Pikeapple Bush

Pikeapple Bush is a food plant that can serve as a colony’s sole food source if enough instances are planted and harvested continuously. Its value is usually measured by how many bushes are needed to sustain each Duplicant, since the plant’s output can be eaten directly or processed into a more efficient food item.

At normal difficulty, a Duplicant consumes 1000 kcal per cycle. If Pikeapple is eaten directly, a colony needs 3.76 Pikeapple Bushes per Duplicant, producing 1000.16 kcal per cycle. If the harvested crop is processed before being eaten, the requirement drops to 2.5 Pikeapple Bushes per Duplicant, for 1000 kcal per cycle. With the DLC condition noted in the source, processed food can support a Duplicant with only 1.835 Pikeapple Bushes, producing 1000.51 kcal per cycle.

At the highest difficulty, Duplicants consume 2000 kcal per cycle, so the required plant count rises accordingly. Direct consumption requires 7.52 Pikeapple Bushes per Duplicant. Processing the crop before eating reduces this to 5 Pikeapple Bushes per Duplicant. With the DLC condition, the requirement is 3.67 Pikeapple Bushes per Duplicant.

• Directly eating Pikeapple is less efficient than using it in processed form.
• The plant can still be used as a complete food solution, but the number of bushes needed scales sharply with difficulty.
• The DLC case listed in the source is the most space-efficient option among the provided figures.