[SUGGESTION] Fruit Fly should have a better chance of summoning other weeds besides forget-me-lots

[Keknutui]

 

I adore these guys and use them like in this video. Just with the release of the new beta test, the weeds have gained more meaning, but there is one problem...

Too manyforget-me-lots, can increase the chance of using flies in general? 

And yes, it may be worth enhancing the effect and reducing the prescription of weed salve

[Mr.Oshiro]

Considering that these weeds have their own uses, I think it's best to give them the same probability of growth and spread.
Perhaps the probability of weed emergence can be determined based on the season?
Spring——forget-me-lots
Summer——Fire Nettles
Autumn——Tillweed

Edited December 8, 2025 by Mr.Oshiro

[Jakepeng99]

Maybe add different species of fruit flies.

[Radicaljoe]

Could be funny to feed durians (fruit monster meat equivalent) to the friendly fruit fly to transform it into like, a fiendish fruit fly temporarily, where it will plant a bunch of weeds in farm plots and make plants sad.

[Jakepeng99]

1 hour ago, Radicaljoe said:

Could be funny to feed durians (fruit monster meat equivalent) to the friendly fruit fly to transform it into like, a fiendish fruit fly temporarily, where it will plant a bunch of weeds in farm plots and make plants sad.

Nah thats less cool and clever. The current way is the best, just its only good for forget me lots.

[JazzyGames]

It would also be cool if the flies helped to spread weeds. If targeting an tilled farm spot maybe check for nearby weeds and propagate those if so.

[Pumking7]

On 12/8/2025 at 10:19 AM, Keknutui said:

Too manyforget-me-lots, can increase the chance of using flies in general?

I think before the interesting concept of weeds is forgotten again, I am just going to bring up the rates for weed spawns:

• Forget-Me-Nots: 77%
• Spiny Bindweed: 7.7%
• Tillweed: 7.7%
• Fire Nettle: 7.7%

This means that you essentially get a greater than 75% to spawn a Forget-Me-Not, and even if get the other weed type you only have a 1/3 chance of getting the one you want. This means getting a Tillweed takes about 12 weed spawns (fruit flys, random seed chance, spring weed spawn) to even get a single one. I know tillweeds and fire nettles are more uncommon due to them being basically permanent, but they are so rare its not fun to farm for them or decorate with them.

Mr.Oshiro bringing up seasonal growth for weeds to be increased is a great idea for weed diversity to be increased. If anything maybe a small fruit fly could eat fire nettle fronds, tillweeds or leafy meat (?) off the ground or on the plants to inspire growth of a certain weed so the player could have more control over this mechanic?

On 12/8/2025 at 10:19 AM, Keknutui said:

And yes, it may be worth enhancing the effect and reducing the prescription of weed salve

This might be one of the worst healing items in the game. It requires four petals, which are a hassle to collect in decent quantities since they are limited by seasonal regrowth or butterfly spawns. The four tillweeds which are also already annoying from the aforementioned weed spawn rate. For all the effort put into making the item it only heals 28 health, 8 immediately and 20 overtime over a minute. Overtime healing effects can be very annoying if they're slow, and tillweed salve's healing effect is so slow that resorting to immediate healing is a much better option. This item also spoils... which the ability for crafted healing items to not spoil is one of their whole draws so... It also only takes 10 days and only has a healing benefit, so resorting to food for hunger and sanity is a way better option.

To make this item even come close to competing it could:

• Make it not spoil, much like other healing items (drying the tillweed petals for the recipe perhaps?)
• Reduce the regular petal cost or change it with something else entirely
• Improve the healing effect to be faster (better option), or increase it to make its one minute duration impactful

[3TimesFernando]

 

This is very necessary. A few PAINFUL hours to finish this

On 12/8/2025 at 4:29 PM, Jakepeng99 said:

Maybe add different species of fruit flies

This idea is very good.

Having a fluit fly that set things on fire and spawn fire nettles for the (SUMMER), a tillweed variation (SPRING), and a blindweed one (WINTER) is nice.

Edited December 14, 2025 by 3TimesFernando

[BalkanCockroach]

On 12/8/2025 at 1:29 PM, Jakepeng99 said:

Maybe add different species of fruit flies.

Breeding and mutating them as a reference to Thomas Morgans experiment would be cool.

[Popian]

33 minutes ago, 3TimesFernando said:

This is very necessary. A few PAINFUL hours to finish this

Weeds can also propagate on their own if you give them room, but I believe more will do this because it's a one and done that's more aesthetic and fits with the mass production mindset.