Rinka Posted September 28, 2025 Report Posted September 28, 2025 I've noticed composting time stays at 20 days no matter the setting for days in a month. This makes the process very long to achieve compost in 12-day servers compared to full-month servers. It should be balanced to 10 days on 12-day servers. It will then be more realistic, as warm compost doesn't necessarily need two months to be usable.
LadyWYT Posted September 28, 2025 Report Posted September 28, 2025 Welcome to the forums! 1 hour ago, Rinka said: I've noticed composting time stays at 20 days no matter the setting for days in a month. 20 days is 20 days, regardless of how long the months are set to. I would assume it's balanced the way it is in order to prevent players from just unlocking and using the best farmland in the game en masse before the first winter. By default, months are 9 days long, which means that the player won't really be acquiring loads of terra preta until spring of year 1, but otherwise have a decent passage of time/change of seasons and will be using lower quality soil for their first growing season. If days per month is made longer though, such as setting it to 30, then the player can likely mass and use terra preta before the first winter. However, it's still a lot of work, and in that case each season will be much, much longer, so the player will have to make even more winter preparations, wait even longer for crops, wait even longer for establishing fruit orchards, etc. So it's similar to how the hunger system is set up, in that while it's grounded in realism, it's there more to pose a challenge to the player than it is to be 100% realistic. It's not realistic to die if mealtime is missed for a day, but securing a food supply is one of the major basics of playing the game. Thus death by starvation might not be 100% realistic, but it pushes the player to secure a food supply in order to avoid the consequences.
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