Heritage Seeds/ Going to seed/gma

Now this is more of a suggestion for a follow-up to stardew. Basically it's to make the fruits and veggies more diverse and encourages a self sustaining farmer. As leveled seeds would not be available for purchase without unlocking them first

1. The first is a heritage seed idea in which your encouraged harvest crops and convert some to seed. The idea is that the seeds themselves can be leveled. This basically would be your standard goard. At silver level the seeds become winter squash, gold would be butternut squash and iridium would be acorn squash.

2. The seed leveling process would be done in a hybridizer. You insert two produce of the the same type and depending on the quality of the said item you roll a chance of either getting an increase decrease or in certain breeding a maybe legendary seeds.

3 Jmo seeds- Jojamart organisms. These can be ordered from joja and often come with inate fertilizer bonuses. Like Drought Corn comes with a water preserving 2 mod and can be further fertilized essentially letting you double up the bonuses. The sad thing is that Jojo marts contract stats you cannot breed these crops which will be shown as a black star tier.
Cutscene suggestion is that if you try to put a Jmo into a seedmaker that the seed maker self destructs

4. Going to seed. Alot of plant life has a going to seed phase of it's life. This would logically happen during season change in stardew. This would allow players a 25% chance to recover seeds with the scythe on dead plants

5. Jmo animals. These animals cannot breed and give black star tier items. They can have different bonuses attached to them. Example would be a turbo duck which lays eggs daily or a compact cow which has no drawback of living in the barn and will not go to the field
 
With plants that aren't Jmo you could have something like flowers crossbreed colors. Could heritage seeds be used to create Giant Crops more predictably?
Eating food made with Jmo could come with higher boosts in one area but a debuff in another vs regular food having lower but overall beneficial impacts.

You could even have Demetrius get annoyed with Joja for doing this when modifying plants etc has so much potential for good and they are using it for capitalism. The farmer could work together with him to make genetic modifications that aren't locked to one-time use or are good for the valley, play nice with the native plants, etc. More hand-made/natural modifications and then ones he works on ij his lab. Oh, rope Harvey into it, for best nutrient help! (Okay now I have a bunch of partial thoughts about Demetrius and sustainable science in the valley!)
 
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