Peppers

Overview

Peppers is a crop that can be grown in your colony. Like all crops, it requires proper soil conditions, adequate lighting, and protection from harsh environmental factors to thrive.

Peppers are the last crop you can currently research in the game. They are a late game crop that is the gateway to producing the highest quality foods and tea available.

Peppers, like tea, require an enormous amount of nutrients, so you will need fertilizer to be able to grow them. You will also want to avoid rocky terrain to speed up processing your first crops and avoid the labor lost to farmers picking up rocks.

The Spice Grinder (researched separately) is required to make peppers usable, and its conversion rate of peppers to spice is lower than other similar crops that require processing before use. For example, peppers have a conversion rate of 1:3 while wheat has a conversion rate to flour of 1:5. This is important to consider in deciding how much land to dedicate to peppers, along with the consumption rate of your Fine Kitchens and Tea Roasters.

Raw peppers are not purchased by The Claw, The Smuggler, or The Pirates.

Peppers
Growth Information
Growth Period	0.10 years
Decay Period	0.20 years
Maximum Yield	2.00
Soil Requirements
Nutrient Minimum	96.00
Nutrient Saturation	192.00
Nutrient Starvation	128.00
Environmental Factors
Light Target	128.00
Light Penalty	0.02
Rock Penalty	1.00
Pollution Penalty	1.00
Temperature Tolerance
Frost Growth Threshold	100 (unit unknown)
Frost Rot Threshold	100 (unit unknown)