I think I mentioned my farms are rarely over 10 plots for two players, and usually around 6. Those get filled with potatoes with mushrooms on the sides. On the rare times that I need corn, I'll add that for a round or two. That makes more than enough food for 2 players. So how is it really saving me much of anything in time farming? A few seconds here and there isn't exactly meaningful. And don't forget that if you're collecting honey, that's no different from harvesting food from an equal number of plots. So even if I saved enough food to cut my plots by 2 but I had 2 apiaries, I'm not really saving anything. The same goes for eating once or twice in a day (or whatever the timing works out to). It's such a minor amount of time to animate eating that it doesn't matter.
Freeing a space on the toolbelt is definitely annoying, though lately I always have a free space because I stopped carrying around an item I used to keep there since I rarely ever even used it. But yes, reseeding is a pain and it would be nice to not have to do that, at least at max LotL. You still need mushrooms, so you're still going to need some planting and reseeding. At most, it would mean I don't do the potatoes. A small reduction in time, but if I'm already harvesting and seeding, spending another 30 seconds or whatever (probably less) doesn't really matter. I'm not one of those players who absolutely loves farming on here. I do it because I need to. But I also don't hate it. So that small savings of time really doesn't matter to me. It also requires cornmeal, which is something I never gather. I'll get it when it is in a loot container, but that isn't usually very much over the course of a game. So I'd then have to start gathering it from bags that I never bother with, which adds time that way. In the end, maybe you save a little time and maybe you don't. If you save even 5 minutes over the course of a game, is that significant? I don't think so. But like I said, if people want to make it, there's nothing wrong with it. I just probably never will.
I went 21 stumps in a row once without honey. I thought the game was bugged because that seemed absurd until it dropped. Having something that makes it while I am focused on other things is a win. I think the biggest issue is when we access it. By day 7 I typically have 4-5 honey from loot/stumps and a couple herbal or blue anti biotics. After that I am usually set for a LONG TIME. I ALWAYS have 1 honey on me. its a default item I bring so I am never over 5% by the time I can take it.
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I am, so on the other end of the spectrum, players like me, we do like to farm, craft, produce, and build, between zombie slaughters, that is. I have built a multi story farm building, 12 plots by 35 plots, per level, three or more levels high.
Well, we're already getting a chicken coop.
I can understand what you mean. I play 95% solo when I play, so anything that let's me put a portion of my daily duties on auto pilot so I can focus on what I "Want" to do vs. what I "have" to do is a win. The good thing here is I don't expect them to reduce honey drop rates or nerf chickens so this is purely optional and more for immersion than a true pillar of gameplay.
I was thinking that many consider putting harvesting, hunting, producing, etc. on auto pilot shortcuts that bypass survival aspects of gameplay. Every addition of a contraption to things players formerly had to do for themselves is a step away. And they're already pretty upset at how far the game has wandered away from its roots as a sandbox survival game.
as someone that owns raw land and has built his own house over the last year, I do believe survivalist and nomad are getting confused in that statement. a survivalist does everything they can to make surviving easier. this includes things like chicken coops and apiaries and also planting seeds that may grow into food later. You use EVERYTHING at your disposal to reduce the calories you are expending in a given day.Edit: We do see survival games incorporating things like rain collectors, apiaries and chicken coops as a form of progression, but "survivalists" don't see dew collectors as a form of progression. They'd much prefer to get their water from natural sources.
By all means, substitute any terms you like for classes and playstyles. (I'd go for Pathfinder over Nomad myself.)
My friend is currently playing v2.5, and mentioned some stuff that foes into the apiary, but I'm stuck waiting for the font size to be returned to v2.4 size, as I cannot read my stanimia numbers currently. How much Honey do you get, and how many flowers do they take?
