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Plants
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Plants, otherwise known as flora, are widely abundant in the world of Vintage Story and provide the player with many resources central to survival and progression.

As of 1.21.6 there are many varieties of plants, including but not limited to wild crops, flowers, mushrooms, reeds, grasses, trees, and berry bushes, each with multiple uses.

Variants

The Homesteading update (v1.15.0 & v1.15.1), sometimes referred to as The Tropics Update, greatly expanded the variety of biome-specific plants beyond the temperate zone and into warm and humid climates.

While most plants have use for producing edibles or raw crafting resources, some are, as of v1.21.6 purely decorative. Here is a selection of plant types and their respective uses:

• Berry bushes produce fruit nutrition.
• Cactus (certain types) produce edible fruit.
• Ferns can be used as decoration or fuel.
• Flowers are useful in beekeeping, crafting healing poultices, and can be used to make dye.
• Grass is used for torches, fires, and thatch, and is essential for progression.
• Fruit trees produce food that lasts longer than berries.
• Lumber trees provide sticks and logs and are essential for progression.
• Mushrooms (certain types) provide vegetable nutrition.
• Rafflesia look like flowers but attract flies rather than bees.
• Reeds are essential for progression. Cattails and papyrus are interchangeable in most recipes.
• Water lilies are decorative.

This article goes over all the varieties of plants in-game and gives an overview of their role, when they were first introduced to the game, and any major changes to their mechanics.

Wild Crops

See also Farming

These are the remnants of domesticated crops, often nut not exclusively found around ruined settlements, now growing in the wild. An exception is cabbage seeds, which are only found in specific types of cracked vessels . Wild crops are the only source of seeds for crops available in the world.

Vegetables

See also Vegetable

These include Bell peppers, Cabbage, Carrot, Onion, Parsnip, and Turnip.

Legumes

Peanuts and Soybeans are currently the only legumes.

Gourds

Pumpkins are currently the only gourd plant.

Fibers

Flax, which produces flax fibers and flax grain, is primarily a fiber crop. As of v1.21.6 this is still the only variety of plant that can be used to make cloth fibers and fabrics.

Grains

These crops include Rye, Spelt, Amaranth, Rice, and Flax.

Eddible kernels

Sunflower is currently the only source of eddible kernels with hulls, otherwise known as cypselas.

Cassava

It is a type of shrub that produces an edible root vegetable high in carbohydrates and can be used to make flour for dough and bread.

Trees

See also Tree and Fruit tree

Lumber Trees

Seasonal foliage in the woods.

These include Acacia, Bald cypress, Birch, Crimson King maple, Ebony, Mediterranean cypress, Kapok, Larch, Maple, Oak, Pine, Purpleheart, Redwood, and Walnut trees.

Fruit Trees

These include Red apple, Pink apple, Yellow apple, and Pear.

Drupes and Pit Fruits

These include Olive, Peach, Cherry, and Mango trees.

Citrus

Oranges are currently the only form of citrus tree.

Other fruiting trees

3d modeled fruits and berries.

Lyche fruits from the soapberry family and Breadfruit from the mulberry and jackfruit families are two additional varieties of fruiting trees.

Fruiting Shrubs

Pomegranate is the only fruiting shrub aside from berry bushes in the game and is labeled a form of tree in-game.

Bamboo

See also: Bamboo

Green and Brown bamboos are the two current species found in-game.

Mushrooms

See also Mushroom

Introduced in the Homesteading Update, v1.16.0, there are over a dozen species of mushroom to forage from, some edible and some poisonous. Mushrooms were given the ability to regenerate given the correct conditions in

Rushes, Sedges, & Grasses

Improved reeds model introduced in v1.18.0.

See also Reed and Other plants

Grass is a generic variety of grass that has existed in the game since before v0.9.p6. Version 1.14.0 rendered harvested grass as a 3D model.

Redtop Grass is a flowering and largely decorative variety of grass.

Cattails, plants within the Typhaceae family and the Poales order (the order that contains other plants like rushes and sedges), were added in v1.2.8 and have since seen several revisions to their appearance, most notably in v1.18.0. Version 1.4.6, the first official survival mode update, introduced the mechanic of using a knife to collect the tops, sparing the roots.

Notably they go by the name "reed" or "Coopers Reed" across early update release-notes (up through about v1.17.0 of the 2022 VS Trailer) and accordingly have a description in-game that specifies this as an alternate name.

Papyrus, a species of sedge native to Africa, was added in v1.11-rc.1 and was able to be placed on the ground in v1.20-pre.1. New forms of baskets and reed-ware were given papyrus variants in v1.21.0. As of v1.16.0 paper can be bought from certain Traders but is not sourced from papyrus and cannot be made by the player.

Brown Sedge, a name belonging to both a Eurasian species and a North American species, was added in v1.19.0.

Tule, a giant species of sedge native to the Americas, was added in v1.19.0 and given plantable roots in v1.19.4.

Ferns

Horsetail, a plant belonging to the Equisetaceae fern family, was introduced in the update New plants and colored lights. Version 1.7-rc.1 introduced the poultice as the main healing mechanic utilizing horsetail as an ingredient, and version 1.14.0 gave harvested horsetail a 3D model.

Cinnamon fern, also known as Buckhorn Fern, was introduced in v1.15-pre.1 with random-sizing generation and was given the ability to be planted in flower pots and planters by the same update.

Deer fern, also known as Hard-Fern, was introduced in v1.15-pre.1 with random-sizing generation and was given the ability to be planted in flower pots and planters by the same update.

Eagle fern, also known as Bracken,was introduced in v1.15-pre.1 with random-sizing generation and was given the ability to be planted in flower pots and planters by the same update.

Hart's Tongue, a Northern-Hemisphere species, was introduced in v1.15-pre.1 with random-sizing generation and was given the ability to be planted in flower pots and planters by the same update.

Tree fern is an arborescent species of fern introduced in v1.15-pre.1 with random-sizing generation and was given the ability to be planted in flower pots and planters by the same update.

Flowers

Reworked flower models as introduced in v1.18.0.

See also Flower

Versions 1.9-rc.1, 1.0.6, 0.9.p6, and the update New plants and colored lights all introduced varieties of flowers, including:

• Catmint
• Cornflower
• Cow parsley
• Drarf furze
• Edelweiss
• Forget me not
• Golden poppy
• Heather
• Lily of the valley
• Blue lupine
• Orange lupine
• Purple lupine
• Red lupine
• White lupine
• Orange mallow
• Brown rafflesia
• Red rafflesia
• Wild daisy
• Woad

While horsetail, Redtop grass, and Lilies are not flowers themselves, they are either treated as having a dual role as a flower in horsetail's case, or are a variety of plant that is always modeled in its flowering state.

Cactus

See also Other plants

There are three varieties as of 1.21.6: Saguaro, Barrel, and Silver torch.

Barrel cactus was an original plant since its first release. The Epic bloom update (v0.9.p6) introduced Saguaro cactus, the Steel Age and Character Customization update (v1.14.1) altered Barrel cactus, and v1.17.1 introduced the Silver torch cactus (notably seen in the 2022 VS Trailer).

Croton

See also Other plants

Propagation

See also Farming

Harvesting

See also Knife and Scythe

See also

• Other Plants
• Mushroom
• Berry
• Wild food
• Reed
• Grass
• Knife
• Satiety
• Farming
• Health
• Dye
• Flax