Garden Food Disappearing

[10,000 Years]

I plant a cuberry tree, or a carrot field and then after a couple days it is all gone and I have to go get the resource and start the garden over again. Does anyone know why this happens?
Just to clarify, I don't have to rebuy the garden, I just have to get new crops to grow.

[IFIYGD]

When you plant, you will see a timer that appears where the planter pole had the opening you shot the fruit or veggie into, to do the planting. Tat timer counts down how long that particular crop has left to grow and be harvested, beofre you must replant. It is working as intended. Gardens IRL don;t grow foever off of one planting, trees don;t live and bear fruit forver. Similar thing here, just in accelerated game time.

You do not have to rebuy or re-upgrade the gardens. Just harvest regularly, replant when the tree or veggie plot is gone and go again. Once you build them and upgrade them, they stay forever unless you manually destruct them.

[Pilgor]

The crops have life spans, and you are able to get 4 harvests out of a single planted fruit or veggie. What I do, is I store extra food in silos, so there's a slot in the silos for each food my slimes love. And storaging the extra food in silos keeps the food alive, and can be taken out to replant in a garden or to feed slimes. Whenever a crop is gone from your garden, you can replant it, but shooting the food at the empty opening on the garden. You get to keep all upgrades whether the crop dies or is still hanging around.

Also, I understand your concern because it can be hard to get cuberries and carrots, depending on the quickness of the slimes. But I'll try to suggest the areas where these plants grow naturally, in hopes to help out more. When you leave the ranch, most areas where you see slimes spawn in, those are rooms with a few patches of carrots growing. The carrot patches are either next to a wall, or they can be next to a big rock. Cuberries are a bit harder, since they don't grow naturally close to the ranch. First Cubbery tree is at the end of the Dry Reef, that small island that stone hen hens spawn on, there's a small tree hanging on the edge of it, and that makes cuberries. If you continue on, in the Moss Blanket, in the last room where there's a teleporter at the end, it has two cuberry trees growing off of rock pillar that hang over the water a small bit. The Overgrowth expansion produces 4 patches of carrots daily, naturally on it's own. And the Sandy Area, is a place that has two cuberry trees that'll naturally produce it's berries. The Sandy Area, is the other doorway that's in the Overgrowth. When you get down there, you'll see it's an edge of the land/beach like place & there are small islands a way from the edge. One if the island has a natural cuberry tree. To get to it, with a fully upgraded jetpack, you need to use your jetpack to make it across the islands, to get to the cuberry tree island. When you return to the edge of the land, and eplore more to your left you'll find another cuberry tree growing by a gray rock.

I hope I helped :D Good luck with your ranch!

[10,000 Years]

Thanks very much. Incredibly helpful. Good luck to you also.

[Retroween]

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