Ultimate Guide to Cultivating Rare Crops in Lightyear Frontier

Cultivating crops offers both enjoyment and profitability in Lightyear Frontier. Fortunately, your helpful neighbor Ulf can assist you in cultivating unique and rare crops. If you’re curious about the process, check out our comprehensive guide on how to grow all rare crops in Lightyear Frontier.

How to Unlock Rare Crops in Lightyear Frontier

Seed Splicer in Lightyear Frontier — Screenshot by Pro Game Guides

To cultivate rare crops in Lightyear Frontier, you must first establish contact with Ulf, a friendly botanist from a nearby planet who seeks to initiate a research project on the arcane plant life found in the Frontier. After you’ve constructed an Outpost for him on your farm, he will arrive via his spacecraft, and you can embark on his questline.

The primary goal of Ulf’s questline is to successfully produce mutated (rare) versions of all the crops available on the planet. To achieve this, you’ll need to build a Seed Splicer (illustrated above) at his Outpost, which will enable you to splice regular crop seeds found throughout the Frontier into seeds that may yield mutated variations. As long as you have discovered and grown a specific type of regular crop at least once, you can use Ulf’s Seed Splicer to splice those seeds.

If you’re short on any seeds required for splicing, you can also purchase them from Lola, should she have them in stock. Alternatively, you may need to explore the map using your Mech to gather them.

Mutated Lumbloom in Lightyear Frontier — Screenshot by Pro Game Guides

After placing enough seeds into the Seed Splicer to create several spliced seeds, sow them in any available crop plot and water them daily, just like you would with regular crops. In a few days, your plants will fully mature, and at least one should display visible differences in size and color, indicating it is a mutated crop. You can then submit this crop to Ulf for his research and to advance his questline.

Your goal is to provide Ulf with at least one of every type of possible mutated crop, while the remainder can be sold to Lola for a significant profit boost.

All Rare Crops in Lightyear Frontier and How to Grow Them

Mutated Polyberry in Lightyear Frontier — Screenshot by Pro Game Guides

Below, we’ve compiled a list of all currently available rare (mutated) crops in Lightyear Frontier, along with instructions for growing them and their base selling prices. You can easily identify a mutated crop by noticeable differences in color and size (see above).

Keep in mind that even when you sow spliced seeds and care for them like traditional crops, only a small percentage will actually produce mutated crops. Therefore, the more spliced seeds you plant, the better your chances of generating a substantial yield of rare crops to provide to Ulf for his research and profitably sell to Lola.

Rare (Mutated) Crop	How to Grow	Base Price (Selling)
Mutated Polyberry	Spliced Polyberry Seeds (5 x Polyberry Seeds per splice)	$450
Mutated Rabbage	Spliced Rabbage Seeds (5 x Rabbage Seeds per splice)	$650
Mutated Caroot	Spliced Caroot Seeds (5 x Caroot Seeds per splice)	$550
Mutated Zappertwig	Spliced Zappertwig Seeds (5 x Zappertwig Seeds per splice)	$900
Mutated Chromaize	Spliced Chromaize Seeds (5 x Chromaize Seeds per splice)	$900
Mutated Lumbloom	Spliced Lumbloom Seeds (5 x Lumbloom Seeds per splice)	$1000
Mutated Honeybottle	Spliced Honeybottle Seeds (5 x Honeybottle Seeds per splice)	$450
Mutated Coilvine	Spliced Coilvine Seeds (5 x Coilvine Seeds per splice)	$1350