Farming & Flax

[Oragepoilu]

Hello,

I am currently starting to wander around snake island.

I have one flax seed I'v been using for a while now, but I can't seems to get any new seed from it. Because of this I can't move my planter.

i'm farming lv7 currently, but I planted said seed earlier (was probably lv 3). I feel like what I plant later with better skill give me more seeds, so I'm starting to wonder if my skill bonus really apply or not ?
Or maybe it's applied with my skill level when I plant something, and never update ? If so, no way to update and use my high farming skill unless I get lucky and get a new seed ?

I don't see any wild flax too, so I guess if I screw my only seed I'm locked out of using flax ?

Side note, is there any way to increase farming skill beside making compost ?

[themany]

I had flax seeds. Both from silver Island and from Iron island gardening.

There is too much flax in game. Can't use that much.

Please more flax items. Flax can go for making Arch ship.

Can we get addon for this game after 1.0?

[CrazyMom]

LOTS of flax on Silver Island. Have my main base on Hope with the farming of absolutely necessary seeds there, kept most of my special seeds un-planted to see what the last region brings for potential main base spots. I am only level 5 or 6 and got over time enough seeds from the wild and farmed plants, with the exception of Icao and Fejoha (most likely misspelled, sorry).
As for increase in farming skill, keep composting, have not checked if adding compost also adds to the skill or not.

[emitfudd]

Resurrecting this post. So does a single flax plant ever give seeds when you harvest it? I'm in the same boat as OP. Got the one flax seed on Iron Island.

[Oragepoilu]

Hey emi,

I finished the game a while ago (I was basically done right before 1.0, and played a bit more when it came out). I ended up having nearly all skill maxed and so on, with something like 40 or 50 farming plot IIRC (grinding repair using repair kit on a boat require a lot of time, so I ended up having lot of crops hopping I could level up medicine but it's a pain), basically over 250 plants.

What iv found is that your farming skill doesn't increase the amount of seed you get unless you replant (I had 4 farming plot with branch, the first one done when I had lv1 farming barely give any seed compared to the last one I made once I had lv9 farming)

Some plants almost never give any seed compared to some other, because you get a chance every time you can harvest regardless if it's fully grow or not, it seems. Harvesting often is better than waiting for the whole plant to grow, and some plant just don't seems to give any (like the one to make ropes, forgot the name, never got a seed from this one)

I did get more flax seed, but not from my crops, instead it was from wild plants (there is a bunch of them in a late game island, when you actually really want armor using flax). Again, harvesting often is faster. But harvesting the plant once from the area should be enough to make the armor, and coming back now and then let you make more bed if you want.

As for leveling up farming, you get some xp when making compost and when a crop grow for the first time, so if you have more seed than plot you want to use, feel free to remove old seed to replant them (in some case, once you can craft seed it's also way faster to replant and craft seed than wait for the plant to grow back).

[CrankyOldGamer]

Originally posted by CrazyMom:

LOTS of flax on Silver Island. Have my main base on Hope with the farming of absolutely necessary seeds there, kept most of my special seeds un-planted to see what the last region brings for potential main base spots. I am only level 5 or 6 and got over time enough seeds from the wild and farmed plants, with the exception of Icao and Fejoha (most likely misspelled, sorry).
As for increase in farming skill, keep composting, have not checked if adding compost also adds to the skill or not.

Compost/fertilizing makes plants grow faster. Farming increases when plants grow. So yes it does increase the skill faster. I went on a composting fertilizing rampage to max Farming to level 10. It worked.

[emitfudd]

I am at level 7 farming. It says I have a +50% of getting seeds. I also noticed the pineapple seeds I planted at a higher level produce 3 to 4 pineapples and the one I planted when I was much lower farming level only produce 1 pineapple.

[CrankyOldGamer]

Originally posted by emitfudd:

I am at level 7 farming. It says I have a +50% of getting seeds. I also noticed the pineapple seeds I planted at a higher level produce 3 to 4 pineapples and the one I planted when I was much lower farming level only produce 1 pineapple.

When I hit level 10 Farming I was expecting the 100% chance to get seeds to see an increase in seeds. It didn't. It was about the same as it was all along, little to none. Some plants take forever to produce seeds, some never produce seeds. Farming is broken. This along with the inability to move planters without cutting down plants (meaning you lose them and those rare seeds you planted) has been an ongoing complaint by so many players and serious detriment to the game. They only addressed it by making seeds craftable but the recipe is at the very end of the game in the Temple on Bimini. The game is done and people are done playing then. I will say it against for the hundreth time, almost every plant in the world that grows produces seeds they are not some mythological flying pink unicorn. Picking up a bag of seeds for the first time should have taught the recipe. Farming could have been great and fun, instead it's a miserable grind. I wonder if they ever listen or just like thumbing their nose at players. Maybe that has something to do with the lack of players.