Anomaly Garden has a strange way of making your crops more valuable. Instead of immediately selling every fully grown crop, you can leave some of them alone and wait for anomalous effects to change their properties. These mutations can dramatically increase the crop’s selling value, with the rarest effects offering some of the biggest multipliers.
This guide covers the current Anomaly Garden mutations list, including their value multipliers, visual changes, and known methods for triggering specific mutations. Since some mutations can happen naturally while others depend on special events or anomalies, knowing what to watch for can help you get more valuable harvests.
How to Get Mutated Crops
The easiest way to encounter mutations is to let fully grown crops remain in your garden rather than selling them immediately. Many mutations can occur naturally after crops have been left alone for a while, although the exact conditions are different for certain effects.
Some mutations are connected to specific anomalies, weather conditions, or events. This means you should pay attention to unusual activity around your plots instead of harvesting everything as soon as it becomes ready. Waiting can potentially turn an ordinary crop into something worth considerably more. Known mutation methods include:
- Infested Mutation — Triggered when a swarm of maggots infests your growing plots.
- Blighted Mutation — Occurs when crops are touched by Shadow Orbs.
- Corrupted Mutation — Can happen during Corruption events.
- Forbidden Mutation — Has a rare chance of appearing during Corruption events.
- Bloody Mutation — Happens when Fleshy Boxes tamper with your crops.
Other mutations may have specific conditions that are not fully documented yet. Because of this, it is worth keeping an eye on your crops during unusual events and anomalous activity.
Anomaly Garden Mutations List
Mutations change how a crop looks and increase its value compared with a normal version. The multiplier determines how much more valuable the mutated crop can become, with basic mutations starting around 1.6x and the rarest effects reaching as high as 20x. Here are the known Anomaly Garden mutations and their current multipliers:
- Bloody — 1.6x multiplier – The crop becomes red and develops visible blood droplets around it.
- Anomalous — 1.6x multiplier – The crop takes on a darker appearance and gives off a faint essence resembling an anomalous rift.
- Blighted — 1.6x multiplier – The crop changes to a dark purple color and releases a thin, wispy fog.
- Twisted — 1.8x multiplier – The crop develops a metallic purple appearance that makes it look like it has been wrapped in purple foil.
- Infested — 1.8x multiplier – The crop is affected by an infestation, changing its appearance as the anomaly takes hold.
- Big — 2x multiplier – The crop grows larger than its normal size.
- Corrupted — 2x multiplier – The crop becomes affected by corruption, giving it increased value.
- Cursed — 2.7x multiplier – A rarer mutation that provides a significantly higher value multiplier.
- Huge — 3x multiplier – The crop becomes much larger than its standard size.
- Spectral — 3x multiplier – This mutation gives the crop a spectral anomalous effect.
- Charged — 3.2x multiplier – The crop becomes charged with an unusual energy effect.
- Irradiated — 3.9x multiplier – The crop develops an irradiated mutation that greatly increases its value.
- Crystal — 4.4x multiplier – The crop takes on a crystal-like mutation and receives a higher selling multiplier.
- Radiant — 5x multiplier – A valuable mutation that gives the crop a radiant effect.
- Astral — 6.5x multiplier – This rare mutation gives crops an astral appearance and a substantial value increase.
- Forbidden — 8x multiplier – One of the rarer mutations, providing an 8x value multiplier.
- Eldritch — 20x multiplier – The highest known mutation multiplier, making an Eldritch crop exceptionally valuable.
Should You Wait for Mutations?
Whether you should wait depends on the crop and how much you need immediate money. Normal crops provide a reliable source of income, but mutated crops can be considerably more valuable because their multipliers are applied to the crop’s value.
For example, an Eldritch mutation has a 20x multiplier, while a Radiant mutation provides 5x. Even some of the more common mutations, such as Big and Corrupted, can double a crop’s value. This makes mutation hunting an interesting alternative to simply harvesting and selling everything immediately.
A practical approach is to keep valuable fully grown crops in your plots when you are able to wait. Pay particular attention during Corruption events and when anomalies such as Shadow Orbs, Fleshy Boxes, or maggot swarms appear.
Anomaly Garden Mutation Value Progression
The mutation system has a wide range of value increases, from relatively small bonuses to extremely large multipliers. The progression currently looks like this:
- 1.6x: Bloody, Anomalous, Blighted
- 1.8x: Twisted, Infested
- 2x: Big, Corrupted
- 2.7x: Cursed
- 3x: Huge, Spectral
- 3.2x: Charged
- 3.9x: Irradiated
- 4.4x: Crystal
- 5x: Radiant
- 6.5x: Astral
- 8x: Forbidden
- 20x: Eldritch
The biggest jump comes with Eldritch, which currently sits far above the other known mutations at 20x. Forbidden is the next major step at 8x, followed by Astral at 6.5x and Radiant at 5x.
Mutations are one of the main reasons not to treat every fully grown crop as an instant sale in Anomaly Garden. Leaving crops alone gives anomalous effects more opportunities to appear, and certain events can create specific mutations that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.
For farming, keep an eye out for Corruption events, Shadow Orbs, Fleshy Boxes, and other strange occurrences around your garden. The exact conditions for several mutations are still being discovered, so this list may expand as more mechanics become known.