[?] Flowers & Evil Flowers

[Zanderfel]

So I've seen in YT vids that its a bad idea to pick up (good) flowers because they help with sanity by merely standing over it.

Well, I tried that. My sanity didn't go up by merely standing over or around them.
My Sanity does drain if I'm near evil flowers, but no such restoration if standing near or above the good ones. But it goes up if I pick them up.

So how is it a bad idea to pick them if thats the only way to restore sanity, and why do veteran players say "stand over or near it, you'll regain sanity" when that never happens?

[Ozzey_Lee]

I have seen people do that as well as many mods showing sanity stations with lots of flowers, yet they don't provide sanity by staying near them.

It seems as though this is made up as standing near them provides no sanity bonus.

[redsentry]

they say that becaused they generate butterflies source of butterfly wings wich restore health and also butter wich is the only deli item in the game
also the butterflies can be captured with a bug net to plant then in the ground for flowers wich also will preoduce butterflies and the flowers can be used for the bee boxes so the bees can produce honey
thats why they are useful in the ground than in your pockets hope you find this useful

sorry for the bad writing

[Haich]

The reason why you shouldn't be picking flowers is because a single flower pick only yields 5 sanity, wheras flowers will naturally spawn butterflies, which have a 98% chance to drop butterfly wings, which heal for 8 health and 9.375 hunger, or butter, which heals for 40 health and 25 hunger (and also lasts 40 days which is great for WX players)

Sanity can be restored by other ways, such as eating cooked cactus, green caps, jerky, icecream, taffy or even through sleeping, prototyping and even killing shadow creatures will yield sanity.

If you're playing as Wigfrid, then you won't be able to rely on tons of sanity boosting foods but instead you can gain sanity from attacking stuff.

If you're playing as Woodie, planting any kind of pinecone will give you 5 sanity

If you're playing as Willow, standing near fires will raise your sanity over time

If you're playing as Wilson, shaving your beard will give you sanity

If you're playing as WX-78, eating gears will restore sanity

And Maxwell regens 6.66 sanity a minute, so he should be sorted with him

Oh and lastly, you are right in saying that flowers don't give a sanity aura, because they don't and I don't know why people have said that, also I'm sorry if this was a bit of an information dump but I hope it helps :)