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Papyrus Theories

Here's some data. What I'm suspecting now is that individual tiles have a specific number of papyrus spawn points, and that seeding simply sets those tiles to countdown to show a papyrus reed.

Planting site 1333, 3561. I plant X seeds every Wait game minutes every Step coordinates walking right, then pickup Yield papyrus starting at Harvest time.
Time Harvest Wait Step Count Yield Ratio
1105 1135 1 1 10 97 9.7
1230 1300 1 2 10 85 8.5
1342 1416 2 2 10 83 8.3
1458 1543 2 1 10 94 9.5
1611 - 0 0 10 115 11.5
1739 - 0 1 10 62 6.2
1827 - 0 0 20 99 4.95
1932 - 0.1 0 20 106 5.3
0212 0242 0 0 5 50 10.0
0335 0406 0 0 15 170 11.3
0500 0530 0 0 18 129 7.2
0007 0037 0 0 17 126 7.4
0107 0137 0 0 16 100 6.25

It would be incorrect to conclude from this that there is any sort of time dependence, even though it shows that right now - it's simply that I was doing saturation tests at that time, which results in poor yield.

One definite conclusion is that papyrus takes exactly 30 teppy minutes to grow. Another is that time dependence either doesn't exist or works so oddly that it can be discounted.

Another note is that there is a section where papyrus never grows. These appear just north of a land bridge and an inlet and disconnected ponds on the west, so it may be intended to keep papyrus from growing there.

Planting site tests; 15 seeds each.
X Y Side Time Start End Yield Notes
1355 3500 West 0508 3629 3695 28
1340 3550 West 0412 3645 3752 90
1325 3600 West 0205 3711 3799 113
1316 3650 West 0316 3774 3850 27 Medium-populated banks, island in centre of Nile.
Bald regions - papyrus can't seem to grow here.
Start End Notes
3669 3694 Land bridge immediately south.
3768 3781 Inlet with disconnected ponds immediately south.
3645 3660

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