Plan your yellow berry god clone

Yellow berries go into more Basic teas than any other colour: Max Health Tea, Warming Tea, Ore Tea, Scrap Tea and Harvesting Tea, 5 in all. Their Advanced and Pure versions are brewed from the Basic ones, which makes a yellow berry god clone the most useful tea berry to have.

Yellow Berry growth stages and times

Base times from the game files (minutes at default server settings). A yellow 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 yellow 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. Yellow Berry's Mature stage lasts 45 min: the time to read the genes and take cuttings. Fruiting takes 30 min, so a yellow 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 yellow berry; each G gene speeds its growth by 25%.

What yellow berry goes into

Yellow Berry is an ingredient in 5 recipes on Godclone's Recipes page. Mixing Table: Basic Max Health Tea, Basic Warming Tea, Basic Ore Tea, Basic Scrap Tea and Basic Harvesting Tea. See the yellow berry recipes with their ingredients and craft times.

When Hardiness matters for yellow berry

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

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