Talk:Village/@comment-5670246-20130809223226/@comment-9531161-20130810000606

Actually... it probably is a real stump lol. How... how on earth did that happen? I've watered at least 100 flowers while testing and never had that happen. Can you find a way to recreate it? Did you plant flowers in a place that had a tree before? Were those withered flowers actually a stump that turned into withered flowers? I just... I have no idea.

Here's how it works, in case anybody wanted to know:

Your game is saved in 2 layers: the physical layer (the stuff you can see and interact with) and the meta layer (background information). Trees have background data related to how far along they are in growth. Flowers have no meta data until they die, at which point I swap the  flower's physical layer data with the meta layer (meaning the meta layer now has the ID of the flower), then put a dead flower in the physical layer. When you water a dead flower, it restores the meta data into the physical layer to reproduce the original object. What it sounds like is either:

- A stump turned into a dead flower, so when you water it, it turns back into its stump form

- A dead flower's meta data got overwritten with the stump ID (1).

I'll look into this and fix it immediately... I'm so sorry!