Your grass is now lizards! ....Did you guys know this happened?

[Pelliway]

I was playing earlier on one of the Klei official servers (not running A New Reign beta) and as I passed my grass farm, the majority of tufts suddenly sprung from the round and became grass gekkos! It freaked me out, but it was an awesome change, as they're more useful. But... how? Is it just random? How does this work?

[NeddoFreddo]

According to some update notes from a while ago, there's a 1% chance for a planted grass tuft to turn into a grass gecko. It's a way to get them if your world didn't spawn with them, since they're not renewable. Don't entirely know how often that dice rolls for the 1% chance, maybe every few days or so.

[Zeklo]

I heard mention of it a while back, that after a while of having not harvested grass they change into grass gecko. 

Not sure how accurate/how much has changed since then.

[zzKratoszz]

This seems relevant.

Spoiler

 

GRASSGEKKO_MORPH_DELAY = total_day_time * 25,

 GRASSGEKKO_MORPH_DELAY_VARIANCE = total_day_time * 5,

GRASSGEKKO_MORPH_CHANCE = 1 / 100,

 if #TheSim:FindEntities(x, y, z, 10, { "grassgekko" }) < 8 then
                local gekko = SpawnPrefab("grassgekko")

 

 

[Pelliway]

Thanks for this great info, guys! <3