Crop Transmutation And You

This page serves as a primer on the Earth Pony's grow ability for quickly crowing and transmuting crops.

Crop Growth and Transmutation

The ability functions in two modes:

1. Unfocused
2. Focused

Unfocused

The unfocused form is when an earth pony uses the grow ability without a specific target. When used in this way, their magic affects all the plants in the immediate area causing them to rapidly grow in exchange for a little of the earth pony's mana.

When using the unfocused form, there's a small chance of crops and plants to be transformed into other magical forms, though the exact output is often unpredictable.

Focused

The unfocused form works fine when you need to create a lot of food very quickly, but sometimes you want a little more control over the outcome. That's where the focused form comes in!

To use the focused ability, you have to plant a single crop, sapling, or other plant you want to transform on a block of farmland or dirt and replace the ground in the surrounding area in a 5x5 square with the type of block corresponding to the thing you want to turn the plant into. When you use the ability on the crop, the blocks placed around will be used as fuel for the transmutation and placing more of the required block type improves your chances of the crafting succeeding.

As of 1.3.X, the options for transmutation are:

Plant	Material	Result
Oak Sapling	Raw Gold Block	Golden Oak Sapling
Carrots	Raw Gold Block	Gold Root
Cornflower	Lapis Lazuli Block	Curing Joke
Wither Rose	Netherrack	Plunder Vine
Dark Oak Sapling	Chitin	Zapling

Magical Crops

Plunder Vines

Plunder vines spread slowly or can be forced to spread by an earth pony using their ability on it. You can break the plunder vine so collect the sticks and feathers that it generates, or allow it to grow for a chance of encountering its second ability.

Gold Root

When using your ability on fully grown carrots, it's possible to transform it into gold root and collect golden carrots instead of normal ones.

Ignominious Bulb and Curing Joke

Curing Joke is a type of plant closely associated with the ignominious bulb, a plant native to changeling hives and (TBD) the everfree biome. Earth ponies can turn the curing joke into an ignominious bulb which, when fully grown, will produce tentacles that attack nearby hostile mobs.

Curing Joke can also be eaten as a way to heal and remove status effects or corruption from the player.

Golden Oak Tree

The golden oak tree can be obtained by earth ponies using their ability on an oak sapling to turn it into a golden variant, or by crafting a golden apple to get golden seeds which you can then plant.