Fertilizing a Sapling Behaves Incorrectly

[bronze dove]

Hello! This isn't a laundry list, but a sum of a couple observations that occur. In summary:

• The fertilizer count is not accurate. In the screenshot, you can see only three of four are fertilized, but the counter says four.
• When a sapling dies upon season transition, the fertilizer remains. (Multiple-yield crops do not have this occur; it's specific to saplings.)
• I am unsure if fertilizer influences sapling quality on top of this, but I can't prove this. My qualities have been variable, but I don't know if osmium-quality saplings are correctly dropping as far down as silver or not.

Reproduction Steps
(Fertilizing)

• Plant a sapling on tilled and watered soil.
• Start fertilizing one tile at a time.
• Go "huh" at the UI.

(Fertilizer Remaining)

• End the day on day 28 of a season with a live, fertilized sapling (the final day the sapling would be alive).
• Go to the sapling on day 1 of the season it can no longer grow.
• Observe the fertilized ground under the dead sapling.

Repro Rate: Not every time.
Game Platform PC (Steam)
Game Version: v1.1b-1237
Input Mode: Keyboard and Mouse

[vestal phoenix]

Hello @bronze dove! Thank you so much for sharing your findings with us 🙌

Could you also send us your Backup file in a ZIP format? You can find it in the same location as your DailySave file. ✨

[bronze dove]

Done! (I think.)

I don't recall if the backups will be at the Winter->Spring transition at this point, since I played a bit, taking screenshots as I went, then stopped to report a few things, then kept playing.

[vestal phoenix]

Got it! I’ll share this with the team so they can take a closer look.
Thanks so much, dvoraen! 😊

[vestal phoenix]

Hi @bronze dove!
A quick update and follow-up — I've passed along the fertilizer counter issue, and the team will investigate it.

As for the fertilizer still showing on saplings when the season changes, do you happen to have a video of that happening, maybe alongside your regular crops for comparison?
If the issue shows up again, it’d be super helpful if you could also send your backup save file from that day.

Really appreciate your help, thank you!

[bronze dove]

Won't be able to immediately, but when I hit the Summer/Fall transition in this save file I can submit that to illustrate the point.

[vestal phoenix]

No worries at all — that sounds great!
Whenever you reach the Summer/Fall transition and can share the save file, we’d really appreciate it. It’ll definitely help us understand the issue better.

Thanks so much in advance! ✨

[bronze dove]

Okay, here we are! A nice little sapling shenanigans recording. It shows me planting a wilts-at-Fall sapling (Rambutan is Spring/Summer), fertilizer UI shows incorrectly, fertilizer persists after season change when clearing the wilted sapling, and also how normal wilted plants lose the fertilizer on the tile when cleared.

[vestal phoenix]

Hi hi! Thank you so much for sharing the clip and keeping us updated — I’ve passed this along to the team, and they’re currently working on a fix.
Really appreciate your help, dvoraen!