Roblox Garden Horizons was “inspired” by Grow A Garden, so some of the mechanics within the game are similar to those in Grow A Garden. One of those mechanics is mutations. If you’d like to know how mutations and variants work within Garden Horizons, keep on reading.
When any plant grows within Garden Horizons, at the time of launch, fruits can grow from the plant with a variant. Right now, there are two variants; Gold and Silver. This is the base variant of a fruit, and a fruit can then gain different mutations from different weather events.
You cannot change the variant of a fruit, so it’ll be either Gold or either Silver, or normal. Fruits that grow either Gold or Silver, are more valuable.
If a plant has the Silver variant, it gives the fruit’s base value a 2x multiplier, and if a plant has the Gold variant, it gives the fruit’s base value a 5x multiplier.
Then, you can gain weather mutations on those fruit, to increase the value of the plant. Kinda like Grow A Garden, where plants can have a variant of Gold, Silver, Rainbow or Platinum (although Platinum can only be achieved via the Diamond Dragonfly pet).
When you plant a seed within Garden Horizons, there are stages the seed goes through, like stages of maturity.
The key is to never pick a fruit until a fruit shows as being Lush.
Once you first plant any seed, regardless of rarity, the fruits will show as being Unripe, and over time, it’ll mature to Ripened, and over more time, the fruit will mature to Lush.
When a fruit is Lush, it has a 3x multiplier. When a fruit is Unripe, it starts as 1x multiplier, and when it matures to Ripened, it starts as a 2x multiplier.
Obviously, you can pick your fruits whenever you need to, but the key is to leave your fruits to mature until they’re Lush, so you get a 3x multiplier for each fruit, before mutations.
When a fruit gets mutated, you’ll see that it is Unripe, Ripened or Lush, if it has a variant (Silver or Gold) and then the mutations from the weather events.
Technically, you could have a fruit that is Lush (3.0x multiplier), Silver (2.0x multiplier) and mutated with any of the weather variants like Shocked (4.5x multiplier).
The longer you leave fruits without picking them, you get a chance of getting more mutations, increasing the value of fruits, to make you more money, which is important at early stages of the game, so you have enough Shillings to purchase all of the Seeds, Gears and for resetting the message board quests.
Here is an image showing a Strawberry with the Foggy mutation, and a Strawberry without any mutations. Both Strawberries are the same weight (0.02kg), and there’s a little, subtle animation on every mutated fruit.
Here are the prices of a Strawberry fruit without a base variant, so just a standard Strawberry with the Foggy mutation and Lush maturity, versus a Strawberry without any mutations but with the Lush maturity.
With Foggy, I got $100, and for the non-mutated Strawberry, I got $99. I know that’s not very much, but the Foggy mutation has a low multiplier of 1.25x, so it’s not one of the higher paying mutations.
Garden Horizon Weather Mutation Variants Guide
Right now, there are 11 different weather mutations a fruit can get, in addition to the base variant (normal, Silver or Gold) and the maturity value (Unripe, Ripened or Lush).
Here are the 11 weather mutations, and the multipliers each mutation give you:
- Soaked – 1.25x (from Rain weather)
- Foggy – 1.25x (from Fog weather)
- Chilled – 1.5x (from Snow weather)
- Flooded – 1.75x (from Rain weather)
- Snowy – 2x (from Snow weather)
- Sandy – 2.5x (from Sandstorm weather)
- Frostbite – 3.5x
- Mossy – 3.5x
- Shocked – 4.5x (from Storm weather)
- Muddy – 5x
- Starstruck – 6.5x (from Dawn Starfall weather)
The best weather mutations we can get are Shocked, Muddy or Starstruck. You get Shocked from the thunderstorm weather (just like Grow A Garden), and you get Starstruck from the Dawn Starfall weather.