Curious: Is growing lantern fruit still a thing?

[Homeless Elite]

Just wondering what other people are doing. I didn't really care for the lantern fruits after discovering potato plants early in-game. I've been exclusively growing those and have had great results!

[JDaremo Fireheart]

I love having them in plant pots around my base

[Tom Noland]

Potatoes are definitely better for food but lantern fruits are easier for bioreactor fuel early game.

[Homeless Elite]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย JDaremo Fireheart:

I love having them in plant pots around my base

Me too!

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Silverstar:

Potatoes are definitely better for food but lantern fruits are easier for bioreactor fuel early game.

That's true. I'm not sure on this but it seems like the lantern fruit grows a lot faster than potato plants, and you get a LOT of them quickly. And potato plants are great for food but I have run out of them by just eating them during long expeditions.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Silverstar:

Potatoes are definitely better for food but lantern fruits are easier for bioreactor fuel early game.

those watermellon ones are better for the bio reactor from what I've heard.

[azure_wolf_22]

I just wonder how to get them off the island.
Especially the lantern fruit. Nothing I do yields seeds for those

[mirabiletemporis]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย azure_wolf_22:

I just wonder how to get them off the island.
Especially the lantern fruit. Nothing I do yields seeds for those

You just pick the fruit and stick it in a pot and it grows a tree. =)

[hudson836]

I have a ton but I don't really use them for food. Asthetically they're nice to have around.

[derpderp]

i grow 3 of them in plant pots in each base/cyclops's

can chow down on them till they fill your water.

but you can also make 10 coffee machines :)

[redeyedraven]

I grow marblemelons in my outposts. No regrets.

[callum]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย redeyedraven:

I grow marblemelons in my outposts. No regrets.

I heard marblemelons are the best fruit to grow.

[Seekerone8]

Marblemelons and Bulboa trees are the best combo now, but the marbelmelon hitbox is borked atm, so they're a pain in the ass to harvest.

[Drascalicus]

Just take the back, second to back, and third to back rows of Marble Melons, harvest the front for seeds.

[or0b0ur0s]

Only for ornamental purposes. They're nerfed so bad they're not even useful for top-up food or water. And nobody at UWE wants to hear that they grossly overdid it. I happen to be in the camp that believed they did need a nerf. But they might as well have removed them entirely if they were going to make them as they currently are.

[Drascalicus]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย or0b0ur0s:

Only for ornamental purposes. They're nerfed so bad they're not even useful for top-up food or water. And nobody at UWE wants to hear that they grossly overdid it. I happen to be in the camp that believed they did need a nerf. But they might as well have removed them entirely if they were going to make them as they currently are.

If I could give up votes

+1000

They are almost as useful as creepvine, except creepvine is available at the very beginning of the game.

[Gazer75]

Never bothered with the lantern fruit myself.

The watermelons are best to top up before going out. On expeditions I bring a couple of cured Reginalds and some bottles of +50 water. If you do not have the filtration machine then salt + coral make two bottles of +30 water from bleach.
Once you get the thermoblade you do not really need to bring food in the early/mid stages of the game.

Reginalds are the best ones for both food and bio power.