Rhododendron

A Rhododendron is a flower picked by hand from rhododendron bushes, 2 to 4 at a time. The game groups these bushes with the berry bushes, which is why the source table says “Berry Bushes”. There are 11 of them around your base, including one at Riverside, and a picked bush flowers again after about 20 minutes. Picking needs Farming mastery 1, which a shovel on your toolbar gives.

In the demo the only thing to do with it is study it: 3 Science at the Study Table for 30 red tech points.

How to obtain

Gathered from

Name × Chance
Berry Bushes 2–4 —
Berry Bushes 2 Master Forager +1

Used for

Study

Study requires: Tech points Duration
Science ×3 30 8 ( Researcher −3 )

Each item is studied once, on the Study Table. Studying does not use the item up. With the Scientist perk, a 30% chance of a Story.

Other uses, not in the demo (3)

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Distillation Cube
Rhododendron ×2
Clay Urn ×2
Fuel ×20
Fragrance × 3 ( Cube distillations +2 · Dead distiller +2 )
2 8 11

Build

Flower Bed I ×3
Flower Bed II ×6

Notes

  • Bushes sometimes drop a Firefly. Each pick has a 40% chance of one.
  • The Master Forager perk adds 2 flowers per pick.
  • The game data has two more uses that the demo cannot reach: Fragrance at the Distillation Cube (2 Rhododendrons and 2 Clay Urns) and graveyard Flower Beds (3 or 6 each). Neither recipe has a way to be unlocked in the demo’s data.