Botany Skill Testing

[a small rabbit]

Following up on my grow bed testing, i wanted to see if i could figure out what the Botany skill does. I used pretty much the same setup i did for the grow speed testing.

SETUP

I ran 2 tests. One test growing veggies with a botanist at 1 skill and a botanist with 10 skill in the same grow bed facility to compare.

The second test was growing nuts with botanist 5 and 10 again in the same grow bed facility.

To make sure i had the same botanist working the same bed each time, i was tracking when the job icon would appear at the grow beds, draft my botanists and place them in front of each bed so the same skill was always tending the same bed.

Because of this i kinda screwed up the benefits of the higher skilled botanist because i was delaying the task until both botanists were present to compare the time it took them to finish.

Results:

Botany 1 vs 10

veggies
Botany 10 plants/tends faster (10 finished while 1 was 60-70%)
paint bar = 52units, progress at 32/52 when 10 finished
paint bar = 52units, progress at 36/52 when 10 finished

1st tend	@25%
2nd tend 	@38%
3rd tend 	@50%
4th tend 	@63%
5th tend 	@75%
6th tend 	@88% 


Botany 5 vs 10

Nuts 
Botany 10 plants/tends faster (10 finished while 5 was 80ish%)
paint bar = 52units, progress at 42/52 when 10 finished
paint bar = 52units, progress at 42/52 when 10 finished

1st tend	@25%
2nd tend 	@38%
3rd tend 	@50%
4th tend 	@63%
5th tend 	@75%
6th tend 	@88% 

I was being super scientific and spamming pause while they were both working, then comparing the progress bar in paint when the botanist 10 finished to see how much was left for the other one.

As near as i can tell, each level of Botany gives about a 5% bonus to speed when tending plants based on the following:

Botany 10 did 52 units total with Botany 1 finishing only about 70% in the same time at 36 units. Botany 10 was therefore working 52/36 = 1.44 or about 45% faster. 9 skill levels of difference means about 5% per level.

This sorta holds up for nuts and Botany 5 vs 10. Botany 10 did 52 units of work while Botany 5 completed 42. 52/42= 1.238 or about 24% faster. 5 skill levels of difference means about 4-5% per level.

Obviously my measurements are not very exact given i wasn't timing the task and crudely comparing the progress bars in paint to measure but it was at least somewhat consistent.

Regardless of Botany skill, the number of times a plant has to be tended doesn't change, and with the higher skill plants requiring longer tend times, a higher skilled Botanist will be able to tend to more plants, but it has NO effect on growing speed.

TLDR:

Higher skill Botany increases planting and tending speed by about 5% per level as far as i can tell. Plants need to be tended 6 times while growing.