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11 Flax Sapling is a Seedbed-only farming plant in Windrose. Once mature it can be harvested for Flax and Flax Seeds.
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33 Properties
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55 PropertyValuePlants inSeedbedYields on harvestFlax plus Flax SeedsMax Health4,500DecayDoes not decay in inventory
66 Planting
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88 This plant only grows inside a player-built Seedbed. A Seedbed section is crafted with 5 Fertile Soil each and placed through the build menu under the Farming tab. Each section accepts up to four plants, one in each corner. Walk up to an empty corner with the Flax Sapling in the inventory and place it from the radial menu.
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1010 Flax Sapling is obtained as a drop from harvesting wild Flax plants in the world. There is no vendor that sells seeds or saplings, so the first stack of any plant has to be foraged.
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1212 Growth and Harvest
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1414 Plants in Windrose take roughly 70 minutes of real time to grow to full size. Growth continues while the player is offline, so a freshly planted sapling will be ready next session. When ripe, the plant changes to a fully matured model with a faint highlight on inspection.
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1616 Press E on a mature plant to harvest. The harvest yields the listed crop plus a fresh seed of the same plant, so a single sapling effectively reseeds itself with no net seed loss.
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1818 What the Harvest Feeds
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2020 A mature Flax Sapling returns two useful outputs on every harvest, and each one anchors a different production chain. Keeping one or two beds running covers both the textile line and the oil line for a base.
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2222 OutputFeeds IntoUsed ForFlaxFlax Fiber, then Coarse Fabric and RiggingSails, ship fittings, and most cloth components.Flax SeedsReplanting and Flax OilReseeding the bed, plus a refined oil for higher-tier recipes.
2323 Because the cloth chain runs through the Wharf and the Shipwright's Workshop, a steady flax supply is one of the clearest gates on early shipbuilding progress.
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2525 Notes
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2727 Flax is the bottleneck crop for early ship building because Flax fibre is the source of Coarse Fabric, which goes into the Wharf, the Shipwright's Workshop, and almost every cosmetic component. A dedicated flax bed is one of the first farms most players set up.
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2929 Tips
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3131 Always harvest the seed back. Walking away from a finished plant before pressing E does not consume the seed, but breaking the plant with a tool will.Pack a stack of saplings before sailing far. Harvested wild plants drop saplings inconsistently, and a small portable supply means the home base never runs dry of starter stock.Saplings do not decay in inventory, so it is safe to overstock and replant only as space frees up in the seedbed.