The Last Caretaker Teacher: How to Grow One (and Not a Manual Holder)

A Teacher needs more than 60 kg of Weight and 160 cm of Height, which come from food, and more than 15 Communication, 12 Patience and 10 Wisdom, which come from memory items.

Once Ultimate Genesis is unlocked (food tier 19), 7 of them cover the food side on their own: 350 cm of Height and 70 kg of Weight. On earlier food tiers the Human Recipe Finder lists the smallest mix for each tier.

For the memory side, 2 Plans, 2 Biology Notes and 3 Stopwatches give 16 Communication, 15 Patience and 20 Wisdom, each above what a Teacher needs. Love Letters or Maps work in place of a Biology Notes (10 Wisdom each), and Mystery Box or Small Tree in place of a Stopwatch (5 Patience each).

A Manual Holder needs the same five things with smaller numbers: more than 40 kg of Weight, 100 cm of Height, 5 Communication, 10 Patience and 10 Wisdom. So every human that qualifies as a Teacher also qualifies as a Manual Holder, and one that falls short on any Teacher number can only be a Manual Holder.

When a human qualifies for more than one job, the game picks one of them at random, favouring the higher tier. Teacher is tier 2 and Manual Holder tier 1, so a full Teacher mix usually gives a Teacher, but not every time: save just before you start the growth, and load that save if a Manual Holder comes out.

While the human grows, the rack can show Manual Holder first and switch to Teacher later as the numbers climb, so let the growth finish before you judge it.

Before you start, track Teacher on the Lazarus Rack: the Growth Prediction shows how close the food and memory items you loaded come to it, so a missing item shows up before you grow.

The Habitat Care committee needs a Teacher, together with a Room Supervisor, a Health Assistant and a Lab Technician, and every member must be 18 or older. A Teacher you launched earlier counts too, and one launched at 17 takes its seat once it turns 18 in space.