Late reply here.
If you equip a chisel, since it can rotate crops, it’ll show you the crop hit boxes (I think), which would make it easier to hit them on “top” properly
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Has this managed to be replicated yet?
It’s the hitbox of the crop, if you turn the debug menu on you’ll see the thin blue outline.
If you hit the top part of the model it’ll work like normal, the sides are wonky. Hitting the ground works as well.
Yes, I know about that 
I’m just curious if vdragon replicated it to officialise it a bit so it could possibly be fixed some time.
I bet it’s a “feature”, since it is obeying the rules. The rules aren’t intuitive with the hitbox not exactly matching the plant, but technically it works as intended 
Not saying it couldn’t be improved, but it’s been like this with no changes for a year, no dev responses to the older threads about it either.
Oh well, maybe we’ll get an official answer this time 
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It seems to be working fine for me so far. I positioned the camera so that it looks like this:
Striking the crops would harvest them as expected:
It would be interesting to see if you can provide some screenshots with the debug turned on so that the bounding boxes will be displayed as @Mayumichi has shown above. Although in that screenshot example, some of the boxes will be rotated slightly.
Oh, it looks like your farm is quite small, so you might not get that bug. I’ll let you know when my farm is fully grown again. I can go like 5-15 crops in a row it harvesting fine, then suddenly 3-4 in a row it only harvests the middle, then it harvests normally for a bit before looping.
When the crop is rotated a lot and you hit it’s side, it doesn’t almost harvest in a logical way. Since you can’t normally see the bounding boxes, you expect it to behave as if it’s a block facing you directly, but you could in reality be hitting a perpendicular side and get unexpected results.
This happens most often when you just walk through a field in a straight line, while hitting with an AOE tool. Some crops will be harvested as expected, sometimes it’s rotated enough and you hit a wrong side.
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I have found that the best way to harvest is to look straight down on the crops (others have said also). IMO this is the only reliable way to use AOE and get all 9. When I have not looked straight down it is always random which ones it hits. It relates to the hit box which is based on the size of the plants (some are bigger than others).
I don’t see this as a bug but a game mechanic.
Literally only combustion kernels act this way and it seems kind of obvious since they’re the only crop with a non-box type mesh and with how inconsistent it is, it definitely seems like an unintended side effect of when they wanted to make a non-square/rotatable crop.
its a terrible crop to harvest. I just use tiller and speed brews…never miss again…why isn’t the tiller not aoe is what confuses me…surely its a no brainer. Aoe on the tiller… bit like the days when fixing coils independently. Just made no sense at all
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Thank you very much for showing that. And goddamn that’s a really nice and fast axe. What do you have forged onto that and is it worth using?
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Silver axe (extra speed!), horitzontal or 3x3 (I’ve noticed doesn’t really matter for harvesting, and trying specifically to get horizontal is a pain) and of course I added more speed to it!
It’s definitely worth using!
Can whip you up some if you want, gives me an excuse to dip into the game 
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I’ll take this to DMs real fast so we’re not accidentally being off topic.
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I can see that some of the crops were missed out when you were mining them at speed.
Out of interest, what’s the link to the forum topic where the video was originally posted?
I can try to find it, but I have no idea what to search for!
Wow, already found it! And it’s from even longer ago, December 30…
the forum system just informed me that this link was already posted above and it indeed is!
Anyhoo, that is an old thread describing the same issue where I provided a video demonstrating both the annoying thing that happens and that hitting the gravel does nothing to the yield…
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Yes I’ve been having this happen with combustion and kindling
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You’ve been having it with kindling too? I harvested hundreds of kindling from my farm and this didn’t happen, plus the kindling appears to have a regular square bounding box. Are you sure?
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Yes it happens with kindling also for me not as often as the combustion does but it does at times only get the middle plant