Farming help

[Drakenfel]

How do I farm right? I haven't really seen anyone doing farming so I know absolutely nothing I have x10 Tomatoes & Carrots.

I bought all equipment available to me and have just reached my 1st harvest but green shrubs still there after I took the harvest do plants grow infinitely or do I need to use that scythe and cut down and replant?

[Allycaz]

First after harvesting your crops make sure to put half of your harvest through the seed mill.
keep doing that each time you harvest.

Yes you need to scythe and cut down the the stems and replant. and don't for get to water the plants too.

[westrud]

I use the scythe to cut the plants while the veggies are still on them, this drops them all to the ground so I can easily use a magnet to corral them. Carrots are the exception, they can sometimes glitch out and fall underground, so I pick those first before I cut the plant.

[cricri]

when up you can make the quest guard a lot of coin
only buy 1 seed of each and the little quest

[SamuraiJones]

Originally posted by westrud:

I use the scythe to cut the plants while the veggies are still on them, this drops them all to the ground so I can easily use a magnet to corral them. Carrots are the exception, they can sometimes glitch out and fall underground, so I pick those first before I cut the plant.

I also have this carroty issue.

Growing plants need water. Strings of t pipes with one open spot are how you start. Eventually you get sprinklers but that's way later. You can see the holes with the crops turn lighter if they're dry... takes like 1/2 game day, so it'll never happen if you've got a drip on em.

They need light. Without light they'll grow slower and have smaller yields. plant em in a sunny area (don't shade em with your t-pipes any more than you can help). For maximum returns, add an electric light -- the kind that bolt onto logic cables. Huge improvement there.

As the guys said, you get exactly 1 yield per plant. So if a plant has any crops on em, just sickle em (except carrots which need to get picked first), cuz that's all the produce you're getting out of that plant.

I haven't exhaustively tested, but it seems like you get more seeds if you chop and combine things before putting em in the seed mill. Not alot, more like "rounding works in your favor more often" kind of thing

So yeah... chop everything, drop em together to combine the pieces... then the final piles chop once to cut in half (like sawing a smelted bar). Toss one in the seed mill, and the other is ready for cooking. Obviously, mill more if you need to grow your seed supply, less if it needs to shrink.

Don't sell crops... ever. Use em for cooking quests or seeds. Mining gives plenty of money for much less work.

Once you've got a big pile of chopped veggies, take some soup quests. Put a pot of water on the stove. Chop the veggie piles to the appropriate size for the quest (make sure to use a scale) and toss em in the pot. Once the veggies have turned to soup (makes a bubbly sound), pour it in a bowl and deliver it. Make sure to pick up the dish for reuse (no need to wash. They're big on natural immunity)

you can buy tomato/carrot seeds from with coins. Guild tokens are needed for the 4 other crops (onion, broccoli, corn and beets, iirc). Guild tokens can also purchase sprinklers and a farming vehicle, both of which are insanely powerful.

[SamuraiJones]

My setup:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977992190
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977992208
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977992198

I think i've got about 115 farm spots on those 2 sprinklers. Yields around 250 per harvest. Harvesting/replanting with the machine takes like 20 seconds.

[JimboTCB]

This is what I did with my farming setup before sprinklers, just a row of T-pipes overhead to keep the plants wet, and if you run a row of lights after every 5th row of plants it'll provide enough light to keep them growing constantly

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2972647805

Then I dug a trench along one side of my farm and put a conveyor in it leading to my kitchen so that when it came to harvesting stuff I could just cut everything down and hoover it up with the magnet

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2973345737

Prioritise your tokens on buying one of each of the special seeds so you can start bootstrapping your way to a good supply, then get the veg dicer hook and 6x veg stackers so you can automate processing all of the different veggies, and set up a logic saw arrangement so you can cut veg to the necessary sizes. Cut veggies can be put in the seed maker, so you can just dice everything automatically and then take out as much as you need to make your next batch of seeds.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2973151402

[graemePlaysGames]

Big question, has anyone figured out the trick to get chopped veggies to reliably drop into the Seed Mill. Larger piles are too big for the funnel.

[graemePlaysGames]

Like from a conveyor.

[Klandor]

Originally posted by graemePlaysGames:

Big question, has anyone figured out the trick to get chopped veggies to reliably drop into the Seed Mill. Larger piles are too big for the funnel.

I generally used whole veggies. I'd grab roughly enough Veggies to fulfill the Soup Order (same quantity of each veggy as weight needed), weigh out the actual weight, up to the weight needed, and send the rest to the Seed Mill whole. Generally, I'd find myself with MORE seeds than I needed and would cut back the amount I harvested as my seed supply grew...

[Windwalker]

Originally posted by graemePlaysGames:

Like from a conveyor.

You might try adding the conveyor joint piece so it drops a little off center. I found for big pile of chopped veggies you need to drop it off to the side and it will grab a corner and process the pile. Chopped is much better to use because it will generally give you more seeds. It has something do do with the weight rounding is in your favor with a pile of chopped.