bug? 1.22 Medium fertility farmland(?)/flax(?) nerfed/bugged?

[Calmest_of_lakes]

Is it my imagination (probably the case,) or was medium fertility farmland OR flax nerfed? I used to be able to get 1, maybe 2 flax crop harvests per year back in 1.21, but now, my flax stops maturing after reaching stage 8/9. It's been a solid week of being stuck on stage 8/9, and it's too late to harvest, being in the negative temperture range in october where I set up my home. Is this a bug, a deliberate change, or me being silly? Do I need potash in order to grow flax, now?

It's very discouraging that so much patience has gone to waste, and I'm left empty handed and with less flax seeds. I might have to make a gigantic greenhouse, and mine as much potash as possible. Blegh.

Do wild crops spawn after world generation, by any chance?

[LadyWYT]

9 minutes ago, Calmest_of_lakes said:

Is this a bug, a deliberate change, or me being silly?

It's both, kind of. As I understand it, farmland was bugged before and causing crops to mature faster than intended, and has been fixed in 1.22. So now crops are growing as they should, but it feels like a nerf due to the prior behavior.

As far as deliberate changes, all grains now have half their previous yields, but spawn in larger patches in the wild. All this really means is that players will want to plant larger fields of grain.

12 minutes ago, Calmest_of_lakes said:

Do wild crops spawn after world generation, by any chance?

To my knowledge, no. The crops will be generated as new chunks are generated, but new crops won't spawn in old chunks. If you need seeds though, agriculture traders are a good option, as are ruins and cracked vessels.

[Calmest_of_lakes]

2 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

It's both, kind of. As I understand it, farmland was bugged before and causing crops to mature faster than intended, and has been fixed in 1.22. So now crops are growing as they should, but it feels like a nerf due to the prior behavior.

But now, crops dont seem to mature in time before winter.

Edited 4 hours ago by Calmest_of_lakes

[LadyWYT]

18 minutes ago, Calmest_of_lakes said:

But now, crops dont seem to mature in time before winter.

When did you plant? I think when I last messed with it I planted late June/early July and had one harvest before winter. Planting in late July/early August might be a little dicey.

[Calmest_of_lakes]

Planted in June or may, I think

[Silfrenbirce]

I just hopped onto the forums meaning to ask if crops had been nerfed in the update.  I'm not sure precisely how long it's been, but definitely at least four or five in-game days have passed.  I've got a bunch of crops planted on medium quality soil, and I've kept it watered (in addition to several days of rain).  And not a single planted block has progressed past stage 1.

Prior to this update, even if I was pretty neglectful of crops, they would progress - albeit at uneven rates - and by now would at least be two or three stages ahead.  Since it hasn't been *that* long since I planted them, I'm not sure whether this is an actual bug or whether the update just really did drastically reduce growth time.  It's the 5th of June on my save file.  I forgot to make note of the day I planted them, but I'm fairly certain it was no later than the 1st.  Shouldn't I have seen SOME growth by now at least?

[Calmest_of_lakes]

17 minutes ago, Silfrenbirce said:

Shouldn't I have seen SOME growth by now at least?

It really feels inconsistent, or it doesn't give you enough information, at least. Reason #398598 why the game would really benefit from showing the player more information, like QoL mods do.