Most efficient way to plant Barley?

[Requimatic]

Barley is super annoying and I hate planting it. I just struggled with a few random spots in my Plains farm where stuff wouldn't grow, only to realize I had rocks UNDERGROUND that were too close to the surface.

Anyway, that aside, what's the most (or some of the more efficient) efficient way you've found to plant Barley? For everything else in the game, I've been using the "one cultivated square for 25 plants" method, and it seems to work perfectly fine.

Buuuut with the visuals of Barley being a bit larger than other crops, "centering" them in the same manner typically leaves me with a couple that need room to grow. For the time being, I've just planted all I had in 3 long rows and all is well, but I doubt it's efficient space-wise.

Thoughts?

[Requimatic]

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

Originally posted by Requimatic:

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A good way to train your weapon skills up quickly is to just stay in the plains and raise tamed lox. When they are tamed they dont fight back. Just hack at a lox for a while on high stamina foods with a bronze sword.

Works for every weapon type. They have a large pool of health and when they are almost dead just feed them a piece of barley or cloud berry to regenerate their health and move onto the next lox and train on that one. They're the game's best punching bags.

Just be sure to turn off friendly fire and you'll be able to abuse them to your hearts content.

Haha, I didn't know that, thanks!

I've actually got one Lox taming right now (takes forever) that's eating off of a stack of Barley, so I guess I need to go finish off that Silver Sword and craft a Bronze one for training!

[Veseljko]

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

Originally posted by Requimatic:

-snip-

A good way to train your weapon skills up quickly is to just stay in the plains and raise tamed lox. When they are tamed they dont fight back. Just hack at a lox for a while on high stamina foods with a bronze sword.

Works for every weapon type. They have a large pool of health and when they are almost dead just feed them a piece of barley or cloud berry to regenerate their health and move onto the next lox and train on that one. They're the game's best punching bags.

Just be sure to turn off friendly fire and you'll be able to abuse them to your hearts content.

Useful advice. Thank you!

Another advice on planting is to record a macro and let it do the hard work. Didn’t try it personally, so i don’t know exactly how it works. I know that you must watch for your stamina level and usage as well as your rested buff, because it will not work well if you deplete your stamina in the middle od macro.

[Jim Lahey]

Originally posted by Veseljko:

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

A good way to train your weapon skills up quickly is to just stay in the plains and raise tamed lox. When they are tamed they dont fight back. Just hack at a lox for a while on high stamina foods with a bronze sword.

Works for every weapon type. They have a large pool of health and when they are almost dead just feed them a piece of barley or cloud berry to regenerate their health and move onto the next lox and train on that one. They're the game's best punching bags.

Just be sure to turn off friendly fire and you'll be able to abuse them to your hearts content.

Useful advice. Thank you!

Another advice on planting is to record a macro and let it do the hard work. Didn’t try it personally, so i don’t know exactly how it works. I know that you must watch for your stamina level and usage as well as your rested buff, because it will not work well if you deplete your stamina in the middle od macro.

Too much effort. Stake Walls measure perfectly. 2 logs of space between each barley. And you're golden.

[GunsForBucks]

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

Originally posted by Veseljko:

Useful advice. Thank you!

Another advice on planting is to record a macro and let it do the hard work. Didn’t try it personally, so i don’t know exactly how it works. I know that you must watch for your stamina level and usage as well as your rested buff, because it will not work well if you deplete your stamina in the middle od macro.

Too much effort. Stake Walls measure perfectly. 2 logs of space between each barley. And you're golden.

That seems a bit much.
I don't use any guides or anything. Just plant them like you would carrots or whatever... don't get freaked out by them being a big bigger, that does not matter at all. The plant distance is still the same as carrots.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2656540559

[Jim Lahey]

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

Too much effort. Stake Walls measure perfectly. 2 logs of space between each barley. And you're golden.

That seems a bit much.
I don't use any guides or anything. Just plant them like you would carrots or whatever... don't get freaked out by them being a big bigger, that does not matter at all. The plant distance is still the same as carrots.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2656540559

If you don't wanna use up your wood. Wood walls work too. This video shows you the rough spacing you need. I'm obsesssive but have farmed so much barley/flax that I got my measurements nearly perfect out of simply memory. But If you look close you can get away with one plank of wood space between each plant and jam pack your farm. Barley and Flax are the same in this manner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytrCSnbpGI

[GunsForBucks]

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

That seems a bit much.
I don't use any guides or anything. Just plant them like you would carrots or whatever... don't get freaked out by them being a big bigger, that does not matter at all. The plant distance is still the same as carrots.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2656540559

If you don't wanna use up your wood. Wood walls work too. This video shows you the rough spacing you need. I'm obsesssive but have farmed so much barley/flax that I got my measurements nearly perfect out of simply memory. But If you look close you can get away with one plank of wood space between each plant and jam pack your farm. Barley and Flax are the same in this manner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytrCSnbpGI

It isn't about conservation of wood ... I'm just not that anal about it.

[Jim Lahey]

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

If you don't wanna use up your wood. Wood walls work too. This video shows you the rough spacing you need. I'm obsesssive but have farmed so much barley/flax that I got my measurements nearly perfect out of simply memory. But If you look close you can get away with one plank of wood space between each plant and jam pack your farm. Barley and Flax are the same in this manner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytrCSnbpGI

It isn't about conservation of wood ... I'm just not that anal about it.

Ah makes sense.

[Veseljko]

I think spacing them perfectly is too much effort. I usually just strafe and click in the same rythm. I believe recording a macro and using it correctly is the least effort you can do. You run a macro and go for a glass of water or toilet or anything else or just stretch out your legs and walk around the room 😀
If you program a macro to plant 100 barley at rate of 1 barley per second, you have 1.40 minutes to do whatever you want.
I plant between 200 and 220 barley at the time and it takes around 3 minutes of clicking and waiting for stamina to regenerate… and it becomes frustrating. Maybe i should do the macro thing myself. Before i do this myself its all just a theory 😅

[Ryzilynt]

Originally posted by Jim Lahey:

Originally posted by Requimatic:

-snip-

A good way to train your weapon skills up quickly is to just stay in the plains and raise tamed lox. When they are tamed they dont fight back. Just hack at a lox for a while on high stamina foods with a bronze sword.

Works for every weapon type. They have a large pool of health and when they are almost dead just feed them a piece of barley or cloud berry to regenerate their health and move onto the next lox and train on that one. They're the game's best punching bags.

Just be sure to turn off friendly fire and you'll be able to abuse them to your hearts content.

great tip