Didn't water the plant. Didn't save the bird.

[eBay_aDDict]

Wtf, I never had the option to water the plant or save the bird. What did I do wrong? How would these things affect me later?

[Moral Wiz]

You can water the plant in Max's room. You have the option when you go in there.

To save the bird, you need to go into Chloe's parents' room. It'll hit the window. Rewind, and open the window to save it.

Effects of watering the plant are unknown. Saving the bird lets you take a photo of it later, getting an achievement, and might lead to more down the line

[Taomiline]

I also missed the plant on my first playthrough. I'm assuming that if you don't water the plant in ep1, by ep2 it will start to wither or something (in ep1 Max says she hasn't watered it for a while, in ep2 she says something like "the leaves look healthy today").

The bird in ep1 can be found at Chloe's house, in her mom's bedroom upstairs. The bird crashes into a window and dies, you can rewind and open the window for the bird before that happens. Later the bird appears at the lighthouse and you can take an optional photo. This doesn't happen if the bird dies.

As far as I know so far, that's all there is to those choices. But there's been some speculation about the importance of the plant/the water bottle later on in the game.

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Moral Wiz:

Effects of watering the plant are unknown.

It determines if you can save Kate or not. If you watered it you can use it to climb to the roof.

[elsie]

yea no one knows what happens if you don't water the plant. i've read that by not watering lucy, you anger mother gaia and in the final episode, the tornado is even more fierce, leaving no survivors in arcadia bay.

[Jenenser]

I heard, depending on if you watered the plant or not, you get a discount of the official LiS merchandise[eu.square-enix.com]. And I am sure it had nothing to do with the date.

[Altrixia]

Originally posted by Moral Wiz:

Saving the bird lets you take a photo of it later, getting an achievement, and might lead to more down the line

I never saved the bird or even found it, but I was able to get the optional photo.

[Lehkeri]

Originally posted by Captain Axelthestormer XVI:

Originally posted by Moral Wiz:

Saving the bird lets you take a photo of it later, getting an achievement, and might lead to more down the line

I never saved the bird or even found it, but I was able to get the optional photo.

Optional photos are chapter specific and can also be collected in the, well, collector mode. They don't have relations to choices in the previous chapters, because collectible mode does not save anything and you play one chapter only when accessed from the menu.

[Danielle]

http://epicureanistik.tumblr.com/post/114567930104/the-real-reason-for-watering-the-plant
Not mine, just seemed as realistic an outcome as any

[Winstontaneous]

Everyone here is saying that the bird needs to be saved to take a piture at the lighthouse. Maybe I only played through in collectable mode, but I did not save the bird (Which would indicate that someone was in Chloe's parents' room) and still snapped a picture of A BIRD at the lighthouse, so it either isn't the same bird, or the game just let me do it in collectable mode.

[Ну я убил и что?]

If you won`t save bird then huge swarm of birds will drop a nuke on Arcadia Bay, sry

[BlackLava]

I suppose the plant will begin to bloom. Which will allow to make a picture of it.

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Zebrahawk:

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

It determines if you can save Kate or not. If you watered it you can use it to climb to the roof.

Lol you're a funny dude aren't ya :P

Maniac Mansion.

[the_psycho_tps]

It's very likely there will be consequences, we just don't know what yet. Butterfly effect. Saved bird craps on Nathan's head at just the right time for a humiliating moment late in the game? Plant dies, gets thrown towards the trash but hits someone else instead?

[Zarok]

Originally posted by Moral Wiz:

You can water the plant in Max's room. You have the option when you go in there.

To save the bird, you need to go into Chloe's parents' room. It'll hit the window. Rewind, and open the window to save it.

Effects of watering the plant are unknown. Saving the bird lets you take a photo of it later, getting an achievement, and might lead to more down the line

I did it without rewinding time just opened the window before the bird flew into it.

[eBay_aDDict]

Yawn. I quit. The bottle fetching in Episode 2 did it for me.

Thanks anyway guys.