Information about crops

havn't you guys discovered coffee yet

Quote from ThatHomelessGuy

Light levels must be good. I got a successful planting of red flowers with a torch 1 block away. also for anything that needs a high light level

Huh. Didn't see anything about needing a high light level to plant some things in the official instructions. What did I miss?

So if i cross a watermelon with a pumpkin, do i get to grow my own "water pumps"? growing my own machines....

brings back memories...http://youtu.be/14C9hySGfWw

well that was unexpected. have the following crops planted;
D
W+w
P
D=Dandelion W=watermelon w=wheat P=pumpkin + crossbreeder

got Reeds growing on the crossbreeder.....so confusing

Sorry was using my new comp when I posted that and didn't realize I wasn't signed in XD. But yea now you can update the weeds XD. And as for you Alblaka I salute you x3.

Quote from raGan

Oh, I know. I'm glad you did. But I asked about the official instructions, meaning the ones put out by the people who implemented brand new mechanics that part with existing conventions, and are therefore sensibly obligated to indicate they've done so. This is a subtle way to make the point that hidingcompletely obscuring information from your players is bad game design

Quote from IamDjmaga

Hops

Discovered by: Alblaka
Keywords: Green, Ingredient, Wheat
Drops: Hops
Special Conditions:None

Which plants did you crossbreed?

Quote from Leo17453

Which plants did you crossbreed?

its randomish, the predictable part is: the tier
you need 2 tier 2s or over, it works like this

Each plant basically works like its tier + 0.5
2 tier 2s are: 2 + 0.5 + 2 + 0.5
so 2 reeds work at a chance of getting hops, no higher
if you were to crossbreed 2 tier 4s, you would be able to get everything as long as you have the correct conditions
but 2 reeds still have the chance at hops, i just suggest a tier 3+ with a reed to increase what you CAN get

Wait is there a faster combo?

Quote from ace36000

Wait is there a faster combo?

no
the only predictable part is the tier system
ex: two tier ones cannot make a tier 4, but only up to a tier 3
unless it has stuff about DNA coded in the mod and how each plant that look like a certain type has to pick up a certain gene, then tiers are the only predictable part

Yeh what I did for hops and that I found the best to work was warts and reed. I finally figured out why it worked, thank you.

I wanted to start learning the IC2 crop systems so i went to the wiki where i usually get my info. Found nothing useful except the recipe for the crop stix. Then i found this thread, good job gathering all this info. I may take this an write a wiki article using it to help people out if that's ok. Unless someone else was planning on doing it.