Tips for Preserving Botany Exhibits in Two Point Museum

As the curator of multiple museums in Two Point Museum, your main goal is to ensure their success. This primarily involves curating interesting exhibits for the public. You can choose from various themes, ranging from prehistoric artifacts to unique botanical displays that may include edible or even carnivorous plants.

Every type of exhibit requires proper care. If neglected, exhibits can lose interest, become damaged, or, in the case of botanical displays, wither away. Failing to maintain plant health can result in unsightly dead plants in your museum, leading to wasted funding from your expeditions.

Understanding Botany Exhibits

Botany is one of the six main themes available for exhibits, and it stands out as a unique category. While it isn’t a strict necessity, it also features its own Enlightenment branch with various unlocks.

Initially, the Botany exhibits become available through the Bone Belt via a Point of Interest called Bigfoot Gardens. Unlike other themes, they do not have a dedicated map, but are instead highlighted on every map, either as key objectives or optional exhibit types you can pursue.

Many botany exhibits provide low to moderate buzz but can yield high donations, even those of average rarity. Some require specialized experts to access, such as the Palm Tree located in the Overgrown Jungle at Two Point Sea, which needs both a Marine Expert and a Botany Expert to discover.

Given how they operate, Botany Exhibits can significantly increase your museum’s income, provided you can manage their more expensive expeditions, as they can be placed in various environments, as long as they are kept away from exhibits needing Dry or Cold Climates.

Caring for Botany Exhibits

To keep plants healthy, Botany Exhibits feature a Health meter, as opposed to metrics such as Grubbiness or Corrosion. The primary factor determining the depletion speed of this meter is whether the plants are situated in a favorable environment.

Each Botany Exhibit requires a specific environment, generally needing to be both Hot and Humid for optimal growth, although some, like the Peek-a-Lily Pads, can thrive without special conditions.

You can adjust the environment for your Botany Exhibits by adding climate-control equipment like heaters and misters to their area to regulate temperature and humidity.

• Heaters are available in three types – regular, wall-mounted, and compact – and raise the temperature in a 15-by-15-tile zone around their placement, indicated in bright red on temperature visualizations.
• Misters also come in three styles – regular, wall-mounted, and compact – and increase humidity in a 15-by-15-tile area around their setup, shown in light blue on humidity visualizations.

For a plant to thrive, it must have its size plus two tiles of climate control on each side to ensure it is in the correct environment. If not, a symbol will pop up over the exhibit to indicate what’s lacking.

If they aren’t kept in the right environment, the plants will swiftly lose health until they wither completely. When this happens, the exhibit will become unusable, and your only options will be to sell it or analyze it.

Botany Exhibits can cohabitate without issue as long as they don’t have opposing requirements, such as one needing only a humid environment, like the Sickly Pear, being able to thrive alongside one that requires both hot and humid conditions, like the Blooming Buffoon.

Enhancing Your Botany Experts

Botany Experts can possess most of the skills available to other experts, but there are a few key skills to focus on due to the common negative events that occur in points of interest related to Botany: Survival Skills and Survey Skills.

Many events you might face will lead to injuries or, in severe cases, even death to an Expert. Skills like Im-peared or Snake Bite are common threats. Additionally, certain Points of Interest and Obstacles require at least one staff member to have Survival Skills to embark on an Expedition.

Survey Skills significantly enhance the quality of Exhibits obtained by increasing the Survey Rate of any Expedition by 30 at the first skill rank and offering cumulative benefits based on the number of staffed experts and their skill levels.

This can effectively reduce costs by shortening the number of expeditions required for a location and minimizing time spent, as fewer detailed trips would be necessary.

Moreover, having high Survey Skills can enhance the safety of your Experts, often yielding at least a Great or Epic rarity Exhibit from just one Expedition, reducing the need for multiple trips to more hazardous points of interest.

Useful Workshop Items for Botany Expeditions

Almost all Cargo items can be beneficial, but the top three for Botany expeditions are the Survey Scanner, Illness Elixir, and Plant Camouflage.

These items help counter various negative events, and when combined with Survival Skills and highly-ranked experts, they can render expeditions almost entirely safe:

• The Survey Scanner is available on the Memento Mile map. It typically amplifies the Survey Level of any Expedition and also prevents certain events, like Stagnant Water, which can lead to Irritable Trowel sickness.
• The Illness Elixir unlocks on the Bungle Wasteland Map after reaching a One Star Ranking. It’s considered one of the best Cargo items in the game, as it can completely block one illness-causing event per Expedition, covering events that can’t be avoided through skills or combined ranks.
• The Plant Camouflage is also unlocked on the Bungle Wasteland map through campaign objectives and is created by mulching Botany Exhibits in the Science Exhibit using the Mulch-o-matic. It can be used to counter specific plant-related events and can prevent an MIA that might otherwise eliminate one of your staff members, making it quite valuable.

The First-Aid Kit is also always a good choice. It’s available right from the start of the game and will eliminate one injury-related event, and can counter some situations that can’t be resolved through skills or combined ranks.