What/where are weeds?

[Alluvian]

I have a tier 2 food mixer available to me, but all the recipes need weeds. I have explored almost half my map manually walking around and I have yet to see a single weed. Tons of flowers, cotton, grass, mushrooms, berries, etc... yet to see a single weed. Is there a trick to this? It took me about 2 hours to get a single tier 2 research done with 2 separate research stations (first station was being a bottleneck as it only seems to accept the wuv at a slow pace), this game is just not fun at this stage unless I can dramatically speed things up

[DizzieDawgie]

Look for big round patches of Cotton (white) or Cereal (yellow). On my map those are all surrounded by a couple rows of weeds.

[Alluvian]

Unfortunately I have a fair amount of cotton and cereal on my map but have not seen any weeds around them. Just dirt and turf.

[BadgerOne]

Originally posted by DizzieDawgie:

Look for big round patches of Cotton (white) or Cereal (yellow). On my map those are all surrounded by a couple rows of weeds.

I just found some. You dig them up with a shovel and plant them again on normal dirt.

[Alluvian]

Seems like weeds are the most important thing there is in tier 2, but since my map does not seem to have any I should just restart? That seems pretty awful.

[!?!]

You really getting none?
How far out have you been searching?
They seem way too important to be an optional spawn.

[DizzieDawgie]

Every wild patch of Cotton and Cereal in my game has weeds around it. If yours has none, I think it's a bug and you'll have to restart that save.

Can you tell us the Seed of your world? I could try loading it up and confirming what you're seeing.

To get your game seed, load your save, then go to the Pause screen (the Escape key). Under the picture of your planet is a 9-digit number. That's the random seed for your particular planet.

[Orthopraxis]

Seeing this same issue - no weeds to be found. Found a cereal/pumpkin/cotton patch, and definitely none around it.
Seed 159148943

[Orthopraxis]

Disregard, found some. For "Weeds" they certainly seem a bit rare :/

[wizzard_8]

I'm on seed 460178058 starting on the left island and there's a single area of weeds on the whole island right at the bottom, was getting a bit worried

[Los]

I've spent most of the time searching for dam weed and still not found any i've restarted already because of it

This such early game resource should not be this rare

[Varg]

Omg... yes they need to tweak this so it spawns closer. I found two patches of weed on my map and they both were in the lower right corner. -_- Had to run a friggin mile.

I had one(!) single pumpkin near the start area and a tuft of wild cotton but no weeds.
Just glad I found some lol.

[Tante Dagobert]

Originally posted by EncryptedDarkness:

Originally posted by DizzieDawgie:

Look for big round patches of Cotton (white) or Cereal (yellow). On my map those are all surrounded by a couple rows of weeds.

I just found some. You dig them up with a shovel and plant them again on normal dirt.

Which kind of tiletype did you dig?

[Tupper]

Can't find any kind of weeds anywhere. I've genned several maps and no cereal/cotton crops have ever had weed tiles around them.

I believe something is broken.

[TheMountainWilliam]

several maps in and no weeds.. can someone post a pic?

[Starzky]

I had this same issue - cut off from most of my world, and no weeds on my island, so all research was taking hours and hours, because I couldn't feed my little dudes a proper meal.

I discovered that the save files are simply a big JSON object, so it's reasonably easy to fix.

To fix the issue, I edited the save game file, like so:

***I BACKED UP ALL FILES BEFORE MAKING CHANGES, AS THIS COULD IRREPARABLY BREAK MY SAVE FILE***

1. I went to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Denki Ltd\Autonauts\Saves
2. I opened the profile folder
3. !!!!!!!!!!!!! I made a copy of World.txt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. I opened World.txt in my text editor of choice
5. I searched for "Weed" until I found a JSON entry looking like this:

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{"ID":"Weed","UID":2453,"TX":334,"TY":66,"W":true,"ST":1,"STT":0}
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6. The TX and TY are coordinates for that specific Weed object, so:
7. I changed the TX and TY numbers to numbers that matched a location within my reach
8. I repeated steps 5 to 7 another 3 times, so that I had four bits of weed - enough to easily start a weed farm
9. I saved the World.txt file and fired up Autonauts - SUCCESS!!