Do plants ever regrow?

[Stretchytall]

From experience, I don't believe bushes and trees ever regrow. But what about the fruit-bearing plants I accidentally run over? Do they ever regrow?

[phadin]

As long as you leave the base plant in place, pale berries and beryl nuts will respawn. No other plants respawn, and even those will be gone permanently if you chainsaw or run over the base plant with a vehicle.

[Stretchytall]

Originally posted by phadin:

As long as you leave the base plant in place, pale berries and beryl nuts will respawn. No other plants respawn, and even those will be gone permanently if you chainsaw or run over the base plant with a vehicle.

What if I run over the nut and berry plants with my vehicle?

[Vegas Doc]

As far as I know, when you run over a "food" nutritional plant (nuts, berries, mushrooms), it never comes back, they may re-spawn somewhere else in the world to keep the balance, but not in their original position, they get destroyed with explosions too, and don't come back. Mushrooms re-spawn in other locations, but once you pick them they are gone from their original location too.

Before 1.0 you could "mow down" shrubs with a vehicle, but that doesn't work anymore, just the "good ones" get destroyed, so I put planters around them to protect them. Sometimes if there is a patch, the shrubbery will re-spawn, if it was a world change type of patch, not something like a server, multiplayer patch. Happy Pioneering!

[Chili Dogs]

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

Originally posted by phadin:

As long as you leave the base plant in place, pale berries and beryl nuts will respawn. No other plants respawn, and even those will be gone permanently if you chainsaw or run over the base plant with a vehicle.

What if I run over the nut and berry plants with my vehicle?

destroyed = gone forever. There is a work around to this using the Satisfactory-Calculator website though, well it worked in the past, not sure about now...

If you uploaded your save to the website, move ANYTHING, like shift a storage box 1 pixel over, save the change, redownload the "edited save" and load it up, ALL the plants will respawn on the map, like, everything, regardless if you have a foundation over it or chainsawed it down, the plants, trees, berries, everything comes back like a fresh save/new game.

(this used to work on slugs and alien anomaly items as well but I think that stopped working)

[Stretchytall]

Aww, that's sad. The plants shouldn't grow back so as to make permanent use of bio-fuel feasible, but they should grow back, as they naturally would.

[Vegas Doc]

After tiers 0-1, there isn't much validation to continue using Biomass burners, however there is an alternate recipe using biomass to make coal, coal to compacted coal, compacted coal into turbo fuel then turbo fuel into the two new fuels i.e. rocket, there is an abundance of plant life on the planet to make biomass, I don't think it is possible to ever "run out", it's sad that they aren't prolific and re-create new plants like in nature, but we must remember it's a video game, and anything is possible in the future, even reality! Happy Pioneering!

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

From experience, I don't believe bushes and trees ever regrow. But what about the fruit-bearing plants I accidentally run over? Do they ever regrow?

Some bushes regrow. But not in full force, so at best you'll find 1 or 2 new ones.a

I tried this for myself in the "SAM cave" in the grassy lands. Instead of dumping a miner there I started with leaving 4 - 6 autominers. Which meant: creatures respawned. But because I was still depending on biomass when I found this cave I fully cleared it of folliage so that I got more biomass; this was a routine at that time: go out explore, but always bring back biomass.

Well... I just unlocked summersloop duplication, and I had to go back to the cave for that; this time I did place a Miner (Mk1); but lo and behold: I could pick up several new bushes again. Not many; 4 - 6 at best in an area which was fully covered in them. And no: I'm 100% sure I did not miss them at first, because I came back for those auto miners a few times and then grabbed all left overs.

The place was fully clean... then I headed out for oil, came back, needed more SAM.. and now I found a few new bushes.