Plume Squash Plant

Plume Squash Plant is a farmable crop that matures in 9 cycles and produces Plume Squash on harvest. Each harvest yields 4000 kcal of Plume Squash, making it a straightforward midgame food crop with a relatively predictable return once its growing conditions are met.

Plume Squash can be eaten directly as food, or processed in a Deep Fryer into Squash Fries using Tallow. A single serving of Squash Fries provides 5400 kcal and requires 1 Plume Squash plus 1 kg of Tallow to make. This makes the crop more flexible than a simple raw-food plant, since the harvest can be consumed immediately or converted into a higher-calorie processed meal if Tallow is available.

For colony planning, the crop’s yield translates into the following approximate sustain rates:

• If Plume Squash is eaten directly, one ordinary Duplicant needs 2.25 Plume Squash Plants to be fed.
• If the harvest is converted into Squash Fries, one ordinary Duplicant needs 1.66 Plume Squash Plants to be fed.

That difference reflects the calorie gain from processing, but the processed option also consumes Tallow, so it is best treated as a conversion of farm output into a denser food supply rather than a free upgrade. In practice, Plume Squash Plant is most useful when a colony can support both the crop and the animal-product chain needed for Squash Fries.

Plume Squash Plant and its harvest are also used as food for certain critters and their variants, which makes the crop useful beyond Duplicant nutrition as part of ranching and resource cycling.