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Plants & Allotments

A Yard Allotment is a six-bay garden building for your lawn, with four terracotta pots along the front. Turn the soil, sow a Plant Seed, and keep the pot watered and fed — about 24 hours later something comes up. What comes up is one of 30 ordinary potted plants, and not always the one you were hoping for. They are decorations and nothing more: they stand indoors or out, and no rule in the game resolves against them.

Building one

Carpentry

The Allotment is crafted, not bought — it is on no shop shelf anywhere. It is the only thing on the Carpentry bench that asks for Grandmaster skill.

Carpentry	Materials
100	5,000 Iron Wood Planks + 500 Iron Ingots + 3 Pristine Wood

It is a yard piece and will not go indoors — six cells of building squeezed into a hall would be drawn a third of its size in a single tile. Right-click it to take it back up, though it will refuse while anything is still growing in it rather than destroy your plants.

Finding seeds

Gathering

Plant Seeds are found, never sold. Any gather can turn one up — mining, lumberjacking or fishing, it makes no difference which. Roughly one unit in 1,300 carries a seed, which works out at a seed every couple of hours for somebody gathering steadily.

There is also a floor under your luck: a seed is guaranteed every 3,500 units gathered over your lifetime. That is a backstop and not a schedule — a lucky find pushes the next guarantee further out, so most seeds arrive as surprises and the counter only ever catches the unlucky. Offline gathering pays the guarantee too, but never the random roll.

Growing

24 hours

Each of the four pots runs on its own clock, so they need not be planted together or tended together.

Step	What it costs	What it does
Turn the soil	—	Readies a bare pot for a seed.
Sow a seed	1 Plant Seed	Which plant it will be is decided now, and the pot tells you at once. You are growing a known thing, not opening a box.
Water	1 Water Bucket	Keeps the soil damp for 8 hours.
Feed	1 Bag of Fertiliser	Feeds the pot for 24 hours.
Pick it	—	The plant goes into your pack, potted and ready to place.

A pot advances one stage every 6 hours, and there are 4 stages from seed to bloom — but only while it has both water and feed at that moment. Water runs out far sooner than fertiliser on purpose: watering is the twice-a-day visit, while one bag of fertiliser very nearly covers a whole plant.

Neglect costs you time and nothing else. A pot that runs dry simply stops where it was and waits — it never loses the plant, the stage it had reached, or the seed that started it. Water it and the clock picks up with a full stage ahead of it. Nothing in the yard dies while you are not looking at it.

What comes up

30 plants

Every seed rolls against the same four bands. Within a band each plant is equally likely, so the more plants a band holds the rarer any one of them is.