Crop wish list

[Facethief]

Which crops would you like to see in the game? Which crops do you use the most in the current game? Attempt not to argue.

[MagpieOAO]

8 minutes ago, Facethief said:

Attempt not to argue.

You got a problem, Pal!? (ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)ง

I'm looking forward to herbalism, given the degree of complexity they've added in many other aspects of the game and already having a vast array of flowers, herbs and trees in the world it'd be really neat to have a couple of easily farmed ones with additional benefits. Tea/coffee and cinnamon being great additions to herbalism as well!

[LadyWYT]

As someone who enjoys the Wildcraft mod suite...does voting for everything count?  I like all these options, really, and I like collecting crops to grow. For the vanilla game, I might stick more closely to the kind of flora that can be found in Europe/Asia/North Africa during the late Middle Ages. However, given how scrambled the world is...it might be anachronistic to have things like potatoes and tomatoes available as crops, but I don't think it would be a deal-breaker either when it comes to immersion. After all, we have cassava in the game, which is a New World crop.

[Tom Cantine]

Garlic is NOT obscure!

[Thorfinn]

Nothing yet. While the farming routines may well be complete now, they may not be, and changes will entail reworking more than the existing half-dozen crops.

[Never Jhonsen]

1 hour ago, Tom Cantine said:

Garlic is NOT obscure!

We have onion. Where's our garlic?

[Facethief]

Thinking about it, potatoes would be a really cool way to store food; a field of potatoes could be left unharvested, and even if the plant dies, the potatoes would be harvestable (with a slight loss of course. This’d make potatoes a great crop to have growing into fall or winter, as they wouldn’t need to be put into storage, making them valuable for players who struggle to establish a good cellar, but they still take up planting space, so it’s a tradeoff between immediate and long term food availability.

[Thorfinn]

Turnips, carrots, parsnips and onions all winter-kill. And maybe those could stay in the ground, too. At least at present. If you didn't want them to winter-kill, my guess is all you would need to change to at least make potatoes winter-hardy is

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Come up with the artwork for the various growth stages, and it's pretty easy to add.

[EDIT]

Though I think crops are still undergoing engine development. They are not nearly as parameterized as the newer coding, like goats, butterflies, mushrooms, flowers, fruit and several others.

[EDIT2]

They are probably going to be harvestable with hoes, or maybe shovels, too. Rather than the knives and scythes we use now. Another reason I think it's still under development.

Edited June 30, 2025 by Thorfinn

[Facethief]

1 minute ago, Thorfinn said:

Turnips

Turnips get… freaky when you leave them in the ground for too long.

[Angie P]

Okay, I chose flax alt, but my second choice would be tea/coffee. I'd be all over the process of growing, picking, drying in bundles, grinding and steeping tea.

Cotton would be an interesting alternative crop to flax, maybe utilizing it to make cushions and carpets of our own. Add a loom and allow us to dye spools of thread to put together in different patterns.

 

[Maelstrom]

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I assume.... like...  Hemp?  

[7embre]

52 minutes ago, Maelstrom said:

I assume.... like...  Hemp?

Or cotton. Or jute. It's hard to grow flax in a hot climate.

[Facethief]

1 hour ago, Maelstrom said:

I assume.... like...  Hemp?  

That might’ve been the original idea…

[wildforester]

1 hour ago, Maelstrom said:

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I assume.... like...  Hemp?  

If vs were realistic we’d be finding ash trays in the ruins. Anyway, fairly certain hemp would have to be refined with tech far beyond what we’ve got ingame.

[Facethief]

1 minute ago, wildforester said:

If vs were realistic we’d be finding ash trays in the ruins. Anyway, fairly certain hemp would have to be refined with tech far beyond what we’ve got ingame.

Not for twine/cloth/“flowers”, I’m pretty sure.

[Teh Pizza Lady]

voting "Coffee/Tea" because Cacao wasn't on the list.

[Rudometkin]

I ended up with a useless vote because I voted for everything.

[majestik]

I chose coffee/tea and flax alternatives but actually all of them are interesting !

I just think that, if we don't have more cooking recipes to go with these new crops, i don't know if this is really interesting to have all that new choices? If we have potato crops, I know I'd like to have stuff like mashed potatoes or oven-baked-potatoes as recipes.

Maybe I should also have voted for clove and cinnamon to go with tea/coffee. We could have stuff like iced tea, like combine tea and glacier ice to have a refreshing brevage in summer. But maybe it would be more of something for Hydrate or Diedrate, wich add a cooling stat.

[Facethief]

6 hours ago, Rudometkin said:

I ended up with a useless vote because I voted for everything.

Ok

[Silrana]

The only one I have any objection to is lettuce.  It has next to no nutritional value, so a realistic satiation score would make it not worth growing.

Oh, and wild hemp doesn't really have any, um, extras.  That is a result of centuries of specialized cultivation.  The hard part of having a flax equivalent is the edible component, though cottonseed might work.

ETA:  Other medieval plants that might be good are salsify, lovage, corn salad greens, "fat hen" and "Good King Henry".

Edited July 4, 2025 by Silrana

[Facethief]

39 minutes ago, Silrana said:

The only one I have any objection to is lettuce.  It has next to no nutritional value, so a realistic satiation score would make it not worth growing.

Oh, and wild hemp doesn't really have any, um, extras.  That is a result of centuries of specialized cultivation.  The hard part of having a flax equivalent is the edible component, though cottonseed might work.

ETA:  Other medieval plants that might be good are salsify, lovage, corn salad greens, "fat hen" and "Good King Henry".

Most of the crops ingame + chickens are already basically their domestic varieties.

[Echo Weaver]

Re lettuce -- we already have cabbage, and that seems close enough for a leafy green.

Cacao, coffee/tea, nightshades.... and either a flax alternative that is not K or more crops that are not K or some combination. Crop rotation gets frustrating when the need for flax overwhelms everything else I grow.