Wild Plants Regrow / Spread

[TigerSpring]

Hello!

I'd love to see that every year, the plants capable of growing in certain areas (or that were already growing) can either spread over time (with limits ofc) or have a 'refresh period' during the spring / rainy seasons of its climate. 

For example: full-grown reeds would be accompanied by a few in-progress growth reeds (much like farmable plants), and they can continue growing new plants in the areas they were taken from slowly throughout the warm seasons and stopping when it gets too cold. The following year's spring could introduce fresh growing plants, letting it be possible to continue harvesting plants in an area year after year. 

The re-growth would encompass all wild-grown plants, including trees, reeds, and wild crops.

This of course would need a setting allowing how quickly regrowth occurs, and if it'd be allowed at all. I suggest very slowly, so as not to take from other aspects of the game, but still present enough that it'd be fun for people who like scavenging/traveling to be able to do it again even after winter has fallen.

 

Let me know what you think!

Edited July 29, 2025 by TigerSpring
Pressed enter when I didn't mean to lol.

[DukeLeto42]

I'll just add in that regrowth rate could be tied to local conditions and existing plant frequency. That is, if you have a dozen cattails in a large pond with shallow water (in the right climate, of course), it'll spread quickly, but eventually it'll cap out as there are already too many in the chunk and too many "valid" sites for a plant to spread have been consumed.

But I love this. I'm currently settled along a large, shallow lake with cattails around the edges. I plan to slowly turn much of it into a farm, but would love to leave wide channels in between plots and watch fish and cattails thrive.