Help me, I am freaking out over here!

[Timpa]

Okay so I have over 100+ hours in this game, I am not a noob at any degree & have made it for countless days. However this was a new phenomenom. I have this base in a relatively new world (just on day 12) & I just now started realising that there's evil flowers spawning around my area..?!

I do not know what it means, but it cannot be good. They were not around my base before or out in the woods around & now there's more of them than there's regular flowers. I am not insane, or low on hunger or health. Nothing uncommon has happened so far other than a giant green mushroom spawned outside my base the night before.

If someone knows if this has happened to them & what I can expect, then I thank you in advance.


*EDIT

Okay now I'm freaking out even more. All the evil flowers have gone now except the petals I picked. What the actual ♥♥♥♥ is going on?!

[FateWeaver]

It is because of the butterflies... :/
When they interact with evil flowers they make more of them... Yeah... Flowers and butterflies are kinda the same species in the Don't Starve world... Yup... Kinda bonkers... XD

[Unodus]

Woah, calm down- man! Its just flowers! XD
*hands over pitchforks*
Are you sure it isn't the full moon thing? Don't all the flowers become evil every full moon...? :P (in RoG) Same with the big ol mushroom
Its got nothing to do with the butterflies- its just a RoG feature you were unaware of, if I'm right >:3

[Duplo]

The evil flowers that spread in my game eventually change to regular flowers, and then back to evil flowers. So if you don't want evil flowers around your camp, just pick them when they are regular.

[FateWeaver]

Originally posted by Unodus:

Woah, calm down- man! Its just flowers! XD
*hands over pitchforks*
Are you sure it isn't the full moon thing? Don't all the flowers become evil every full moon...? :P (in RoG) Same with the big ol mushroom
Its got nothing to do with the butterflies- its just a RoG feature you were unaware of, if I'm right >:3

Actually interbreeding was a thing even before the expansion... Even during early access... Yeah...

[FateWeaver]

If I recall correctly regular evil flowers don't really do much on their own, but if you plant a regular butterfly next to them so it turns into a regular flower... Well... Then magic starts to happen... Had fun farming these little devils on my world before the expansion pack. :) Needed them for my nightmare fuel afterall. So unless they have radically changed something since the expansion got officially released then their life cycle should still work like that.

[Unodus]

Originally posted by Fateweaver:

Originally posted by Unodus:

Woah, calm down- man! Its just flowers! XD
*hands over pitchforks*
Are you sure it isn't the full moon thing? Don't all the flowers become evil every full moon...? :P (in RoG) Same with the big ol mushroom
Its got nothing to do with the butterflies- its just a RoG feature you were unaware of, if I'm right >:3

Actually interbreeding was a thing even before the expansion... Even during early access... Yeah...

Thats.. not what I meant... x.x
The inbreeding thing would take more than 12 days to have such a dynamic effect- so the butterfly thing is irrelevent...

[Timpa]

The fullmoon thing makes alot of sense actually.

[FateWeaver]

Actually Unodus, it happens quite rappidly. It can be quite the weed in your garden if you are not careful to control the spread. :S Kinda like that meat plant...
Edit: When I think about it Evil/Normal flower spread reminds me a lot of how corruption works in Terraria! XD
Second Edit: A quick wiki search and it turns out that you guys are right about the fullmoon effect in RoG. There is now also a spring effect where they spawn naturally with no butterflies needed. Oh, I also forgot to mention that bees are a part of that cycle just like in real life! How silly of me! :P
Third Edit after even more researching: And would you know... The bees are ultimately responsible for "planting" new flowers off screen when you are not looking. And here I always assumed that the butterflies planted themselves automatically. Logical thing to assume when you can plant them manually, but hey... Easy mistake to make. So yeah, got bees around your evil flower den?

[Timpa]

Originally posted by Fateweaver:

I did notice that some of the naturally spawned evil flowers has increased over time, as you said, most probably to the bee hive's around here. Fullmoon effect is the answer then, as most of the flowers that I saw that were evil had gone away by dawn or had turned back to regular flowers.

[FateWeaver]

Yay, we averted a crisis guys! ^^ May your flowers never drain your sanity forever more! ^^