The Long Dark: Plants

Saplings are useful for making bows, but not that easy to find. A key thing is that their spawns are not random- they are only available in certain groves on every map.

Here is what Maple saplings look like:

Note that they weigh .66 pounds.

Green Birch Saplings look very similar:

Note that plants spawns are random and locations may differ game to game. Additionally, they do respawn but it may take a very long time.

Mystery Lake

• Green Maple Saplings
• By the Carter Hydro Dam. Approach from the rail, and it will be below you in the valley on your left (under the main entrance).
• Near the Frozen Creek
• Green Birch Saplings
• "Behind" the Trapper's Homestead.
• Along the river leading away from Mystery Lake
• Old Man's Beard Lichen
• "Behind" the Trapper's Homestead, towards the edge of the map.
• Near the Deadfall Area
• Unnamed Pond
• River (Northern Access)
• Reishi Mushrooms
• Deadfall Area
• Unnamed Pond
• Frozen Creek
• Rose Hips
• Bears
• South of the Fishing Cabin (between the Clearcut and the Unnamed Pond), on the frozen lake
• Clearcut (at the base of the Forestry Outlook)

Ravine (transition area between Mystery Lake and Coastal Highway)

• Near the ML entrance (before you cross the chasm on the log, off trail next to a cave on your right as you come from ML)
• Old Man's Beard Lichen
• Green Birch Saplings
• Near the chasm-spanning log
• Rose Hips
• Old Beard Lichen
• Near the ML side of the train track tunnels
• Reishi Mushroom

Coastal Highway

• Rose Hips
• Jackrabbit Island
• Old Beard Lichen
• Misanthrope's Homestead
• Reishi Mushrooms
• Waterfront Cottages
• Bears
• Wandering near Misanthrope's Homestead, on the ice
• Coastal Townsite