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# Growstation Menu
Right-clicking any placed Growstation opens its interactive management interface, where you monitor growth, refill water, manage storage, and purchase station upgrades.
### Station Stats & Diagnostics
Hover over the Book icon to view the station's level, XP, and ambient environmental conditions. Hover over the Book icon to view the station's level, XP, and ambient environmental conditions.
* **Level & Station XP:** Stations level up independently as they finish growing crops. Each level up awards Upgrade Points to spend on machine perks.
* **Temperature:** Displays the current ambient temperature tier of the biome (e.g., `NORMAL`).
* **Temperament:** Displays the station's current environmental temperament (e.g., `NORMAL`).
* **Environment:** Indicates the dimensional biome category (e.g., `OVERWORLD`).
* **Growth Speed Bonus:** The total percentage growth speed multiplier currently applied to this station.
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**Note:** Every seed requires matching Temperature, Temperament, and Environment conditions. If conditions do not align, your plant will not grow.
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### Water Tank
Plants require constant hydration while growing.
* **Capacity:** Each station comes with a built-in reservoir that holds up to 46,800 units of water.
* **Refilling:** Right-click the physical Growstation block in the world holding a Water Bucket to fill its tank.
* **Drying Out:** If the reservoir runs completely dry, crop growth halts and the seed status flags a warning in red text.
### Planting & Growth Status
The central slot holds your active crop and tracks its development in real time.
**Inspecting Seeds:** Hovering over a seed before or after planting displays its requirements (Temperature, Temperament, Environment), base growth duration, seed buy cost, harvest yield quantity, and expected XP range.
* **Planting:** Place or drag your seed onto the center iron bars slot to start cultivation.
* **Progress Monitor:** Displays the current growth percentage and exact countdown timer remaining. Any blocked progress (such as lack of water or bad biome conditions) displays as red warning text.
* **Emergency Removal:** Shift-Left Click the active crop to cancel growth and retrieve the slot.
### Station Storage
Multi-yield and bonus harvests are automatically captured by the station.
* **Access:** Click the Chest icon located at the bottom of the menu.
* **Function:** Any crop that produces multiple items will deposit extra yields into this internal container. Click items inside to withdraw them to your inventory.
### Machine Upgrades
Spend your station's Upgrade Points on the four upgrade paths along the right-hand column:
**Water Upgrade (Bucket):** Increases how much liquid is restored each time you refill the station with a water bucket (+600 extra water per level).
**Elysium Upgrade (Nether Star):** Grants bonus Elysium every time you harvest a mature plant (+1.0% bonus at level 1; subject to diminishing returns at higher tiers).
**Growth Upgrade (Sugar):** Grants a passive speed boost to all crops growing inside this station (+1.0% faster at level 1; subject to diminishing returns).
Mutation Upgrade (Compass): Gives seeds a chance to mutate and develop unique traits upon being planted.
* Level 1 Chance: 3% mutation chance.
* Trait Odds: 40% Good, 40% Neutral, 20% Bad.
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⚠️ Warning: Bad mutations can hurt or ruin your crop yields. Upgrade with caution!
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