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Lightyear Frontier Seeds and Sprouts Change Guide

A rich and diverse life on an alien planet starts with a seed. You can grow many plants, and you have to know how to change the Seeds and Sprouts type in Lightyear Frontier to take care of them all.

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How to Switch types of Seeds and Sprouts in Lightyear Frontier

You have to access the Tool Wheel, which is a quick way to control your Tools in Lightyear Frontier. Then, hover over the Seed Shooter or Sprout Cannon and change the Seed or Sprout type. Different Seeds and Sprouts give you different resources you can use in crafting or trading with Lola in Merchant Lander.

How to Access Tool Wheel in Lightyear Frontier

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Press Q on the keyboard or Left Bumper on a gamepad to access the Tool Wheel. This wheel menu is very useful for accessing your tools instead of using numerics or the mouse wheel. More importantly, the Tool Wheel is the only way to change the type of Seeds or Sprouts for your planting tools.

How to change Seeds and Sprouts type in Lightyear Frontier

While holding the Tool Wheel button, hover over the Seed Shooter or Sprout Cannon. If you have more than one Seed or Sprout, you'll notice there are a few seeds to choose from. You can switch between the Seeds and Sprouts by pressing E/R on the keyboard or Left/Right on a Directional Pad (the cross one). After you select what you're gonna plant, head to the Plot and shoot them into the soil.

Why do I need different Seeds and Sprouts in Lightyear Frontier?

Different Seeds will give you different plants, which you can use to craft structures or make advanced materials, such as Oils and Fuels. Different Sprouts will grow into different trees, and you have more than one kind of wood. You can also grow Hardwood and Softwood from Yellow Tree and Pine sprouts. Once you build the Merchant Landing, you can trade your plants for blueprints or Mech parts with Lola the Merchant.

For more related articles, check out How to upgrade Irrigation Hose in Lightyear Frontier on Pro Game Guides.


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Nenad Grujić
My name is Nenad Grujić, and I'm a Staff Writer for Pro Game Guides since November 2023. My specialties are fighting games, action adventures, RPGs, driving simulations and anime games. I've been writing about video games since 2012, and I worked for IGN Adria, Blue Moon Game, Emulation Galaxy, and many other gaming sites. In my free time I like to study martial arts, watch movies and TV shows, sing karaoke, and make fandubs and AMVs.