How does fertilizer work?

[dman_dustin]

I put peat into an empty garden bed and two signs of an hour glass and a star appeared but I can't plant crops, does it work with the surrounding areas, if so that's strange.

[Ponta the giant racoon]

Same question, no matter how i tried peat doesnt give bronze quality crops

[Waving the Guns]

y its not logic

[Antares]

It seems that cabbage and carrot don't have quality ranking. You need to get some onion seeds and maybe other seeds by destorying barrels in the dungeon.

[dman_dustin]

I don't think people are understanding what I mean.

I'm asking HOW DO I PLANT CROPS when I use fertilizer, like I said, the feritlizer or rather the peat takes up a crop space, I don't know how to plant crops with the SIGNS (the hourglass sign and the star sign) and everytime I interact with the plot it just says peat.

Or does fertilizer work with an aura/buff that only works in the surrounding areas but you can't use the space you used fertilizer.

Or maybe its just peat that does it, I haven't tried other types of fertilizer.

[Paranochat]

Originally posted by dman_dustin:

I don't think people are understanding what I mean.

I'm asking HOW DO I PLANT CROPS when I use fertilizer, like I said, the feritlizer or rather the peat takes up a crop space, I don't know how to plant crops with the SIGNS (the hourglass sign and the star sign) and everytime I interact with the plot it just says peat.

Or does fertilizer work with an aura/buff that only works in the surrounding areas but you can't use the space you used fertilizer.

Or maybe its just peat that does it, I haven't tried other types of fertilizer.

You put fertilizer first, then Signs will appear, showing that this space has been buffed. You can now plant a seed in place of the feritlizer in the crafting menu.

(It is not an area, fertilizer only works where you put it).

Originally posted by Ponta the giant racoon:

Same question, no matter how i tried peat doesnt give bronze quality crops

You can't change the quality of an item that doesn't feature any quality to begin with. Basic crops don't have quality, fertilizer is somewhat useful with them to get more seeds in the end, but you can only upgrade the quality of an item that has... quality.

[Squirtle]

i want to make sure i'm doing this right. So after i place peat and the 2 signs appear i go into the planting interface and peat appears on the slot. Then i just have to change peat to whatever seed i want to plant there, correct?

[TrackZero]

Originally posted by zugzug:

i want to make sure i'm doing this right. So after i place peat and the 2 signs appear i go into the planting interface and peat appears on the slot. Then i just have to change peat to whatever seed i want to plant there, correct?

Yup, just click on the peat, then select 4 seeds instead. You were doing the exact thing I was: clicking to add peat, signs appear, hit E to plant and see peat in there already and WTFing? It's because the dev's thought to add all the peat from your inventory/chest and leave extra "stored" in that soil slot until you remove it and pick a seed. Just a UI thing they probably haven't had enough of us complain about yet. ;( Obviously the peat should auto-unequip from the soil once the signs are placed.

Another pro-tip, don't be like me and play for hours before you realize you CAN create stacked items from the oven or forge by using those arrows on the sides (which I think I subconciously ignored because they only appear on mouseover, whereas they should always be visible from that screen regardless if you're using them).

Don't get me wrong, loving the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game, just UI/UX stuff they have to work through.

Edit: It also may be because of a later mechanic we haven't ran into yet, which I've run into a few times with other gameplay bits earlier on.

[La0zix]

And peat doesnt really work as fertilizer, its a component to create fertilizer with alchemi

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

Originally posted by La0zix:

And peat doesnt really work as fertilizer, its a component to create fertilizer with alchemi

it's a fertilizer, it's the most basic one. It's just a component in the later tier ones too.

[La0zix]

Originally posted by sc2mails:

Originally posted by La0zix:

And peat doesnt really work as fertilizer, its a component to create fertilizer with alchemi

it's a fertilizer, it's the most basic one. It's just a component in the later tier ones too.

I used it before, and never got 4 seeds back, so pretty much does the same as no peat on it

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

Originally posted by La0zix:

Originally posted by sc2mails:

it's a fertilizer, it's the most basic one. It's just a component in the later tier ones too.

I used it before, and never got 4 seeds back, so pretty much does the same as no peat on it

and I've done it on multiple patches at once and only been short one seed from input. It has an effect.

[La0zix]

Originally posted by sc2mails:

Originally posted by La0zix:

I used it before, and never got 4 seeds back, so pretty much does the same as no peat on it

and I've done it on multiple patches at once and only been short one seed from input. It has an effect.

Like i said not for me, and i used hundreds of them.

[BOYCOTT]

actually i tried very hard to grow the hemp seeds from dig only on fertilized soil and kept replanting the same 8 seeds for at least 4-6 cycles of growth with only peat.

carrots seem way more lossy just in general though to be fair, i'm almost positive i lost some of those seeds with fertilizer, but to be honest i mostly ignored the merchant that playthrough and i started over recently.

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

Originally posted by Too-DAMN-Much:

actually i tried very hard to grow the hemp seeds from dig only on fertilized soil and kept replanting the same 8 seeds for at least 4-6 cycles of growth with only peat.

carrots seem way more lossy just in general though to be fair, i'm almost positive i lost some of those seeds with fertilizer, but to be honest i mostly ignored the merchant that playthrough and i started over recently.

You don't actually need to talk to the merchant to start planting, just horadric. I'm trying to see if I can get 5 gold and actually buy the land. They added 3 patches worth of carrot seeds to the donkey poop too.

[Senec]

I've used Peat as fertilizer in patches, and gotten 3-5 seeds back from each harvest. Though for the life of me, I dont know how the hell you're supposed to sustain that. Getting 3 or 4 back is common, while 5 is rare. Are you just supposed to keep buying seeds from vendors? That would kinda negate the point of seed oil from hemp seeds. To that end, I've just been using harvested fat in the vine press to get oil. No shortage of corpses, and its free!