Farms, are they useful?

[Folv]

Is there any point to setting up a greenhouse farm? What should I be planting?

[Furious Styles]

If you plan on taming you will need rock carrot, citronal, savoroot, and longgrass for kibble.

[ricardo]

Also, narcoberries. Farming is way, way better than gathering. Even with a dino.

[KrikZ]

I plant all the kibble crops as well as narco berries stim berries and mejo berries with dung beetles and greenhouse farming is so much easier and faster I can make 1000s of narcotics a day

[Furious Styles]

I can get about 1000 narcoberries in 15 minutes on my mammoth on an official server.

[Gran]

30 Plots of Narcoberries = 1755 Narcotics every ~3 Hours (if you get enough Meat and Fertilizer)

[void_pilgrim]

Originally posted by Offensive username:

I plant all the kibble crops as well as narco berries stim berries and mejo berries with dung beetles and greenhouse farming is so much easier and faster I can make 1000s of narcotics a day

So are the greenhouse engrams worth the point sink? Can I get by with just the ceilings?

[Spacedoge[C]]

I plant 5 mejo plots for when I need to make quetzal kibble or for breeding time. I have 5 narco plot but am going to triple this for when I want to make narcotics or for taming the newer dinos.

[KrikZ]

Originally posted by Pilgrim:

Originally posted by Offensive username:

I plant all the kibble crops as well as narco berries stim berries and mejo berries with dung beetles and greenhouse farming is so much easier and faster I can make 1000s of narcotics a day

So are the greenhouse engrams worth the point sink? Can I get by with just the ceilings?

well now that you only need to know stone structures to unlock them yes and yes I believe you can just use the ceilings I've seen people use only the sloped ceiling and ceiling with just wood walls or what ever

[AliciaG]

It'll also depend on how big of a greenhouse you make as the buff depends on how many tiles are surrounding the plot. If it's a small house you may need the walls. Larger ones are fine with just the ceilings. They might have changed it though.

[Deadman]

Farms are very useful. I have all berries & crops planted. But most important are narcos and mejos. Makes it to where I don't have to go out and gather this stuff everytime I want some berries. I can just walk into the greenhouse and take what I want.

[holden4ever]

Originally posted by Pilgrim:

Originally posted by Offensive username:

I plant all the kibble crops as well as narco berries stim berries and mejo berries with dung beetles and greenhouse farming is so much easier and faster I can make 1000s of narcotics a day

So are the greenhouse engrams worth the point sink? Can I get by with just the ceilings?

I built a 3x5 greenhouse (on XB1) but didn't see the 300% bonus appear until I put the glass ceiling on.

[leftharted]

VERY useful. But, only if you have the time/resources to set it all up. Once its setup, its minimal maintenance. As others have stated, once you have a decent greenhouse you can forgo ever having to harvest fauna with an herbivore ever again.. which ultimately saves on a little time.

Not to mention, kibble and special foods tend to require the special crops that are ONLY achieved through growing. So, to gain access to the foods (some of which are extremely useful, especially when you can easily craft en mass) you do have to grow at least those.

I would consider it more of an end-game goal to get a huge greenhouse setup. Mid game I would only say its critical to grow the 4 special crops for kibble/food, if you care to use them.

I have some old screenshots in my profile of our old farm; nothing too special, just shows that we had about 4 large plots + 25ish small plots. this was before greenhouse effects, and fertilizer was a tad more tedious to make, too.

If engrams are the main concern, then plan ahead. Stock up resources for two mindwipe soups, and do some math on what you'll need for your size greenhouse. Respec, create/place greenhouse; respec back. Might be overkill, but where there is a Will, there is a Way.

[tehbigcarp]

Originally posted by Pilgrim:

Originally posted by Offensive username:

I plant all the kibble crops as well as narco berries stim berries and mejo berries with dung beetles and greenhouse farming is so much easier and faster I can make 1000s of narcotics a day

So are the greenhouse engrams worth the point sink? Can I get by with just the ceilings?

According to the Wiki:

- A greenhouse does not need to be considered enclosed: A ceiling atop pillars or snapped to an adjacent wall is sufficient.

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Greenhouse

They have a bunch of screenshots there that give you examples of the bonus's too. I have not tried to make different walls and just put the glass ceilings, but it is assumed that they will work based on this information. Good luck!

[AliciaG]

I have a 4x6 greenhouse using just the ceiling/roof tiles and all my plots are at 300%. I have 12 large plots inside. My walls are 2 high and I'm using the glass walls from the Metal and Glass set.
The hard part of the greenhouse is getting it set up initially and then getting enough fertilizer. With beatles though and dinos which give large poo you'll be golden. You can offset beatles with compost bins. Especially since the phase through walls hasn't been addressed yet. Though I've heard you can surround them with spikes and they tend to stay put. I've also heard someone put their compost bins against the walls and that prevents them from wandering away as well.

I personally use the ARK Automated Mod so haven't seen the need to get any beatles yet.

[tehbigcarp]

I added an outdoor deck to my greenhouse with a door going outside and added a stone railing for my beetles. They just run around out there all day looking for poop xD They have not once walked through the greenhouse walls or the railings and they are ontop of stone foundations.