I haven’t seen any comments from @James or the development team about far they considered their farming update to go in the long run so I am not sure if the next suggestion was even considered.
I’d like the ability to farm and grow in some form or fashion the following items:
Spicy Bean
Sweet Bean
Bitter Bean
I’d still like to see the Trumpet Root, Oortian Staff, and Stardrop plants exist out in the wild and drop these items. But, I’d like to have bean stalks and actually be able to cultivate and grow a larger amount of these items.
For me it seems to make sense that we should be able to grow any plant based resource in the game in some form or fashion. I think it creates more fun and experiences people can have when dealing with farming. That is why I revitalized the suggested Trees and Fish hatcheries.
As long as people can deal with rarer seed returns from gathered plants and/or <100% seed return on these crops, I don’t see a problem with adding in most surface resources to farm as well.
This is a result of them doing a forced rebuild of resources across the planet. In time over the next year the way regen works currently you will see things slowly diminish if we don’t start offering farming alternatives.
What if, if they choose to implement bean farming, they make use of wooden poles and beams as a means to give the beans something to grow against? Gives another reason to craft these items and I can see some interesting build integrations for this.
They are common items to buy/sell, my concern is what happens once major markets all have their fields set up and never want to buy X anymore. How rewarding should gathering be?
That said, I’m not against beans specifically being grown, I just want running around and smacking plants (in the wild, that is) to still be worth something.
I think one advantage we have is that crafting takes many resources and time. So I think stores with end results will always be in some demand.
Do I want to wait 3 hours for my pies or just go buy some? Or buy some while they are cooking up?
Also…speaking from experience…the act of building the farm is pretty work intensive. I am not even getting perfect returns and I am spending hours building my farms up.
It would definitely be nice to grow beans and lamellas cause I am starting to notice people are have gathered a lot of the mushrooms then you have to wait for regen then it becomes an never ending cycle
I think this is a good idea. They are a common item that is used a lot.
I don’t think this would hinder anyone’s desire to gather them. Just like yams & starberries can be gathered or farmed.
I’m one of those players that loves to go off on my own exploring & gathering everything I come across. I much prefer gathering things in the wild to setting up a large farm. If they were to make beans a crop, it wouldn’t bug me at all (as long as I can still find them in the wild).
Note: I think farming is amazing & it’s a great feature to have in the game. The implementation is a bit interesting, but think most will enjoy it once they get the hang of it
Same here… As much as I appreciate many of comments we get from the devs, it’s nothing at all like a dedicated CM who actually updates us at regular, expectable, schedules.
I think it’s a good thing that development is fluid and that timetables aren’t always going to be the same for each different release, but yeah, would appreciate some sort of order to it.
Actually while I can understand some people’s frustration, my comment was not to call them out about what they have communicated for the upcoming stuff. I understand why they haven’t and the need to do it in the correct way. Considering the tones of some messages lately in the forums and people attacking people I think we need space before we get into people being allowed to post about what is coming up.
My comment was only related to the possibility of or why they wouldn’t offer Beans for farming. There had been no for/against comments around it. So the tag was to hope if they were against it we would get details on why.
Not to sidetrack Xal’s post (I’ll apologize in advance)
I can’t wait for beacon buffer zones for my base, but it scares the heck out of me when I wonder how that’s going to work at the mall. Some people aren’t part of the mall’s guild. I really hope this doesn’t turn existing neighboring plots into a nightmare.
Beans a great idea saves me over 2 hours running about farming them then lol
I think they could go a lot further with this farming and what we are able to farm later on.
Would love to see more vegetables or fruit to farm to make more meals with I know we now have smoothies but actual food like fruit salad or rice pudding
aaaaand the lamellas!
so wanted we could make fish pie 