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Green Thumb (Instant Crops)
"Plant it, blink, harvest it."
How do I install Green Thumb (Instant Crops)?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Green Thumb (Instant Crops) for Stationeers in one click.
</>What does Green Thumb (Instant Crops) do?
Food and oxygen in Stationeers both run through your garden, and waiting on plants to mature is one of the longest clocks in the game. Green Thumb speeds that clock way up: seeds sprint through their growth stages so a tray of potatoes, tomatoes, or soybeans is ready to pick almost as fast as you can plant it. Keep your pantry stocked, get a fresh base self-sufficient in a single session, or run big experiments with hydroponics and lighting without losing days to the growth timer. Your plants still need their light, water, and atmosphere — they just grow up in a hurry. Switch it off whenever you want the normal, slow-farming pace back. It is a clean on/off, so you stay in control of how fast your greenhouse runs.
</>What is Green Thumb (Instant Crops)?
Green Thumb speeds up the longest clock in Stationeers: crop growth. Switch on Fast Growth and seeds sprint through their stages, so a tray of potatoes, tomatoes, or soybeans is ready to pick almost as fast as you plant it. Keep your pantry stocked, get a base self-sufficient in one session, or run big hydroponics experiments. Free on ProjectMods.
</>Common questions about Green Thumb (Instant Crops)
What does Green Thumb do in Stationeers?
Green Thumb speeds up crop growth in Stationeers so your plants race through every stage instead of making you wait real hours for them to mature. Food and oxygen both run through your garden, and waiting on plants is one of the longest clocks in the game, so this mod flips a switch on that: a tray of potatoes, tomatoes, or soybeans is ready to pick almost as fast as you can plant it. Your crops still need their light, water, and atmosphere to grow, they just grow up in a hurry. It is a clean on/off toggle, so you can keep the fast pace for the grind and switch it back to normal any time. Green Thumb is a free mod on ProjectMods.
Do my plants still need light, water, and atmosphere with Green Thumb on?
Yes. Green Thumb speeds up how quickly your Stationeers crops move through their growth stages, but it does not remove the conditions they need to grow in the first place. Your plants still require their light, their water, and a breathable atmosphere around them, so a properly built hydroponics setup is still part of the deal. What changes is the waiting: once a plant has what it needs, it matures in a fraction of the usual time rather than sitting there for hours. That means a broken or badly designed farm will still struggle, because the mod accelerates healthy growth rather than forcing plants to thrive in bad conditions. In practice you get the reward of a working greenhouse far faster, which makes designing and tuning one much more satisfying.
Does Green Thumb work on every crop in Stationeers?
Green Thumb speeds up the plants you grow in your Stationeers garden, so the staples you rely on for food and oxygen, things like potatoes, tomatoes, and soybeans, all race through their stages while it is on. Because it accelerates the growth clock itself rather than targeting one specific species, your whole hydroponic operation benefits at once instead of just a single tray. That makes it ideal for keeping a varied pantry stocked or feeding an oxygen supply that depends on a lot of greenery. The plants continue to behave normally in every other way, needing their light, water, and atmosphere; they simply reach maturity much sooner. If you switch the Fast Growth option off, every crop goes right back to growing at its usual, slower pace.
What does the Fast Growth toggle do?
Fast Growth is the single switch that runs Green Thumb in Stationeers. Turn it on and every plant races through its growth stages, so your crops mature in moments rather than hours. Turn it off and your garden goes right back to its normal, slow-farming pace, exactly like vanilla. There is nothing else to configure, which keeps it simple: your farm is either sped up or it is not, and you always know which. That clean design means you stay in control of how fast your greenhouse runs. Plenty of players flip it on to get a new base self-sufficient quickly or to blast through a boring restocking chore, then switch it off when they want the slower, more deliberate rhythm of tending a farm the ordinary way.
Why would I use Green Thumb in Stationeers?
Green Thumb is for the times when waiting on the growth timer is the least fun part of your Stationeers session. Getting a fresh base self-sufficient normally means losing real time to plants maturing, and this mod lets you get a food and oxygen supply running in a single sitting instead. It is also great for keeping a busy pantry stocked without babysitting trays, and for running big experiments with hydroponics and lighting where you would otherwise lose days to the clock between each test. Because your plants still need light, water, and atmosphere, you are still rewarded for a good greenhouse design; you just see the payoff far sooner. Switch it off whenever you want the normal, slower farming pace back. Green Thumb is free on ProjectMods.
What options does Green Thumb (Instant Crops) include?
Fast Growth
Turn on to make every plant race through its growth stages. Turn off to let your crops grow at their normal pace.
Green Thumb is a Stationeers mod from ProjectMods that races your crops through every growth stage, so a hydroponic farm goes from seed to harvest in moments instead of hours.
System Requirements
What features does Green Thumb (Instant Crops) include?
- Speeds every plant through its growth stages, so a tray of potatoes is ready almost as fast as you plant it
- Covers your whole hydroponic setup, so tomatoes, soybeans, and the rest all sprint to harvest
- Leaves plants needing their light, water, and atmosphere; they just mature in a hurry
- Clean on/off toggle hands the normal slow-farming pace right back whenever you want it
Best For
- Players getting a fresh base self-sufficient in food and oxygen without losing a whole session to the growth timer
- Anyone tuning hydroponics lighting and gas mixes who wants to see results without a long wait between tries
- Cooks who want a stocked pantry fast so they can focus on recipes instead of staring at empty planters
- Returning players rebuilding a garden who remember all too well how long the crop clock really runs
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