🌿 What is Foliage?
🍃 The Foliage Item
Purple-tinted leaves obtained from cave ferns. Restores 1 HP when eaten, can be used as fuel, or crafted into Potted Ferns for decoration.
Stats: +1 Health, 0 Hunger, 0 Sanity
🌱 How to Obtain
- Pick ferns in caves (primary source)
- Tumbleweeds (1% chance drop)
- Trade with other players
- Mods: Marsh Ferns adds surface ferns
🔧 Primary Uses
- Decoration: Craft Potted Ferns (2 foliage + 1 broken shell)
- Emergency Food: 1 HP heal when desperate
- Fuel: Burns like petals or grass
- Beefalo Feed: Cheap obedience maintenance
⚠️ Important Notes
- Ferns don't regrow once picked
- Cannot be used in Crock Pot (DST)
- Spoils in 6 days
- Wormwood takes damage eating raw foliage
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🧮 Foliage Resource Calculator
♻️ Plant Regrowth Reference
⚠️ Important: Ferns do NOT regrow naturally in DST! Once picked, they're gone forever unless you use mods or find foliage in tumbleweeds.
🌱 Grass Tufts
Regrowth: 3-4 days after picking
Fertilizer: Speeds up to 1 day
✅ Renewable via Grass Gekkos
🌿 Saplings
Regrowth: 4-5 days after picking
Fertilizer: Speeds up to 1 day
✅ Renewable via Twiggy Trees
🫐 Berry Bushes
Regrowth: 3-5 days (season dependent)
Winter: No berries, needs fertilizer
✅ World regrowth spawns new bushes
🌸 Flowers
Regrowth: Via butterflies only
Method: Catch & plant butterflies
✅ Infinite via butterfly farming
🍃 Cave Ferns
Regrowth: NEVER
Alternative: Tumbleweeds (1% chance)
❌ Finite resource!
🌳 Trees
Regrowth: World regrowth system
Manual: Plant pine cones/seeds
✅ Fully renewable
⚙️ World Regrowth Settings
DST's world regrowth system automatically spawns new plants over time. You can adjust these settings when creating a world:
Very Slow
Conservative regrowth
Slow
Balanced (default)
Fast
Quick recovery
Very Fast
Rapid regrowth
🏺 Base Decoration Planner
🪴 Potted Plants Collection
🌵 Potted Succulents:
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📋 Total Resources Needed
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🎨 Decoration Tips & Ideas
🏡 Garden Pathways
Line paths with alternating potted ferns and succulents. Use cobblestone turf for a natural garden feel.
🌺 Zen Garden
Create a meditation area with potted ferns, mushroom lights, and a central fire pit surrounded by flowers.
🏺 Entrance Garden
Welcome visitors with symmetrical potted plants flanking your base entrance. Add carpet turf for elegance.
🌿 Greenhouse Corner
Dedicate a corner to all your potted plants. Use different skins and variants for visual variety.
💡 Pro Tips & Advanced Techniques
🌱 Survival Techniques
- Emergency Healing: Stack 40 foliage for 40 HP emergency heal
- Cave Lighting: Use natural Light Flowers instead of burning logs
- Fertilizer Trick: Let foliage rot for free fertilizer
- Beefalo Taming: Feed foliage instead of wasting twigs
- Butterfly Farming: Plant flowers → catch butterflies → plant more flowers
♻️ Resource Management
- Tumbleweed Farming: Hunt tumbleweeds for rare foliage drops
- Cave Conservation: Don't pick every fern - they're finite!
- Grass Gekko Farms: Infinite grass via gekko breeding
- Tree Replanting: Always plant pine cones for sustainability
- World Settings: Increase regrowth rate for lusher worlds
👥 Character Synergies
- Wormwood: Plant seeds anywhere, bloom for flowers
- Wickerbottom: Applied Horticulture for instant growth
- Webber: Spider farms don't need plant resources
- Wendy: Abigail protects your gardens from mobs
- Wolfgang: Mighty form for fast tree chopping
🎯 Advanced Strategies
- Lureplant Harvesting: Auto-harvest with eyeplants
- Bush Hat Stealth: Hide from hounds in plain sight
- Treeguard Diplomacy: Plant pine cones to pacify
- Seasonal Planning: Cactus in winter for sanity food
- Set Piece Hunting: Find special plant formations
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Don't rely on foliage as primary food source - it's inefficient
- Don't clear all ferns from caves - they never regrow
- Don't feed raw foliage to Wormwood - it damages him
- Don't ignore world regrowth settings - they affect long-term sustainability
- Don't forget that disease was removed - your plants won't randomly die
📚 Quick Reference
Foliage Stats
+1 HP, 0 Hunger, 0 Sanity
Spoil Time
6 days
Fuel Duration
~6 seconds
Tumbleweed Chance
1% drop rate