Garden

The garden is an area in NieR and NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... where plants can grow in. Planting space is unlocked by completing "Shopping List" and "A Return to Shopping" for the Florist in the Village. If these quests are missed, a Cultivator's Handbook can be bought from her for 5,000 Gold.

While the majority of crops serve no other purpose than to be sold, the garden is the only place where White Moonflowers can be cultivated. Players aiming to unlock the Legendary Gardener achievement will have to make use of the garden.

Description

"Examine the field next to Nier's house to plant any seeds in your possession. Over time, the seeds will grow into flowers, fruits, and vegetables that you can harvest."

— Cultivating Plants tutorial, ver.1.22...

Players may begin gardening by either completing the aforementioned quests, or purchasing the Cultivator's Handbook from the Village Florist during the game's second half. "Shopping List" unlocks the first row, where up to five plants can be cultivated, while "A Return to Shopping" unlocks an additional two rows, for a maximum of fifteen.

Cash crops such as Rice or Wheat will produce an abundant yield, which may be further maximized when applying Bounty Fertilizer onto the soil. Flowers, on the other hand, will only sprout one flower per one seed, although it will drop an additional number of seeds if Bounty Fertilizer is used as well.

Both produce and flowers take anywhere from 25-30 real-time hours to grow, and up to 50 hours to wilt.^[1] These growth and wilt times can be spoofed by adjusting the system clock on the player's platform of choice. Should the player wish to engage with the garden as normal, Speed and Flowering Fertilizers may also be used, which hasten or lengthen each plant's lifespan accordingly. Failing to obtain either the plant's produce or its seeds past the wilt time will cause it to disappear from the garden entirely, and the player will have to start all over again.

Plant seeds can either be purchased from select shops in the Village, Seafront, and Facade, or found in crates from the first two towns and at The Aerie before its destruction. Uniquely, several types of moonflower seeds can only be acquired via crossbreeding, which involves planting certain colors of seeds in a specific order.

Crossbreeding

Unmentioned anywhere in-game is a crossbreeding mechanic used to produce new colors of moonflower seeds—the process itself involves planting two set colors of seeds in an alternating fashion. Starting from the base Red, Gold, and Blue Moonflower Seeds available for purchase, four additional colors can be acquired. One of these colors are required for the "Life in the Sands" sidequest, where the client asks for Pink Moonflower Seeds in particular, while the Legendary Gardener achievement calls for White Moonflower Seeds to be cultivated.

Crossbreeding is entirely dependent on luck; it may take the player one day or several to obtain the color they seek. Bounty Fertilizer comes in handy when crossbreeding, for once the seeds of a new type of fertilized moonflower are harvested, the player may plant the new seeds in their possession to propagate batches of the new color.

The order in which new colors of moonflower seeds may appear are as follows:

List of plants

The following contains all the plants and related seeds in the game that the player both can buy, find or grow in the field:

Crops

Flowers

References