Cannot recommend against this mod enough. Sucks up immense resources and if you remove it your save is ruined by question mark blocks everywhere because the mod changes every flower and fern into a modded block.

How do I edit per-species spread rates? I cannot find the .csv. There is no modconfig folder in appdata for ecosystem-flora, just the general ecosystemflora.json

My world is completely overrun with horsetails! There are fields of horsetails hundreds of meters in every direction and it's driving me nuts.

How do we balance berry bushes via config, without completely turning off their ecology simulation? They seem to spread a little too agressively (giving too easy food sources)

Edit: I see that the new settings in 4.10.30 change plant spread rate and seem to make it a lot lower in general. Disregard my comment. I will test with latest update and see if berry bushes still feel op.

Are redwood trees supposed to be part of the ecosystem? I have two redwoods trees that I introduced myself - one has sprouted and grown into a young redwood and the other is still a seedling/sapling. The sapling can be inspected with "I", but the one that is now properly a tree cannot be inspected with "I" - doing so results in a chat line that the block is not part of the ecosystem. I've tried inspecting multiple blocks along the tree and cannot find one that will allow inspection, and it grew shorter than I was expecting so I'm concerned it may not mature like other trees as it ages.

Ive only had a few pretty odd things happen since installing this mod-
namely I cant pick up any flowers around the area my base is at, and need to travel thousands of blocks before im able to pick up flowers again.
Sometimes trees that i grow spawn with some of their leaves just missing, or birch trees specifically only grow 1-2 blocks tall and have 2-4 leaves if any at all.
And I tend to find floating vines around the world as im exploring.

are the birch trees growing only one to a few blocks tall, and being inable to pick up flowers entirely, bugs? or am i doing something wrong and misinterpreting the ecosystem handbook pages?

Is it possible to make vines decay alongside with leaves? Because currently vines end up floating once the leaf block they were attached to disappears.

I can made new companion mod with wildfarming features but without controversial decisions, if anybody want it

Thank you for your continued work on this mod!

When using the newest version (4.9.12) I seem to have severe lag when doing anything, I swapped back to 4.8.15 (the version I was on previous) and it was back to normal.

If I'm playing single player and turned off land claims, is it possible to in some way make the flowers in my garden not dieback constantly? Do I just have to turn off the entire mechanic in config?

(Realism wise, I think the flowers do that cycle a biiiit too often. It might be relevant to me setting month length to 20 and calendarspeedmul to 0.1?)

Does this mod have any Temperature or Biome limitations on Tree growth?
I am looking for something that stops tree's from being able to be grown everywhere, and instead limits certain types to certain biomes/temperature ranges.

Amazing mod with crazy depth! What is the current status of the path/trail feature? Is it worth using in the current implementation, or should I just go use another trail mod? What do you recommend?

So say a fire wiped out a large patch of land.  Will this mod spawn anything in the middle of the bare patch or only fill in from the edges?

Does this mod work with wildfarming forks tree growth system?

Most of the plants I inspect say that they aren't part of the spread registry - vanilla blocks only, eg - Pine trees, Redwood trees, ferns, catmint, etc. I thought these things would spread, and they are vanilla blocks - what am I misunderstanding?

Which tree species can spread? Is it just "building" trees like oak, birch, etc. or can fruit trees spread as well?

As much as I like this mod I think the grass overtakes the mushroom spots because I've looked where mushrooms are in several spots and there's just grass. Maybe add a system where the grass doesn't grow there?

After the last update, I seem to be having weird textures for tall grass dieback? 

https://imgur.com/a/cmw3tqP

After a server load, these wildcrafttree walnuts (and some other assorted trees) show like this. After about 5 minutes, the black boxes turn to normal branches.

I had the compat patch you uploaded seperately, though uninstalling it showed the same result.

So far, amazing work as always and thank you for your contribution for the community. 

Thanks for your mod it's incredible, even if its harder to get wood :D.

I'm sad that I have to make the choice between harvesting horsetail + all the annoying flower with the vanilla setting, or harvesting neither with yours.

Could it be possible to make another setting ? I would like to turn random flowers into dried grass and keep the horsetail since it has healing proprieties.

Knowing that this mod adds blocks, is there a way to safely remove it from an existing world?

Heyyo, just updated some mods, though only one seems to be in relation. I finally deleted that %appdata%\vintagestorydata\ModConfig\ecosystemflora\species. Anyways now there is a bunch of grass and flowers with missing textures everywhere. Did I mess something up somehow? Any help is appreciated.

Hello! Not sure if that has been mentioned before, or even if it's indeed due to this mod, but I have floating plants popping in my world. 

hey can you make compatibility for and your flowers as the bees cant see them example is

From Golden Combs

update: the forest fire mechanics + pyrogenics is still a bit funky, as i have eco machima with a few other wilderness mods. it does seem to work with large trees, as it will burn halfway up and explode the entire tree making it easier than cutting the tree down. 

feedback part 2: it also seems that this mod alone does not function with calendar speed multiplication? Either the trees, flowers, foliage, etc grow quick as if it is running on vanilla time speed. With my server, we run at 0.13x than normal, and forests are growing quicker than a single month passes. I did switch to sparse instead of default (natural) and while it did reduce spread chance, it still grows fast

It looks like PlantSnowCoverSync applies -snow variants to any block with a snow variant (fences, stairs, slabs) without doing a sky-exposure check.
Indoor building blocks get snow-covered on chunk load; only greenhouse/fluid/claim positions are exempt.

Compatibility with worldgen mods? If I add plant mods, with that interfere with your mod at all, or will they simply not be affected by it? I wanted to try Terra Prety

Also, I had to turn off the spreading of underwater things like water crowfoot because within a few in game months it would just completely fill every single block in my rivers and streams, and in the process it would delete any fish traps I placed down from the primitive survival mod in order to spread over them. I think there needs to be some sort of limiting logic to stop such crazy spreading.

I noticed while playing that sometimes grass or flowers will delete the bottom block of a tree in order to spread into that spot. This seems very unintentional so wanted to report it. Also still finding sometimes grass wants to spread more than anything else and in places with lots of grass any flowers or anything you try to grow will just be consumed by the hoard, except for that red tip grass which in turn spreads like wildfire wherever it grows.

I wonder if Animals will effect the spread of these things?

Hows this mod behave when claims are off but reinforcement system enabled?

Also sticks are randomly appearing near fall. I assume it is cause tree leaves are dying but it is appearing underground in my house so I assume  it is just chosing the lowest height avalable.

My friend was cutting plants with the scythe. He cut a brown sedge and it spawned, and I do not kid you, over 1000 sedge. IT happens when you cut down the sedge (the one you can get with the shovel).

Cowparsley-free, redtopgrass-free, and catmint-free are all missing texutres. In the most up to date version. It is all the things called -free

I have found a broken block. It is the white cube with the red question mark and it is called block-juvenile-flower-redtopgrass-free

Is the spreading rate of Catmint messed up? It is summer currently and it seems to be spreading alittle fast.

having a small issue where grass is taking over the base of trees just a fyi. trees i planted. 

I'm not sure if this is within the scope of your future plans, but this mod would work great if the vanilla leaf pruning systems work with natural forest fires. Currently all leaf blocks float after a forest gets burned down due to a lightning strike, having this config stay turned off for MP servers.
Any chance this can be a feature in this mod somehow? 

After the last update Im seeing lots of missing textures for Eagle Fern (dieback) again 

wondering if snow can hide seedling and other flowers? 

Would you be willing to make this compatible with Biodiversity mods?

loving how this mod looks by the way. keep up that awesome work 😊

Also just would like to say. Your response time is INSANE.

Small issue/complaint I have. You cannot harvest flowers (when the meadow harvest is enabled) if they are anything other then normal. If they are seedlings or foliage at least you just can't harvest them. Do not know if this is intended but not a huge fan personally.

Vines are spreading like crazy, even on each other, growing into open terrain.

Before / One minute later

https://limewire.com/d/qONlG#VWIAVySwnm

As grass or flowers are spreading they are removing and replacing the bottom block of their trunk. This results in floating tree's. I am using Salty's Falling Tree's mod, don't know if that would be causing an issue.

Still looks too unstable..Will be eager to see this when it's reached a stable milestone! 😄

I think it be last huge feature for that mod. only stability patches i will release. Please report on any issue

Yeah crashing for me as well i reverted to 4.4.1 which doesn't crash at least from the latest error, where it forces the server to shut down due to too many errors

28.6.2026 12:25:33 [Error] Exception: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'key')
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.FernRhizomeSpread.ApplyTo(PlantRequirements req)
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.PlantRequirements.FromBlock_Patch1(Block block)
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.EcosystemSystem.TryRegisterPlacedBlock(BlockPos pos)
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.EcosystemSystem.<>c__DisplayClass111_0.<OnDidPlaceBlock>b__0(Single _)
   at Vintagestory.Common.EventManager.TriggerGameTick(Int64 ellapsedMilliseconds, IWorldAccessor world) in VintagestoryLib\Common\EventManager.cs:line 160
   at Vintagestory.Server.ServerMain.Process() in VintagestoryLib\Server\ServerMain.cs:line 882

new version crashes the server after a few minutes 

Wonderfull issue that i've found, this is from a fresh download into a brand new world for my server, it basically bricks the server, i cannot even stop the server with commands i have to forcefully end the server task, i've disabled all fern spread rhizome and not to test to see if that fixes it but yea figured it would help out if i posted this right here ^.^

\ServerMain.cs:line 882 28.6.2026 08:06:58 [Error] Exception: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'key')    at WildFarming.Ecosystem.FernRhizomeSpread.ApplyTo(PlantRequirements req)    at WildFarming.Ecosystem.PlantRequirements.FromBlock_Patch1(Block block)    at WildFarming.Ecosystem.EcosystemSystem.TryRegisterPlacedBlock(BlockPos pos)    at WildFarming.Ecosystem.EcosystemSystem.<>c__DisplayClass111_0.b__0(Single _)    at Vintagestory.Common.EventManager.TriggerGameTick_Patch1(EventManager this, Int64 ellapsedMilliseconds, IWorldAccessor world)    at Vintagestory.Server.ServerMain.Process() in VintagestoryLib\Server 

EDIT Fully crashes the server when disabling ferns or any other of the spread settings, i think i shall have to remove the mod for now which is a shame

У меня сейчас игра вылетает (вернее выкидывает на загрузочное меню) примерно через 10 минут с ошибкой:

[Event] Stopped the server!
[Error] More then 100000 errors detected. Shutting down now. Threshold can be changed in serverconfig.json "DieAboveErrorCount" 

То есть количество ошибок превысило 100 тысяч. В логе server-main.log 700+ тыс строк, из которых почти всё один блок ниже. Напрямую не указано какой мод, но WildFarming у меня не установлен. Это не может быть связано с модом "Ecosystem - Flora"?

[Error] Exception: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'key')
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.FernRhizomeSpread.ApplyTo(PlantRequirements req)
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.PlantRequirements.FromBlock_Patch1(Block block)
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.EcosystemSystem.TryRegisterPlacedBlock(BlockPos pos)
   at WildFarming.Ecosystem.EcosystemSystem.<>c__DisplayClass111_0.<OnDidPlaceBlock>b__0(Single _)
   at Vintagestory.Common.EventManager.TriggerGameTick(Int64 ellapsedMilliseconds, IWorldAccessor world) in VintagestoryLib\Common\EventManager.cs:line 160
   at Vintagestory.Server.ServerMain.Process() in VintagestoryLib\Server\ServerMain.cs:line 882

Lots of plants spread insanely fast, especially brown sedges, which cannot be removed via scythe for some reason. Clearing out large amounts of this around my base needs to be done via a controlled burn or by hand, which takes quite long. And regardless, a patch of sedges magically spawned in after I did a burn despite me having blocked off any remaining sedges nearby. Is it possible for a patch to be made in order to fix the scythe not working on them? Or could it be an issue caused by another mod, such as toolsmith? And is there a way to slow down the speed at which plants spread?

Что насчёт совместимостей? Будет ли работать с https://mods.vintagestory.at/wildcraftfruit ? или со временем ванильные растения просто "выдавят" растения из модов?

У меня стало появляться большое количество неизвестных блоков со скриншота ниже. Как-то совсем не айс.

Часть скриншота вставить непосредственно не могу, только через ссылку.

Wanted to ask. How do the mushrooms work? My big question for "how they work" is mostly is there a way to see how they are spreading?

Brown sedge is spreading INSANELY fast. It was spawning like 10 new plants a minute. 

The flowers on the map now have no color. They are all just white (the young ones at least). Correction. It is just the Red Top seedlings.

I'm getting grass with no models or texture? How can I fix this? https://imgur.com/a/sNZkiUc

Just wanted to report that the latest patch seems to have fixed both the missing textures for growth stages, and also the apocalyptic growth of some flowers. I had runaway Cow Parsley, and came to mention it about ten minutes after the patch. Been a few hours now, and its behaved itself ever since.

Does this mod support bamboo and/or bamboo shoot regrowth or spread? I'd love to see trimmed bamboo regrow. And I understand that in vanilla, bamboo shoots don't regrow after you harvest them. (Not sure that's true, but these should be a renewable resource.)

Also, not sure it was caused by this mod or something else, but parts of my bamboo fences were being vanished, leaving holes. I was finding a lot of fern creeping on the otherside, which is why I began to wonder if this was the cause.

The flower seedlings do not break correctly. They sound like stone and knives do not break them faster.

having the same issue as missing texture for  "ecosystemflora:block-fernphase-eaglefern-dieback"

what's up with the mod description that looks like a billion other AI-made websites? and the "It's not X— It's Y" text?

Objects without textures are appearing in the world, and here is what is written: "ecosystemflora:block-fernphase-eaglefern-dieback"

I have an issue where the Hart's-Tongue Fern is spreading more than once a minute, similar to the catmint issue. Im running 4.0.2 and using the Sparse preset.

The mass of green is all ferns, the area is a large grassland (Meadow?) without any trees. As a side effect of the ferns, all the soil is now turned to forest floor as when a fern spreads it converts the block below to forest floor.

Im loving the mod otherwise.👍

I really want this mod, It looks really good. I'm uncertain about adding it to an already started game. How well does it manage?

Also, with the frequent bug reports I'm hoping there will be a "Milestone" release where it's fairly stable. 

This mod seems great and am eager to see your work continue. Will check back soon.

Here's a weird bug for you.  I can't craft hay bales or terrain slabs.

Does this work with ecomachina?

I have a bug where all red top grass becomes a missing resource if it changes state to dieback or dormant

Updates every hour, on the hour i swear lol

I found a bug.

Sometimes when breaking any vegetation that's on soil or gravel, the block beneath the vegetation breaks instead of the vegetation and leaves the vegetation floating.

🧡 this mod

Hi, just want some clarification on how greenhouses work with this mod.

Does the effect work for yield or is it just plant stress? I currently have a 14x7 greenhouse with a fully closed roof made of glass and clear quartz slabs. The room gets the greenhouse bonus but the tooltip shows that growth is stunted and will have a reduced yield. Is that expected?

Also, I get an error "Patch 0 in ecosystemflora:patches/wildgrass-ecology.json: File wildgrass:blocktypes/plant/bluegrass.json not found" whenever I load into my world. I'm not sure if I would have compat issues since this is the only plant mod I have

I also want to share my experience with the issue Eliam had below. The video shows catmint regrowing 4 times in less than 30 seconds:

Hello, I really love the mod but I have an issue with some plants that propagates at insane speed. I restarted a game with default worldgen and default Ecosystem settings (and no other mods), and planting even a single catmint colonize the whole chunk and more in less than a day (in game). See the attached screenshots taken less than 24 in-game hours apart. The initial propagation was so fast that 3 new catmints poped even before I pressed the screenshot key.

In my game the regrowth happens faster than I can cut the plants. I had to use creative mode to stop a rapid bush fire because catmints reached my pit kilns and then propagated to a nearby forest faster than the fire could propagate, covering the land with a dense flammable mat. I'm not mad it was a fun experience but I think there's something wrong with how fast it grows.

Is it normal that flowers and grass regrow aggressively after being removed until all of them are removed?

Is this safe to add to an existing world?

That's alot of berries

Hey, first, the mod seems to be working perfectly and with surprisingly good performance. So much is going on here; I was expecting to take a hit and didn't really seem to. Anyways, what I'm really curious about is if there is any convenient way to test the mod/ speed up the process just to see how it would work over time, and if it's worth it for a server.

При загрузке игры выскакивают следующие ошибки.

Это не критично, но всё же.

I love this mod. It really makes the flora feel alive and not like they are just decorations

i like the new pictures. ☺️

I'm seeing aggressive regrowth of leaves on the latest version. It doesn't seem to affect all leaf blocks, but when breaking leaves around the base of a tree, they frequently pop back into existence shortly after I break them. They don't always regrow in exactly the same shape (a group of 3 leaf blocks might regrow just 2 or all 3. if 2 regrow and I break those, it might go back to 3 next time)  but if a clump regrows, it seems to be extremely persistent. I originally saw the behavior in a heavily modded world, but am able to reproduce it with only this mod installed. Turning off the newer tree-related features (EnableTreeAging and EnableTreeSenescence) does not seem to stop the behavior. I've only confirmed it on maple and birch leaves, but haven't spent enough time trying to make it happen to be confident those are the only types affected. Disabling the mod makes it stop, but re-renabling it seems to cause the same regrowth even of leaves removed while the mod was disabled, although they seem to take a bit longer to grow back.

cooking with updates. keep it up man. love the mod.

I'm not sure if anything changed recently, but my settlement is being absolutely invaded by cow parsley. I turn my back, turn around, and three more have spawned. I haven't messed with any config values other than turning a few features off.

Is there a way to reduce the growth rate of grass, but not its spread speed? In other words, make it so the grass spreads normally, but takes longer to grow from one stage to the next? We are finding grass goes from chopped to medium or long length multiple times per in game day, at some points.