plant regrowth question

[LordKutter]

so hey, ive been playing fallout sense number 1... (but long after it came out) and here in number 4 i love the crafting system, but i wanna know about bloodleaf and other plants that you have to go out to find, ive read that they regrow after a time, but dose any one know how long i have to wait?

currently im in survivle mode, so i know most things have a longer regrowth timer, and ive read that diffrent plants have diffrent timers, but i would like to know about the bloodleaf timers, because almost at the beginning of the game i went out and picked a bunch of bloodleafs near the first town (sacurary hills) and i wanna know why im able to do so, so many quests and have so many days pass without them regrowing... ive even had some enemies respawn quicker

[danconnors]

I believe in survival mode if you walk near the plants the timer resets to zero. For instance the glowing mushrooms near the molerat den never grow back because I walk near there all the time.

So if you go checking on the plants every couple of days they'll never regrow.

Sorry about that.

[Space Commander Nemo]

Originally posted by danconnors:

I believe in survival mode if you walk near the plants the timer resets to zero. For instance the glowing mushrooms near the molerat den never grow back because I walk near there all the time.

So if you go checking on the plants every couple of days they'll never regrow.

Sorry about that.

It's based on cell resets. I can't remember exactly, I think it was two in-game weeks for Skyrim... At least for "wild" plants and such. Fo4 seems to be more often but you do need to avoid the entire game cell for quite a while (not just sleeping/waiting, but passing in-game time).

[LordKutter]

okay thank you... sadly right now that has become moot, my comp fryed, still one day when i play again it will be good to know

[IllicitSmile]

Bummer, so sorry. I'm a hubflower fan. grape mentats. My timing must be good. everytime I go back to the cemetary, theres more.

[Goffender]

Originally posted by danconnors:

I believe in survival mode if you walk near the plants the timer resets to zero. For instance the glowing mushrooms near the molerat den never grow back because I walk near there all the time.

So if you go checking on the plants every couple of days they'll never regrow.

Sorry about that.

That's some BS, not to you, but seriously what does looking at them have to do with it? That's the stupidest mechanic I've heard of to date.

[Space Commander Nemo]

Originally posted by Goffender:

That's some BS, not to you, but seriously what does looking at them have to do with it? That's the stupidest mechanic I've heard of to date.

"A watched pot never boils"?