do artifitial lights make crops grow during the night?

[zeep_zorp]

i remember in minecraft crops grow when they have light, so you can make them grow during the night, doubling their growth speed by lighting up the area they're in. can i use the same trick to make crops grow during the night in vintage story?

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! I don't believe lighting up the area speeds up crop growth in Vintage Story(though if you have underground farming enabled, you'll need to light up the area to ensure crops actually grow); I'm fairly certain that the soil fertility and available nutrients are the biggest factors in crop growth speed, along with temperature. If the ambient temperature is below freezing, crops won't grow at all, even if they can tolerate temperatures below freezing. In regards to soil fertility, higher fertility soils will grow crops faster, as long as they also have the nutrients that said crop requires. If that nutrient has been depleted, you'll need to either use fertilizer, or plant a different nutrient crop/let it lie fallow for a while to recover.

[Broccoli Clock]

On a side note to this, I presume a torch doesn't affect the temperature inside a greenhouse? From my testing it doesn't seem to. Whether it's passive or not, I feel you should be able to warm the greenhouse even just a little.

[sebscoff]

in the menu before you create the world you can enable underground lighting and that is the only way I know of that you can grow underground/with artificial light

[Maelstrom]

Crop growth has a base time (stated in the seed item) modified by nutrient and hydration levels of the soil.   Artificial light does not impact growth speed.

Terra Preta has a marginal impact on growth speed over high fertility soil, but that is because the high nutrient level feeds plants at the end of their growth cycles better than high fertility soil.  In the end the crop may mature a 1/4 of a month faster.  To supercharge crop growth, use terra preta and maximize the different fertilizers (saltpetre, bonemeal and potash).  I believe each farmland block will take up to 5 of each.

[Thorfinn]

Doesn't hurt to top them up as they go, too. Well, it's a waste of potash, so don't do that, but it's easy to end up with stacks and stacks of bones and saltpetre. Might as well improve the growth speed of your onions and parsnips, at the very least..