Carrots: why orange? (Give us purple viking carrots pls!)

[Triskaideka]

The orange carrot, now so familiar, was once a novelty. In fact, as far as I know it only became widely common from the 17th century, when Dutch farmers started growing the new orange carrots in honor of William of Orange.

Until then, the purple variety was supreme. Can we get purple viking carrots, please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot

[FistOFun]

I've got to say. I like this idea.

[Fox Loaf Liz]

It honestly would make more sense lore-wise. Would it not?

Of course everyone knows what carrots are by looking at them. But this could give devs the opportunity to educate people by making the carrots purple.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Mona Lizzard:

It honestly would make more sense lore-wise. Would it not?

Of course everyone knows what carrots are by looking at them. But this could give devs the opportunity to educate people by making the carrots purple.

Except that, unfortunately, most people would not consider it educational. They'd be baffled about why the carrots are purple, and an annoying number of them would undoubtedly flood the forum. To most, carrots have always been, and always will be orange; Seeing something else would only cause confusion.

A change like this is better suited towards being a mod, imo; Something you have to manually opt into if you're aware of the history of carrots and want something that's more true to history.

[LordOfTheBread]

Originally posted by WebMistress:

The orange carrot, now so familiar, was once a novelty. In fact, as far as I know it only became widely common from the 17th century, when Dutch farmers started growing the new orange carrots in honor of William of Orange.

Until then, the purple variety was supreme. Can we get purple viking carrots, please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot

So you have problem with carrots being orange but... 5 meters blue trolls are fair game?

Riiiight.....

[Aendeen]

Maybe a future ingredient for later content

[daggaz]

Originally posted by LordOfTheDread:

Originally posted by WebMistress:

The orange carrot, now so familiar, was once a novelty. In fact, as far as I know it only became widely common from the 17th century, when Dutch farmers started growing the new orange carrots in honor of William of Orange.

Until then, the purple variety was supreme. Can we get purple viking carrots, please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot

So you have problem with carrots being orange but... 5 meters blue trolls are fair game?

Riiiight.....

Yeah because we all know in real life, trolls are as big as mountains and covered in trees and stone.

[Ironclad Turtle]

Originally posted by WebMistress:

The orange carrot, now so familiar, was once a novelty. In fact, as far as I know it only became widely common from the 17th century, when Dutch farmers started growing the new orange carrots in honor of William of Orange.

Until then, the purple variety was supreme. Can we get purple viking carrots, please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot

Just pretend that turnips are fat purple carrots - problem solved, no need to bother teh devs.

[Fox Loaf Liz]

Other people: "CARROTS SHOULD BE ORANGE!!1!"

Me, an intellectual: "They used to be purple long ago."

Purple carrots irl are supposedly the most healthy variety of carrot.

[daggaz]

Beer is the most healthy variety of carrot.

[Fox Loaf Liz]

Originally posted by daggaz:

Beer is the most healthy variety of carrot.

Haha, very funny joke.

[Triskaideka]

Originally posted by LordOfTheDread:

So you have problem with carrots being orange but... 5 meters blue trolls are fair game?
Riiiight.....

Worry not, I do like the trolls. (Family of yours?)

Except, a mythical creature in a 'historic' fantasy game makes sense because ancient people believed in them.

Carrots have nothing magic to them, and it is simply a matter of having the correct biome.

You would not have corn and potatoes in a viking game, would you? Not unless such game allows you to sail to a land far away across the ocean and discover them there.

[Cooperal]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Originally posted by Mona Lizzard:

It honestly would make more sense lore-wise. Would it not?

Of course everyone knows what carrots are by looking at them. But this could give devs the opportunity to educate people by making the carrots purple.

Except that, unfortunately, most people would not consider it educational. They'd be baffled about why the carrots are purple, and an annoying number of them would undoubtedly flood the forum. To most, carrots have always been, and always will be orange; Seeing something else would only cause confusion.

A change like this is better suited towards being a mod, imo; Something you have to manually opt into if you're aware of the history of carrots and want something that's more true to history.

They are under no obligation to make it any more educational than what you see. Sometimes all you need to do is make a carrot purple to then prompt enough curiosity that will lead to people doing their own research. Just drop the hint, not give an encyclopedia-style rundown of why it is the way it is.

It's not like changing carrots from orange would make them significantly less recognisable among all the other not-carrot-like items in the game either. I don't even think you can find carrots except those that you harvested yourself, only making it less of a hassle to discern what they are. The most similar looking item would be the turnips which are very distinguishable by their dimensions alone.

[Manwith Noname]

Originally posted by WebMistress:

Carrots: why orange?

I imagine because if they were purple the majority of people would make fools of themselves calling the developers dumb for not making them orange.

Edit: Heh, yeah, should read other responses before posting.

[daggaz]

Originally posted by WebMistress:

You would not have corn and potatoes in a viking game, would you? Not unless such game allows you to sail to a land far away across the ocean and discover them there.

Not only would that be really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cool, it would be historically accurate, too. See viking settlements in NewFoundland.

[Fox Loaf Liz]

Originally posted by daggaz:

Originally posted by WebMistress:

You would not have corn and potatoes in a viking game, would you? Not unless such game allows you to sail to a land far away across the ocean and discover them there.

Not only would that be really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cool, it would be historically accurate, too. See viking settlements in NewFoundland.

Fish tacos when? Tortillas made from corn and you already got fish. Wait, we already got fish wraps. Nevermind.