Plan your wheat god clone

Wheat is the baking crop: Bread Loaf, Brioche Bread and every pie on the Cooking Workbench take it, 22 recipes in all. Cows and sheep eat it from a trough too.

Wheat growth stages and times

Base times from the game files (minutes at default server settings). A wheat 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 wheat enters Crossbreed for 1 min; its new genes are worked out once, as it enters, from the plants touching it in the same planter. Wheat'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 wheat 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 wheat; each G gene speeds its growth by 25%.

What wheat goes into

Wheat is an ingredient in 22 recipes on Godclone's Recipes page. Cooking Workbench: Bread Loaf, Brioche Bread, Chicken Pie, Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Hunters Pie, Fish Pie, Bear Pie, Pork Pie, Big Cat Pie, Beef Pie, Shepherds Pie, Rich Apple Pie, Rich Bear Pie, Rich Big Cat Pie, Rich Chicken Pie, Rich Fish Pie, Rich Hunters Pie, Rich Pork Pie, Rich Pumpkin Pie, Rich Beef Pie and Rich Shepherds Pie. See the wheat recipes with their ingredients and craft times.

Cows and sheep eat wheat 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 wheat

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

1. Plant wheat 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 wheat) and press Calculate. It tries every way of putting your wheat 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 wheat 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 wheat) read its genes and clone it.
4. Clone the wheat while it is Mature or Ripe. A wheat 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 wheat 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 wheat and the small planters.