Is farming and having livestock a neccesity?

[SpaceCow]

Hello. New player here. I would rather not farm or tame animals for reliable food sources. If I just forage and kill random animals in the wild, will I have enough quality food ingredients? Thank you

[Xea]

Enough food? Maybe
Enough quality food? No.
You don't need to have livestock but you do need to farm for crops or your food will be sub par.

[A Pebble]

Sounds like someone didn't have a bountiful harvest.

[SpaceCow]

Ok gotcha, thanks

[JP_Russell]

You will be hamstrung on food without farming, yes, and this will only become more true the further you progress as you get access to more crops and better recipes that require them.

Personally, I also wouldn't want to play this game without a farming mod like Plant Easily, as planting crops is extremely slow and tedious without grid snapping and the ability to plant multiples in a grid.

Livestock are more of a convenience thing.

[The Great Cornholio]

Taming animals definitely not necessary, but you will spend some time deliberately hunting to stockpile meat.

Farming is absolutely necessary because many recipes depend on that biome's crop, also Plains armor and weapons requires farming flax and spinning it. Farming does not take a lot of time. Plant whatever seeds you have, come back in an hour or two, harvest and replant. Farming takes like 2-5 minutes every two hours.

[jonnin]

tamed animals are not worth it. By the time you get this set up to bulk farm, you are probably about done with that animal... lox meat is still useful for current endgame because we are waiting for the next biome, but soon as it hits that too will probably be obsolete. Once the game is totally done, the very last tameable animal (whatever it turns out to be) may be worth doing, but not necessary.

[Razorhunter]

Just by normally playing the game and paying attention to get a good amount of everything on your journey youre well done. Plant a few vegetables here and there and thats it. No need for any excessive farming or taming, atleast not in solo.

[Zombits]

the only animal worth breeding imo are hen/eggs in late game. others are abundant in the wild .

never tried riding lox , as this part of game is not appealing at all to me.

I enjoy those little skeletons with blood magic . they serve as bait and body guards while exploring and mining. but again late game.

all plants are worth farming. gives the best food for all biome

[blprice61]

You don't need to get OCD about planting unless for some reason you want your farm inside your main base and are limited by space available. I like using the stone circles in Meadows for my main farm (everything that can grow in Meadows) - just throw up a cheap pole fence connecting the stones, a workbench & portal in the middle, and you have a ton of space for any reasonable solo needs. Can spiral plant, or walk and plant, in a circle instead of trying to make neat rows. Plant a few extra so if some die off no big deal.

[JP_Russell]

Originally posted by Razorhunter:

Just by normally playing the game and paying attention to get a good amount of everything on your journey youre well done. Plant a few vegetables here and there and thats it. No need for any excessive farming or taming, atleast not in solo.

Personally, I usually go through dozens and in some cases hundreds of a given food in solo before I completely replace it with something better (and some I continue to keep a stock of for when I don't want to use better food on something that doesn't need it). I go through probably well over a thousand carrots and hundreds of turnips, onions, barley bundles, etc. in a playthrough, so between planting the seeds and then the actual crop, I individually plant thousands upon thousands of items in solo. A small garden would never suffice for me.

[vinyblaster]

Farming is pretty much mandatory yeah. Unless you.just want yo speed run the game you'll have a bad time making progress without better food.

Taming is kind of useless except for chickens. You should get plenty of meat from hunting during your adventures.

[Mr_Puddins]

Personally I enjoy the cooking/farming aspects in the game, especially modded, so I cook all kinds of stuff.

Also, I suggest having various sets of foods. For example, at home food and questing food. At home food is just basic stuff that's easy and cheap to make. Questing food is the highest teir food I can produce/craft at the time so I have as much HP and Stm as possible. However, Questing food is made from rarer and more costly ingredients so I don't waste it doing simple things like collecting basic wood or just coolin at da crib.

Lastly, I'll have different types of the same kind of food, ie HP and Stm. What I mean to say is since you have three food slots you can activate at a time I'll arrange it so I can go 3Stm, 2HP+1Stm, or 2Stm+1HP. I generally don't go 3 HP foods active at once cuz I'd rather have the Stm.

[RagnCharran]

Originally posted by blprice61:

You don't need to get OCD about planting unless for some reason you want your farm inside your main base and are limited by space available. I like using the stone circles in Meadows for my main farm (everything that can grow in Meadows) - just throw up a cheap pole fence connecting the stones, a workbench & portal in the middle, and you have a ton of space for any reasonable solo needs. Can spiral plant, or walk and plant, in a circle instead of trying to make neat rows. Plant a few extra so if some die off no big deal.

I use the stone circles the exact same way. A sixteen sided polygon with 5 metre edges, and a single turn for each corner, fits in nicely. Then you have a fairly flat and protected space to plant 200+ seeds.

I build with wood to figure out the placement, but then upgrade to stone so I have no issues with being there at night in the late game. I use a portal to come and go, so I don't even need a door or gate.

Also, I echo the common sentiment that animal farming is not necessary, only gardening is really required, so you have access to a high enough cauldron level (spice rack upgrade needs turnips and carrots) and ingredients for top tier food.

Theoretically you may want to farm barley and flax, but I find I get enough for my needs just by raiding fuling villages. And I'm not a big magic user, so mistlands farming wasn't something I needed either.

But carrots, turnips, and onions are a must.
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[retsam1]

Originally posted by SpaceCow:

Hello. New player here. I would rather not farm or tame animals for reliable food sources. If I just forage and kill random animals in the wild, will I have enough quality food ingredients? Thank you

Depends on your play style and strats. Average players will yes find it necessary. Those doing certain kinds of play runs could avoid completely. Other playstyles and strats would be extremely dependent as well. World modifier settings can also be used as a mitigator too.

So again variables really depend on you.

[Frank Dunn]

No