You are playing as the plants. Your goal is to build a thriving ecosystem of plants. You can make your oasis as you like it, the only goal is for the plants to survive (and not die of hunger).

How to play?

First, you need to start building "old vines" which allow to extract resources with the help of little ants to anywhere in the map. You can place "old vines" by top left button. "Old vines" always need to start from the hole/vase and can be grown in a tree-shape structure.  You can also delete with bottom left button. "Old vines" and ants never die. The map has only a fixed number of resources, so you need to optimise your plant placement, if you want to have a lot of them! 

Second, you can start placing plants. Most buttons have some kind of plants. You need to plant some plants together. If two plants are connected with a "young vine" then they form a group, and they need to be fed together. 

Plants require resources so they don't die. They transform one kind of resource from one state to another. Plants alone don't survive for long, because they need other plants to transfer back resources to the original status. 

You cannot collocate plants into one group if they need the same kind of resource, but from different status. These plants need to be planted together.

Third, you need to connect your plant groups with the old vines so they can get resources. "Old vine heads" can be used for this, found in the top right corner. The heads understand what resources are required for the plant group they are connected to. 

Plants have processing time (when they transition one resource from another), the group uses the longest processing time within the group. Once they processed the food, they start to wait for the next ones. If they don't receive the next resource in time, they start to die one after the other. The process time and wait time differs based on plant (flower and heart icon shows the amount). 

Lastly, some plants require other plants as co-plantations. These extra needs are shown by the down arrow - and require at least that amount of plants who consume the displayed resource.