how do you plant raspberrys and blueberrys?

[MythN7]

its annoying to go out to get stacks of these for potions, how do you grow your own?

[Humpenstilzchen]

you can´t

[Lacrimosa]

only with mods

[MythN7]

so i guess having your base near a large patch of them is a factor in location maybe?
is there potions and food that use farming mats instead of these 2 later in the game that makes it not as tedious to go out foraging?

[ZenSynic]

without saying too much, yes, there is farming in the traditional sense of the word.

[Zep Tepi]

The devs intend that you will have to continue making foraging trips to keep everything stocked up. The only way around that is with a mod. But it doesn't really factor into where you put your base for other reasons.

Raspberries and blueberries aren't a big issue later on, but you will want to mark every nearby mushroom patch you find on your map. There is a high quality food recipe later in the game that uses a lot of them.

Hmm...if you have the materials to make a fermenter and a cauldron you should be starting your own farm by now. Look at your forge recipes. Maybe chop down a tall pine tree.

[MythN7]

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

The devs intend that you will have to continue making foraging trips to keep everything stocked up. The only way around that is with a mod. But it doesn't really factor into where you put your base for other reasons.

Raspberries and blueberries aren't a big issue later on, but you will want to mark every nearby mushroom patch you find on your map. There is a high quality food recipe later in the game that uses a lot of them.

Hmm...if you have the materials to make a fermenter and a cauldron you should be starting your own farm by now. Look at your forge recipes. Maybe chop down a tall pine tree.

ya i do, but it takes 10 berrys to make 6 potions, and i use them almost every single battle in the swamp it seems.

[deadshooter]

solutions are:
1. mods to plant bushes
2. build an outpost with portal near big berry bushes cluster
3. forage a chest or two of each berry and forget about it in the endgame - red and blue berries are not used in high tier food or meads anyway

[Zep Tepi]

Originally posted by MythN7:

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

The devs intend that you will have to continue making foraging trips to keep everything stocked up. The only way around that is with a mod. But it doesn't really factor into where you put your base for other reasons.

Raspberries and blueberries aren't a big issue later on, but you will want to mark every nearby mushroom patch you find on your map. There is a high quality food recipe later in the game that uses a lot of them.

Hmm...if you have the materials to make a fermenter and a cauldron you should be starting your own farm by now. Look at your forge recipes. Maybe chop down a tall pine tree.

ya i do, but it takes 10 berrys to make 6 potions, and i use them almost every single battle in the swamp it seems.

Sounds like you need to rethink your swamp battles. You shouldn't need to guzzle health potions to get through the swamp, maybe just use them occasionally if you draw more than you intended.

What I do is to go slowly and look around carefully. I use the bow to snipe anything I can, and if I don't kill it outright, then I control where the battle happens when they come to me. Other advantage of making them come to you is that if you die, your tombstone won't be sitting right next to their spawning area. When in doubt, run.

Don't face tank things with a shield(buckler) unless you know how to parry. I'm not good at parrying so I only use my tower shield for archers, and that's just until I get behind a tree. The rest of the time I use an atgeir's spin attack to stun skellies and draugr, or just try to quickly smash things with a mace. Simply walking around like those annoying greydwarves also makes you harder to hit and gives you a chance to recharge stamina. (If poison is the problem, chug that poison resist before you need it, it does no good after.)

[Tsuru]

You can easily set up a farm without mods. You venture out into the wild. Look for large patches of berries really close together. Build walls around them, and place a portal. Do this many times. Make sure these berries are in a location not visited often.

Go back to base. Set up a portal network. That visits every single berry farm you set up.

Visit each location every 3 in game days.

Profit.

[CombatWombat]

Originally posted by MythN7:

so i guess having your base near a large patch of them is a factor in location maybe?
is there potions and food that use farming mats instead of these 2 later in the game that makes it not as tedious to go out foraging?

There is farming, but there will always be gathering.

- gather while you explore
- mark the map you will likely find patches with high density

Just from gathering during exploring I find more than enough to last me almost trough the whole game.

If you still can't stand it, you can use devcommands to spawn bushes in.

[dirktoot]

Originally posted by Tsuru:

You can easily set up a farm without mods. You venture out into the wild. Look for large patches of berries really close together. Build walls around them, and place a portal. Do this many times. Make sure these berries are in a location not visited often.

Go back to base. Set up a portal network. That visits every single berry farm you set up.

Visit each location every 3 in game days.

Profit.

I mean, you can think of an ingame automation method for nearly every object in the game. But it seems that amount of investment takes longer than the games normal progression itself. I am going to defeat the queen this sunday with my crew and we haven't nearly automated all the things that could be automated. I only recently began to bother with a Greydwarf and draugr farm, but only to level up blood magic.

Is this kind of effort typically done post-final boss? Or are there people here that are that organized throughout the games progression?

[Rhapsody]

I don't find these berries worth farming even if enabled by mods, because you will eventually move on to more nourishing sustenance, and cloudberries are abundant enough to not warrant farming either (and you can easily grow crops next to a berry patch).

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by dirktoot:

Originally posted by Tsuru:

You can easily set up a farm without mods. You venture out into the wild. Look for large patches of berries really close together. Build walls around them, and place a portal. Do this many times. Make sure these berries are in a location not visited often.

Go back to base. Set up a portal network. That visits every single berry farm you set up.

Visit each location every 3 in game days.

Profit.

I mean, you can think of an ingame automation method for nearly every object in the game. But it seems that amount of investment takes longer than the games normal progression itself. I am going to defeat the queen this sunday with my crew and we haven't nearly automated all the things that could be automated. I only recently began to bother with a Greydwarf and draugr farm, but only to level up blood magic.

Is this kind of effort typically done post-final boss? Or are there people here that are that organized throughout the games progression?

I always explore a large section of meadows and mark any large clumps of raspberry bushes and mushrooms on my map. Then I put a portal near the center of those pins and using all stamina foods sprint from pin to pin and harvest. Once the last batch is in I go back to the portal and go home.

I do the same thing with a black forest location. Pin the blueberries, mushrooms, and thistles and put a portal in the approximate middle of the pins.

The OP shouldn't be having that much trouble in the swamps. An upgraded bronze buckler +learning how to parry block, upgraded bronze mace, and an upgraded finewood bow plus poison resist meads should get you through the first crypt and your first batch of iron provided you found everything you needed for the spice rack to upgrade your foods to the next level and did a little farming to get the ingredients needed for those better foods.

[Malnaur]

every patch you come across should go on your map with a unique symbol (I use the round dot) and maybe a one-character tag (R, B, T, etc.) even if you don't stop to gather them. I skip locations that only have one or two of something as not worth the detour. YMMV

Pro tips:
Raspberries grow around the edges of large clearings. Once you circle a clearing, marking as you go, you likely will have a reliable route to gather 75+ berries every three game days.

Red Mushrooms also grow around the clearings but deeper in the surrounding woods. To spot them reliably, set your vegetation to the lowest setting. Yes, the world now looks like a lumpy pool table but you won't miss anything gatherable. Once you have marked them on your map, you can always change the setting back :)

Thistles are best found in the Forest at night because they glow brightly. Of course, night is when the monsters come out too ;)

Yellow mushrooms are the only respawns in crypts so you can quickly harvest them repeatedly after clearing mobs the first time.

Marking the map as you go is a must. Figure out a code that works for you and you quickly get to where you can stay well-stocked with minimum grief. That said, you will need 'shopping days' from time to time.

[Tsuru]

Originally posted by dirktoot:

Originally posted by Tsuru:

You can easily set up a farm without mods. You venture out into the wild. Look for large patches of berries really close together. Build walls around them, and place a portal. Do this many times. Make sure these berries are in a location not visited often.

Go back to base. Set up a portal network. That visits every single berry farm you set up.

Visit each location every 3 in game days.

Profit.

I mean, you can think of an ingame automation method for nearly every object in the game. But it seems that amount of investment takes longer than the games normal progression itself. I am going to defeat the queen this sunday with my crew and we haven't nearly automated all the things that could be automated. I only recently began to bother with a Greydwarf and draugr farm, but only to level up blood magic.

Is this kind of effort typically done post-final boss? Or are there people here that are that organized throughout the games progression?

I mean sure. If your rushing to end game. Then whats the point of a farm in the first place. Doesnt seem like its needed if you already to a point where it just a luxury.

I setup my 8 location raspberry farm in maybe 2-3 hrs of game play. 6 of them were on the starting island. 2 being on a nearby location where we were looking for swamp. That that point it was just a matter of bring materials, setting up a sloppy wall, and placing a portal and moving on to the next location. Once all done, head home, build a poor mans 8 portal building. and done.

We play with about 6 regular people so we have tons of material farmed up, and were playing a slower pace to allow people to build and explore. Again, if we were just rushing to end game, there would no point in getting a farm, as at that point, there would be no point.