Has introduction of stones affected Fruit & dung?

[Redster]

I do a lot of walking inbetween bombs n probes. I find dung/fruit it seems almost every day. Stones are little harder to find but at least once a week. The issue may be that there are more players and someone else is getting it before you do

[Thorn]

I`ve found stones once and do seem to find less fruit and dung. Of course I stiopped picking up the dung especially while mining as i don`t know how heavy it will be and if it will weigh me down until it`s to late to put it back on the ground.

[Squiglet]

In my recent experience I have found more fruit than usual as well as stones. Not much dung but that is probably just random downturn. Of course I don't go looking for these things and I am extrapolating from a sample of about 4 stone finds, 10-20ish fruit/dung finds over a number of months. So not exactly reliably large sample size.

[nor]

I've found fruit dung and stones (5 of the 6 types no Trutun ever) in the last few weeks. I do notice I see a lot more fruit than anything and certainly less dung than I used to see, I actually find more stones than dung.

[Svarog]

I get less dung nowaday, but I'm sure it's all random.

[Dorsai]

Originally Posted by Vedder

Fruits? Dung? Stones?

Hmm.. Doesn't sound like the game I'm playing.

You and me both.

[Jimmy B]

I find plenty of fruit. Not so much of stones and dung, but there's no animation for stones so maybe miss them, and dung I don't pick up anymore due to the weight & not being able to drop.

[dj.]

Stones?? What stones??

First ive heard of it

How long have we been able to find stones?

What are they for?

[cheeky monkey]

Let me add another piece of data to my post. When I first found fruit (4-5 months ago), I took it to PA and listen to people buying it. Every time I went through PA in the future, I would listen to the buy prices for future fruit finds. Back then , pre stone-age if you will, Most buyers of fruit would pay 0.9-1.0 PEC/fruit. Rarely I would see a buyer at 0.8, and never saw one over 1.0 PEC/fruit. In the past few weeks, The standard buy prices in PA have gone up to 1.0-1.2 PEC/fruit. This isn't just a one day event, but for a few weeks now.

Using simple economics, a price increase should be caused by either an decrease in supply or an increase in demand. Since the only use for fruit that I know of (I admit, still a newb, could be wrong) is to make nutrio bars for feeding pets. Coupled that with the fact I have seen no sudden increase in pet taming, leads me to believe there is a decrease in the supply of fruit. This occured soon after the stones were introduced, which made sense to me.

[Sirhc]

Originally Posted by dj.

Stones?? What stones??

First ive heard of it

How long have we been able to find stones?

What are they for?

They are for texturing and have been around since that VU.

Sort of hard to spot because invariably the stones are usually the same color as the ground texture they spawn on lol.