So hey, my favorite faction to play in vanilla is Farmers just because I really like the plant theme. But to be honest the Farmers are kind of a big unbalanced mixed-up mish-mash of a faction- like, they have super crops, plant-supporting hulls, and solor panels all in one faction. Those things are all kind of redundant, and the AI won't use the seed-planter intelligently anyway. On top of that, the farmers have lots of cheap shooty guns and lasers that just strip the crops off your hulls anyway, rather than say fighters that could take the fighting away from your precious plants, and the plants themselves can get really out of hand and weight down your ships- but their best armor inexplicably supports plants as well, not just their special plant hulls, so if you armor your warships they just end up bogged down with plants, rather than the plants only sticking to your economic ships. Like I said, to me it all feels like just one big mess.

Anyway, I'd really like a 'gardener' sort of faction that _wasn't_ a random potluck, but one of the lynchpins of my ideas is that they would interact with plants a little differently, and have their own special crops. I know you can edit ship parts in mods, but can you edit plants and plant parts? Is it possible to create new seed launchers that launch new kinds of plants? Can plant behavior be modified, and not just stats?

If anyone has tried to do any of this and is familiar with it it would be a great help to hear from you.