Plant Species Y Seed
Plant this in a viable large crop plot to grow a frightening-looking defensive plant, which will shoot poisonous spores at any interlopers!
Details
- Category
- Seed
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 5 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Plant Species Y Seed guides
How to get Plant Species Y Seed
Plant Species Y Seed is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 44 crates
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Plant Species Y Seed — Detailed Guide
Seeds for a trap-making plant
The Plant Species Y Seed grows into a defensive plant in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its item text is dramatic: "Plant this in a viable large crop plot to grow a frightening-looking defensive plant, which will shoot poisonous spores at any interlopers!" The ARK Wiki tells a different story: the grown plant does not fire at anything the way 
Plant Species X does. Instead it produces 
Plant Species Y Traps, which hold people and small creatures in place.
Where seeds come from
Seeds are harvested from desert flowers and from the 
Plant Species Y plant itself. In addition, 44 crate types can contain them, for example Genesis Blue, Genesis Orange and Genesis Purple on Genesis Part 2.
The seed was introduced with Scorched Earth. The wiki also lists it on Fjordur, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, Valguero, Extinction, Ragnarok and both parts of Genesis, and our records include Astraeos.
Growing the plant
It needs a 
Large Crop Plot supplied with 
Fertilizer and Water. Growth is slow and counted in in-game time: about 1 minute as a fresh seed, roughly 7 days from seedling to midling, about 5 days from midling to growthling and 1 to 2 more days to reach the fruitling stage.
Other uses and weight
Jerboas favor these seeds as taming food. People can eat them as well, but they lower the hunger meter instead of filling it. A seed weighs 0.01, and a stack of 100 weighs 1.