Do flowers naturally respawn?

[harlequin_corps]

Do flowers respawn naturally, like after a rain or season change.

Not asking about either the homeless bee flower respawn mechanic or the planting of butterfly from inventory mechanic.

i/e are flower's non renewable if you kill every last one on the map so that neither bees nor butterflys can respawn them.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Flowers do not naturally spawn. You need bees or butterflies to do it for you, or plant them yourself with the butterflies.

So yes, I think flowers are non-renewable if you eat them all.

[harlequin_corps]

So.. after looking at it. There seems to be some respawn mechanic. Something is plopping down flowers all over the place. Every time I come back to base I have to clean up 10+ flowers so they don't allow the flames to wipe out my base.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Butterflies probably. Flowers will spread other flowers like this. They don't just show up out of nowhere.

[harlequin_corps]

yeah.. but don't the butterflies die when they spawn a flower? This is a LOT of flowers. Or is there a mechanic where a butterfly can spawn multiple flowers.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Butterflies spawn flowers the same way bees do. They visit a flower enough times and that schedules a new flower to spawn in the general area while the player is off-screen.

I suppose flowers could be spawning on their own, but that doesn't explain why in winter or monsoon seasons flowers don't spawn butterflies, so no flowers grow in this time unless bees are working on them.

It's kind of a pointless distinction though since flowers are the ones that spawn the butterflies, which in turn spawn more flowers. So the flowers are helping spread themselves. Planting butterflies is different than the natural pollination process the live butterfly does. They don't have to die, they just despawn at night.

I guess the actual test would be to make a world with butterflies set to "none" and see if flowers just show up out of nowhere still.

[leafy loaf]

butterflies are the cause of flower spawning. the reason it seems wonky is because a flower spawns butterflies and the rate a flower spawns butterflies can be changed in the settings(though as far as i can tell flowers dont spawn faster from any one butterfly)