How to play Moss & More

Moss & More is an idle game about a miniature garden. You tend it by hand, plant moss, ferns, clover, bonsai trees and willows, and watch a little world grow green. Its twist is spreading: plants grow faster the more of them you have, just as moss creeps across a stone.

The basics

Tend the garden. Tap the big button to grow a leaf. Every garden starts with a little care.
Plant. Moss patches, ferns, clover patches, bonsai trees and weeping willows all grow leaves on their own, every second.
Spread. Once you own 10 of a plant, its spreading upgrade appears. From then on, that plant grows faster for every one of the same plant you own.
Buy upgrades. At 25, 50 and 100 of a plant, an upgrade doubles it. A few upgrades double the whole garden.
Let the garden rest. Once the garden is lush, you can let it rest for winter and start again in spring with seed packets. Each makes everything grow 7% faster, for good.

Your first few minutes

Tend the garden until you have 15 leaves and plant a moss patch. Leaves now grow on their own.
After tending 25 times, the Watering can appears. It doubles every tap.
Save for a fern at 110 leaves. With five plants, the Compost heap doubles the whole garden.
At 10 moss patches, Damp stones appears: your first spreading upgrade.

How spreading works

Spreading upgrades add a bonus to a plant for every plant of the same kind you own. Damp stones, for example, makes moss patches 1% faster for every moss patch. With 30 patches, each one grows 30% faster; with 100, twice as fast. And because each patch also adds its own leaves, the total grows faster than the number of plants.

That changes how you grow. Spreading rewards commitment: buying more of one plant makes every plant of that kind better, so it can pay to back one plant for a while instead of spreading your leaves thinly. The game always shows what each plant grows, including all its bonuses, so you can watch your favourite take off.

The bigger plants spread faster: clover and bonsai trees gain 1.2% per plant, and willows 1.5%. The exact numbers are in the tables below.

Tips

Pick a favourite. Once a plant’s spreading upgrade is bought, it often pays to keep buying that plant.

Do not forget the doubles. Upgrades at 25, 50 and 100 of a plant stack with spreading, so they are worth a lot.

Use Buy 10 and Max. Buying in bulk is handy after a break. Your choice is remembered.

Check in twice a day. Your garden grows for up to 12 hours while you are away. See idle games that work offline.

When to let the garden rest

Resting unlocks once you have grown 30 million leaves in the current year. Seed packets are worked out as the square root of this year’s leaves divided by 7.5 million, rounded down, so your first rest brings at least 2. 120 million leaves brings 4, and 750 million brings 10.

A good rule is to let the garden rest when it would add at least half again to the seed packets you hold and growth has slowed. For more, see what is prestige?

Keep your garden safe

Moss & More saves automatically in your browser every 30 seconds and when you leave. Use the Save page to copy a backup now and then, or to move your garden to another device.

The numbers

These tables come straight from the game's own data, so they always match what you see in the game.

Plants

Plant	First one costs	Leaves each second
Moss patch	15 leaves	0.5
Fern	110 leaves	3
Clover patch	1,200 leaves	18
Bonsai tree	13,000 leaves	110
Weeping willow	90,000 leaves	600

Each plant you buy costs 15% more than the one before.

Plant upgrades

Each doubles what one kind of plant makes.

Upgrade	Appears at	Costs
Soft cushions	25 moss patches	1,975 leaves
Star moss	50 moss patches	65,019 leaves
Moss carpet	100 moss patches	70,458,807 leaves
Unfurling fronds	25 ferns	14,484 leaves
Shady corner	50 ferns	476,809 leaves
Fern gully	100 ferns	516,697,918 leaves
Four-leaf luck	25 clover patches	158,011 leaves
Busy bees	50 clover patches	5,201,556 leaves
Clover lawn	100 clover patches	5,636,704,563 leaves
Patient pruning	25 bonsai trees	1,711,786 leaves
Copper wire	50 bonsai trees	56,350,187 leaves
Ancient bonsai	100 bonsai trees	61,064,299,436 leaves
Trailing branches	25 weeping willows	11,850,823 leaves
Riverbank roots	50 weeping willows	390,116,679 leaves
Grand willow	100 weeping willows	422,752,842,252 leaves

Spreading upgrades

Upgrade	What it does	Appears at	Costs
Damp stones	Moss patches grow 1% faster for every moss patch you own.	10 moss patches	200 leaves
Fern spores	Ferns grow 1% faster for every fern you own.	10 ferns	1,500 leaves
Clover runners	Clover patches grow 1.2% faster for every clover patch you own.	10 clover patches	18,000 leaves
Careful cuttings	Bonsai trees grow 1.2% faster for every bonsai tree you own.	10 bonsai trees	200,000 leaves
Willow whips	Weeping willows grow 1.5% faster for every weeping willow you own.	10 weeping willows	2,500,000 leaves

Other upgrades

Upgrade	What it does	Appears at	Costs
Watering can	Each time you tend the garden counts twice.	25 leaves brewed by hand	100 leaves
Green fingers	Each time you tend the garden counts three times.	250 leaves brewed by hand	2,500 leaves
Compost heap	Every plant grows twice as fast.	5 plants	500 leaves
Gentle rain	Every plant grows twice as fast.	150,000 leaves this season	200,000 leaves
Walled garden	Every plant grows twice as fast.	25,000,000 leaves this season	40,000,000 leaves

Achievements

First leaf: Tend the garden for the first time.
Something green: Plant your first moss patch.
Spreading out: Buy your first spreading upgrade.
A full garden: Grow at least one of every plant.
Mossy all over: Grow 50 moss patches.
A thousand leaves: Grow 1,000 leaves in total.
A million leaves: Grow 1,000,000 leaves in total.
A billion leaves: Grow 1,000,000,000 leaves in total.
Overgrown: Grow 100 plants at once.
Winter rest: Let the garden rest for the first time.
Old garden: Reach year 6.