PC A18: Anyone farming yet?

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So it seems the only way to farm is to build a Plot? Which takes 10 Rotting Flesh. Day 9 and I have 9 Rotting Flesh total. Not going to have many plots, am I?

So many plants can a Plot hold? If it's one, then isn't farming going to be a nightmare? I usually have a 40x40 hoe'd field.

 
Its possible we are on Day 9 too and we have so far 5 Farm Plots. But we already knew we need Rotten Flesh so from Day one every opportunity is used to gain it. Our problem is that we have not enough of the other Materials still 40 rotting Flesh in the Chest. One Plot holds one Plant.

 
So it seems the only way to farm is to build a Plot? Which takes 10 Rotting Flesh. Day 9 and I have 9 Rotting Flesh total. Not going to have many plots, am I?
So many plants can a Plot hold? If it's one, then isn't farming going to be a nightmare? I usually have a 40x40 hoe'd field.
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Not sure but I think you get rotting flesh from the skeletons that are everywhere(?)

Mass production of farming plots is probably not that easy anymore and that is a good change IMHO

 
I think I found more than 9 rotting flesh in the first half hour of play. It's in trash, you get it from roadkill/corpses, slain vultures, zombie bears, etc. No idea whether the plots are worth it, but I think 9 rotting flesh on day 9 is hard to pull off unless you're throwing it out most of the time.

 
Nope, not been throwing it out. Though I started in a massive Pine Forest (so no Vultures or Dogs) and haven't left it yet.

 
Nope, not been throwing it out. Though I started in a massive Pine Forest (so no Vultures or Dogs) and haven't left it yet.
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Right, I don't think there are many carcasses to be found there. But I've seen lots of wildlife in forest and many POI roofs have vultures.

 
Yeah, that might be it. I spawned next to a town in a burnt forest, so I had tons of trash to pick through and fought a zombie bear and multiple vultures on day 1.

 
So many plants can a Plot hold? If it's one, then isn't farming going to be a nightmare? I usually have a 40x40 hoe'd field.
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If you have a reliable source of rotten meat then it should not be a problem to create a large enough garden.

40x40 is quite large. In A16 I had a similar sized garden but since the seeds remain in the soil my gardens are smaller.

In Alpha 17 I visited several Doggos and Bear Den once a week to harvest bones. I also collected a lot of rotten meat.

Since the zombies and the zombie dogs and bears respawn after 5 days, you have a virtually infinite source.

I also read that there supposed to be POIs from which you can harvest the plant pots. But I couldn't check it myself yet.

 
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You can get the garden plots by using a shovel on ones placed around houses and such. You don't have to physically craft them if you don't want to.

 
if you are able to find that PoI where grace spawns you can gather about 30 farm plots from it. also if you are lucky enough to have it as a quest PoI just gather the plot first then do the quest so it respawns them so you walk away with about 60 of them.

 
While it is a pain to get farming plots, I ALWAYS felt pretty over powered once I had 12 corn/potatoes/coffee/blueberries in my back yard growing at a rate even mad scientists would agree is unreasonably fast!

Considering how hard it is now, I feel it is a small way to push you to explore more. I tend to SP only and build a base with a small courtyard for my farm. This makes me rethink my whole strategy and is much closer to how difficult it would be to survive on a farm alone for your food intake.

 
There is a new military base with a multi-story brick building that has quite a few farming plots around it that you can scavenge. At the moment they're WAY overpriced at like 200 dukes each, so you might be better off selling them to a trader...

 
While it is a pain to get farming plots, I ALWAYS felt pretty over powered once I had 12 corn/potatoes/coffee/blueberries in my back yard growing at a rate even mad scientists would agree is unreasonably fast!
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You can't simulate plant growth in a game at realistic speed unless you want to bore the player to death.

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Ahh I didnt know that. Thanks.
Can I dig a trench and put a row of farming plot in the ground?
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Yes, you can. However, there is a gap between the pots and the surrounding ground. You can cover this gap with plates, for example.

 
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I like the change to living off the land, it now effects wild plant yeilds as well. Which made it worth getting a point in early imo.

 
Regardless of how I feel about the method of farming now I do have to say that I like the limiting factor of it. Being able to have 40 plot gardens was OP and resulted in an unnatural glut of food. I'm glad super large farming fields are no longer feasible especially since food spoilage is probably never going to be added to the game.

 
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