Solar bottles peak sun into a mid-tier weather tag at ×22 — strong enough to matter on heat weeks, too modest to confuse with growth-tier Radiant or the storm-scale Shocked bracket.
Mutations data describes intense sunlight during heat-wave weather. Heat Wave lists Solar with Ember and Burnt; Clear Skies also lists Solar beside Tranquil. Harvest while those sun-forward states are active rather than inventing afternoon clock windows the catalog never states.
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Solar is environmental (weather). It stacks in the env bracket with other heat tags such as Ember (×25), Sundried (×21), and Burnt (×12) when they land. Ember — not Solar — conflicts with Frozen, Chilled, and Frostbite. Growth remains exclusive: Radiant (×19 growth) can coexist thematically but still fights Golden or Rainbow for the single growth slot.
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Solar applies a 22× multiplier in the weather 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 Solar (22×) | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | 50 | 1.1K | +1.05K |
| 2 kg | 200 | 4.4K | +4.2K |
| 5 kg | 1.25K | 27.5K | +26.3K |
| 10 kg | 5K | 11K | +105K |
Solar alone: envBracket = 1 + (22 − 1) = 21. Solar + Ember: sum 47, count 2, envBracket = 1 + (47 − 2) = 46. That is additive bracket padding, never Solar × Ember as a product.
If Ember is already selected, cold tags stay blocked by the conflict map. Solar itself has no listed conflict pair — plan moisture and cold around Ember and Wet/Frozen rules, not around invented Solar freezes.
Radiant is growth at ×19; Solar is weather env at ×22. They occupy different formula lanes. Do not treat a Radiant crop as proof of Solar, or vice versa, in trade screenshots.
On medium bases, Solar plus a clean Golden growth harvest often beats camping for a third weak env icon that delays kilograms. Weight squared still outruns thin sun padding on light fruit.