Karma Flower

Karma Flowers are rare, yellow objects which can be found growing at specific locations throughout most of the game's regions.

Karma reinforcement
When eaten, Karma Flowers protect the player's current karma level, reinforcing it with an additional outer circle. This reinforcement is consumed upon the 's death, stopping the current karma level from decreasing. Attempting to starve also consumes the reinforcement, however without any positive effects.

Additionally, dying with the reinforcement spawns a new Karma Flower at the location of the player's death, which is marked on the map with a special yellow symbol. Dying or hibernating before consuming this Karma Flower causes it to disappear. Karma Flowers are automatically consumed when slept with in Shelters and their reinforcement cannot be stacked.

spawns a Karma Flower on every death, regardless of whether they had Karma protection the cycle before. As the, Karma Flowers cannot be consumed normally and must be hit with a Needle or hibernated with.

Karma Flowers do not spawn for Hunter. Upon Hunter's permadeath, a Karma Flower can be permanently found at the spot of their death when playing another Slugcat on the same save file. Unlike other Karma Flowers, which respawn after 5 to 7 cycles, Hunter's Karma Flower respawns every cycle, as long as the Slugcat hibernates inside of the region where it's located.

If Hunter runs out of cycles and dies in a different spot, the old Karma Flower gets overwritten, now spawning at the most recent permadeath location. To gain maximum Karma from es, must first have reinforcement from a Karma Flower.

Trading
Karma Flowers can be used in trades with s, having exactly half the trading value as one.

Expedition
Karma Flowers do not spawn naturally in Expedition. Instead, they spawn on death if the player had reinforced Karma from the Karma Flower perk. These Karma Flowers do not despawn and can only be destroyed by being handled and lost.

Monk still spawns a normal Karma Flower on every death.

Trivia

 * s can eat Karma Flowers, which triggers reinforcement of the player’s Karma.