Where can I find Edelweiss flowers?

[ArtiKs]

I know it's kind of trivial, but I've never been able to find this flower in any of my worlds. 
Where do they generate? Mountains? Valleys? South? North? Do they even generate at all? 
The same with rafflesias and their red counter part.

[Streetwind]

You can find all of the spawn conditions in ...\assets\survival\worldgen\blockpatches\flower.json.

Rafflesias need hot, humid jungles. Edelweiss wants things cold and high up.

 

Edited December 12, 2023 by Streetwind
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[franzanth]

Sorry for the necro but I struggled for 3 days trying to find edelweiss and all the info I got whether from reddit or discord were incomplete/too vague. Most people didn't even get their questions answered.

Since this seems to be THE "where's edelweiss" thread in the forum, I'd like to document how I found mine.

TL;DR
Find a latitude (Z coordinate) that's warm enough to have redwood/bald cypress, then travel west/east until you find Y=200 mountaintops with maple/oak/pine and hope for the best. Their spawn range is very narrow and you need a lot of luck for the elevation and temperature to align.

So, the info weirdness:
The wiki states that edelweiss spawns at elevation 0.65-1x world height (83.2-128 at normal world height 256) with a sliding scale between 0-2, but this is just weird. The sea level is at 110, not exactly halfway at 128.

If we interpret this as Y=83-128, they'd be close to sea level, not in the mountains.
If we interpret this as Y=110+83, that’d be Y=194
If we interpret this as Y=128+83, that'd be Y=211
Another possible interpretation of this is using “/wgen pos climate” and looking for "Sealevel dist: 65%" or above. Which in a 256 height world, should be Y=168 or above.
I found mine at Y=204.

Temperature
Edelweiss spawns between -1°C and 12C. People keep saying “go somewhere cold” but this is incomplete info. The easiest way to check this from a distance, without actually climbing the mountain, is by looking at the surrounding trees. Some of the relevant trees are listed below:

Too cold
Larch -17°C to -4C

Within range
Maple 0°C to 23C
Oak 2°C to 22C
Pine -18°C to 12C

Too warm
Redwood 14°C to 18°C
Bald Cypress 15°C to 24°C

Basically, if the mountain top has larch (and most visibly from the map, snow/ice), it’s too cold for edelweiss. If it has bald cypress or redwood, it’s too warm. You need to find tall mountains with maple/oak/pine. People on reddit and discord keep saying "I looked at snowy mountains and found none" - this is why.

Latitude
People keep saying “go north” and again, this is incomplete info. I know temperature has patches and isn’t consistent from west to east, but this is more structured than traveling randomly hoping for the right mountain.

If most plants around sea level are maple/oak/pine in that latitude, the mountain tops are most likely larch/snow. What you want is find a latitude that’s warm enough to have redwood/bald cypress at "normal" elevations, then travel west/east and hope for a mountain with maple/oak/pine.

My world gen has halved polar-equator distance and so my redwood/bald cypress band is narrow, which is why I struggled so much.

I haven’t tried for Rafflesia but judging from the temperatures it should be in very dense forests in the acacia/bamboo/ebony/kapok/purpleheart temperature range, especially bamboo.

[Echo Weaver]

What's the significance of edelweiss?

[idiomcritter]

5 minutes ago, Echo Weaver said:

What's the significance of edelweiss?

irl its got its own wiki

in the game, its ornamental, it might be considered a bit rare, and worth collecting maybe

[franzanth]

it's just a rare collectible (but I like the plants in this game). and based on discord comments, it's used as a crafting material in a mod. and apparently it's Tyron's homeland's national flower so he intentionally made it rare.