Beetles vs. Thyme

[bunnzy]

I've planted a lot of elm, which spawns Thyme (apparently). I read up and made sure I planted a lot of lizard spawning cypress trees too.

I clear away the grasses so things can grow and spread.

But my f'ing gosh, there are like 1,000,000 beetles, more than any lizard can eat. And as I'm walking around I can hear them munching on the thyme. There are 52 squares of green there, plenty of room, but not one single bush can survive the beetle onslaught.

So it's day 18. I'm dying of poison. I can't get any thyme.

And because this game is just so slow, I fear that if I die I probably just can't be arsed to do this again until I can auto sleep through the night, run, speed up time etc. I've played for 10 hours total to get to this stage, i don't think I have enough time with all my other commitments to try another 10 hours, so please, help me!

Why are there so many beetles?

I'd really love some advice.

What I've done:
* Planted with much diversity, lots of lizard trees
* tried putting fences around trees, and surrounding greenery, but the beetles spawn inside the fences


Not one single f'ing thyme bush... :(

[phantasie]

Yes I agree. There are too many beetles.
I also can't get thyme anymore because of the beetles.
I try to set fences arount the elm trees but they spawn inside.
This gamte is so great but I don't want run after beetles all the time :-(

[Lunae]

+1

[Stormbird]

Are you sure it's the beetle problem? Do beetles eat thyme? Did you actually observe a beetle eating it?
I have never seen any beetle eat thyme in my game; they were interested in my crops exclusively. Did that change with some recent update and i haven't notice?
I had a problem with disappearing thyme a couple updates ago but it was squirrels that were eating it not beetles.

And btw, the solution to your situation is black and has four legs. After reaching 150 Green Factor and some waiting (it was more than a week in game time in my case) a cat appears near the fence in front of your house. Feed it rats and it will start following you, killing every pest it sees.
Build the cat basket and place it near your thyme spawns. When the cat sits in its basket it automaticaly guards surrounding area. Your thyme will be safe that way.

[Shadeheart]

Hi,

Me and wife have the same problem, too many beetles and if we lower the elm tree the thym does not appear and doesn't multplicate.
This game is great so we want to play but our caracters die from poison

Regard

[Bärbel-Sieglinde]

Originally posted by Stormbird:

Are you sure it's the beetle problem? Do beetles eat thyme? Did you actually observe a beetle eating it?
I have never seen any beetle eat thyme in my game; they were interested in my crops exclusively. Did that change with some recent update and i haven't notice?

Yes, update 1.3.0 created this problem and the 1.3.0-hot fix did not solve it.

Originally posted by Stormbird:

And btw, the solution to your situation is black and has four legs.

Izzie is great!

But not the solution in this case. If you start a new game it is damn hard to reach 150 green cause you have to watch over your elm trees all time instead of doing useful things.
I guess we have to wait until friday. Hopefully the developer will fix this beetle apocalypse.

[phantasie]

Originally posted by Stormbird:

Are you sure it's the beetle problem? Do beetles eat thyme? Did you actually observe a beetle eating it?
I have never seen any beetle eat thyme in my game; they were interested in my crops exclusively. Did that change with some recent update and i haven't notice?
I had a problem with disappearing thyme a couple updates ago but it was squirrels that were eating it not beetles.

And btw, the solution to your situation is black and has four legs. After reaching 150 Green Factor and some waiting (it was more than a week in game time in my case) a cat appears near the fence in front of your house. Feed it rats and it will start following you, killing every pest it sees.
Build the cat basket and place it near your thyme spawns. When the cat sits in its basket it automaticaly guards surrounding area. Your thyme will be safe that way.

In my game the squirels are allways near by the oak trees and the beetles
are allways near by elm trees and yes I saw them eating everything around the elms
no green gras rather thym and at the other trees they eat just the poison mushrooms I need for the potion not the other mushrooms

[bunnzy]

Originally posted by Stormbird:

Are you sure it's the beetle problem? Do beetles eat thyme? Did you actually observe a beetle eating it?
I have never seen any beetle eat thyme in my game; they were interested in my crops exclusively. Did that change with some recent update and i haven't notice?
I had a problem with disappearing thyme a couple updates ago but it was squirrels that were eating it not beetles.

Heya :) Thank you for your reply.

Yeah, I've seen it happen for sure. They are pests.

And btw, the solution to your situation is black and has four legs. After reaching 150 Green Factor and some waiting (it was more than a week in game time in my case) a cat appears near the fence in front of your house. Feed it rats and it will start following you, killing every pest it sees.
Build the cat basket and place it near your thyme spawns. When the cat sits in its basket it automaticaly guards surrounding area. Your thyme will be safe that way.

Unfortunately I won't make it that far into the game, there isn't enough thyme to keep me alive.


Thanks for the replies all. Glad to see it's not me and something I have done. I wonder if the hotfix will fix it. Too bad, cos I'll be dead, and this leads into my next gripe:


What I wouldn't give for separate save slots... That seems like a function we could expect in any game in 2020.

If I start again I have to start from scratch, again. And it's just so slow going.


Also I think there is a bug, when you cut down a tree and start to pick things up (the branches and the log) every bush and grass in the vicinity gets automatically harvested.. yikes, I'm not even holding a scythe. I lost a bush that way by cutting down a tree in the vicinity. Anyone else experience that?

[Jenny191987]

Build a cat basket, put it outside and wait a few days. Then a cat comes and waits for you to bring 10 dead rats to the cat. Then she belongs to you and eats everything that runs around, beetles, lizards and squirrels. My english is ♥♥♥♥ so I had to use the google translator

[Bärbel-Sieglinde]

Originally posted by bunnzy:

What I wouldn't give for separate save slots... That seems like a function we could expect in any game in 2020.
If I start again I have to start from scratch, again. And it's just so slow going.

there are 2 slots. autosave and gamesave. autosave will be used after you get up and gamesave will be used if you use the save function. As a workaround you can make a copy of these files. you will find them in:
[userdir]\AppData\LocalLow\Zerone Games\Green Project\SaveFiles\

Originally posted by bunnzy:

Also I think there is a bug, when you cut down a tree and start to pick things up (the branches and the log) every bush and grass in the vicinity gets automatically harvested.. yikes, I'm not even holding a scythe. I lost a bush that way by cutting down a tree in the vicinity. Anyone else experience that?

No, it is not. In fact it is very usefull if you cut a cypress tree and his 100 mushrooms plop up too.

[Frost]

I'm sitting on 99 toxicity. Doesn't seem to get higher. But also have no thyme... :(

[phantasie]

There was a bug fix becaus of the beetles.
Thank you :-)

[Bärbel-Sieglinde]

Originally posted by phantasie:

There was a bug fix becaus of the beetles.
Thank you :-)

Sure but it looks like that the behavior of the beetles was sharply reduced from eat everything immediatly to eat almost everything very fast.

[bbungay2000]

I too am having the same problem. It seems all of my thyme is gone. I am on day 60 and have about 20 elm trees planted and a green factor of 90 and all of my thyme has disappeared from all my elm trees and even the ones where there are no beetles. I rechecked all the building and can not find any more am about to dye my poison factor in 81 and i have no way to stop it. seems like the trees just stopped spawning the thyme. Hor fix needs to be re-looked at please.

[siggi_jonasch]

Yesterday's HotFix about the Beetle-Problem spend some new problems: before the update i had 3-4 beetles near the elms - after installing the HotFix there are immediatly about 20 of them. Even in areas without elms - but with thyme and blue flowers.

[Stormbird]

This guy here seems to know what he is doing. Maybe this video will help you all with your thyme problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7BVhTsDZg0