Single Player Gardening

[Murderhorse]

I saw someone yesterday mention they'd managed to garden things in single player but I couldn't pin them down for asking them how they managed it.

So WHOMEVER YOU ARE or anyone else that's successfully done it how are you pulling it off without a persistent server? TEACH ME YOUR SECRETS I WISH TO PLAY HARVEST ARK

[NerZ]

what is the problem with sp gardening?

[Murderhorse]

Gardening time elapses based on server uptime, if you don't have a persistent server i.e. you're turning it off because you're on single player, it only runs while you're on single player. I usually get neglible degregation of water and fertilizer during my on and off playing, unless it's been changed lately but I haven't really checked because when I realized it didn't seem to be working right in the first place I stopped putting engram points in gardens.

[Murderhorse]

INTERNET NO I KNOW YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS

I REQUIRE YOUR EDUCATION

[Valeria]

I play SP, and my narcoberries small plots just started fruiting, I've played about 20 hours in 4 or 5 days. Water refills with rain, so it never drops much, but I had to refill fertilizer very often (maybe because I use smalls and mediums).
So it's just slower than multiplayer.

[Dreamsquasher1]

Make a compost bin thing. Put thatch with poop in it, turns into fertilizer after a while. Can take a while. But I think its 50000 units per bag. Very effiecient.

[Valeria]

yep, yesterday I started that, should have some smelly stuff today

[Jcyrus]

I've got a garden in my singleplayer game... I'm not sure what you mean about it not working? I just did the same thing as in a multiplayer game. The crops and fertilizer takes longer since it only progresses when you play, but it otherwise seems to work as intended for me.

EDIT: I wonder if the crops and fertilizer are tied to real time or to the day/night cycle ingame? If it's the latter, you could speed up the passage of time to make gardens come in faster.

[Dark Raven7]

It works like normal--it just takes longer because it grows by your in-game hours, rather than timestamp when you start it.

I had some trouble when i first started with my seedlings dying, but i think that was a bug they fixed a little while back.
Set up a few plots. Open plot inventory. Add dino doodoo or fertilizer. Add desired seed (certain seeds require larger plots). When you exit the inventory you should see stats when you look at the plot for water, fertilizer, and plant status (seedling/midling/fruitling). The plant status will eventually advance with enough time as long as you stay on top of the water and fertilizer status--I think they might die if they go too long without either. Irrigation will make life MUCH easier, as will fertilizer. Med/large dino droppings will get you a ways for fertilizer too, but i think they'll only go into med/large plots .

[BigDally]

Yeah I have irrigated large plots, full of fertilizer bags, fed by two compost bins. No problemo. I would suggest getting some fertilizer bags built up first before planting the seeds. I have no issues getting ample amounts of whatever I am growing; just go play the game and come back a few "game days" later to find the fruits of your labor.

[Murderhorse]

Huh. I guess I'll have to try it again because when I tried it I could never get it to actually grow no matter how long I waited

[Scoob]

You can Farm fine in Local Single player, I do it to grow extra Narcoberries. However, there is a bug - not sure if everyone gets it - that RESETS the Water level to ZERO when you next log on. This means your first action has to be to water the plots, if you've not automated this process. Additionally, my Fertilizer level also ALWAYS drops to Zero too, despite a bag containing Fertilizer being present. I have to remove then put back this bag of Fertilizer for it to register.

So, I have to do this every time I launch the game, if I do not, my Crop Plots die off very quickly.

Note: I made a load a Fertilizer so I could forget about the plots pretty much, 50k Fertilizer and frequent rain should make the plots largely maintenance free, but the bug I experience upsets this.

Note 2: Patch notes from a while back suggested that they fixed this issue - the state of the plot wasn't being saved correctly - but this is not the case for my long-term local game sadly. Possibly it only fixes new games started since that update.

Scoob.

[Dark Raven7]

Originally posted by New and Improved Cadavers!:

Huh. I guess I'll have to try it again because when I tried it I could never get it to actually grow no matter how long I waited

The bug i referenced had something to do with the seeds getting wiped from your plots upon logging off and relogging, or something like that--hence nothing would grow.

I almost gave up on farming because i'd have to replant everything everytime i got back on.

edit: Scoob beat me to it. With a much better explanation.
@Scoob I've reset my game since then. If you're still playing from the same savefile, maybe that's why its not resolved for you? (or they just didn't quash all cirumstances of the bug)

[Scoob]

@Dark Raven7, yes, I suspect you're right. I do have a Dedicated Server running as a test on another PC on my LAN currently, though I've not progressed to having a Crop Plot yet to test that theory myself. Are you confirming you're not having the Water and Fertilizer level reset upon server load now?

Scoob.

[Dark Raven7]

Originally posted by scoobierb5:

@Dark Raven7, yes, I suspect you're right. I do have a Dedicated Server running as a test on another PC on my LAN currently, though I've not progressed to having a Crop Plot yet to test that theory myself. Are you confirming you're not having the Water and Fertilizer level reset upon server load now?

Scoob.

@Scoob Correct, I am no longer having issues with reset. Though, to be specific, I can confirm that the fertilizer issue is fixed for me. I believe the water is okay, too, but it's irrigated and I don't check it right away when i start up the game. (So it's possible the water is resetting but the irrigation just fills it up, but I believe it is fixed as well)

[Jcyrus]

I can't speak for Dark Raven7, but my water/fertilizer levels aren't getting reset like that. I've had the same bag of poop in one crop for 3-4 days now. It's run down to around 7k left. I only created the garden those 3-4 days ago, so it's probably been since that update.