Category:Plants

Plants are crucial to survival. There are three main types of plants.

•  Trees mainly provide  Logs, the core building block for construction and production. They can also be a source of other  Materials,  Ingredients, and  Food.
•  Bushes are sources of  Food and  Ingredients. The  Iron Teeth relationship to  Berries is critical, as it is a key ingredient for their reproduction.
•  Crops are the primary source of  Food and  Ingredients for colonies.

Plants are the main source of food production, keeping  Beavers from  Starving, and improving their  Well-Being by satisfying their nutritional Needs. This improves their productivity and movement speed.

Naturally Occurring

Some Plants are common to both  Factions. They can be found naturally occurring from the start on maps:

•  Birch: a quick-growing source of  Logs,
•  Pine: a source of pine resin and a medium growth speed source of Logs,
•  Oak: a slow-growing but most efficient source of Logs, and
•  Blueberry Bushes: a slow-growing source of unsatisfying food -  Berries.

They can also naturally spread, see below.

Faction-specific Plants

More varieties of plants are available from the  Plant crops and  Plant trees and bushes tool groups.

Crops

They are planted and harvested by farmers working on  Farms. They cannot naturally spread, see below.

Trees and Bushes

These are planted by  reforesters working at  Foresters, and harvested by  gatherers working at  Gatherer Flags. They can also naturally spread, see below.

Mechanics

Irrigation

Plants require just the right amount of water. Too little and they die, too much and they also die. Plants can only survive on irrigated  Terrain Blocks. Without irrigation, plants  dry out and eventually die. Plants can also die from  contamination or becoming  Flooded.

The drought resistance, the number of days plants can survive without water, is indicated in the detail window when they are selected. Individual plants vary by +/- 10% from this stated figure.

An example plant detail window showing the drought resistance.

Aquatic plants require submersion in shallow water that is relatively uncontaminated. If the water dries up completely, they are affected by the  Out of water status and start  Drying as well. They get a significant extra percentage bonus to their survival time if the block they are on, although not submerged, is still irrigated.

Aquatic plants can also die from  Flooding when the water level exceeds the block they are planted in.

Growth

Plants take time to mature before they can be harvested for their resources. After maturity, plants with gatherable yields like  Bushes,  Pine,  Chestnut Trees, and  Maple take additional time to grow their yield. The yield halts until harvested, before growing again.

Plants do not require access to sunshine and can be grown under complete cover or underground.

Natural Spread

Mature Trees and Bushes on terrain that isn't marked for planting slowly spread to terrain that is:

• orthogonally (non-diagonally) adjacent,
• at the same height,
• vacant (dead plants without harvestable materials count as vacant),
• irrigated, and
• not marked for planting.

The chance of a seedling spawning does not increase with additional surrounding plants.

Removing Plants

To remove plants, mark them with the  Mark resources for demolition tool. When marked, a  Demolish icon appears above them.

👀 Note: Don't confuse this with the  Unmark tree cutting area or  Clear planting area tools. These tell  Foresters and  Farmhouses to not create plants in the selected area and do not remove existing plants.

Ensure  Builders can reach the targets.

👀 Note: Builders only sense work within 10 tiles of a  Path connected to their  District. Farmers, gatherers, and lumberjacks have a greater range. You might need to temporarily demolish plants closer to a path and extend the path closer. After the target plants are removed, demolish the path extension and remark the area for planting.

However, dead vegetation (trees that died before they could mature, stumps, and dead bushes and crops) can be built over as-is. To quickly remove lots of them, build  Paths or  Dynamite over them, then use  Demolish buildings on those.

Heights

Statuses Relating to Plants

The following statuses appear on plants in certain situations, addressing them is crucial in keeping plants alive. Wilting plants stop maturing.

Drying

When the terrain the plants are growing upon is no longer irrigated, they wilt and can die. When selected,  Drying plants indicate their time to death in their detail window. If water is not given in time, the plant dies, losing all of its produce and will need to be replaced and regrown again.

Trees that have reached maturity before dying will lose all of its secondary produce, but can still be able to be harvested for  Logs by  Lumberjacks

Out of water

This is an additional factor unique to aquatic plants. Aquatic plants no longer standing in water are  Out of water and start wilting even if the terrain is irrigated. Care should be taken to control the water and contamination levels. Neither let them dry up nor let the water levels rise too high.

Contaminated

Not to be confused with  Contaminated, the beaver injury. Badwater is harmful to living things. When flowing water is above 50% contamination, it contaminates the nearby terrain. Contaminated terrain lasts briefly after contamination levels drop. Plants on contaminated terrain start to wilt. Their detail windows show  Contaminated Status Icons. Similar to  Drying, contaminated plants indicate their remaining survival time when selected, but on a much quicker deadline.

Terrain contamination is not affected by adjacency. 100% contamination (pure Badwater) reaches a maximum distance of seven blocks, regardless of the size of the source. Steps up in elevation decrease the distance by five blocks, and like with irrigation, steps down in elevation do not affect the distance.

 Contamination Barriers and  Irrigation Barriers contain the spread of Contaminated Terrain, or keep Badwater away from plants through Terraforming.

Flooded

Plants can become  Flooded. Land plants wilt when water starts flowing on the terrain they stand on. Aquatic plants wilt when the water level rises above one block. If not fixed, the plants die from overwatering.

List of Plants

Bushes	Tab	Faction	Workplace	Natural Spread Rate [a]	Time to Maturity	Time to Harvest	Produces
Blueberry (Bush)			Forester	0.2	12 days	12 days	Berries
Dandelion (Bush)			Forester	0.1	3 days	3 days	Dandelion
Coffee (Bush)			Forester	0.2	9 days	3 days	Coffee Beans

Trees	Tab	Faction	Workplace	Natural Spread Rate [a]	Time to Maturity	Time to Harvest	Produces
Birch			Forester	0.3	7 days	--	Logs
Pine			Forester	0.3	12 days	7 days	Logs,  Pine Resin
Maple			Forester	0.1	28 days	12 days	Logs,  Maple Syrup
Chestnut Tree			Forester	0.3	24 days	8 days	Logs,  Chestnuts
Mangrove Tree			Forester	0.3	10 days	10 days	Logs,  Mangrove Fruits
Oak			Forester	0.1	30 days	--	Logs

Crops	Tab	Faction	Workplace	Time to Harvest		Produces
Carrot (Crop)			Efficient Farmhouse	4 days	2.8 days	Carrots
Sunflower (Crop)			Efficient Farmhouse	5 days	3.5 days	Sunflower Seeds
Potato (Crop)			Efficient Farmhouse	6 days	4.2 days	Potatoes
Wheat (Crop)			Efficient Farmhouse	10 days	7.0 days	Wheat
Cattail (Crop)			Aquatic Farmhouse	8 days	5.6 days	Cattail Root
Spadderdock (Crop)			Aquatic Farmhouse	12 days	8.4 days	Spadderdock
Kohlrabi (Crop)			Farmhouse	3 days	--	Kohlrabies
Canola (Crop)			Farmhouse	5 days	--	Canola Seeds
Cassava (Crop)			Farmhouse	8 days	--	Cassavas
Soybean (Crop)			Farmhouse	9 days	--	Soybean
Corn (Crop)			Farmhouse	10 days	--	Corn
Eggplant (Crop)			Farmhouse	12 days	--	Eggplant

[a] Spread rate: higher number is more frequent; only  Blueberry Bush,  Birch,  Pine, and  Oak are naturally occurring in the map at the start of the game.