Ryan Wilson

So the other day I went to harvest the mint chunks and got back home put them in my chest and went to do something else then when I came back larva had spawned in my base(which is also really annoying) and destroyed my chest, after killing the larva I went to pick up my loot just to realise that my mint ch chunks were not there like they dissapeared when the chest broke so my question is will mint chunks respawn and if so how often?