Game Mechanics Make mining Plantera's Bulb gives you a summoning item for Plantera, not instantly spawns Plantera

[Mille Marteaux]

there is definitely room for a healthy middle ground. the healthiest would be highly boosted spawn rate for bulbs until the first kill, rather than only spawning one immediately.

i think it's neat, but plantera bulbs lose their novelty once you start building quarantined jungle boxes like so and it becomes just another boss to farm.

 

[Dapling]

Honestly, I think we just need a way to plant plantera bulbs yourself. Making the actual bulb drop a seed for it when broken would work out nicely, and if you were hardcore farming plantera you could go out and look for more while waiting for the planted one to grow.

 

[Aceplante]

Honestly, I think we just need a way to plant plantera bulbs yourself. Making the actual bulb drop a seed for it when broken would work out nicely, and if you were hardcore farming plantera you could go out and look for more while waiting for the planted one to grow.

To me it has always been implied that the bulb you are breaking IS plantera, who is now angry you attempted to attack her. For you to be able to break one with no consequence, and just replant this living entity wherever you wish seems very odd...

and wait a minute, how do you break one and get a seed, plant it and break it again but this time its a boss?

 

[Dapling]

To me it has always been implied that the bulb you are breaking IS plantera, who is now angry you attempted to attack her. For you to be able to break one with no consequence, and just replant this living entity wherever you wish seems very odd...

and wait a minute, how do you break one and get a seed, plant it and break it again but this time its a boss?

The boss spawns both times. You break it and get the seed and the boss ALSO spawns. You also get the seed when you break the planted one, but the planted one takes time to regrow so there's still incentive tot go out and find more so you can grind the boss faster.

 

[Rezerkity]

IMO homogenising every boss spawn method would be convenient, but also very boring. I think a healthier alternative might be for it to function more like the Moon Lord.

Make the current regular spawn method work as normal, but the method of spawning it also gives you some resources towards a spawner.
So, for example, you could mine a Plantera bulb to spawn her and fight her as normal, but you also get something like 'Magic Bulb Petals' which can be used with some Chlorophyte Bars to craft a spawner.