Can't find moss!!!

[Lord Mooby]

So I'm almost all the way through spring and have not found moss ANYWHERE! I have looked at every tree on the map every day for almost two weeks and not one tree had moss on it. No green rain has happening either, plenty of regular rain though. Is it a bug at this point? or just an unlucky run? I had another save file that I had started and never saw moss in that one either. I do have recipes that require it, so I know the game has some idea of it. I'm super sad and frustrated at seeing everyone and their mossy trees

[Quenteq]

Fall produces a good amount of moss and I think green rain is exclusive to summer.

[michaelbnx]

From what I understand of that new mechanic, moss appears on "old" trees. Couldn't find any in spring either, started seeing some in summer, even on my farm, for the lucky few that had survived my hunger for wood. And then ofc, green rain...

[Kayette]

I started finding it at the end of Spring / start of Summer, before the Green Rain. I had left some trees up so that's probably why. It's on any harvestable tree in the whole area not just your farm.

[Inaluogh]

I feel like moss shouldn't be that scarce, especially in a town right by the sea.

[Kayette]

Once it starts showing up it isn't rare at all! Get busy harvesting it when the green rain falls!

[Daveroski]

I play on Linux
I had the Mushroom Log made before the green rain started.
I find moss on treed on my own farm and pretty much everywhere else there are trees.

D.

[Volfogg]

Moss seems uncommon at worst. Mostly around Marnie's Ranch area, sometimes on Forest starting farm. Green Rain seems like a crazy event. Everyone's panicking, but the Wizard and Linus. Demetrius in hazmat suit. Fiber and moss everywhere harvestable with a scythe. Giant Fiddlehead Fern trees. TV doesn't work...

[Zero]

I had green rain at end of spring I think. I'm now in the middle of fall and even now trees all over the map still have moss on them so I can collect it anytime, just hit the tree with a scythe, no problem.

[OgtheDim]

Keep some old growth around and you get some (its an environmental quest). Chop it all down and you don't get as much.

i.e. Its a way to play without the clear cutting most of us have been told we need to do.

[Snowy Sprout]

How old is "old growth"? Something more than one season old?

Would it grow on tapped trees?

Is there any area (desert maybe) where moss will not grow?

It might make sense to plant a forest with no intention to cut it, just for moss, if it's a much-needed resource.

[Shdwwrym]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

How old is "old growth"? Something more than one season old?

Would it grow on tapped trees?

Is there any area (desert maybe) where moss will not grow?

It might make sense to plant a forest with no intention to cut it, just for moss, if it's a much-needed resource.

Can't answer all of that, but my tapped trees do in fact have moss grow on them. I get it off with the Scythe so I don't take the tapper off.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

How old is "old growth"? Something more than one season old?

Would it grow on tapped trees?

Is there any area (desert maybe) where moss will not grow?

It might make sense to plant a forest with no intention to cut it, just for moss, if it's a much-needed resource.

I have an oak orchard setup with heavy tappers at the beach on Ginger Island.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3195623047
These trees have regularly produced moss even with the tappers on them. I've planted a lot of trees in Calico Desert and they too sometimes generate moss. Trees can produce moss at any time of year except for Winter, except for the desert and island.

All the while, I can regularly collect some much needed oak resin for my keg farm!

[Deffy]

Outside of the green rain, moss is limited in year 1, but later on when you have lots of tapped trees it stops being a problem. My tapped trees in the railroad yield about 40 moss every few days. Swimming in moss now in summer of year 2. Moss doesn't seem to grow in winter but trees already covered in moss will stay that way.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Green rain event should happen in summer, it seemed to happen on day 7 on both year 1 and 2 for my current save.

The moss was common after year 1's rain, like incredibly common. I don't know if what you are experiencing in your game is a bug or not though.

[Queen Droxxanna]

i seem to find moss on trees in my farm that are BEHIND other trees or building, ie, in shaded areas. There is one tree right behind the green house on meadows farm, and there has been moss on it repeatedly, Now I dont chop down the tree if I find moss, I just hit it once and get the moss, then leave the tree for more moss to find. I am only in year one summer.