Crop plot, waste of time ?

[wolfe]

Well for me the amount of resourses involved in getting a decent set up going over the reward is just not worth it,
Everything from unlocking the engram points to collect materials for making the plots and irrigation system, even collecting the dung for fertalizer,
Ive had my large plot going for seems like ages and i have 35 berries in there ?,
My bronto is positioned in such a way that 2 swips of his tail fills his inventory, 1000's of berries...

Dont think i willl ever invest in growing my own plants again

[lady_charu]

I only grow the carrots, potatoes, corn and lemons in my plots.

[Jcyrus]

The crop plots are better used for the plants that you can't harvest in the wild, but that are used for recipes.

[Mr.George]

Yeah it's not really worth it with the normal berries unless you're in a very remote area with sparse resources (small island for instance). The main selling point are the crops used for recipes.

Oh, and large crop plots are really just a waste of resources, they don't do anything a medium can't do.

[A҉g̷e͢nt̨ o͡f ̴Çh̨a҉nge]

large plots are no more effective than small plots for berries. the only thign i use plots for these days is medium plots for corn, taters, carrots, and lemons

[Archie]

It takes a few in-game days for crops to get to the fruitling state at which point they fill up to 300 of the plant type. It isn't a "place 1-2 and reap the rewards", you need a few. They made it easier for us to make narcotics, we'd have 10 plots and we would forget about it, then we suddenly remembered and had 3000 narcoberries ready to go.

Also, you need crop plots to make the vegetables needed for recipes. There's no other way of getting them other than planting them. Then again if you intend to never make any of the recipes or kibbles for taming, then you are right you won't need plots. The only advantage of planting berries is that you get just that type of berry in large amounts if you want to mass produce them.

[wolfe]

Ahhh right, havnt got into those crops yet, thanks guys :)

[Sai]

Don't grow berries in crop plots EVER.
It's for veggies.

Those veggies also make great food for yourself, when eaten raw.

[Turtlewing]

Berries are not what the crop plot are for.

The vegetables that are required to craft the advanced foods like lazarus chowder, can only be grown in crop plots (medium and large) and are worth it.

At most a berry farm would be useful for taming your first trike, after that it's completely obsolete.

[parkerBot]

I have narco berries planted in two medium crop plots. That gives me 600 narco berries every 1 - 1 1/2 days. The resource cost to set that up was minimal and it takes very little space. Great for me since I have a kid and can't play constantly, let's me set up slowly for that big weekend taming session.

Furthermore, you have a bronto. I wouldn't have time for farming either if I could ride a beast like that around all day.

[Turtlewing]

Originally posted by Algeo:

Oh, and large crop plots are really just a waste of resources, they don't do anything a medium can't do.

They hold more water.
That would be useful if you don't have an irrigation system and want the crops to last between rains.

Otherwise unless the "organic turrets" require large plots, they are not terribly useful.

[Skeldarkday]

It's good to get those special vegetables but they spoiled so fast.