Crop

(Work in progress. When finished, this article will, at a glance, give the basic comparisons of the different available crops, with tables and a short summary for each.)

There are over 20* plants in RimWorld that can be grown and harvested as resources. These can be broken down loosely into four basic categories: "food" crops, "textile" crops, "medicinal" crops, and "decorative" crops. There are also a couple "special purpose" crops (...)

(* the exact number currently available to your colony depends on your current progress on the Research tree, and which DLC's you own/are using.)

Food crops

These are crops which can be eaten, usually after cooking

• Rice (fast but labor-intensive)
• Potatoes (average re labor:nutrion yield, low fertility sensitivity)
• Corn (slow but highest nutritional yield)
• Strawberry (min skill 5) (yields "berries", identical to those harvested from wild bushes; only field crop that can be eaten raw)
• Haygrass / Hay (...)
• Cocoa (...)
• Nutrifungus (...)

Textile crops

These are crops which cannot be used in their "raw" state and so have a small(er) cash value as such, but can be processed into something useful, which increases their value significantly.

• Cotton plant/ cloth
• Devilstrand mushroom/ devilstrand ()

Medicinal crops

These are crops which can, after processing, alter a pawn's physical or mood stats (and possibly also addiction). A colony can produce enough for their own foreseeable needs, or create a larger scale enterprise with the intention of trade,

• Hop plant (min skill 3) / beer
• Smokeleaf plant/smokeleaf (min skill 4) / smokeleaf joints
• Psychoid plant (min skill 6) / psychoid tea, yayo, go-juice, flake
• Healroot (min skill 8) / herbal medicine

Decorative

These crops serve only to beautify your colony.

• Day lily
• Rose
• Bonzai tree
• Tinctoria / dyes

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• Fibercorn / (...)
• Gauranlen pods / (...)
• Timbershrooms / (non-"plant") wood
• Trees / wood