	-	-	Watermelon	-	-	-	Fairie Apple	-	Rock Salt
	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dark Crystal	-	White Rock
	-	-	-	-	-	-	White Rock	-	Faerie Apple
	-	-	-	-	-	-	Gold Ore	-	Delfland Pear
	-	-	-	-	-	-	Mithril Ore	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	Silver Ore	-	-
Dark	Saruta Orange	Lightning Crystal	Fire Crystal	Rolanberry	Wind Crystal	Delfland Pear	Fairie Apple	Light Crystal	Rock Salt
	Yagudo Cherry	San d'Oria Carrot	Watermelon	-	Mithran Tomato	Danceshroom	-	Danceshroom	Black Rock
	-	-	Little Worm	-	-	-	-	Black Rock	Delfland Pear
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
None	Yagudo Cherry	Lightning Crystal	Fire Crystal	Earth Crystal	Wind Crystal	Rock Salt	Reishi Mushroom	Deathball	Reishi Mushroom
	Saruta Orange	San d'Oria Carrot	Blue Peas	Rolanberry	Mithran Tomato	Delfland Pear	Rock Salt	Yagudo Cherry	Rock Salt
	Ice Crystal	-	Watermelon	-	Saruta Cotton	Coral Fungus	White Rock	Light Crystal	Blue Rock
	-	-	Blue Rock	-	-	Wild Onion	Fairie Apple	Rock Salt	-
	-	-	Reishi Mushroom	-	-	-	-	Danceshroom	-
	-	-	Little Worm	-	-	-	-	Delfland Pear	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Amaryllis	-

Cactus Stems
Crystal	Fire	Earth	Water	Wind	Ice	Lightning	Light	Dark	None
Fire	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Earth	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Water	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Wind	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Ice	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lightning	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Light	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Dark	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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None	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Tree Cuttings
Crystal	Fire	Earth	Water	Wind	Ice	Lightning	Light	Dark	None
Fire	Red Roses	Ice Crystal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Earth	Ice Crystal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Water	-	-	Fire Crystal	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	Mythril Nugget	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ice	-	-	-	-	Wind Crystal	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	Steel Nugget	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lightning	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Light	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dark	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Darksteel Nugget	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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None	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Tree Saplings
Crystal	Fire	Earth	Water	Wind	Ice	Lightning	Light	Dark	None
Fire	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Earth	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Water	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Wind	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Ice	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Lightning	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Light	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Dark	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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None	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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  When one sees the products that can be produced from gardening, the anyone can understand why gardening can be such a profitable expense. Then again, like so many other things, the randomness of the program makes for too much risk. In general, it is good advice not to spend anymore than one has to gardening. Best advice is to rely on seeds and crystals received as loot, instead of buying them, as both cost are inflated and until the player gets the hang of gardening, might be wasted.

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