04-04-2017, 02:28 PM
I'm going to try to answer your questions!
Firstly yes, the game does know the difference between each of the resources. It basically has a separate file for 'tree', 'rock', 'ore', etc. The file for 'tree' has a piece of code in it that tells it to spawn berries and such close to the tree. The files for 'rock' and 'ore' don't have this part, so they don't spawn anything.
My 'grass' resource also has such a file, which has the same piece of code as the 'tree' file does, to tell it to spawn things. In that sense the game indeed treats the grass in a similar way as it treats the trees. (as a side-note, I have tried adding this piece of code to the 'rock' and 'ore' files, but for those it didn't work for some reason).
The grasses indeed spawn throughout the map by themselves, so they are there at the start of the game. The herbs and such that they spawn are collectable. the herbalist can gather the herbs, and the gatherer can gather the food resources.
If anyone wishes I can explain how exactly I got this to work, though I'm not sure if it's really something special. From what I can see <abbr title="Colonial Charter">CC</abbr> also seems to spawn new resources in this way, though perhaps not in such large quantities.
