weird plant thing?

[copperhead]

i found a seed and planted it, i am confused as to what it does and would like someone who knows more about it to explain? thanks in advance.

[Your Majesty]

I'm also unsure, to add: I tried mining the "roots" and they don't give you anything when you break their block. Further, the "rooting" effect seemed to only go one direction (right). Once I broke the right-most block it was rooted in, the "plant" seemed to stop growing. I did not count the waves after breaking the roots, but I'd like to say it was over 5 waves and I didn't see any change in the structure.

[RhiaRhiRhi]

From my (singular) experience, the seed takes some time/waves to grow, and there are a few stages before it is finished. I left the roots untouched and just let it do its thing for a while.

It just spawned a single gold resource for me, though from the text description different places likely affect yield/resource type

[Bonzai101]

If it's the seed I just got in my latest run, you plant it on a resource brick, it then takes some time to grow, but will then slowly generate that resource to be harvested.

[Rokkr]

To add, for gold it is 1 unit per cycle and will not grow additional until harvested. Be sure to grow it on a resource block in an area you'll pass through each day, as going out of your way for 1 resource isn't efficient. However, you can also just mine the roots and get the seed back to plant somewhere else too to optimize or change the resource it will grow.

[Bonzai101]

Oh, this is very cool, just found a screenshot of someone planting it in the middle of multiple resources.......
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868989904

[Rokkr]

Originally posted by Bonzai101:

Oh, this is very cool, just found a screenshot of someone planting it in the middle of multiple resources.......
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868989904

Good find, hadn't considered that. Will have to try it out next run!

[Coconutsales]

I planted on an Iron vein that was 5 blocks big, and after it rooted every block and grew to full size it was growing 3 Iron after EVERY SINGLE wave.

I was able to keep going and fully upgrade my dome weapon and keeper equipment that way

[ima420r]

Originally posted by Coconutsales:

I planted on an Iron vein that was 5 blocks big, and after it rooted every block and grew to full size it was growing 3 Iron after EVERY SINGLE wave.

I was able to keep going and fully upgrade my dome weapon and keeper equipment that way

It appears to give a max of 3 resources. I planted mine on top of a resource block that was surrounded by other blocks with the same resource and never got more than 3 at a time.

[Coconutsales]

I wonder, does the max amount (up to 3) depend on how many rooted resource deposits there are?

Does a plant rooted to 1 resource still give 3 eventually?

Does more rooted resources affect regeneration speed of the grown resources?

I have only found the seed once so I have a whopping sample size of 1. What's everyone else's experience with the seed?

[Lhee]

If planted above a mix of different resources it can also sprout the multiple types. Each 'limb' consistently spawned the resource under it.
Haven't ever found a good spot with 3 different types in a row, but I have seen up to 3 branches if the roots find enough to draw from.

[Rithrin]

3 is the max. I planted it on a group of 7 gold (iron?) ore, only ever gave me 3 resources per wave. It's nice, especially if you get it early on large maps, but especially on small maps it's probably better to just mine the resources than wait for 3+ waves for it to even start producing.

It also seems like you handicap yourself if you grow it on a resource patch greater than 3, because it takes 1 wave per block to mature. So in my example, it didn't grow fully into a tree until after 7 waves. If it was planted on a group of 3 resources, it would have produced after only 3 waves and yielded the same amount.

[Coconutsales]

Originally posted by Rithrin:

3 is the max. I planted it on a group of 7 gold (iron?) ore, only ever gave me 3 resources per wave. It's nice, especially if you get it early on large maps, but especially on small maps it's probably better to just mine the resources than wait for 3+ waves for it to even start producing.

It also seems like you handicap yourself if you grow it on a resource patch greater than 3, because it takes 1 wave per block to mature. So in my example, it didn't grow fully into a tree until after 7 waves. If it was planted on a group of 3 resources, it would have produced after only 3 waves and yielded the same amount.

I think having it on more than three resource tiles lets it produce every wave. It may have to link to 3 to start producing 3, but it wouldn't be every wave. I had it linked to 5 and it was producing each wave.