Do world trees respawn? Like if I cut down an entire mini island of gum trees will they all grow back or do I got to plant em?

[NiveusT]

Do world trees respawn? Like if I cut down an entire mini island of gum trees will they all grow back or do I got to plant em?

[CblRobbie]

Id like to know as well lol.. same with rock and ore spawns.. I know its all procedural generated but thats all i know lol

[m.e.o.w.]

I don't know of a resource that doesn't respawn. (correction, quartz does not currently respawn, I made a post later to correct myself)

It may take several days and it often spawns in a random spot instead of the same one, but player used resources respawn as far as I know.

[Piperbird]

Everything respawns. It all seems to take about a week. I have everything marked on my map so I can find it all again. Everything I've seen so far does respawn in the same spot, so I recommend marking your map, too. I've got all the pearls marked, the large ore fields, and dangerous animal dens. More ores tend to spawn in ones or twos here or there, but the large clusters are always in the same place for me.

[HunterSilver]

Resource and creature spawns seem to be based on ground tiles, and everything seems capable of respawning. Grass, flowers, bushes, etc. spawn on any appropriate biome tile with grass. Ore has a low chance to spawn almost anywhere but prefers to spawn on the bumpy terrain. Mangrove trees will spawn on any mud tile. Wary Mu will respawn on their nest, and if their nest is destroyed it will attempt to respawn on a valid tropical location within the world each day, sometimes placing them in inconvenient locations that can't spawn Wary Mu such as underwater.

Trees seem to require grass tiles and the appropriate biome in order to grow on their own, though someone please correct me if I have that mistaken. Note that the grass tiles cannot be cut with a lawnmower or else nothing will grow there.

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Yes. I've seen gum trees start growing in empty brushland I cleared. It just takes a very, very long time.

[Sybarine]

Originally posted by HunterSilver:

Trees seem to require grass tiles and the appropriate biome in order to grow on their own, though someone please correct me if I have that mistaken. Note that the grass tiles cannot be cut with a lawnmower or else nothing will grow there.

Just the grass is required for trees to slowly spawn on it - I moved my base to a desert biome, placed down fir grass seeds all over and am getting pine trees spawning. This also works for the grass-specific flowers and (in the case of tropical grass) bushes and ferns etc.

[Piperbird]

I wish there was a way to spawn or move regular rocks. I think they would look nice around my town. Or be able to craft decorative rocks of different sizes, shapes, or colors. I changed my home base to fur grass, and now the trees and flowers are spawning and it looks nice, but it's so flat. Rocks would give it a little more character.

[Grishord]

Originally posted by Aiona0001:

I don't know of a resource that doesn't respawn.

It may take several days and it often spawns in a random spot instead of the same one, but player used resources respawn as far as I know.

Quartz doesn't. I haven't seen a Quartz node since Y1 Autumn, and i"m currently in Y2 Summer.

[m.e.o.w.]

Originally posted by Grishord:

Originally posted by Aiona0001:

I don't know of a resource that doesn't respawn.

It may take several days and it often spawns in a random spot instead of the same one, but player used resources respawn as far as I know.

Quartz doesn't. I haven't seen a Quartz node since Y1 Autumn, and i"m currently in Y2 Summer.

Thanks for the response, @Grishord. I was able to confirm this both testing in game for 3 years and then following up with the dev for confirmation (that quartz does not currently re-spawn as its own resource).

In the next major update, you should be able to get quartz in the deep mine. Until then, the only way to obtain it once you have mined it all, is through RNG such as quarries, and rocks that sometimes spawn with them.

Happy mining!

[spielerinchen]

my question is - are the biomes dictating the ground or is the ground dictating the biomes ?
can please someone actually informed how this game is programmed answer

[em_t_hed]

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

my question is - are the biomes dictating the ground or is the ground dictating the biomes ?
can please someone actually informed how this game is programmed answer

+1

[Tigrecito]

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

my question is - are the biomes dictating the ground or is the ground dictating the biomes ?
can please someone actually informed how this game is programmed answer

I would say ground dictates the biomes:
Example: When you replace any ground with mud from mangroves, the mangroves start to spawn there..

[Paris]

Originally posted by Tigrecito:

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

my question is - are the biomes dictating the ground or is the ground dictating the biomes ?
can please someone actually informed how this game is programmed answer

I would say ground dictates the biomes:
Example: When you replace any ground with mud from mangroves, the mangroves start to spawn there..

That's correct that the ground (tile) determines what can grow on top of it.

[spielerinchen]

Originally posted by Paris:

That's correct that the ground (tile) determines what can grow on top of it.

ok, but does it change the biome, so it's visible on the map as well ?

[lotw_1]

I did a test and it seems that everything respawns in time, mainly based on the ground cover. For example I went and cleared an area in my town of everything but the dirt, leveled, etc. Then I went to the forest area, got the dark grass and planted it all over in that area, now I have Dark wood trees, grass, and flowers from that area growing in my town by themselves. It is random on how long it takes and what will grow back. I created another test area where I used the chainsaw and took everything down to the original grass to see how long, etc.

Some things like deposits will not if you dig up the dirt or replace it with something else. So I stopped using metal detecting or even digging up those spots.