I want to leave my experience with wildcraft mod here. as the berrybush update takes from it:
I spent a lot of time messing around with wildcraft mod while building my winery on a server. The gameplay was very similar to the berrybush update.
Here’s what happened with the wildcraft mod:
I started out in a temperate area, nothing fancy, just exploring, and stumbled across berry bushes in the wild. Used a knife to take cuttings (one per berrybush). The wildcraft mod made cuttings spoil in a single day, so if you wanted them to survive, you had to rush straight home and plant them. There was an option to put cuttings in water buckets (one cutting per bucket), but I never bothered with that.
So, back home, I began planting. Planted cuttings turned out to be super sensitive to temperature. All I planted in too late just died during winter.
Wildcraft’s huckleberries and dogrose were tropical berries, so I got them pretty late in the game. Snowberries and knyazberries produced venomous wine, which I still planted anyway. The mod also has kind of bushes that looked different, it felt like I was growing small “plants” instead of proper bushes: cloudberries, strawberries, all these looked like small plants but produced berries. These small plants don't have cuttings but needed the knife + fruit combo in the crafting grid to get their seeds, and once you planted the seeds, they acted just like cuttings (except you could get way more seeds than cuttings).
There wasn’t any fertilizer required in the mod.
Result: Most of the berry bushes gave their first harvest around the spring of the new year. I made neat rows: 2 by 8 for each berry type. Just from that, I got so many berries every harvest that I could barely keep up. Processing took entire in-game days in front of fruitpresses. And by the time I finished, the first bushes I’d harvested were already ripe again.
Five in-game years later, I had 336 bottles of wine, 336 bottles of brandy (from every berry type), 18 barrels filled with wine, 10 barrels of brandy, 2 of aqua vitae, and a bunch of fruit juice barrels, too. That doesn’t include wines I made from fruit trees. If I had gone for the quantity over quality route, I could have easily tripled that.
Honestly, the requirement for berrybushes seems intimidating at first, but in practice, you’ll be drowning in berries. That’s was my experience with wildcraft mod.
