🌿 Epiphyte

One living plant. One server. One history.

Epiphyte grows a single plant from your server's activity — not one per person, one for the whole server.

Every message sent anywhere in the server waters it.

Silence dries it out: around three days of real quiet takes it from thriving to withered.

Growth happens once per hour, and only if enough moisture exists to pay for it. A large plant is therefore the record of weeks of genuine activity, never just one loud evening.

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🌱 Growth remembers

Nothing that has grown is forgotten.

🍂 Drought kills branches permanently. Those scars remain visible long after the leaves return, making quiet months part of the tree's history forever.

💀 If a server is abandoned completely, the plant eventually dies. Its skeleton lingers for a while before a successor germinates from a mutated version of the same genome—clearly related, but never the same individual.

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📊 What the server becomes

🌍 Server activity	🌿 The plant grows
💬 Messages anywhere	💧 Moisture & overall growth
👥 Different people chatting	🌳 A broader crown
⚖️ Even activity over eight weeks	🌿 Calm, symmetrical wood—or twisted branches
❤️ Reactions	🌸 Richer flowers
🧵 Multi-person threads	🌲 Deeper branching
🎙️ Shared voice time	🌱 Stronger roots & a thicker trunk

🚫 Impossible to farm

No single person can inflate the plant.

• 📉 Every additional message from the same account within one day is worth half the previous one.
• 🗓️ Voice only contributes to crown breadth after appearing across multiple real days.
• 👥 Voice time only counts while two or more people are actually together in a voice channel.
• 🤫 Sitting alone—or muted—for eight hours contributes nothing.

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🌸 What appears naturally

Healthy plants slowly unlock things on their own.

🌿 Condition	✨ Reward
Long-term health	🌸 Bloom in its genetically chosen colour
Bloom maintained long enough	🌰 Sets seed
Very old, very large tree	🌿 Carries an epiphyte on one of its branches

Nothing can be requested, purchased, rushed, or manually triggered.

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🪵 Once every year

For a single day each year, the plant replaces itself with a cross-section of its trunk.

Each ring tells part of the server's story:

• 🟤 Wide & dark → the server was thriving.
• 🤍 Thin & pale → activity slowed.
• ⚫ Grey → drought permanently cost the tree wood.

One ring represents one completed calendar year.

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🚫 What Epiphyte refuses to do

🛠️ Three commands. That's all.

Command	Purpose
/epiphyte-channel	Choose where the plant lives
/plant	View a private snapshot
/help	Show help

That number is meant to stay.

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🎨 No customization

• ❌ No settings
• ❌ No themes
• ❌ No cosmetic options

Everything about the plant is derived from its state.

If it could be chosen, it would stop being a measurement.

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🏆 No game mechanics

• ❌ No leaderboards
• ❌ No levels
• ❌ No economy
• ❌ No moderation

Epiphyte is a mirror, not a scoreboard.

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🔒 Privacy first

• 📨 It knows that a message arrived—not what it said.
• 🎙️ It never joins voice channels.
• 🎧 It never records or receives audio.
• 🔐 No privileged intents required.

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♻️ No reset button

Removing and re-inviting the bot changes nothing.

A history that can be erased isn't much of a history.

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🌳 Living on its own

The plant describes its own condition in the first person and quietly updates its own message on its own schedule, whether anyone is watching or not.

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💚 Open Source

MIT Licensed

🔗 https://github.com/timur-manjosov/epiphyte