Talk:Plants

Plant categories

As you may have noticed I started cleaning up the plant categories. I need a bit of help regarding the categories and their definitions. Here are some definitions as I would understand them:

First of all the plants can be split into:

• Domesticated plants: All plants that can be planted by the player.
• Wild plants: All plants that can't be planted by the player.

Secondly plants can be split according to their harvest result:

• Resource plants: All plants that produce any kind of resources except food and wood.
• Food plants (new category): Everything that can be harvested for some kind of food.
• Tree: Everything that produces wood.

Thirdly there are also decorative plants where the definition is particulary difficult:

• All plants that can be planted by the player and cannot be harvested
• All plants that are particulary beautiful

There is a lot of overlap in these definitions. This are the special cases (I know of) that need to be considered:

• Cocoa trees are called trees and can like other trees only be planted every other tile but they can't be chopped for wood.
• Bonsai trees are called trees and can be chopped for wood but otherwise don't behave like trees and are meant as a decorative plant.
• Some wild plants can be harvested.

Any thoughts on this? --Ickputzdirwech (talk) 11:22, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

i am about 80% sure that the domesticated, decorative, wild, and tree categories are actually from the game. I vaguely remember dandelions finding out that dandelions are actually miscategorized. i caht look at the game files to check atm and might not be able to do so for the next couple of days. ultimately only reader centric categories need to match the game, so additional sorting categories not linked to the types can be whatever you need. i trust you to make good choices on that regard Harakoni (Wiki Moderator) (talk) 23:34, 25 March 2022 (UTC)>

My trouble is I looked in that game files and the only thing that's like categories is the "purpose" property (Food, Beauty, Misc). Couldn't find anything like categories in game either. The thing about dandelions is that there are no wild and domestic variants of them. So one could argue that they belong in the "wild" category, not "beauty". Or at least both. --Ickputzdirwech (talk) 09:25, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Also I would say that Anima trees are "wild" plants as well. I think the best way forward is to consequently assign the categories and accept that there will be quite a bit of overlap. --Ickputzdirwech (talk) 09:31, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

I added my findings and definitions. It's still subject to change. Another special case is the Burned tree which can't be planted by the player, but is it really a "wild" plant? Also "crop" is a nice word, maybe we should use it instead of plants e.g. Food crop? But wouldn't this exclude things like berry bushes? Would that be a bad thing? Lots of questions I need to think about. --Ickputzdirwech (talk) 10:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)