wheres the best place to plant crops/plants?

[Winblows]

i dont want to use a raidable location but a camp in a nice flat area that hopefully dosnt have grass so i can see my plants that arnt tall

and also if a player harvests my plants am i not able to get it because they took it or is it each individual player gets their own instance?

[Vic Evicerator]

Once you get far along enough you can get farmable dirt tiles and that makes planting easy. Other than that, every area has some flat-ish locations for building. The Mire and Cranberry bog have less of the underbrush that makes planting so tough, but those areas have their own issues with enemy spawns.

You can check the rate of refresh after planting by pointing your cursor at it. You can't really lock crops like water purifiers or extractors, so the best you can do is put them behind locked doors if you're really worried about it. I don't recall ever having my plants picked by other players, though, even if they clean out my water/resource collectors.

[FormerFishFarmer]

If memory serves, you can lock your Crops so other players can't take them. Also, check around. Most of the Farms on the map have at least some crops readily available, with many having quite a lot. And then there are the Wild plants and fungi. You can find several spots along rivers where Glowing Fungi is so plentiful that you can pick several days worth of supplies in just a few minutes, and still lose some to spoilage before you use them all, even with a refrigerator and food perks. Really, unless you want a LOT of something fairly rare (carrots, gourds, etc.), then I really don't consider it worth the trouble to even start a Farm anymore. I've got a really nice one, and I never use the thing.

[lucg]

If you see some "rolling barrel" in a high level player's camp, pick one Turbo-Fert fertilizer, but be sure it's unlocked ... . Go in a farm route and pick 3 or 4 of that, then no worries about availability of crops ... .

[OutsidR]

I have plenty of blue berries, melons and mutfruit around my camp for the taking.. no body takes any at all ^^.. go figure.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by FormerFishFarmer:

If memory serves, you can lock your Crops so other players can't take them. Also, check around. Most of the Farms on the map have at least some crops readily available, with many having quite a lot. And then there are the Wild plants and fungi. You can find several spots along rivers where Glowing Fungi is so plentiful that you can pick several days worth of supplies in just a few minutes, and still lose some to spoilage before you use them all, even with a refrigerator and food perks. Really, unless you want a LOT of something fairly rare (carrots, gourds, etc.), then I really don't consider it worth the trouble to even start a Farm anymore. I've got a really nice one, and I never use the thing.

I've never seen lockable crops
Farm bases are good, its fine anywhere, they'll grow back in the time that someone takes it from your camp
You can turbo fert instant grow them back on

[Similar]

Originally posted by OutsidR:

I have plenty of blue berries, melons and mutfruit around my camp for the taking.. no body takes any at all ^^.. go figure.

I've actually had a few visitors in the past days who harvested everything. Mostly fairly low level players, but not all. Maybe it's the gourds.

I just got the Turbo-Fert, so I don't mind (and it's not like I harvest that often myself anyway. Pretty much only when I make Cranberry Relish).

Originally posted by Vic Evicerator:

Once you get far along enough you can get farmable dirt tiles and that makes planting easy.

Just, since we're talking about this, has anybody managed to fit four razorgrains on one of those tiles? It looks like they should fit, but I haven't had any luck.

[BizarreMan]

Best thing to do is get the bullion and buy the floor/foundation tiles. You can put them anywhere. Wall them in on the second floor of your camp if you like.

[OldMan41]

Originally posted by Vic Evicerator:

Once you get far along enough you can get farmable dirt tiles and that makes planting easy.

Just, since we're talking about this, has anybody managed to fit four razorgrains on one of those tiles? It looks like they should fit, but I haven't had any luck. [/quote]

NO!
Tried gourds and grain.
Spent an hour on each.
Spun em, tried on mutiple tiles together.
Not a chance.
Your right, looks like it should.
Poopskie

[Similar]

yeah, I've spent much time on gourds too, but also only managed three per tile with those.
Bit silly because you can put two grains on them and then easily fit a row of corn, a row of tatos and a row of carrots in the empty half.

[Vic Evicerator]

Originally posted by Similar:

Just, since we're talking about this, has anybody managed to fit four razorgrains on one of those tiles? It looks like they should fit, but I haven't had any luck.

I don't think you can fit four on an isolated tile, but if you have rows/blocks of tiles together you can spread them out a bit and get four on "a tile-plus-a-bit" - it looks like about 4, but does bleed over onto its neighbors. In one camp I've got a 2-tile-by-4-tile farm area and I plant eight razorgrains in what is almost a 2x1 tile area, and then in the narrower margins on the neighbor tiles I put the more easy-to-fit crops like tatos, corn, and carrots. Keeps things nice and compact and in nice straight lines for easy harvesting.

[Similar]

Nice. My main's current camp wasn't really set up for farming (only recently got Herbivore), so it'd be a bit tricky there, but I can try it in some of my other camps.

[Mooman]

Just be aware crops will make your camp a target for mobs. They will prioritise destroying them.

Make sure you have excess to your needs of fertilizer and plants to repair, as repair all from camp device will need them.

As with most things in game ATM crop planting is bugged, especially melons that have trouble in dirt tiles that are too high off ground. There are also mine car and truck bed planters in atomic store you can use, also buggy and not always available.

A really nice flat piece of land is between Summersville and the Overlook Cabin to the South that looks out over New Gad. Has a nearby spawn but fairly safe.

[Time Traveler]

Originally posted by Skrif:

i dont want to use a raidable location but a camp in a nice flat area that hopefully dosnt have grass so i can see my plants that arnt tall

and also if a player harvests my plants am i not able to get it because they took it or is it each individual player gets their own instance?

If you have the dirt tiles unlocked, here is the method that I use:

1. Build a single foundation and put a couple stairs going up.
2. From the top of the stairs place dirt floors (floors are indestructible, so mobs cannot destroy your crops from below (and unless they're SB's they can't fly so your crops are safe).
3. After building a bunch of dirt floors, plant all your crops. If you want and have the resources, you can then use fire turrets to destroy them (this usually allows you to plant more crops near them so they are not "conflicting." Sometime this doesn't work, but usually you can fiddle a bit and get them planted, sometimes getting a few more onto the floor tiles than normal.
4. Put walls around them and maybe a roof (if you're worried about other players getting in). FYI Don't bother with a door. Whenever you need in, change the wall by the stairs to a door way and walk through (this way players can't pick the locks while you're away because there is no "door").
5. Gather all the crops you need to "repair" then use your C.A.M.P. module to repair everything at once.
6. Once you get the turbo fert, place it inside so you can harvest whenever you want.

With this method, I don't have to worry about players taking all of my crops or mobs damaging them. Plus with the floors placed one or two sets of stairs up, I don't have to worry about conflicting with anything while building. In short, I get tons of food with hardly any maintenance/effort once I have finished building & planting them.

[lucg]

Seen that in a YouTube video : to repair crop, scrap it (1 viable crop + 1 fertilizer) so, easy way to repair those ... .

[Mooman]

Originally posted by lucg:

Seen that in a YouTube video : to repair crop, scrap it (1 viable crop + 1 fertilizer) so, easy way to repair those ... .

That works if you don't mind placing the crops again or they are easy to place such as corn. For things like melon/gourds though trying to place them again can be a pita.