Hydroponic Farmer

On day 1, plant the starting Fillerweed Seed and Nutrifruit Seed in the Hydroponic System. With their original traits and no module performance modifier, Fillerweed takes 1 night and Nutrifruit takes 2 nights; the starting machines' modules can change this.

• The starting Nutrifruit Seed very rarely returns seeds. Fillerweed returns a seed and often a second one.
• The Fillerweed Production Hydroponic Module adds 4× Fillerweed to each harvest, but the seed no longer comes back.

Measure the minerals with the AquaScan and adjust them with the Hydroponic Nutrient Tablet: 0–2% for Fillerweed and 0.5–2.5% for Nutrifruit.

• Keep the minerals in range and use clean water for Nutrifruit. Above 90 health its fruit is worth 18–32 each; above 99 every fruit is worth 32.

Display the harvested crops as Food. When it is before day 14 or the Food total is not high, a medium or high total, or store attractiveness of at least 400, brings the Expedition Supplier if Food is selected for a Display Case buyer.

• With Security reputation of 0 or more, the Security Requisition Officer comes every Thursday from day 11 to buy food.

Buy more Nutrifruit seeds: the Retired Farmer on Fridays and the Supplier (Supply Runner) on Sundays each always sell one Packet of Nutrifruit Seeds of nine.

• Without the Fillerweed Production Hydroponic Module, Fillerweed returns seeds, so reserve them for the next planting.

If you follow Eleanor's story and advise publishing the drive at the end, new units of Nutrifruit Seed lose the Infertile trait from the next day and return seeds when harvested.

• Publishing gets Eleanor's mother killed; returning the drive saves her mother and pays 300. Either way you receive the SYNC Self-Refilling Neuroactive Perfume. Infertile seeds you already have stay infertile.

In Wild's Network, unlock Retired Winemaker and Water Trading. You get the wine starter kit at once (3× Wine Bottle, 3× Yeast, 2× BloomBerry and a Magnifying Glass, among others) and water tools such as HydraTech Micro Water Purifier and Water Testing Strip. After the unlock, the Retired Winemaker comes on Fridays.

• You start with Retired Farmer, so the Retired Farmer comes every Friday.
• If you play the intro, Joe Wild opens the network on day 7 and gives Wild Favor, which is spent before cash on upgrades (200 on Mark Up). If you skip the intro, the network is open from day 1 but you get no favor.

The items you receive on unlocking are enough to start the first bottle right away, using the fermentation steps below. To keep making wine, buy a Bloomberry Seed from the Retired Farmer on Friday, and the Water Purifier and the Water Tank from the Retired Water Merchant on Wednesday.

• The Retired Farmer always sells 2× Bloomberry Seed, 2× Coffee Beans and 1× AquaScan.
• In Dr. Jackson's normal stock after Water Trading, the Water Purifier is guaranteed if you do not own one, and is sometimes stocked if you do. The Water Tank is often stocked, and Jackson Investment I and Jackson Investment II each make it more likely.

Put the Bloomberry Seed, a charged Energy Cell and water of Basewater or better into the Hydroponic System. It grows each night while all three are in place.

• Once BloomBerry starts growing, the Hydroponic System locks: you cannot add or remove modules unless you cut the plant down with a Hatchet. Sort out the modules before you plant.
• The starting Hydroponic System units contain stuck modules. One has 3 Glitched Modules with performance +15 and efficiency -15 each, plus 1× Ruined Module; the other has 2× Eco Module and 2× Ruined Module. The Ruined Module has no effect and takes up space. Use the Module Extractor (Basic) sold by the Supplier (Supply Runner) from day 7 to remove stuck modules before planting when you need to rearrange them.
• The starting water is Ghostwater; bring it up to Basewater with the HydraTech Micro Water Purifier before you use it.

Measure the minerals with the AquaScan and add a Hydroponic Nutrient Tablet until they are between 1.25 and 2.75%. With the original seed traits and no module performance modifier, the first berries come after 3 nights, then every 2 nights; modules and genetic changes can change this.

• Minerals are used up as the plant grows. Below the range the plant's health drops, and above it drops half as much, so aim for the upper part of the range and check and top up now and then.
• Contaminants in the water also hurt the plant's health; Pure Water with the Hydroponic Nutrient Tablet added is best.
• BloomBerry stays planted after each harvest and fruits again, so you never need to replant it.

When the berries are ripe, check each BloomBerry with the Magnifying Glass. Small berries are best for wine, and normal ones are next.

• Overripe and underripe berries add nothing to the wine's score, and moldy ones lower it.
• While the plant's health is above 85, every berry is small or normal, and small ones are more common.

Put 2× BloomBerry, 1× Yeast and 750 ml of water into a Wine Bottle and press “Start Fermenting”. The wine is ready after 2 nights.

• Basewater is fine. Water of 99% purity or more (High-Quality Water or better) raises the wine's score; Pure Water adds nothing beyond that.
• Don't put the Hydroponic Nutrient Tablet in the fermenting water: minerals lower the purity and can cost the wine points.
• Two small berries make Master Vintage even with Basewater; a small and a normal berry need High-Quality Water or better for Master Vintage.
• The Yeast Bioreactor works as Yeast that never runs out. Always buy it when you see it: sometimes in Dr. Jackson's normal stock after Retired Winemaker, occasionally from the Retired Winemaker.

Put the finished wine in the Display Case. Wine counts as a Substance: when Substance is the category selected for a Display Case buyer, the Upper Levels Hedonist comes from day 14 if the Substance total in the Display Case is high.

• Before day 14, or when the total is not high, a medium or high total (or store attractiveness of 400 or more) brings the Worn-Out Spacer, and anything less brings the Desperate Addict.
• Wine of Reserve or better is also a Luxury Item. As long as your Upper Levels reputation is 0 or more, the Upper Level Visitor may come while it is on display (from day 14 if you play the intro; no day-14 restriction if you skip it). On days when the shopper is eligible, the chance is 21% at reputation 100; after a visit there is a cooldown.
• With the store not vandalized, the Display Case initially draws one category buyer a day, for the category with the highest total value. Showcase Expansion I, Showcase Expansion II and Buyer Referral Service (while in use) each add one category, for the next-highest categories (Coffee Beans as a Household Good, Pure Water as Water). Each category still gets at most one of these buyers a day.
• Wine gains value as it ages, but early on sell it right away to build up cash.

On Friday, buy 2× Coffee Beans from the Retired Farmer and plant them in a Hydroponic System; the Coffee Beans themselves are the seeds.

Keep the minerals between 1.75 and 3.25%, and use clean water.

• Between 1.75 and 2.75% the same water also suits BloomBerry.

With no module modifier and the original seed traits, harvest after 3 nights (8 beans if the plant's health is above 70). Keep one and replant it.

Display Coffee Beans as a Household Good. If that category is selected for a Display Case buyer, a high total from day 14 brings the Upper Level Servant; otherwise, a moderately high total or store attractiveness of at least 400 brings the Citizen.

• To sell them next to wine, get Showcase Expansion I: with the extra customer, both the wine and the Coffee Beans get a buyer.
• The Hydroponic Farmer buys Coffee Beans as seeds.

On Wednesday, buy the Water Purifier and the Water Tank from the Retired Water Merchant.

• The Water Tank starts at 20 L. Each unit of Scrap Metal adds 2 L; each Metal Ingot adds 4 to 14 L depending on its purity (6 L when no purity level applies), up to 50 L.

Unlock Gutterflow On Tap, then Rustwater On Tap, and fill the Water Tank with free water.

• The tap's Gutterflow is 80.00 to 89.99% pure, and its Rustwater is 90.00 to 91.50%; they change daily. Rustwater On Tap requires Gutterflow On Tap first.
• Start with Working Pipes and you begin with both upgrades unlocked, so the tap gives free Rustwater from day 1.

Put 4× Refinement Module with quality 25 each into the Water Purifier. When the total module quality is at least 100, the purity cap rises from 99% to at least 99.9%; check the total because module effects and nodes can change it.

• An unmodified Refinement Module gives quality 25. An unmodified Quality Module gives 8, so four of them total 32 and stop at a 99.35% cap.
• A Module Bay Expansion Kit expands the module bay so it holds more modules.
• The Refinement Module also lowers performance and efficiency, so use the extra room for the Performance Module to win back speed.
• In Dr. Jackson's normal stock, the Refinement Module shows up only occasionally, with at least one guaranteed after Jackson Investment II. His special Monday stock after Monday's Special Stock has 5. While the Rare Goods perk is active, the Rare Merchant also always sells one when visiting.

Insert the Water Tank itself into the Water Purifier with an Energy Cell and let it purify night after night; check with the AquaScan whether it has reached 99.9%.

• Below 98% purity, dirtier water gives a larger removal budget per cycle; at 98% and above that part no longer decreases. A charged Advanced Turbo Booster runs a night's purification at once; the booster is not used up and can be used again later.

Divide the Pure Water into the Jug of Water or the Bottle of Water (Large). If a label differs from the measured purity, press “Match Label”, then display the water in the Display Case.

• When Water is the category selected for a Display Case buyer, the Water Stockpiler comes from day 14 if Pure Water has the highest total among the displayed water labels or the Water total is high enough. Before day 14 the Spacer comes instead, but it does not buy Pure Water.
• Water is a separate category from wine, so Showcase Expansion I lets you sell it next to wine, and Showcase Expansion II next to Coffee Beans as well.

Use spare Pure Water for fermenting wine (without the Hydroponic Nutrient Tablet) and for growing (with the Hydroponic Nutrient Tablet added).