Flax really REALLY needs balancing.

[Fishpickles]

A 20 tile flax farm doesn't even yield enough for three thread?
That doesn't seem right to me.

[Philtre]

The "thread" item seems to be more like a huge spool of thread than the little loop shown in the icon. Each thread makes one cloth, and a basic shirt takes about three cloth, so if you compare it to real-life flax, MD flax is ridiculously OP.

Flax seed is a massive money-maker as it is, so if each tile gave more yield, it would break the economy even more than it already does.

[Sairi (Jen)]

on a field of 100, I usually got an average of 1000 flax on max perk, means an average of 10 per tile, my collegue tested it on lower gains and said it's an average of 6 without perk. That would mean around 12 threads for a 20 tile plot(20*6= 120 / 10 = 12)

So it might mean you're really unlucky -.-

[Anima Mundi]

I have to agree with Philtre any further buffs to Flax will make it even more OP and even more the cash crop it already is. At this point once you start selling flax seeds you're rich.

Maybe there could be a tweak to get more Stalks and less seeds, but i haven't seen a need for more stalks tbh

[myk]

I'm relieved. I thought you were calling to nerf it. Plant a bigger field. First year plant what you can afford, save seeds until you can get a 16x16. My seamster was making linen cloth (and other things that use linen cloth) almost to harvest time before I had to stop her to leave me some thread. Plus I had 100 linen thread at the smithy.

[Fishpickles]

Well, if it is a large spool, i can see why that would make sense, but to make one fishing spear? An entire large spool of thread? There are other items that require 1 thread, that perhaps could be balanced better, maybe with 1 thread, you can make 3 fishing spears?

Just seems odd to me that i need to have 30 tiles of flax to make 3 fishing spears.

[richardmgoldsmith]

I never seem to be able to bring myself to farm enough flax as the game progresses. I like a challenge though ...

[subwaybananas]

Originally posted by Fishpickles:

Just seems odd to me that i need to have 30 tiles of flax to make 3 fishing spears.

There must be something wrong, did you put some flax away befor treshing? You get 5-8 flax per field with no skill or from your villager. With the skilled farmer up to 16 (only you, not your villager).
I do actual a few test with farming and i get never less than 60 flax from 10 field squares, several times repeated.

[Fishpickles]

Originally posted by subwaybananas:

Originally posted by Fishpickles:

Just seems odd to me that i need to have 30 tiles of flax to make 3 fishing spears.

There must be something wrong, did you put some flax away befor treshing? You get 5-8 flax per field with no skill or from your villager. With the skilled farmer up to 16 (only you, not your villager).
I do actual a few test with farming and i get never less than 60 flax from 10 field squares, several times repeated.

Hmm, i'm not really sure, i know my field was a 20 tile field, i am new to the game, so unsure what my level was or what traits i had, after processing the flax, i had enough to make 2 thread, and went and bought enough to make a third.

[Anima Mundi]

Its like subway is saying something happened to the rest of your flax. 20 field plots shouldn't yield only 20 flax

[Fishpickles]

Yep, i think i messed up somewhere.