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Multipurpose Monocultured Crop
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It's common for Worldbuilding writers to Hand Wave the agricultural practices of their fictional planet, Lost World, or fantasy culture. When mentioned at all, often this topic will be minimized by letting virtually all of an invented society's needs be met by just one or two domestic crops or a single kind of livestock. If a plant's roots can be eaten half a dozen ways, its stems burned for fuel, its leaves converted into textiles and its sap brewed into alcohol, it's this trope. Likewise, if the dominant livestock is an easily-reared Explosive Breeder that (conveniently) supplies all the dietary needs of a population on its own. There is at least some Truth in Television to this, but it's somewhat Downplayed in Real Life. Quite a few plants and animals actually do have a lot of possible uses, but many of them are primarily raised for just one or two, and it's extremely rare for a society to be solely dependent on a single crop/livestock for almost everything. Sometimes it's an Invoked Trope: if something is easy enough to raise on a large scale, it makes sense to try and find as many ways to use it as you can. The agricultural equivalent of Green Rocks and When All You Have Is a Hammer…. If this particular crop/livestock's production is the foundation for an entire culture, it can help define a Planet of Hats or One-Product Planet, possibly resulting in a Terminally Dependent Society. May be an indication of current or Lost Organic Technology within the setting. Soylent Soy may be an example if derived from a single crop species rather than blending two or more. |
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Subnautica has a downplayed version of this in the Creepvine. Although the player will require other plants to fulfill all of their material needs to progress in the game, creepvines have more diverse functions than any other plant or lifeform: Transplanted creepvines are bioluminescent, serving as an external light source roughly on par with searchlights or floodlights but without the significant power draw. Creepvine leaves: Are edible, though there are much better food sources since creepvine samples were nerfed note they used to restore 25% each of the player's hunger and thirst meter; now they only restore 3% and 1% respectively and are one of a narrow selection of food items that can make the player sick if too many are eaten in rapid succession Can be woven into textiles, useful for bandages and clothing Can also be woven into rope note the only use for this rope (a dive reel) was retconned into a set of holographic pathfinding discs which were easier for the developers to program, but the discs still use creepvine in the crafting recipe Creepvine seed pods: Secrete an oily industrial-strength lubricant Can be rendered down into silicone rubber Also, all parts of the Creepvine can be used to power the Bioreactor, though like their use as food they're extremely inefficient compared to other available energy sources. note Leaves produce 75 energy, seeds produce 70, and both take up four slots apiece. This in comparison with, say, the Oculus, which occupies one slot per fish and provides 630 energy. |
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The Miracle Seed from The Rising of the Shield Hero that grew into the Bioplant Monster that terrorized Lerno Village becomes a case of this in the Fanfic Family of the Shield, due to Naofumi unlocking several Shields that he uses to modify the Bioplant Seeds he had collected. With them, Naofumi uses his numerous Green Thumb Shield abilities to create a number of various plants from the Bioplant Seeds ranging from newer nutritious and fast-growing crops he can sell or cultivate for culinary or medicinal usage, to creating several Plant Monsters for the sole purpose of Level Grinding and acquiring newer Shields and abilities with, And even heavily-modifying one of these Seeds to become a Daughter whom Raphtalia would name Teal Iwatani; and that she would also use these same seeds to create plant-based defenses and weaponry such as her [Iron Garden]: leaves that are elongated into swords that are super-dense and razor-sharp. | |
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Blood Lotus from The Lotus War. Medicine from its sap, tea and smokes from its leaves, rope and canvas from its stems, and the local answer to "gasoline" from its seeds. Subverted in that it's what turned the setting into a Crapsack World (its roots produce a poisonous liquid that ruins soil quality unless it's fed blood and the fuel processed from its seeds doesn't burn very cleanly), that and the Mega-Corp that worships it. It's implied that its pollen contributes to the Greenhouse Effect. | |
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While generally averted in Destroyermen, polta fruit seems to have shades of this. It's an extremely versatile fruit that can be eaten, fermented into seep (an intoxicant), mashed into a paste that has antiseptic properties, and, as discovered eventually, can be used as battery acid. | |
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You can even eat the silk! (One episode of Iron Chef Japan had Sakai deep-frying it to make an edible decoration for his dish — to the confusion and then delight of the tasters.) | |
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Choose Your Own Adventure: The book "Perfect Planet" introduces us to Utopia, a planet that has no violence, no pollution, no hunger, and no poverty. This is because of a singular plant growing on the world that functions as food, fuel, clothing, construction materials, literally everything. Utopia doesn't even have any predation because all the animals have evolved to in some way take advantage of the plant as it has abundant nutrients. | |
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Tuf Voyaging: After the planet of S'uthlam overpopulates past the ability of his other food crops to feed them, Tuf finally provides "manna", a plant that grows anywhere, provides all the nutrition a human needs, and tastes different and wonderful every time. It's also symbiotically bound to a fungus which irreversibly sterilizes 95% of the people who eat it, thus solving the overpopulation issue once and for all. He'd been escalating the multipurpose aspects over his three visits but for religious reasons, the S'uthlamese tended towards hostility to anything like birth control, as well as having a tendency to react to being told things were getting better by having more children, hence why he put in the sterility aspect in his last move (without telling the general public, of course), the manna—not doing something to curb S'uthlam's population would just have meant the same problem returning a few years later, and sooner or later he'd run out of ways to make significant improvements to Suthlam's food supply. | |
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In the Humanx Commonwealth series, Home Trees of Midworld provide food, shelter, and an organic security system. Pika-pina, from Tran-ky-ky, can be made into sailcloth, paper, or rope, its nutrient-rich nodules are edible raw or cooked, and its leaves can be eaten plain, ground into flour, squeezed for juice, or dried out as bedding. | |
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Toriko: Happens out of necessity when Midori devastates the Human World's food infrastructure, leaving people with nothing but reserves and rations. The discovery of the Billion Bird, an Explosive Breeder whose body parts can substitute for a number of staple crops, allows people to eat food that can remotely pass for normal, and for some time humanity subsists almost entirely on Billion Birds and their derivatives. This is eventually averted as Toriko and his friends import in enough raw food from the Gourmet World to satiate everyone. | |
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In the Talislanta game, parts of the viridia plant can be used for everything from flour to fabric to lumber to oil to naturally-grown canoes. Justified by A Wizard Did It. | |
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Nomadic and herder populations worldwide who have "adopted" a particular animal have ended up engaging in similar practices, using the animal in every way possible. The Discworld example above about horse nomads is based on historical accounts of the Mongols, who supposedly even drank horse blood as an emergency food. The Maasai of Kenya still mix cow blood with milk as a protein source (along with meat), though less commonly than they used to (particularly the more urbanized ones and the ones who have converted to Islam—the former because it's not necessary, the latter because their new religion forbids consuming blood). | |
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In The Light Fantastic, Cohen the Barbarian spends time with a clan of horse nomads, who use horses for transport, meat, horsehair robes, leather, milk, and a thin beer best not inquired about.note Horse milk can be fermented into alcohol. | |
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In The Sharing Knife series by the same author, the Lakewalker culture's very staple food is "plunkins," a sort of big round crunchy fruit grown in ponds that requires a little bit of magic to germinate. It's a bit of a handwave, to give the Lakewalkers an easy source of food so they can focus more of their energies on their hereditary task of eradicating evil monsters, but it's treated realistically: there's only so many ways to cook them, and everyone is very tired of them. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: In A Civil Campaign, Enrique Borgos's artificially designed and created "Butter Bugs" are meant to be this. They are large bugs that live in colonies with a Queen and reproduce quickly, yet their breeding is human-controlled so they can't overrun the environment. In their stomachs they secrete 'Bug Butter', which is tasteless, sort of the consistency of tofu, and can supply all your dietary needs: you can practically live off it alone. Their excrement is also excellent fertilizer, and they can be kept at low cost since they can eat just about anything that's organic, including bark, branches, and grass. Their marketing didn't exactly take off at first, as people were turned off by their ugly appearance and thought it was pretty disgusting to eat something that was regurgitated by one until Ekaterin redesigned them to be "Beautiful Butter Bugs". Now it seems they're going to be pretty profitable. | |
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George Washington Carver discovered over 300 uses for peanuts, but did not invent peanut butter. He also discovered over 100 uses for sweet potatoes. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide recommended that DMs incorporate some made-up variety of vegetation or prey into their campaign worlds, that can generate lots of easy food and thus make the abundance of big predatory monsters a bit less implausible. Later D&D attempts to justify the underground world of the Underdark, as well as some deep dwarven halls and other underground dungeons, explain away many needs with some kind of fungus. Eating fungi, drinking fungus beer, feeding beasts of burden, lighting via luminescent fungus... |
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Crops in Dwarf Fortress might be cookable into meals, brewable into booze, millable into sugar or dye, pressable into wax and oil, processable into thread or leaves, or any number of other uses. Plump helmets are notorious for having the most uses among crops, including the unique quality of being edible raw. Among animals, sheep and goats are prized since they can produce meat, milk, bones, leather, and wool without requiring much grazing area, and poultry are prized for meat, bones, eggs, leather, and truly explosive breeding... and at present they don't require food or feeding. | |
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Gilligan's Island does this with a combination of bamboo and palm trees. Since the characters are stranded on an island, they have to make do with whatever grows there. Bamboo is their go-to building material for making anything. It's in their huts, furniture, rafts, a hot air balloon, a plumbing system, a pedal-powered car, Mr. Howell's golf clubs, the Professor's lab equipment, you name it. Meanwhile, palm trees provide palm leaves for making their huts and coconuts as one of their main food sources, with the shells used as everything from drinking cups to battery rechargers. The one thing bamboo and palm trees can't do is fix the boat. | |
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As jam - natural enzymes in the apple even help with preservation. Green apples are often added to other fruit jams to increase their pectin content (the Gourmet Makes episode on recreating Gushers shows how it's done). | |
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BattleTech fluff describes a crop known as quillar, a type of Giant Space Corn that has the impressive property of being useful for just about any imaginable culinary use. It produces inexpensive sugar substitutes, carbonates into a delicious fruit soda, can be toasted as a staple food, mashes like sweet potatoes, converts readily to a jelly as a condiment, is added raw to omelettes for flavor and texture, and is even served dehydrated and vacuum sealed as an easy-to-eat ration for space-going ships. | |
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Radishes in Fraggle Rock. For Fraggles, it's their main food source. Doozers use it as building material (which is why Fraggles find it delicious, although they don't know about it). Gorgs, who grow it in the first place, use it for anti-vanishing cream, which keeps them from fading away to nothing. | |
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Coconut trees to Polynesian cultures. The coconut flesh, the coconut water, the coconut cream made from cooked coconut, the fibres from the husk used for toilet paper or kindling or to make rope or clothing, the leaves to roof shelters, the leaves used as plates, the leaves used as hats, the shells used as bowls, cups, canteens, fishing floats, raft floats, to make small knives, the wood... Just ask Moana's tribe, they have a whole song about it. Here are just a few of the uses of the coconut in general, and coconut oil in particular. It's so important that in some cultures (Hawaiian and Samoan though possibly others) the word they use for Coconut Tree literally translates to "Tree of Life". The only Polynesians who didn't depend on coconuts as a dietary and material staple were the Maori, and only because Aotearoa (New Zealand) has winters, hence no coconut trees. Eradication of its coconut trees to wood overharvesting and seedling loss was central to the collapse of the indigenous civilization on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). |
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The Avernum series, like the D&D example above, resorts to fungi of some sort or another to satisfy countless needs in the deep cavern realm of Avernum. Most varieties were purposely magically engineered for different uses by the first exiles thrown down into Avernum to die. There are also the giant cave lizards, kept for meat and leather as well as (bad-tempered) draft animals. | |
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Corn is this trope in Interstellar, but by default rather than choice: it's the only field crop left that hasn't been wiped out by the Blight. | |
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In The Lorax, the Once-ler uses the tufts from the Lorax's truffula trees to make all-purpose consumer products known as thneeds. Subverted in that the truffula trees aren't being cultivated, just harvested from the wild until there's none left. The original book also makes an off-hand mention that Thneeds can be used for soup, complete with an absurd illustration of a Thneed in a bowl with a spoon sticking out of it. | |
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In The Dispossessed, the population of the moon-world Anarres cultivate a scraggly shrub plant called Hollum to produce all their textile & paper goods, as a building material, as fuel for fires, and for basically everything they can because it is by far the most plentiful vegetation on their dry & dusty planet. | |
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Robotech has the Invid Flower of Life. Scientific discoveries derived from this plant triggered the protoculture wars, as the Robotech Masters seek to control its secrets, the Invid go on a genocidal Roaring Rampage of Revenge in response, and Earth is caught in the middle. Among the products produced from it: | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Many inhabitants of the Imperium of Man subsist on grox, an aggressive breed of reptile that has replaced cattle, along with whatever it is soylens viridiens is made of. (Grox in the good years, algae in the not-so-good years, in the bad years... don't ask.) | |
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Drink them - as juice (the classic kid's drink), hard cider (when Johnny Appleseed went around giving out apple seeds, that was what he had in mind; hard cider was the most common alcoholic beverage in the US during the Antebellum era), or apple brandy, which is a historic beverage in both northern France (where the Normans call it Calvados and the Bretons call it lambig) and the United States (where it is historically called applejack—no, not that one, although that's probably where her name came from—but the term for American apple brandy that was historically made by freeze distillation but today is generally distilled in, well, stills). | |
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In the Doctor Who radio drama The Paradise of Death, a plant called rapine can be used as a source for food, tableware, furnishings, and even metal goods. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: Revonnah's Amber Ogia. The Revonnaganders use this fruit for food, drink, cloth, construction, and more. Its usefulness has been targeted by villains who want to use it for their own gains. It was the main ingredient in Dr. Psychobos' mind-control serum. It can be made into a fuel that could power the villains' entire invasion. Oh, and when we say "food," we mean all food on Revonnah is Amber Ogia processed, prepared, and seasoned in different ways. Pretty much every aspect of their lives is fueled by the stuff in some manner. Revonnah is also the only place Amber Ogia can grow, as crops die in even perfectly recreated environments. | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: One of the real-life examples is referenced. Jacqueline complains that her Native American parents were dumb for teaching her to use the whole buffalo. "Some parts just aren't good, guys! For example: the poop." Her parents point out that they never told her to use the poop. It should be noted that buffalo-hunting tribes did use the dung for various purposes (most importantly as fuel for campfires). | |
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The shmoo, from Li'l Abner, provides meat (several flavors), milk, eggs, butter, leather, wood-substitute, buttons, and toothpicks. The milk, eggs, and butter come already bottled/packaged. Not only do shmoo provide all of the above, they are also Explosive Breeders as well as requiring no food whatsoever (only fresh air). Plus, their "shmoosicals" are so darned entertaining to watch, they've pretty much made television, as an entertainment medium, obsolete. | |
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Filmation's Ghostbusters has "Moon-Blooms," a potato-likenote They look and grow like potatoes, but seem to function more like cacti plant that's grown on the Moon and, according to Prime Evil, "can wipe out hunger...I don't like that!" Each Moon-Bloom pod is filled with a thick, nutritious pink paste, which tastes and smells wonderful (given that it's pink, the flavor must be "bubble-gum"), and is very sticky. All three of these qualities are bad news for Prime Evil: Squeezing a pod and covering him in its sap makes him fly into a rage. | |
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Rimworld: Healroot seems to cover just about any medical application one could think of, be it anesthesia, boosting the immune system, disinfecting, and general healing. Fundamental part of any medkit and can work like a primitive one all on its own. It's suggested genetic engineering was involved in the distant past. Muffalos used to be the livestock equivalent of healroot by providing milk, wool, meat, leather, and caravan carrying capacity, all in one easily tamed and maintained animal that breeds relatively fast and can be found in damn near any biome. Realizing that this was a bit OP, the devs redistributed the milking and caravan utility to other farm animals like yaks and dromedaries, but even then the muffalo remains one of the most versatile livestock choices for any colony on the Rim. |
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Psycho-Pass: Genetically engineered and automatically grown Hyper Oats are the cornerstone of the Orwellian society of future Japan, which relies on shutting the whole populace in the cities and the fact that Future Food Is Artificial. | |
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