not finding any of the collectible sea plants

[angelofdeath]

so as of right now im in the europian ridge working my way around that part of the game and have yet to find a single plant, when i was running through the cold caverns i was finding them constantly and in such great numbers that for awhile i was fine until recently where i now need them. since i do know what they look like and what not how do i find them better in the europian ridge if they are there? according to the wiki its a 100% chance to find the fiber plants and 80% for everything else with sea poppies most common in caves, which i have so far found none in any cave in either region but just anywhere along the floor and walls. any indepth info would be appreciated

[kratos]

It looks like the wiki is outdated. I'll see what I can find below.

"fiberplant" commonness="0.8" cavecommonness="0" abysscommonness="0"

"elastinplant" commonness="0.8" cavecommonness="0" abysscommonness="0"

"aquaticpoppy" "commonness="1.0" cavecommonness="0" abysscommonness="0""

"yeastshroom" " commonness="1.0" cavecommonness="0" abysscommonness="0"
"yeastshroom" commonness="1.0" cavecommonness="1" abysscommonness="0" leveltype="theaphoticplateau"

"slimebacteria" commonness="0.2" cavecommonness="0" abysscommonness="0"

I'm not sure how this translate to the game. But plants do look mildly less common in caves now. Yes. It looks like you could probably still find plants normally outside caves.

[Rosh+]

iirc, they changed levelgen this last major update and made plants less ubiquitous. Now plants only show up in the Aphotic Plateau(3rd biome) and further.

[sokolov]

Its impossible to find plants in the Cold Caverns. (outside of wrecks)
Plants start to rarely appear on islands / cave walls in the Europan Ridge. (probably replacing mineral spawns)
Plants start to rarely appear in caves of the Aphotic Plateau.
No visible changes in The Great Sea & Hydrothermal Wastes I think.

Regardless, you can farm a lot of medical items (and other items overall) from abandoned outposts, wrecks, pirates and beacon stations.

[angelofdeath]

Originally posted by Sokolov:

Its impossible to find plants in the Cold Caverns. (outside of wrecks)
Plants start to rarely appear on islands / cave walls in the Europan Ridge. (probably replacing mineral spawns)
Plants start to rarely appear in caves of the Aphotic Plateau.
No visible changes in The Great Sea & Hydrothermal Wastes I think.

Regardless, you can farm a lot of medical items (and other items overall) from abandoned outposts, wrecks, pirates and beacon stations.

thats the problem though.... i found so much plants in the cold caverns right before the european ridge that im still tearing down sea yeast shrooms, everything else i have mostly used or used completely while finding nothing in the ridge. meanwhile mineral spawns have done nothing but go up since i entered and go further into the ridge

[Bucholz]

Originally posted by angelofdeath:

i found so much plants in the cold caverns right before the european ridge that im still tearing down sea yeast shrooms, everything else i have mostly used or used completely while finding nothing in the ridge. meanwhile mineral spawns have done nothing but go up since i entered and go further into the ridge

Have you completed the Cold Caverns before the update?

[angelofdeath]

Originally posted by Bucholz:

Originally posted by angelofdeath:

i found so much plants in the cold caverns right before the european ridge that im still tearing down sea yeast shrooms, everything else i have mostly used or used completely while finding nothing in the ridge. meanwhile mineral spawns have done nothing but go up since i entered and go further into the ridge

Have you completed the Cold Caverns before the update?

the only update that has happened since i bought the game was the 20th which the patch notes mention nothing about plant spawns. otherwise i have no idea unless hoist the sails did something which i played afterwards