I really like the farming system in vintage story, but it's quite boring as you just plant and forget. I would like the farming to be more interactive. The following suggestions are something i would like to see in the game
-Weeds, Diseases-
In the game there are currently no big threats to farming (except temperature and animals), weeds would add a more active role for the player in looking out for the grown plants. Weeds should have a chance to appear every couple days so it wouldn't be too annoying to deal with. They wouldn't kill the plant but just reduce the speed of it's growth. Now for something in less control for the player are diseases, such as blights, fungal diseases and various types of viruses, they also should have a chance to appear from time to time but way more rarely than weeds.
-Ways to fight the farmland threats-
During the times way before modern fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, farmers didn't really have many ways to fight the threats on their farms so they had to work a lot more than the farmers do now. Fighting the weeds and mostly preventing them would be a quite simple job for the player. The Player could place mulch (which could be dried grass or thatch) to reduce the chance of weeds sprouting, and if the weeds to sprout the player could just remove them with a knife or a hoe. The diseases however would cause a bigger threat for the player as they would be impossible to cure and would reduce the yield and or just full on kill the plant, no farmer has a 100% yield in the world.
-Droughts and rain-
Maybe it rains for weeks straight? Or maybe there is no rain at all and its really hot outside? Plants really don't like this and it stresses them out, Extreme weather should decrease plants yield and cause more diseases.-
-Minor Suggestions-
I would like the soil to stay wet longer as it's quite tedious task to water them often and make it so that rain waters the farmland. I would also like to get more than one seed from a plant as it's difficult to expand my farms (I know there is a chance to get more seeds from a mature plant but maybe increasing it's chance?)
What do you think about my suggestions?
