getting flowers

[fang yuan]

since now there is no sword upgrades that makes enemies drop flowers, how can i farm flowers? i updated to beta before using lighthouses so i dont have many flowers

[Miraglyth]

I'm hitting the same roadblock in mid-late game. In particular, I've burned them all making paper and animal feed (and I'm still waiting to get a golden egg!) and they're in very short supply.

That I can see, they only appear in the grass biome which you probably have at least partially covered with flooring and walls so you can actually move. Even when you cut back on that, they don't appear all that much and animal feed bizarrely requires 4 of them!

[Miraglyth]

I'm not sure where I sit with markets and now the night merchant. In some ways they feel like a design crutch for stuff like this and in other ways they feel game-breaking (even before you need cosmic steel, you can buy it for under 6,000 gold when you're swimming in the stuff). On the other hand if they weren't ever useful in that manner, they'd be another Calciferous and nobody wants that.

[Endscape]

If you can wait for them to go on the market board, or if you have any spare at all, you can start making Druid Scrolls which will spawn them if used on a grass black.

[kajidiablo]

just wanted to say this but useing the animal scroll in a mass of minerals/vegitation makes an assload of farm animals of you got a couple drones just camp them till you get the golden egg, also a nice way to farm leather when ur done just lock the area down though or your going to be chasing that mob everywhere, on the off chance your auto mining the map already using a nomad scroll then the animal one can work in a pinch, spaming both a couple times makes quite the herd, i mention the drone because its far easier then trying to run up and E chickens all the time lol

[fang yuan]

the market amount doesnt cut it, i need wayyy more. but thanks for the help

[Miraglyth]

Yeah for the golden egg I ended up needing to wait until I got droids and running around the map, not even for that long. But of course droids remotely harvesting all the chickens makes animal feed obsolete, since they're supposed to be a late-game replacement for a lot of manual activity.

Prior to that, I'd say flowers are in too short supply for all their mid-game uses. Chiefly paper and animal feed since they're the primary way to get those. Or maybe all the recipes are just too demanding of flowers; those two need 4 each!

Meanwhile the way the flower press turns 2 flowers into iron and gold ore (which in turn need 2 for their respective ingot) means you also need 4 flowers per ingot. Mid-game I'd have happily traded 4 ingots for 1 flower! And what's up with it costing 2 flowers each for coal and sand?! The flower press is basically a landfill machine with a bunch of trash crafts entirely due to flowers' present setup.

[Bradhandler]

Druid scrolls, luck potions, and a lot of patience.

[ExoticButts]

Druid scrolls with luck potions, as Ironbrad said, are your best bet.

Tip for the scrolls though: shrines ;)

[Miraglyth]

Originally posted by ExoticButts:

Tip for the scrolls though: shrines ;)

Kind of obvious... if you're actually crafting the scrolls you're spending 16 flowers per druid scroll so you'd fight to break even on flowers. Case in point on how expensive the flower use in recipes is really.

Alternatively, markets sell scrolls pretty often.

[Laff70]

I found that you can use a ton of lighthouses and some druid scrolls to get loads of nightshade at the very least. I think builder scrolls help with the lighthouses too. I'm currently shifting my lighthouses over a bit to get lavender too for purple dye production.