Seed
Seeds are small items that can be used for growing plants via gardening. They weigh one stone each and cannot be stacked. Seeds are initially gained as loot from certain creatures, but most varieties must be bred by growing multiple generations of plants.
They use the same graphic as the Fishing Weight.
Plain / Colored Seeds
Certain creatures drop Plain, Red, Blue or Yellow seeds. Seeds obtained via combat always produce plants of one of three varieties:
- Fern
- Campion Flowers
- Tribarrel Cactus
Such seeds will be named according to their color (eg "Red Seed"), however if a plant is grown and then bred with itself it will produce descriptive seeds of the same type (eg "Red Tribarrel Cactus Seed").
Breeding different combinations of these seeds together can produce more colors and plant varieties. Any plant that provides seeds can produce a total of eight over it's lifetime.
The initial starting seeds are dropped by:
Mutant Seeds
Any plant that can produce seeds (aside from the Cocoa Tree) has a chance of producing black or white "mutants" instead of the color they normally would. Such seeds are very rare.
Aqua, pink, magenta and fire red seeds can be obtained by completing the Naturalist Quest.
Plants grown from mutant seeds cannot be bred and will not produce more seeds.
Bonsai Seeds
With the advent of Ultima Online: Samurai Empire, certain creatures in the Tokuno Islands have a chance of dropping special bonsai seeds. There are five varieties:
- Common
- Uncommon
- Rare
- Exotic
- Exceptional
Similar to mutants, bonsai cannot be bred to produce more seeds.
Bonsai seeds are dropped by:
Peculiar Seeds
Peculiar Seeds began appearing with Publish 55 and can grow 15 new plant varieties (one of which comes in two facings, for a total of 16). These plants cannot be cross-pollinated and do not produce new seeds nor resources. Instead, they are only dropped by certain monsters.
It was initially decided that no coloured Peculiar Seeds would be available, but due to a bug which caused the Naturalist Quest to produce nothing but coloured Peculiar Cactus plants, Publish 56 will make both standard and peculiar plants available from the same quest.
The seeds are divided into four groups of four which are each dropped by three monsters. For example, if you want to get a twisted Cypress Tree you must kill monsters from the second group. As the seeds are unlabeled you've no way of knowing if you've got the correct type until the plant reaches the seventh stage of growth - assuming you harvested from the correct monster type, you have a 25% chance of any given seed producing the type of plant you're after.
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| Group 1 | |||||
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| Monsters | Plants | ||||
| Dryad Titan Tsuki Wolf |
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| Group 2 | |||||
| Monsters | Plants | ||||
| Ant Lion Mummy Serpentine Dragon |
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| Group 3 | |||||
| Monsters | Plants | ||||
| Hiryu Terathan Warrior Wisp |
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| Group 4 | |||||
| Monsters | Plants | ||||
| Juka Mage Kappa Plague Beast |
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Fragrant Seeds
Fragrants seeds began appearing with Publish 55 and are used to grow the Cocoa Tree, which in turn can not be cross-pollinated.
Whenever a creature would drop a Peculiar Seed, there is a chance a Fragrant Seed will be dropped instead. They are hence collected from the same creatures, but at a lower drop rate. However, in addition to Cocoa Pulp Cocoa Trees produce more seeds of the same variety (labeled as Cocoa Tree Seeds).