How to Get Golden Crops in Core Keeper

How to Grow Golden Crops

1. Take Expert gardener: a Gardening skill talent. Each point adds +3% (6–18% for 1–5 points).
2. Plant the seeds by hand: whether a crop turns golden is decided at planting. Planting with a robot arm stays at 3%.
3. Grow and harvest: the growth timers in the game data add up to 10 minutes (120 s as a seed, then two stages of 240 s as a plant). Golden crops grow the same way.

In multiplayer, the chance uses the talents of the player who planted the seed.

Golden Crop Effects (Cooked, Compared With Normal Crops)

Golden crop	Cooked (golden)	Normal crop
Rare Candy	—	—
Golden Heart Berry	+50 max health (10 min) +4.4 health every sec (20 s) +17.1% physical melee damage (10 min)	+25 max health (10 min) +2.8 health every sec (20 s)
Golden Glow Tulip	+6 blue glow (10 min) +2.3 mana every sec (10 min) +25 max mana (10 min)	+5 blue glow (10 min) +1.4 mana every sec (10 min)
Golden Bomb Pepper	+26.9% movement speed (1 min) +8.9% melee attack speed (10 min)	+21% movement speed (1 min)
Golden Carrock	+26 armor (10 min) +18% chance to knockback on melee hit (2 min)	+23 armor (10 min)
Golden Puffungi	+9% reduced damage taken from bosses (10 min) +7.9 health every sec (20 s) +14% damage against bosses (1 min)	+6% reduced damage taken from bosses (10 min) +5.5 health every sec (20 s)
Golden Bloat Oat	+12.1 health every sec (20 s) +10% less food drained when running (10 min)	+9.1 health every sec (20 s)
Golden Pewpaya	+8.2 health every sec (20 s) +28.2% physical range damage (10 min) +8.4% range attack speed (10 min)	+6.3 health every sec (20 s) +22.4% physical range damage (10 min)
Golden Pinegrapple	+9 health every sec (20 s) +28.2% physical melee damage (10 min) +8.4% melee attack speed (10 min)	+5.4 health every sec (20 s) +22.4% physical melee damage (10 min)
Golden Grumpkin	+6.2 health every sec (20 s) +71 mining damage (10 min) +7.2% mining speed (10 min)	+4.3 health every sec (20 s) +45 mining damage (10 min)
Golden Sunrice	+4 glow (10 min) +43.3% magic damage (10 min) +91 magic barrier (10 min)	+4 glow (10 min) +30% magic damage (10 min)
Golden Lunacorn	+4 blue glow (10 min) +39.5% minion damage (10 min) +55.2% minion attack speed (10 min)	+4 blue glow (10 min) +30% minion damage (10 min)

Effect text is the game's official English.

What Golden Crops Are For

• Cooking: golden crops are linked to the rare version of their dish (effects ×1.25), and a dish made only from golden crops gets another ×1.15. In practice, one golden crop in the Cooking Pot is enough for a rare dish. The Cooking talent "Master chef" only affects extra dishes (how cooking works).
• Seed Extractor: putting in a golden crop gives 2 seeds and 1 Gold Ore (the crop is used up).

Chances, timers and the Seed Extractor output are read from the game files of Core Keeper 1.3.0.6 (the game's program, Conf/Talents and the crop and seed prefabs). That one golden crop makes the dish rare is also stated on the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) page Cooking (CC BY-SA 3.0).