Make bamboo and sugar cane farmable

[CupcakeManda]

I think sugar cane and bamboo should be farmable in the big seedbed along with all of the other bushes and trees. Seems like it would be a fairly easy addition to make?

[Blaze1961]

That's a reasonable suggestion I agree.

[Iceman]

I think it's a design choice. The apiaries only function is to create sweetener, adding that would make them obsolete.

[CupcakeManda]

Icemansk0,

Not true, honey is used for many more things than just a sweetener in cooking. It is required for making glue, which is required for making the mill, making paper (for potions) and many other essential items in the game. I personally prefer to keep my honey available for those purposes only, and use sugar in my cooking. Adding this option would allow me to farm sugar for cooking while still harvesting honey for glue.

Also, ALL of the other herbs and plants in the game that the player uses in recipes are farmable except sugar cane and bamboo. Why? It just doesn't make much sense that you can farm sunflowers for seeds and bushes for sticks, but you can't farm sugar cane or bamboo to make sugar.

[Iceman]

I forgot about glue.

[xlockeed]

I have over 1k honey and a 98 stack of bamboo. Think I collected them when getting my second shard. Case in point, I've never needed bamboo. Now for decoration I see no harm to add them into the large planter. So far late game when you get big seedbeds there would be no imbalance happening.

Add bamboo to the large planter.

[CupcakeManda]

Ooooh yeah I didn't even think of how nice a big seedbed with bamboo could look!

I prefer to cut narrow strips through the bamboo for pulling single monsters through, and I get bored cutting large groves of bamboo down just for sugar, so I didn't end up with tons of it. So for me, it'd be nice to have the option in the big seedbed for a larger bamboo harvest when I need to farm it for sugar.

Guess I just need to build more Apiaries.

[xlockeed]

They look good in a flower area fenced off. I really never bothered grinding down cane into sugar. I just threw honey at everything. Honey is better in my opinion, dark honey

[CupcakeManda]

Yeah, one whole stack of cane/bamboo only makes 25 sugars, which only makes 12 apple pies or 8 chocolates. So if you're grinding out pies or chocolates, you need LOTS of cane/bamboo, plus the extra time it takes to turn them into sugar. So I can see why you'd prefer to stick to honey.

I still think it would be a good addition simply because it's supposed to be a sandbox style game, allowing players to explore and play in their own style. So having two different ways to obtain your cooking sweetener while safe at your own base would be nice- either by building more apiaries, or by harvesting cane/bamboo in the big seedbed in larger amounts than you can get when harvesting them in the wild. Just my 2 cents :)

[xlockeed]

I'm pretty sure it's a simple allow CANE bigseedbed YES command. Hey art what's with all these random patches with no news!?