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The Sapling devlog returns with season 6

The Sapling · Community Announcements · October 18, 2026

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This seasons starts with a challenge: I studied the alien forests in other games for a month and added everything that makes those forests more interesting. Plants now compete for sunlight, undergrowth covers the forest floor, large trees are far easier to evolve (gravity decides whether they need bark), and air plants and climbers can use the height that other plants create. But this is only the beginning: this is the first episode of a series about the ??? & botany update. The series will have four weekly devlogs, a fifth video with a gameplay demo (a first!), and a short sixth video about the future after this update. This is the first devlog:


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