Dear devs, an idea for farming.

I saw the thumbnail of the ashland mangonel/onager/catapult thing and it got me thinking about what would be a very good addition to late game farming:

The Plow.

Why?
  • Farming is the most time intensive activity that isn't that much fun in the whole game.
  • Farming should become a bit easier or efficient in the late game. Everything else gets an upgrade except farming. Stamina doesn't matter when you have to spam 'E' to collect planted items.
  • It would make sense that when you explore Ashlands and find flametal, some new alloy exists to help you make a sturdy plow

What?
  • A cart-like object behind you that looks like a plow and turns ripe planted objects into collectable items in a 2m wide line behind you.
  • A bigger version that requires you to tame and ride a lox to pull it, with a 4m wide line behind you.
  • Alternatively, you could make the player plow and Lox plow til the same area, but the player plow uses a lot of stamina and by using the Lox plow, you don't have to worry about stamina.

This would incentivize the player to tame and ride loxes. Now it's just a novelty.
This would put a little fun into the farming activity.
This would help bigger groups of players or a duo of players who have specific roles in their world get more out of their playtime. The more you have to farm for food, potions, etc, the less time you can spend building, exploring and fighting, which are the main rewarding activities.
5:13 pm, April 20, 2023
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GL252 replied to Dear devs, an idea for farming. April 20, 2023 @ 11:09:30 am PDT

Ok, what about a normal plow as soon as you get iron and root or something from the swamps and a bigger lox-riding plow once you get blackmetal
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Nerevar replied to Dear devs, an idea for farming. April 20, 2023 @ 11:16:40 am PDT

fun is subjective. whenever someone says "this isnt fun" and trys to act like he/she has an argument to stand on i stop takeing them seriously.

also with the new sliders you can just set your reouces to MAX and get 3 times as much from farming. done. no more right to complain about it due to that.
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!?! replied to Dear devs, an idea for farming. April 20, 2023 @ 11:17:04 am PDT

You can hold E you know
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AsianGirlLover replied to Dear devs, an idea for farming. April 20, 2023 @ 10:05:42 am PDT

I like the idea but why wait until the Ashlands to discover technology that makes farming easier? Agriculture is complex but itโ€™s not THAT complex.

Give us the ability to make a plow once we have iron in the swamps.
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