mutations.ts ties Sliced to harvest festival and blade events: a clean cut pattern on showcase crops. weather.ts has no Sliced row, so treat festival/blade catalogs as the documented source and do not invent demo-stage timers or guaranteed cut radii.
Sliced Mutation Grow a Garden
Sliced is the harvest-festival cut tag—an event environmental at only 8×, easy to overlook next to storm icons, yet still a real env contributor when cooking-season crops already carry Fall or Fried.
8×eventStackable
How to trigger
Stacking rules
Sliced is event-category, stackable, and environmental in cropValue. Formula: growth × [1 + (Σ env − n)]. Solo Sliced → 1 + (8 − 1) = 8. Sliced + Fall (25×) → sum 33, n = 2 → bracket 32. Sliced + Fall + Fried (23×) → sum 56, n = 3 → 54. Env tags do not multiply each other. Growth stays exclusive—one Golden/Rainbow-class factor. Sliced is absent from CONFLICT_PAIRS.
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Sliced value by weight
Sliced applies a 8× multiplier in the event bracket. The table below shows the value it adds to a reference crop (base 50) across common harvest weights, so you can gauge how much this tag is worth before chasing it.
| Weight | Base crop value | With Sliced (8×) | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | 50 | 400 | +350 |
| 2 kg | 200 | 1.6K | +1.4K |
| 5 kg | 1.25K | 10K | +8.75K |
| 10 kg | 5K | 40K | +35K |
Sliced value impact
Why 8× still belongs on festival sheets
Festival listings often look cosmetic. In the env bracket, each tag contributes (multiplier − 1) after the shared 1 + (sum − count) rewrite. Sliced alone is modest; beside Fall it adds seven net points to the bracket, not 8 × 25. On a heavy Rainbow crop those points are real Sheckles, not flavor text.
Sauced (35×) can join the same env list when cooking phases overlap the festival window. Three cooking-adjacent icons mean a larger sum and a larger subtracted count—verify icons at harvest instead of estimating from Sliced’s 8 alone.
Blade visuals versus growth myths
Sliced does not occupy the growth slot. Golden, Rainbow, and Radiant compete with each other; Sliced does not. A Sliced harvest can still carry Rainbow, and sell math multiplies that growth factor by the env bracket.
Nothing in mutation-conflicts.ts pairs Sliced with Wet, Frozen, or Ember. Thermal and wet/cold rules only matter if those other tags are also on the plant. Finish high-base crops while festival icons are visible, then confirm the calculator line before trading.
Common questions
- Does Sliced reduce crop weight?
- No. mutations.ts describes a clean cut pattern only. Weight still enters cropValue as weight squared; Sliced does not alter kilograms.
- Can Sliced stack with Fall and Sauced?
- Yes. All three are environmental event tags with no mutual CONFLICT_PAIRS entries. Fold every multiplier into Σ, then subtract n once inside the 1 + (Σ − n) rewrite.