Do I really have to go to the farmer for seeds each time?

[Kligan]

I have a "farmer" perk, yet I only get 2 seeds per tile of crops. It is really annoying...
Is there a way to get more seeds? In reality, I would just leave some crops to become overripe and they would produce lots of seeds. At least that's how my grandma did it. And it's how it was in a game Heaven and Hearth, if I remember correctly.

[Berioth]

No, like everything else in this game, they made it so you waste a lot of time to do just about anything, farming is specially stupid, by all means once you start farming, you should get enough seeds to keep going without the need to ever visit the farmer again.

[Paranochat]

You can get more seeds if you use fertilizers, enough to sustain or more.

[itssirtou]

I 'usually' get replant seeds just by using Peat as fertilizer. I'm doing a small plot, 3 sets of carrots, and usually lose about 1 seed per harvest.

[DeNarr]

I'm honestly not sure if that perk even does anything. While using peat, I was suffering about 1-2 seed loss per 12 crops both before and after getting the perk.

[Kligan]

Will fertelizer help getting more seeds from basic crops like carrots? To feed the bastard donkey.

[Enki]

I'm not a fan of the feeding donkey mechanic myself.

[Kligan]

Originally posted by Obievil:

I'm not a fan of the feeding donkey mechanic myself.

Well, at least you can control whether or not you want more corpses delivered. If not, don't give him carrots...

Anyway, I can't figure out how this whole fertelizing thing works in this game.
So I put peat into the ground, and then there are two signs on each tile - hourglass and star.
Now what? I wish the game would explain what the heck am I supposed to do >_>

[Lokiator]

Originally posted by Kligan:

Originally posted by Obievil:

I'm not a fan of the feeding donkey mechanic myself.

Well, at least you can control whether or not you want more corpses delivered. If not, don't give him carrots...

Anyway, I can't figure out how this whole fertelizing thing works in this game.
So I put peat into the ground, and then there are two signs on each tile - hourglass and star.
Now what? I wish the game would explain what the heck am I supposed to do >_>

I'm pretty sure the hourglass is an indicator that it'll grow faster than a normal plot and the star is an indicator that you might get a higher quality crop.

Which might be useful if there was more than one type of fertilizer that could affect rates/quality. But so far, I've only found peat...

[dougglug]

You can research better fertilizer later in the tech tree.

[Paranochat]

Originally posted by Kligan:

Will fertelizer help getting more seeds from basic crops like carrots? To feed the bastard donkey.

Pretty sure it does, though I only use Peat for the carrots, it usually gives me enough seeds. I only made a trip to buy seeds twice I think, and I now have enough carrots to feed the donkey for months ahead.

Originally posted by Kligan:

Anyway, I can't figure out how this whole fertelizing thing works in this game.
So I put peat into the ground, and then there are two signs on each tile - hourglass and star.
Now what? I wish the game would explain what the heck am I supposed to do >_>

You use the fertilizer first, and then you replace it with seeds. The signs show that the field is buffed (peat provides two small buffs).

Originally posted by Lokiator:

I'm pretty sure the hourglass is an indicator that it'll grow faster than a normal plot and the star is an indicator that you might get a higher quality crop.

Which might be useful if there was more than one type of fertilizer that could affect rates/quality. But so far, I've only found peat...

Keep in mind that you can't get higher quality carrots for example. Everything that can have its quality upgraded is always AT LEAST Bronze-star. Things with no star at all have no quality to upgrade.

Peat is the cheap starter fertilizer, you can unlock better fertilizers on the skill tree and craft them with Alchemy stuff.