Food was harvested and sent back to the Morodins' homeworld on great organic space vessels to support a growing population. When an ecological disaster on their homeworld prevented the Morodins from growing their organic starships, the colonists on Varonat were left to fend for themselves. They have continued to experiment and modify Varonat's flora to suit their nutritional needs.

When the human colonists appeared, the Morodins attempted to aid them with their crops, but communication was nearly impossible. The colonists, convinced the Morodins were wild beasts trying to destroy their crops, began to hunt them.

Much later, when several beings ventured into the jungles to sow aleudrupe plants, the Morodins believed they were genuinely interested in working on an agricultrual cooperative. The Morodins aided them by adding the aleudrupe planting sites to their rounds of crop fertilization and experimentation. A common base nutrient in all Morodin slime seemed to please the new jungle farmers, and they returned to harvest and sow aleudrupe plants. Every few months, several members of the Morodin tribe helping these newcomers would be killed by hunters, but the Morodins did not associate the two group of hunters and farmers.

The Morodin "maze-runninng" is the Morodins' means of fertilizing an area with their nutrient slime. The practice is also an intellectual exercise, and it helps the Morodin elders to teach their young the art of biochemical agriculture. Morodins keep track of which areas were fertilized by the patterns of the maze.