What Da Bleep Do We Know About Farming?

boundmore · 2019-05-09T00:23:20.218Z

The wait is killing me.

There are hints here and there, even some dev art shared.

But the actual functionality - how it grows, cycles of growing and reaping, enviromental needs etc. - are things that make me curious the most.

Any of the dev-talking players know something and can share? Would be great!!
Can any of the devs share some more info? Would be even better!!

I hope myself that there is some variation of what can be grown on different worlds (example: the way certain type of starberries only appear on higher tier worlds, could also apply to starberry based farming -> maybe fertility (output) could be lower on worlds different to their natural habitat).

I certainly would find it interesting if each type of atmosphere was required for different plants to grow. (If, for example, the combustion thingy could only be farmed in volatile atmosphere).

Any thoughts? Or actual facts?

majorvex · 2019-05-09T00:32:49.381Z

I’d love more info too!

Meanwhile…

Roadmap: Special Exoworlds and Farming! Announcements

Boundless Roadmap: Here is an update to our active development roadmap. [2019-02-18] Boundless updates: We’re following a development process where we alternate between updating Testing and Live every other week. Then Tick-Tock between minor and major feature updates to Live. The aim is to deliver a constant stream of quality, optimisations and features. Every week there should be something new to explore on Testing or play with on Live. Unless someone suggests we do a free weekend, then we …

Farming: A new farming system is coming to Boundless with 4 cultivating domains:

Organic farming - everything you’d expect - irrigated with placeable water.
In-organic farming - grow yourself a nice bit of Kindling Mass and Combustion Fraction - irrigated with placeable lava.
Garden Flower farming - to bring some much needed life, colour and prestige to your home.
Dripstone farming - cultivate your own dyes by farming throughout the known worlds. Each world atmosphere will mutate your crop’s tint and with skill and perseverance you’ll open up the full spectrum of building materials.

Oh, and did we say that placeable water and lava will be used for irrigation - or whatever else you can find a use for.

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Fluids: We’re looking to include fluid placement in the coming farming update. Everyone needs some lava irrigation!

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Concept Art: Combustion Fraction Fuel (farming)

Ominous fuel stuffs - coming to farming…

Nightstar · 2019-05-09T00:34:25.826Z

Ah darnit they’re gonna die.

boundmore · 2019-05-09T00:35:39.984Z

Thanks Major!! I was too lazy to put all the links in one post here haha.

Lord-Proteus · 2019-05-09T01:15:52.902Z

There is also this…

How far out is farming

Glass wont block ‘sunlight’ for farming.

But, as it stands, the rule will be ‘vertical direct sunlight (ignoring glass)’ because we dont want the cost of doing full lighting of chunks on the server the way the client does. That could change in future (I hope so too), but isn’t a small amount of work to be able to have full lighting server-side in a cheap enough way that wont require us to end up reducing creatures/playercounts as a result

How far out is farming

glass wont block “direct sunlight” so can put a glass roof over the crops.

glass does block the snow effect.

lucadeltodecso · 2019-05-09T01:36:56.636Z

Dont want to spoil anything else, but will say that “direct sunlight” is no longer the rule, and the servers will have full sunlight results available to it now for farming.

Crops that require sunlight will suffer if there is not enough light by growing more slowly, and stop growing at all in full darkness.

Also, some crops may accept, or even require a different kind of light source than sunlight too…ooo

Lord-Proteus · 2019-05-09T01:40:47.397Z

giphy

Nightstar · 2019-05-09T01:46:02.633Z

lucadeltodecso:

Dont want to spoil anything else, but will say that “direct sunlight” is no longer the rule, and the servers will have full sunlight results available to it now for farming.

Crops that require sunlight will suffer if there is not enough light by growing more slowly, and stop growing at all in full darkness.

Also, some crops may accept, or even require a different kind of light source than sunlight too…ooo

WOW Nice!

blinvir · 2019-05-09T01:48:13.139Z

Sooo stoked to hear this. However this totally changes how I’m gonna plan out some farmlands.

Lord-Proteus · 2019-05-09T02:14:20.519Z

I wonder if the “different kind of light source” has something to do with the combustion fuel since it does have a similar color to UV light …

RedY3 · 2019-05-09T02:15:44.333Z

Probably the weed plant requiring some purple gleam xD ? Spoil it spoil it no worries. This is the only place in the world where spoilers are welcome

krasniy · 2019-05-09T02:17:06.268Z

PLEASE DO NOT LET CROPS DIE!!! That is something other games have and I hated it…

anon67769248 · 2019-05-09T02:28:53.060Z

Hey remember when I asked if we could have artificial light sources? Im super pumped now.

Janna55 · 2019-05-09T02:34:21.554Z

I would like to know how the irrigation would be set up. How do we get the water to the plants if you don’t live near water. For me with my base on water it won’t be a problem. For those on a mountain, in the desert, plains were they are not close to water how do they get it there? Will the rain give the plants the water they need also?

How often do we need to water them, how long does it take the seeds to grow?
How many seeds for each plant will be needed?
Soil, if we can’t go to some planets can we bring the soil to our base and put that down and then put the seeds in and they will grow?
Or can they only be grown on that planet, need that atmosphere?
How long will it take them to grow from seed to maturity?

I’m sure others have their own questions, some that I don’t have and would love to get more info. And we all would love to have a idea if there is a guesstimate of when they could share some info.

boundmore · 2019-05-09T02:44:55.766Z

place-able water and lava comes with the update

boundmore · 2019-05-09T02:48:39.961Z

Janna55:

How often do we need to water them, how long does it take the seeds to grow?
How many seeds for each plant will be needed?
Soil, if we can’t go to some planets can we bring the soil to our base and put that down and then put the seeds in and they will grow?
Or can they only be grown on that planet, need that atmosphere?
How long will it take them to grow from seed to maturity?

thats exactly what I meant saying I’m curious about functional side of things.

I can’t really plan ahead (choice of farm size, soil type, world type etc.) if I don’t know at least some of the details.
That’s why I am not building, plotting anything before I know more.

We won’t know much before it comes to testing, I guess. Unless we get more hints.

Xaldafax · 2019-05-09T02:50:11.481Z

From what I understood you had to keep them up but I don’t know if that changed.

lucadeltodecso · 2019-05-09T02:53:12.656Z

the only crops that can “die” are the prestige crops, normal crops (organic or inorganic) will never die.

boundmore · 2019-05-09T03:04:31.152Z

lucadeltodecso:

prestige crops,

you mean deco ones? the vine and such? so they need to be constantly watered and have the light source?

and does it mean normal crops will stay in the full grown state forever and can be gathered at any time (such a help to avoid “second job” trauma when one needs to remember to log in in a narrow time window or lose all crops)

lucadeltodecso · 2019-05-09T03:21:14.732Z

the “ornamental oortweed”, “imperial harlequin” and “ancestor’s blade”, as per the art shown they have a “withered” final state, rather than a “fully grown ready to harvest” final state.

yes, the others will just remain “fully grown ready to harvest” forever.