Plan your corn god clone

Corn is food and fodder. Picked corn goes into the Chicken Pie (and the Rich Chicken Pie) on the Cooking Workbench, and cows and sheep eat it straight from a trough.

Corn growth stages and times

Base times from the game files (minutes at default server settings). A corn 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 corn enters Crossbreed for 1 min; its new genes are worked out once, as it enters, from the plants touching it in the same planter. Corn's Mature stage lasts 30 min, tied for the shortest of any crop: the time to read the genes and take cuttings. Fruiting takes 30 min, so a corn plant is ripe about 1 h 22 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 corn; each G gene speeds its growth by 25%.

What corn goes into

Corn is an ingredient in 2 recipes on Godclone's Recipes page. Cooking Workbench: Chicken Pie and Rich Chicken Pie. See the corn recipes with their ingredients and craft times.

Cows and sheep eat corn from a trough: 75 calories an item, in stacks of 20. The trough calculator says how many to leave before you log off.

When Hardiness matters for corn

H Hardiness copes with cold, heat and poor soil, so it earns its place in a snow or desert base, where GGGYYH corn beats a plant that dies before it fruits. Anywhere else it is the weakest green for corn 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 corn 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 corn god clone

1. Plant corn 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 corn) and press Calculate. It tries every way of putting your corn 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 corn in it. The centre crosses once, about 21 minutes after it went in (12 if it has 3 G); from Mature (30 min long for corn) read its genes and clone it.
4. Clone the corn while it is Mature or Ripe. A corn 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 corn 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 corn and the small planters.