Creating wild farm with pips

[MadCre8tor]

I wanna farm sleet wheat at some point for pepper bread, but I absolutely hate the micromanagement that goes into them, keeping the water juuust above the freezing point.

So I was thinking of making a wild farm with pips, thing is I'm noticing they only place so many plants it seems. What's the limitation here? how space efficient can a wild farm be?

[Hedning]

They look 5 tiles in each direction, making a square. If any part of a plant is in this square they count it. There can be a maximum of 2 plants within their "vision" else they will find another spot.

This means you can plant in every other tile as long as you plant from left to right or right to left.
It also means for plants growing up you need to plant the top row first and then go down, and for plants that hang from the ceiling you need to plant the bottom row first and go up.

That said planting wild with maximum efficiency is a lot of micromanagement since you need to block off the spots you don't want planted in yet, and gradually release places as the previous are planted. With automation domestic plants can be kept the correct temperature with 0 micromanagement.

[Angpaur]

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110299-pip-planting-everything-you-need-to-know/

[MadCre8tor]

thanks @hedning @angpaur, both your responses are insane!

Is the range left-right different? Is it important to go from left to right, or vice versa?

Does sleet wheat grow only on ice or dirt as well?

In an ideal world I would maybe even combine the two - 3 wild plants, then 3 domesticated... perhaps not for sleet wheat but others.

Reed Fiber is definitely nice as it eats a lot of water - I'm literally using it currently just to delete germy polluted water. But getting some more for free is also nice.

[Hedning]

-Left or right is no different.
-They only care about hardness. I think if you need tier 2 digging to dig it it is too hard to plant in.

[Berckman]

Micromanaging is exhausting . This is what I do.

1. Open up all cold biomes so dupes hace access to every single sleet wheat plant.
2. Enable Harvest of all sleet wheats.
3. Ranch pips and drop 10 eggs in cold biomes.
4. Forget about it.
5. By Cycle 180 I have more sleetwheat that i know what to do

[MadCre8tor]

Originally posted by El caballero de los mares.:

Micromanaging is exhausting . This is what I do.

1. Open up all cold biomes so dupes hace access to every single sleet wheat plant.
2. Enable Harvest of all sleet wheats.
3. Ranch pips and drop 10 eggs in cold biomes.
4. Forget about it.
5. By Cycle 180 I have more sleetwheat that i know what to do

When cooking pepper bread that requires 200 wild sleet wheat plants for my 20 dupes.

That's a lot of space for wild plants! That's why I wasn't so sure and wanted to ask around just how feasable a wild farm is.
It's nice to have a few extra plants in a distant corner of the map, but for a main food source I'm gonna need something else. Will probably go back to stuffed berries again after the wild sleet wheat has been running out, but it's served as a nice buffer and gives time to worry about other stuff.

Finally tamed a gold volcano yay.

[Hedning]

If you can make frost burgers you really cut down on the amount of sleet wheat you need. Just beware doing it too early before your dupes have high athletics. If a new dupe gets into an atmo suit after having had a frost burger...oh boy.

[MadCre8tor]

Originally posted by Hedning:

If a new dupe gets into an atmo suit...

I was thinking for a while - 400kcal for one sleet wheat isn't much really. You do it for the high quality food, but I'll take on the challenge and try to pull it of some time.

Dude... I was sitting on 17 dupes for a long time, now adopted 3 new ones and they have a hard time getting places. Unbearable to watch them use the only three atmo suits provided for access to your steam chamber when something needs fixing asap.

But yea... frostburgers. I'll keep those in minds. Funny enough, the morale bonus could trigger sparkle streak and you might just get a speed buff out of it in the end.

[Hedning]

What I do for new dupes is I have some manual generators on high priority behind a door that only they have access too. Manual generators level up athletics and machinery, so that's where they will be spending their time until their athletics is up and they have the exosuit skill.

[MadCre8tor]

Originally posted by Hedning:

What I do for new dupes is I have some manual generators on high priority behind a door that only they have access too. Manual generators level up athletics and machinery, so that's where they will be spending their time until their athletics is up and they have the exosuit skill.

Damn that's a good idea. Better than having them go from A to B only to drop the resources they were carrying on the way when the shift is over.