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Flax Genome Theory

Default flax coding with no genes in it seems to produce 0 rotten, 0 flax, and 0 seeds, 5 weedings and -1 waterings.

Name	Genome	Stats
Nile Green	KORGRGYGYGYGRGYORYYRGROYYORRK	1 weed/1 water/1 seed RO/2 flax/0 rotten flax some immunity to pollution
Old Egypt	KRYYOGYGYORRYORYOGYORYRRRGGROYGRRYOOYGYRK	2 weeds/0 water/1 seed RO/1 flax/0 rotten flax some immunity to pollution

RO	Adds a seed	Tested in T3
OR	-1 weed	Tested in T3
ROGY	-1 water	I haven't tested this thoroughly but this is my best guess at the moment. I also don't know if it subtracts a "Weed and Water" or just turns a "Weed and Water" into a "Weed"
GYGY	+1 flax +1 water, starts -1 weed after the first GYGY	Tested in T3
RRGY	+1 rotten flax	Tested in T3
GRO	Protects against one type of pollution. It stops phosphorus pollution	Based on T1 data but appears to be accurate in T3
ROY	Protects against a second type of pollution including clinker per Odis	Based on T1 data but appears to be accurate in T3

• Fillers (do nothing genes) seem to be 'Y's and 'G's in Nile Green and Old Egypt. In Bard's Song it seems to be 'U's and 'I's. This would be important because that would seem to say overlapping of that separated code causes other things to happen.

• Flax needs 80-100% phosphorus in soil to yield flax when grown. Bard's Song is known to remove phosphorus at a rate of -4% phosphorus at a ratio of 2:21to 4:21 growings and pollutes 100 square coords. Polluted areas seem to recover at a rate of +2% phoshporus a day on its own with the recovery rate slowing down the more it was polluted per Tedra.

A strain of flax has the following characteristics (so these factors are coded in the genome) :

• Number of times a bed must be weeded and watered.
• Number of times a bed must be weeded (but not watered).
• Amount of flax produced per plant.
• Amount of rotten flax produced per plant.
• Number of seeds produced per harvest per plant.
• Time between seed harvests.

Other factors noticed:

• A seed given out at harvest (hearsay in T2-please report if you find a flax doing that)
• Time differences in quickness needed of weeding, influencing how much you can plant out and take care of in one grouping.