Mineral

The Mineral mutation lands at a solid x18 sell multiplier, putting it in the mid-tier bracket of color-based mutations in Grow a Garden. Visually it reads as "charcoal but browner" — a darkened, earthy recolor of the crop that distinguishes it from the pure black of Burnt and the deeper tones of related charcoal-family effects.

Because Mineral sits in that earthy recolor family, it behaves like an environmental-color mutation rather than a flashy weather event. It applies multiplicatively alongside growth mutations and rarity mutations, so an x18 base layer stacks cleanly on top of Gold or Rainbow plus any environmental bonuses you already have stuck to the fruit. That makes it genuinely useful filler value on a high-tier crop rather than a headline mutation on its own.

Is it worth chasing? On its own, x18 is respectable but not jackpot-tier, so few players grind specifically for Mineral. The smart play is to let it accumulate passively on premium crops where it joins a long mutation chain — there each extra multiplier compounds the final sheckle payout, and Mineral pulls more than its weight in a stacked harvest.