Planting

Planting seeds are the building blocks of Plant The World. For more information on a specific type of tree, check Trees.

Seeds
Seeds can be obtained by roaming through the map and finding randomly spawning seed bags. Walk through the bag to open them and collect the seed it contains. Beware, not all tree seeds have the same likelihood of being found. Seeds can also be bought from travelling merchants. Each seed's price is determined by the seed's rarity. When planting a seed on a neutral zone, the player claims the zone for themselves. Once a zone is claimed, the owner and their teammates can place buildings in their zones. The owner of the zone is determined by the player with the highest amount of tree mass in a zone.

Types of Trees
There are currently 64 types of seeds in the game across 3 categories with varying rarities and unique attributes.

The 3 categories are as followed:


 * Wood producing trees
 * Fruit producing trees
 * Plant producing trees

Wood Producing Trees
Wood producing trees are used generally around lumber mills to produce the maximum amount of lumber possible. The mass of all trees in a zone is a factor in the amount of lumber produced by lumber mills. In addition, wood producing trees can be used to fill a zone adjacent to a zone used for producing resources. As these filled zones surround your zones focused on generating resources, your economic zones cannot be directly attacked. This combined with a Tower will protect your economic zone preventing enemy players from invading and taking over your buildings.

Fruit Producing Trees
Fruit producing trees generate fruit that can be collected through the use of farms. Each species of fruit tree produce one of eight possible fruits, each at varying rates. The fruits collected are used in potion brewing and animal taming.

Plant Producing Trees
Plant producing trees generate flowers or mushrooms. These plants spawn under their respected trees and can be collected by walking on top of them or using a #magnet potion. The rate at which each plant spawns at is fixed and dependent on the specific tree. In total, there are 6 types of flowers and 3 types of mushrooms with 18 unique trees that can produce plants.

Plant producing trees count towards tree mass which adds wood to your lumber-camp and can be collected there.

Flowers and mushrooms can be used to craft potions and tools.

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Tree Rarities
Within all three categories of trees are 4 rarities: common, rare, epic, and legendary. Generally, the rarer a tree, the more difficult it is to obtain, the longer it takes to grow, and the more mass it has. Additionally, only some fruits, plants and fungi can be generated from trees at specific rarities. Currently, there are no rare wood producing trees.

The tier 1 tree mass of common trees range from 1-15. Rare trees have a tier 1 range of 30-85. Epic trees have a mass range from 134-322. Legendary trees have a tier 1 mass range of 1,000-4,000.

Upgrading Trees
Similar to upgrading buildings, trees can also be upgraded. This increases the total mass of the tree but does not affect the rate at which flowers or fungi are produced. Trees can be upgraded three times. As a result, every tree has four possible tiers. Each tier is associated with a colour, which can be seen highlighting the base of the tree.

Cost of Upgrading
Each time a tree is upgraded, resources are used. This comes in the form of gold and seeds. The seeds needed for upgrades are the same species as the tree that will be upgraded. Every tier of upgrade costs more than the previous tier. For example, the upgrade price of common trees starts at 100 gold and 2 seeds and eventually reaches 300 gold and 8 seeds when upgrading to the final tier.