Playing Homo Sapiens in the tropics. Can't find flax. Am I fucked?

[LimbusCompany]

So I've just started a solo playthrough with Homo Sapiens in a tropical region. It averages about 35-45 C around the continent I'm on. I've only explored about 1k blocks north and haven't found any flax, or berry bushes. I was anticipating no berries, but i didn't expect to have no flax as all.... Am I fucked until I can go north? 

 

I've settled the southernmost part of my continent and it's about 41 degrees in early may. I'm still firmly in the stone age with my eyes set on some copper patches around my home.

 

 

 

as an aside, it does sting that with my preferred playstyle (no ruins, no monsters, no traders) requires me to do a nautical expedition for a key crafting material if I dare live somewhere not temperate. I hope they add alternatives to flax that are native to the tropics someday!!

Edited Tuesday at 04:59 AM by LimbusCompany

[Professor Dragon]

Well, you're up against it, and it looks like you're aware of the issues.

Not only can't you get flax from ruins, monsters or traders, but the temperature range not only hits growing conditions hard, but also natural flax spawns.

Maybe you can find some at elevation, and then grow it at elevation, but I'm not sure.

The good news is that there is now the water wheel in the game, and I don't see any flax requirements to get to that level (???). So you don't need a huge flax farm for windmill sails.

Also, don't forget that going South may get you to colder climate quicker rather than north, depending on how you got to your current spawn location.

Enjoy your run. 

Professor Dragon.

P.S. If desperate, mods or /gamemode creative, especially if you like cabbages.

Edited Tuesday at 09:32 AM by Professor Dragon

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! It's been a while since I messed around with a tropics map, but as I recall, flax should spawn. Perhaps not as often as it does in temperate climates, but it should exist. I think it tends to show up more often in the grassland regions, or cooler chunks when they appear, but it can be difficult to spot in the tall grass, and tall grass there will be aplenty since it's the tropics.