Propagating Raspberries

[igpron]

I saw that there were seed values and grow times on raspberries. Will the wild ones grow on their own and spawn new ones?

Could I keep cutting non-raspberry-plants until I had an untended field of the useful bush?

Also, what causes these bushes to lose health? Five trees around them blocking the sun would do it?

Thanks!

[Goo Poni]

Wild agave and raspberry bushes do not spread seedlings. Just grass/trees.

[milon]

They may not spread "seeds", but the wild berries and agave certainly do spread on their own.  At least they used to - in Alpha 6 and 7 most of my food came from cutting all non-wild-food plants and letting it grow all around the base.  Then I'd just harvest occasionally, and I had a blight-proof food source.

In Alpha 8 I've been playing in tundra & ice sheet, so I haven't tested this.  But I haven't read anything in the change log saying it was nerfed/removed.

[skullywag]

Yeah its work intensive but deffo doable. All plants spread. Ive done it a few times but it ends up not really being worth it. Easier to just have inside growing regions.

[Goo Poni]

Ah, then it's never been something I've observed. A three year colony on a desert, all the agave that was on the map at the start is still in the same places. Don't have any agave infestations anywhere.

[milon]

I'm guessing agave doesn't grow/spread much in a desert biome.  Haven't played desert much, myself.

[Wex]

The agave grows only on farmable land. And the sand is not.

[Goo Poni]

Well it's a good thing the naturally occurring agave from map generation only occurs on dirt where it can grow and potentially spread.