# Planetary crop growth bugged **URL:** \ **Category:** NMS Next - Bugs & Issues\ **Created:** [August 21, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939 "2018-08-21T15:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DevilinPixy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/devilinpixy/32/74073_2.png) [@DevilinPixy](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/DevilinPixy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/1 "2018-08-21T15:51:30Z")
I thought I was smart, building small bases to place a few Atmosphere Harvesters, near useful planetary crops. I have 6 planets setup this way for all 3 gasses twice. Worked perfectly fine, harvest 750 gas, run a bit to the crop field and harvest some as well, rinse repeat for the other bases. Sure enough it doesn’t take too long to get a stack of gas (1 hour), while planetary crops likely take a while longer. However, after 4 days of playing, I would expect those crops to certainly be re-grown by now. Sadly enough, this is not the case at all. Why do those planetary crops not regrow? I have some Star Bulb growing near my home base as well, even those will not regrow any time soon. Some do regrow however, after a real-time day or two, while others never appear to regrow anymore. I am at my home base quite a lot of time, so being near them makes no difference it seems. Of course the bases with Atmosphere Harvesters are just a quick teleport in/out. How does this even work? Do I need to be near, on the planet, in the system, or what? I feel it is tied somewhat to a full planetary reset or something, but that still doesn’t explain why some will not regrow at all. On my home planet only 3 of the about 12 Star Bulb continued to regrow, albeit very slow. The others never did grow back to be harvestable. I then decided to destroy some other resources near them and sure enough, 2 real-time days later, a couple more finally regrew. Still a few stubborn ones out there though, makes no sense. Did the same at those other planets, getting some resources near them, hoping to force them to grow back somehow. So far no luck at all. Please HG, let planetary crops regrow like they should. We can farm in real-time, but planetary crops are a pain … where is the logic in that? ---
**Author:** ![DarthTrethon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/darthtrethon/32/2790_2.png) [@DarthTrethon](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/DarthTrethon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/2 "2018-08-21T16:02:48Z")
Unfortunate but if you placed base terminals there then it’s worth testing if plants you plant yourself work…I think you should be able to plant biome relevant plants directly into the ground…so star bulb plants on lush, cactus flesh in desert and so on…at least before 1.5 you could plant flowers into the ground directly if the planet was the correct biome. ---
**Author:** ![DevilinPixy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/devilinpixy/32/74073_2.png) [@DevilinPixy](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/DevilinPixy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/3 "2018-08-21T16:10:51Z")
Yeah, that is a solution I thought about doing, just wanted to make this issue known. I am sure it works, just figured it’d save me the effort of farming. Farmed crops at least have specific amounts of harvest, so that’s a plus 😉 I do have my home farm though, so I can still move on without issue, making about 100 mil a day without effort. Might give it a try allowing me to rid of some biodomes (I have 4). ---
**Author:** ![Polyphemus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/polyphemus/32/1884_2.png) [@Polyphemus](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Polyphemus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/4 "2018-08-21T17:55:28Z")
That works, yes - but you need ungodly quantities of the relevant mineral in order to plant them (actually, you don’t plant them - they don’t grow from seeds any more - they somehow spontaneously generate from chromatic metal and minerals). Each plant requires 100 mineral, and 25 chromatic metal. So for, say, 10 star bulb plants you’ll need 1,000 parafinium and 250 chromatic metal. Frost crystal requires dioxite, etc etc. It works well once you have it set up, but it’s a lot of work. ---
**Author:** ![DevilinPixy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/devilinpixy/32/74073_2.png) [@DevilinPixy](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/DevilinPixy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/5 "2018-08-21T18:06:14Z")
I agree it takes quite some time refining, but in the end, it basically just takes a lot of Oxygen. Step in at Dioxite (Cond. Carbon + Sodium Nitr.) or Paraffinium (Silver + Oxygen). Then get to the one you need with Pure Ferrite. Silver is easily mined in space, the Carbon, Sodium, and Ferrite is easily duplicated by refining with Oxygen. I find it cheap, but it is indeed time consuming. I have no trouble getting the Chromatic Metal for planting either, as I have plenty of the coloured system resources. As I said, I am actually good though and not interested in farming all day, while still making a pretty decent living 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SingularGleam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/singulargleam/32/76527_2.png) [@SingularGleam](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/SingularGleam)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/6 "2018-08-21T18:36:46Z")
Little off topic I suppose- but does anyone else wish the plants you place outside would grow to look like the wild ones? ---
**Author:** ![Polyphemus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/polyphemus/32/1884_2.png) [@Polyphemus](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Polyphemus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/7 "2018-08-21T18:46:38Z")
It’s a nice idea, but the wild ones take up an awful lot of space. You’d need a farm the size of Luxembourg. ---
**Author:** ![SingularGleam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/singulargleam/32/76527_2.png) [@SingularGleam](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/SingularGleam)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/8 "2018-08-21T20:04:40Z")
Yes, I want them only for appearance, not for farming reasons 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DarthTrethon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/darthtrethon/32/2790_2.png) [@DarthTrethon](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/DarthTrethon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/9 "2018-08-22T11:29:07Z")
> [@Polyphemus](#): > > Each plant requires 100 mineral, and 25 chromatic metal. So for, say, 10 star bulb plants you’ll need 1,000 parafinium and 250 chromatic metal. Frost crystal requires dioxite, etc etc. Not a major issue…you can buy the minerals…go find a “High Supply” system…the traders there carry significantly higher quantities of stuff for sale. ---
**Author:** ![DevilinPixy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/devilinpixy/32/74073_2.png) [@DevilinPixy](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/DevilinPixy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/planetary-crop-growth-bugged/5939/10 "2025-08-21T15:42:33Z")