Coffee Plant

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"Hot java from hot lava!"

- Willow Coffee Plants are plants introduced in the Shipwrecked DLC. They can be found only inside Volcanos, but can be dug with a Shovel to be moved outside. They can be harvested to receive 1 Coffee Beans after which they will need 4 to 5 days to regrow (Rain does not seem to reduce this time).

Coffee Plants can only be planted on either Magma Turf which can be found outside the volcano or on Ashy Turf and Volcano Turf which have to be dug up inside the volcano using a pitchfork and brought outside.

Replanted Coffee Plants will only produce Coffee Beans for 5 harvests, after which they will require additional fertilizer. As the plant gets closer to this point, it will begin to show fewer and fewer fruit at the tips of it's leaves. When it can no longer be harvested, it will again resemble a withered Coffee Plant.

Unlike other plants like berry bushes or grass tufts, players must fertilize it with  Ashes  instead of  Manure, if in it's withered form. Once it has stopped bearing fruit it will need 4 to 5 ashes to be fertilized again.

Wild Coffee plants growing inside the volcano, those that are not replanted by the player will only bear fruit in the Dry Season.

Special Ability
Coffee Plants are not flammable in that they cannot be set on fire, by the player or wild fires that would creep too close to the plant. When they are dug and held as an item in the player's inventory they can however be used as fuel in Campfires, Chiminea and so on.

Coffee plants are also safe from the other destructive forces of nature like lightning and when fertilized they can even withstand Dragoon Eggs which fall from the sky during dry season. The impact of a Dragoon Egg will merely uproot the plant, it cannot light the plant or the dug up version on fire.

Tips

 * Make sure to fertilize withered Coffee Plants with ash before attempting to dig them up or you will only receive two twigs and lose the plant in the process.