Plan your blue berry god clone

Blue berries brew Cooling Tea, Ore Tea and Wood Tea at the Basic tier, 3 teas whose Advanced and Pure versions are made from the Basic ones. Ore Tea alone is reason enough to breed a blue berry god clone.

Blue Berry growth stages and times

Base times from the game files (minutes at default server settings). A blue berry seed is a Seed for 1 min and already counts as a neighbour, a Seedling for 10 min, then a Sapling for 10 min: from about 11 to 21 minutes after planting its cuttings copy its genes exactly, before any crossing. At 21 min the blue berry enters Crossbreed, where berry bushes stay 5 min (other crops 1 min); its new genes are worked out once, as it enters, from the plants touching it in the same planter. Blue Berry's Mature stage lasts 45 min: the time to read the genes and take cuttings. Fruiting takes 30 min, so a blue berry plant is ripe about 1 h 41 min after planting, stays Ripe for up to 24 h, and then turns Dying: the harvest and cuttings are gone, and 1 h 40 min later the plant dies. Poor light, water, temperature or soil stretch all of that for blue berry; each G gene speeds its growth by 25%.

What blue berry goes into

Blue Berry is an ingredient in 3 recipes on Godclone's Recipes page. Mixing Table: Basic Cooling Tea, Basic Ore Tea and Basic Wood Tea. See the blue berry recipes with their ingredients and craft times.

When Hardiness matters for blue berry

H Hardiness copes with cold, heat and poor soil, so it earns its place in a snow or desert base, where GGGYYH blue berry beats a plant that dies before it fruits. Anywhere else it is the weakest green for blue berry too: the calculator scores H at 0.5 against 1 for G and Y, and you can raise it in Options when you farm in the cold. A blue berry plant's water intake is 4 in the game files; each W Water gene adds 10% to it, which is why W counts as a bad gene.

How to breed a blue berry god clone

1. Plant blue berry seeds in one planter and wait about 11 minutes for the Sapling stage, then take a cutting from each and read the genes in its name.
2. Add the clones above (the calculator on this page is already set to blue berry) and press Calculate. It tries every way of putting your blue berry clones around a centre plant and shows the layouts that give GGGYYY or GGYYYY, the planting order when a tie needs it, and the chance of each.
3. Plant the layout in a planter with nothing but blue berry in it. The centre crosses once, about 21 minutes after it went in (12 if it has 3 G); from Mature (45 min long for blue berry) read its genes and clone it.
4. Clone the blue berry while it is Mature or Ripe. A blue berry plant gives 2 cuttings a cut with no Yield genes, 3 with GGGYYY and 4 with GGYYYY (one more per two Y, game code), so the god clone multiplies itself.

Which of the two to aim for with blue berry depends on what you want from it: more Y means bigger harvests and more cuttings, more G means a faster bed. When to plant and the triangle planter cover the timing for blue berry and the small planters.