So is this the intended state of farming?

[Rufert]

I don't mind things taking time.
I don't mind work.

But I hate click spamming.
I'm old and my wrist hurts if I have to do that too much.

It's especially dumb for farming since your base is usually 100% safe and there's no high tension situation where you need to do stuff fast.

But nah, have to place every single damn piece of flax down individually. Running around a field spamming away hoping I mouse over a valid spot. Then repeat when I harvest. And then again when I plant again.

I was hoping the latest update would help with this but instead they just "buffed" your ability to click faster while doing this.

Damnit I just want to be able to use the build hammer to place plants down in 2x2 3x3 4x4 and 5x5 grids. And let me hold E over them when I harvest and automatically suck up any like plant that I run close to.

I can only assume from the update that they looked at the current way it is and went "score that's how we want it" and screw everyone else.

I just don't understand.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Some planting and harvesting tools would be nice. Maybe a garden hoe and scythe with similar interfacing to the construction hammer.

[Rufert]

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

Some planting and harvesting tools would be nice. Maybe a garden hoe and scythe with similar interfacing to the construction hammer.

Yeah I just want to be able to play the game withing ruining my body.

[Blue Hasia]

I would appreciate a machine similar to the seed producer that can also grow the plants. Even if it is much slower, it would be nice since the current planting and harvesting process feels clunky.

I think it would be nice if we could just place down a 4x4 farm tiles that can interconnect with other farm tiles.

It would be a pre-made object, and I could just press a key to automatically plant seeds in the area around me. Then, pressing another key could harvest the plants nearby.

[Rufert]

Originally posted by Blue Hasia:

I would not mind a bunch like the seed producer to also grow the plants. I would not care if it is way slower the whole planing and harvesting at the moment is clunky

I think it would be nice if we could just place down a tile that is 4x4 and they can interconnect.

it is a pre made object and i can just spam a plant key and it would auto populate the area around me and then another key be harvest and it pick the plants near me.

Yeah I wouldn't mind a small expensive planter box that would automatically replant when I harvested it if I had the seeds.

Just something that doesn't force me to spamclick hundreds of times on some dirt.

[Sandam]

you know it would be crazy if those NPC "workers" actually worked...

[Die Hand Gottes]

Yes, that's just the way it is with age, I'm also over 60 and have my problems from time to time, but here in the game everything is good, but I also play with XBox Controller mouse and keyboard.
Nevertheless, a better solution from harvesting and planting would be nice even if I don't need it so much now I have pretty much everything in abundance.

[Tectrek]

You are asking for Convenience?
Have you seen those menus? They are obviously developing the game against any reasonable convenience or best praxises. xD

But yeah, i agree. Things like area-loot should be in the game since it released and the same goes for "hold MB for planting seeds" - i think it would also be neat for throwing bombs and stuff like that.

[Pervy]

Marcos? Auto clicker?

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Sandam:

you know it would be crazy if those NPC "workers" actually worked...

I think there are plenty of options to solve the tedium of farming.

They could allow us to set up "field" zones, or tiles as someone suggested above, to make it easier/faster to plant and harvest.

They could have the NPCs plant and harvest for us. We could select what crop goes in each zone or field tile area, and the NPCs would do the rest until they run out of the resources they need. All the crafting stations work automatically, or are instant, so why not automate this?

They could modify the planters to produce both fully grown plants and seedlings instead of only producing seedlings. They could cap each planter so we couldn't produce huge amounts of a specific plant unless we build multiple planters.

They could increase the yield from each plant but slow down its growth, this would mean less planting and harvesting.

[Storm Reaver]

Yeah, time wasting mechanics need to go... On ANY game.

[Rufert]

Yeah them looking at farming in it's current state and then increasing the rate at which the game allows you to click in the patch.

That is not the solution to that problem.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Usually these issues seem to manifest because devs fail to fully appreciate the capacity of players to scale up damn near anything. I think nothing of growing a hundred flax plants at a time alongside just as many food crops. I'm sure I'm small time in this.

[Storm Reaver]

Having a farming NPC that gathers and re-plants around the place they are placed with the NPC staff would be nice. Having a restrictive range within a square maybe. Requiring terrain for easy NPC path-finding would be generally required and would be the players fault for building oddball Anti-NPC farms.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 made Scarecrows that act as the middle fields. Actually, that game has many good NPC mechanics for this type of setup.

[AvalonInk]

<casts resurrect> Can't Minecraft villagers harvest / plant? Implement that in Enshrouded, except they can depost to magic chests or something. Assign them a chest like you do beds.

[Rufert]

Originally posted by AvalonInk:

<casts resurrect> Can't Minecraft villagers harvest / plant? Implement that in Enshrouded, except they can depost to magic chests or something. Assign them a chest like you do beds.

Yeah it would be nice to be able to automate a small area at least. That way I can make a pretty flower/vegetable bed and not constantly have to ruin it every time I harvest and re-plant.