Leaf Seeds

**Leaf Seeds** are unlocked after buying the *Farming Certificate* for  5,000. You are then presented with a new menu where you can purchase seeds.

Purchasing the first seed upgrade will make them start spawning in any location. They can be picked up manually, or later on picked up by  ALBs with the "ALBs <3 Seeds" upgrade in the  Celestial Shop Celestial Leaf Shop. Further seed upgrades will increase the reward amount from seeds, from 1% up to 100%.

## **Spawning**

### Chance & Count

Seeds have a 1% chance to spawn every second. This can be increased with **spawn chance** upgrades (see *Related Upgrades* below). With no upgrades, they'll spawn from around 10 seconds to 3.5 minutes.

Multiple seeds can spawn at once. How many depends on your **seed count** upgrades.

Because seed *spawn chance* and *count* start at very low numbers, any upgrades to them can provide significant gains *(eg. increasing your spawn chance by just +1% will double the chance for them to spawn)*.

Up to 50 seeds can be spawned on the screen at once.

### Fertilizer

Seeds will spawn based on the amount of fertilizer you have for [x] leaf type. This is taken from the fertilizer upgrade from every shop except  Celestial,  Obsidian, and  Benitoite. These shops have no normal fertilizer upgrade, because the leaves do not spawn on their own. As a result, these seeds will spawn at a much lower rate than all others if all fertilizers are purchased. However, Celestial seeds have a specialized "Seed Marketing" upgrade, that replaces a leaf fertilizer upgrade.

### Unlocking

 Ancient seeds,  Gem Leaf  seeds, and Meeds ( Mulch seeds) all need to be unlocked in the  Sacred Shop Sacred Leaf Shop for  50m each before they can be purchased in the Farming Shop. There are currently **no seeds** for  Biotite,  Malachite,  Hematite,  Plasma,  Coal and  Soul leaves.

## **Rewards**

When you pick up a seed, you are given (Seed upgrade level)% of your **current** leaf total in leaves, with additional seed reward upgrades added afterwards.

*Example:*

* If you have level 1 Seeds and 1,000 leaves, picking up a seed will give you 10 leaves (1% of 1,000).
* If you have level 100 Seeds and 1,000 leaves, picking up a seed will give you 1,000 leaves (100% of 1,000).

Therefore, it's a good idea to only buy a seed upgrade if it won't drastically lower that leaf's current total. A good rule of thumb is to only spend up to ~50% of your total leaves on a seed upgrade.

The optimal time to buy seed level n is when you have (n+1) times as many leaves as the upgrade costs. For example:

* If you don't have any seeds for a leaf, buy the first seed upgrade as soon as possible
* If you have level 1 Seeds, only spend 50% of your leaves
* If you have level 2 Seeds, only spend 1/3 of your leaves
* If you have level 9 Seeds, only spend 10% of your leaves
* If you have level 99 Seeds, only spend 1% of your leaves

If you spend more than this, it will initially reduce the gain more than it increases it. However, if you know you will be afk instead of buying the seeds at the exact optimal time, it can be worth buying slightly earlier than what this rule says, since more seeds is always better in the long run.

## Shop

1. ↑ **Cost**: Before discounts are applied. For upgrades with multiple levels, *n* is the number of upgrades currently owned.

## Strategy

Seeds are extremely important for reaching amounts of leaves beyond billions. At first, this allows you to buy all the BLC upgrades in the  Exotic Shop Exotic Leaf Shop. Later, this allows for reaching the higher level upgrades in the  Celestial Shop Celestial Leaf Shop and beyond.

## Related Upgrades

### Pets & Unique Leaves

Note that listed bonuses are doubled at level 10.

Seed spawn count +1.
  Rainbow Leaf | Seed rewards +50%
Effects are doubled at level 10.

### Shop Upgrades

Also note that all leaf fertilizer upgrades also affect seeds, as per above.

## Seed Zones

Note that even in areas that don't naturally spawn seeds, seeds can still be spawned through the Strange Seed Bag artifact or a Shovel, as long as it isn't an offline area.

Base seed costs