Farming mod now or wait?

[Noodle]

Thinking of getting a mod to ease the tedium of farming crops. Should I grab one now or wait until the next patch comes to stable to avoid possibly breaking my world?

[Zep Tepi]

Entirely up to you.

Personally, I use Farm Grid and since making a grid to put down crops and trees is the only thing it does, I believe it is unlikely to mess anything up. But, there are never any guarantees with mods. I'm also not sure how long the wait for test to go live will be.

[Pantstron]

I completed a solo run doing no farming. Your farming problems are your own

[Noodle]

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

Entirely up to you.

Personally, I use Farm Grid and since making a grid to put down crops and trees is the only thing it does, I believe it is unlikely to mess anything up. But, there are never any guarantees with mods. I'm also not sure how long the wait for test to go live will be.

Thanks for the advice. I've had a bit of a look and while "Farm Grid" looks alright, I saw something similar that piqued my interest.

Originally posted by Fzanco:

I completed a solo run doing no farming. Your farming problems are your own

Ok.

Originally posted by Danson:

Seriously, people make such a big deal about farming being tedious. Newsflash, nobody is forcing you to plant 500 turnips.

Indeed, no-one is forcing me. I would just like to grow some crops without needing to aim at each individual plant to harvest it.

[Noodle]

Originally posted by Danson:

Holding E while running in a straight line seems pretty good to me if you're worried about downloading a mod, and you said you were.

I was under the impression that holding E to harvest multiple plants doesn't work - at least it doesn't seem to work for me this way.

[Noodle]

Perhaps something along the lines of a plough could be implemented at some point. Something that you pull across your field like how the carts work for example.

[Metalton]

Originally posted by Noodle:

Indeed, no-one is forcing me. I would just like to grow some crops without needing to aim at each individual plant to harvest it.

Found that a wee bit tedious at first too.. 'til I figured out I can just look at the ground, line the reticule up, hold E, and walk down the row auto-picking everything (only seems to work right if auto-loot is on). O' course I don't have a huge farm.. goes pretty quick for me ;)

[joemama1512]

Why would you want mods to help farm? In real life, farming is hard work! They should add a "dig a hole" minigame for each turnip you want to plant! You panzies! ;-)

Another good mod btw is Seed Totem. You can use surtling core and a few other mats to create a totem that you can load up with plantable items. It will then plant stuff accordingly and you can whack it to harvest all ready crops. You can change its radius, or go with a square version.
This is probably the easiest of the bunch since you can Load All seeds and it will crank away indefinitely. As soon as you pick one crop it starts planting in its place.

In any case, we already know the patch is going to mess up any existing explored areas, so anyone far enough along will likely restart anyways and just bring their character and most important loot with them.

Secondly, if the patch breaks the mod (unlikely since its been around a while), you can just remove the mod with no issues.

[Trops60]

hmmm, i know this off the topic , but is this same noodle from another survival game , just wondering

[Pervy]

Originally posted by Noodle:

Originally posted by Danson:

Holding E while running in a straight line seems pretty good to me if you're worried about downloading a mod, and you said you were.

I was under the impression that holding E to harvest multiple plants doesn't work - at least it doesn't seem to work for me this way.

He means planting, but in the case of harvasting, you are right you can't run and pick up stuff.
Which is why there is a few mods that fixes this for you.

Edit1: I could give the names of the mods if needed.
Edit2: There is a mod named Massfarming:
"Mod to assist with large scale farming in Valheim"

And as someone said futher up, Farmgrid:
"Allows for all plants planted with the cultivator to automatically be snapped and placed into a grid in which they will have enough space to grow."

[Blueheaven]

after getting barely I do not bother with carrots, turnips and onions. The atgeir special attack makes harvesting barley and flax a breeze.

Holding e totally works for harvesting crops but I am not skilled enough to do it running. Walking works fine for me though.

[Noodle]

Originally posted by Trops60:

hmmm, i know this off the topic , but is this same noodle from another survival game , just wondering

Potentially. I do enjoy the genre, but uni eats up a lot of time these days so you're probably thinking of someone else.

[luponix]

farmgrid is a life saver for those obsessed with efficient placement

[SomethingCoolBro]

Originally posted by Danson:

Originally posted by Fzanco:

I completed a solo run doing no farming. Your farming problems are your own

Seriously, people make such a big deal about farming being tedious. Newsflash, nobody is forcing you to plant 500 turnips.

My OCD is forcing me ...

[RunForRest]

I like to use the mod seed totem, never failed me