Grass Gekko

Grass Gekkos are passive Mobs in Don't Starve Together. They act as an alternative source of Cut Grass. 
Half of the time, the surface is a Grass Gekko world. There is almost no Grass Tuft on Grass and Forest Turf. In exchange, there are Grass Geckos in Meteor, Dragonfly Desert, Rockyland Biomes. In the other half of the time, there is no Grass Gekko naturally generated.
 
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== Behavior==
Grass Gekko wander within 8m of their herd center. Grass Gekko live in herd, with a maximum of 12 in a herd. The arithmetic average center of herd is recalculated every 6-8 seconds, Grass Gekkos further than 20m are removed from the herd center calculation. When 2 herds are within 40m, and one herd has less than 4 grass gekko while their merged size would be within 12, the herd would be merged.
For every 30-120 seconds, the Grass Gekko will sleep for 20-40 second. The sleep can be interrupted by rain, or mobs, such as Bunnyman or W.I.N.bot, or characters within 4m.
Grass Gekko, while awake, can be startled by mobs, such as Pigs, Bunnyman, Chester or W.I.N.bot, or characters within 7m. They will attempt to run 12m away from the one startling. They drop their tail, which is a Cut Grass. Their tail regrows in 2 days.
== Spawning Mechanism ==
Picking Grass Tuft or digging Grass Tuft has 1% to trigger on seasons outside of Winter.
When triggered, Grass tuft up to 4m may enter a morphing state. Each Grass tuft, which is ready for morphing state, has 75% chance of entering the morphing state, A grass tuft is ready for morph if it has been planted for at least 20-30 days, and did not enter the morphing state in the past 20-30 days. 
A Grass Tuft successfully morphs into a Grass Gekko if there are less than 6 Grass Gekkos within 20m of the Grass Tuft, destroying itself in the process. This limits each spawning incidence to usually 6 Grass Gekko. Existing Grass Gekko within 20m of the morphing Grass tuft would reduce the actual Grass Gekko spawning.
Each Grass tuft entering the morphing state also chain relay to trigger grass tuft up to 4m away to roll to enter the morphing state. This usually leads to dense cluster of Grass Tuft being ineligible to enter the morphing state until 20-30 days later.
== Tips==
*In the early game, simply passing by and scaring a group of Grass Gekkos can net the player a lot of cut grass without needing to pick it from Grass Tufts.
*Players can create a Grass Gekko farms using walls or fences with a double gate system to safely and easily contain Gekkos that spawned in their grass farms to secure another reliable source of grass. Gekkos cannot be captured via traps; the player has to chase them into the farm.
*The most reliable way of killing unwanted Gekkos is to wait for them to fall asleep and secure a single hit with a weapon and stunlock them.
*Grass Gekkos produce Cut Grass even in Winter.
*In Rockyland biomes, Grass Gekkos tend to get attacked and killed by Tallbirds, this can net the player some Leafy Meat via pick-and-loot tactics, players should nevertheless make sure they don’t get hurt or killed by the Tallbirds themselves.
== Trivia==
*Grass Gekkos are considered to be part of A New Reign, even though they were introduced before the official start of the beta branch.
*Grass Gekkos used to be able to get Disease and would die within two days after getting contaminated. In A New Reign, however, this feature has been removed.
*Many real life lizards shed their tail when attacked by a predator because of the sudden contraction of caudal muscles. This peculiar motion of the muscles lets the tail move by itself while shaking for a brief span of time, and distract the predators. The lizard then slowly regrows it.
*When Grass Gekkos are sleeping, they rest with their legs pointed behind them, just like real life lizards do when relaxed.
*The way the Grass Gekkos lose their grass tail may be inspired by a famous italian byword, avere la coda di paglia (to possess a tail made out of grass). This dictum literally means to be scared about being found guilty, and escape in the event this happens.
== Bugs==
*If a player corners a Gekko and attacks it, it will sometimes run over the world border onto the Ocean.
== Gallery==
Gekko.png|A sleeping Gekko.
GrassGeckosScreenShot.png|Grass Gekkos.
Grass Gekko Close up Screenshot.PNG|Close up view of Grass Gekkos.
Beko ill .png|A diseased Grass Gekko in a herd, before the feature was removed.
File:Grass Gekko farm.png|A Grass Gekko farm.
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