This was fixed with the release, if not before the release, of the Season of Lightseekers.

wait whaaaat owo must be a problem on my phone or something. I can never collect those unless I beat all other players to it.

Interesting... I just collected some and completed the quest for melting 10 darkness this morning after all three towers were lit. I wonder if this is an issue on specific servers rather than the game itself?

truee :( alsoo have you noticed that when the towers are lit you don’t get to collect the dark plants around the white candles anymore :(((

Daylight Prairie dark plants don’t burn off automatically when the towers are lit anymore. You can now burn them off individually post lighting. This bothered me more than releasing the shrimps too early in wasteland. Woohoo!