Farming

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What is the best plant to farm? I know all are good, but which is the most profitable? My farm isn't that big yet either.

[grogez]

Whichever one you can plant outside in the ground on that planet.

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What about a small farm on a freighter? What would you suggest?

[Captain Brendig]

Might want to look up the ingredients for circuit boards and living glass. Plant enough of each to make a good sized harvest so you can sell all at once. Then as resources allow, start adding other items that can be used for advanced crafting that can be combined with special materials that can be gas mined or collected from frigate missions. That will get you started towards the high value items.

[grogez]

Originally posted by 𝕲𝖔𝖆:

What about a small farm on a freighter? What would you suggest?

Put small bases on each of the different types of planets. Plant the appropriate species in the ground outside. This way you end up up with the largest possible farm. It is a distributed farm though so once a day simply teleport around and harvest what you need. Before long you will no longer need the money.

[Nettle]

Originally posted by 𝕲𝖔𝖆:

What about a small farm on a freighter?

Enough for one of everything as of NEXT:

Echinocactus    4
Frostwort       7-8
Fungal Cluster  12
Gamma Weed      8
Gutrot Flower   2-4
Mordite Root    1
Solar Vine      4
Star Bramble    8

That's 1 small tray and 12 large. Positioning the trays so they all function correctly could be tricky though - the layout I favoured turned out to be exactly where the power wasn't!

Yields look like they've increased with the latest update but I suspect that may be a side effect of having the Optical Drill fitted to my multitool.

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Yep. Totally the Optical Drill.

[Colmaniac]

If you want a money farm try this :- https://youtu.be/RtSZQUD3Bj4. I have started got a small one, making 15 mill an hr, if you want crops, I've started making bases in crop relevent areas and planting them straight in the ground, just need a base computer and a teleporter, plus the crop. Saves time building a full base with a hydroponics setup

[nekto_nekto]

The best planet is tropical without hazardous storms. So you can forget about charging shields and plant something outdoors.

I'm in the process of creating a mega farm with several floors with 25x4=100 plants on each floor. 2.5 floors planted :D 100 shrooms, 100 cactuses and several other plants, including star onion planted outdoors (dunno how that plant is called right in english) - I craft acid and portable reactors, and then sell them: first harvest brought me 14 million, second one - 26 million, third one is upcoming (need to collect lots of gases too, for combining and crafting - radon, nitrogen, sulphur gas).

The biggest trouble is energy though - I have to build lots of solar panels for those hydroponic trays, and currently I'm browsing around collecting enough resources for panels and buildings (chromatic metal, ferrite dust, gold, gases, etc) - gotta get thousands of resources, and tens of thousands, actually