Scythe should'nt be able to harvest onions, carots and other root plants

[Krakuntun]

Hey everyone,

just a minor thing i noticed being incongruent. 

Root vegetables (Carots, Onions, Cassava, Licorice...) are underground and therefore need to be dug out. It is not logical, this is possible with a scythe
made for harvesting grains and other surface plants with small stems.

Therefore I suggest to remove these vegetables from the "cuttable" shrubs. Perhaps a shovel could be used to harvest root vegetables faster?
Introducing a special spade specifically for this task seems excessive.

Greetings and good survival
Krakuntun
 

[Broccoli Clock]

First post and you're dropping words like incongruent? I'm going to like you. Welcome to the forums!  The pedantry involved is also lovely, it's a fair point and not reflective of real life. 

However, as a gardener, I don't think I use any tools other than my hands or a knife to take out root vegetables, rather than a small shovel. Still I think you're right, the scythe technically shouldn't cut them (or they cut the stems not providing the body of the plant).

 

[Krakuntun]

Haha, thank you. All thanks to academic writing

I also thought about the scythe cutting just the greenery off of these root vegetables as a possible explanation for the why of the current mechanic, but that also doesn't make sense.

The knife already gives a small boost i think. So might be a good alternative as well. 

[LeviticusFox]

Nothing you've said is incorrect, but personally I wouldn't support such a change without a different AOE harvesting method being introduced spefically for root vegetables. The scythe solves a problem mechanically, which is harvesting large amounts of crops taking ages when you're doing it one by one, even with a fast method like an quenched steel knife.

Maybe some kind of hand-pushed harvesting plow?