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This is actually pretty cute, I just wish there was perhaps a "patience" mode that would just be a slower version of the screensaver mode. I'd love to leave this on my second display and let it grow over the course of an hour or a work day.

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I'll give you one better, I wrote a plant life simulator that takes place over 4 or 5 days: https://github.com/jifunks/botany

I love this on tilde.town. Every morning I log in and water my plant and also check in on the plant of one other guy who saved my plant once.

I can lend you my tamagotchi? ;-)

That looks cool, I'll grab it when I get some free time

Take it even further, save the seed, use the system time, and when you open it show the current state of the tree which grows on the span of years/months

There's a --time parameter for the delay between each step. You'd have to figure out roughly how many steps it takes to build a tree though.

Doesn't this option solve it?

    -t, --time=TIME        in live mode, wait TIME secs between steps of growth

Yep! I just figured out that I would need a combination of flags to get it to work the way I wanted, thank you for the help. Aliasing the whole command has basically given me all the functionality I could ask for.

Could you share the command?

Sure, I'm using 'cbonsai -i -l -t 5 -b 1'

You can change the number to 10 if you want an even slower one, but 5 was good for me.

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