farming Edible Seaweed! (and related ideas)

[Sakya]

Hello! Here is a fun idea I had: Edible Seaweed that you could farm.

The idea is relatively simple: you take some and plant it to grow. Either on (Submerged) high-fertile/terra preta soil, or in ocean water/next to halite stone.

Then you grow it, there is either 2 kinds (so you can't 3-cycle nutrients) or 1 kind + make rice submersible (same scenario)

The seaweed provides little vegetable nutrition, but it can be still eaten when it dries out (either wet -> dry -> rot, or use shelf' "curing" mechanic). 

 

The benefits:

>Wet and dry seaweed can be used as vegetable for soup 
>Wet seaweed can be combined with fish (1.22 content integration!) and knife in crafting grid to make sushi - allowing for quick food without starting a fire.
>The above could be expanded (be it in vanilla or via mods) with up to 2 vegetables for fancier sushi
>Potentially also add ability to prep sushi rice by putting rice porridge in barrel and adding pickled vegetable. That way you'd have "solid" rice to scoop up and add to sushi. Just make such prepared rice count as vegetable for meal making!

In total, even without rice idea, Seaweed would be little bit extra that you could farm "as a bonus" while allowing more flavorful dishes *and* expanding the culinary vocabulary used in telling the Vintage Story!

[Heegrim]

Great ideas!

Seaweed would make a good emergency food in winter like cattail and tule roots. I can definitely see myself braving the freezing ocean waters to collect it while I'm starving through winter.

Growing rice in a flooded field would be a cool addition too. They should make cranberries harvestable by flooding the bushes with water too.