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.
🌱 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.
📊 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.
🌸 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.
🪵 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.
🚫 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.
🎨 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.
🏆 No game mechanics
- ❌ No leaderboards
- ❌ No levels
- ❌ No economy
- ❌ No moderation
Epiphyte is a mirror, not a scoreboard.
🔒 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.
♻️ No reset button
Removing and re-inviting the bot changes nothing.
A history that can be erased isn’t much of a history.
🌳 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.
💚 Open Source
MIT Licensed
