Farming & Food Suggestions
Hello friends, I love farming. Yes I know, Valheim is not a Farming Simulator, but I sometimes feel like the farming gets a little frustrating. I would like to propose three things.
One, some kind of generic food that lets you use any meat with another ingredient or combination of ingredients to create a mediocre food to tide you over. It would be great if it could there were versions for both cooked and uncooked meat. I have a love of cooked boar meat kicking around. Perhaps you could make a meat pie with any meat, any berry and some wheat or an omelette with any meat and an egg? just an idea.
Second, can we get plant-able berry bushes, please? I am constantly stressing losing my berry bushes to random mobs. Especially in the Plains where the destructive Fulings are already after my crops.
Third, if we have to plant crops in the Plains, can we get some more effective way to defend them? I keep having Fulings spawn in my fields and devastating my crops. I've had to reduce my plantings to tiny, compartmentalised fields and it get a bit much to plant and harvest. I already spend a significant amount of the game on food and losing half my harvests to Fulings, etc. is starting to drive me up a wall. Before anyone suggests wolves, wolves also destroy crops and bushes so that really doesn't help.
Thank you for listening to my ramblings,
Ivy
One, some kind of generic food that lets you use any meat with another ingredient or combination of ingredients to create a mediocre food to tide you over. It would be great if it could there were versions for both cooked and uncooked meat. I have a love of cooked boar meat kicking around. Perhaps you could make a meat pie with any meat, any berry and some wheat or an omelette with any meat and an egg? just an idea.
Second, can we get plant-able berry bushes, please? I am constantly stressing losing my berry bushes to random mobs. Especially in the Plains where the destructive Fulings are already after my crops.
Third, if we have to plant crops in the Plains, can we get some more effective way to defend them? I keep having Fulings spawn in my fields and devastating my crops. I've had to reduce my plantings to tiny, compartmentalised fields and it get a bit much to plant and harvest. I already spend a significant amount of the game on food and losing half my harvests to Fulings, etc. is starting to drive me up a wall. Before anyone suggests wolves, wolves also destroy crops and bushes so that really doesn't help.
Thank you for listening to my ramblings,
Ivy
9:13 pm, January 22, 2023
jonnin replied to Farming & Food Suggestions January 22, 2023 @ 1:35:01 pm PST
Lofted farms work great. Raise your field up about 5 clicks, then cultivate it, and nothing will bother it again unless you get into a pitched battle there (don't do that, jump down and engage).
Berry patches etc can also be lofted, they ride the terrain up with your efforts. I have a wonderful raised cloudberry farm.
most (all??) meat can be cooked directly for a crap food to tide you over. Lox and bug are 50 and 60 health with no other ingredient, and wolf/boar make jerky with only honey. A combo of 2 jerkys and anything is fine for low level areas. Bug/lox+1 is fine even for the mistlands if you are geared out. I like the idea, just saying that junk food is easy already. I would love some sort of throw it in the pot and discover the result cooking instead of preset only ... and even more fun they could do it like rogue (potions, scrolls, wands, etc you had to figure out what they did the hard way) where every game the recipes are different, so people can't post the combos online and cheat their way through it.
plantable bushes is probably one of the dev's 'you must do some things by going out and about rather than sit at home' paradigm. I don't expect it to change, but people have added mods for this. I won't mod, so I set up shop near large supplies and protect them.
Berry patches etc can also be lofted, they ride the terrain up with your efforts. I have a wonderful raised cloudberry farm.
most (all??) meat can be cooked directly for a crap food to tide you over. Lox and bug are 50 and 60 health with no other ingredient, and wolf/boar make jerky with only honey. A combo of 2 jerkys and anything is fine for low level areas. Bug/lox+1 is fine even for the mistlands if you are geared out. I like the idea, just saying that junk food is easy already. I would love some sort of throw it in the pot and discover the result cooking instead of preset only ... and even more fun they could do it like rogue (potions, scrolls, wands, etc you had to figure out what they did the hard way) where every game the recipes are different, so people can't post the combos online and cheat their way through it.
plantable bushes is probably one of the dev's 'you must do some things by going out and about rather than sit at home' paradigm. I don't expect it to change, but people have added mods for this. I won't mod, so I set up shop near large supplies and protect them.
12:13 am, January 23, 2023
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FissionChips replied to Farming & Food Suggestions January 22, 2023 @ 11:11:46 am PST
The build circle of workbenches shows where they prevent spawns, use them to cover your crop. Campfires prevent spawns in the same radius, so you can replace workbenches with campfires after if you prefer.
You can always wall off and protect your favourite berry patches.
You can always wall off and protect your favourite berry patches.
9:13 pm, January 22, 2023
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Lady Vine XIII replied to Farming & Food Suggestions January 22, 2023 @ 11:19:26 am PST
I did not realize that those blocked spawns. Thank you so much. I will make this happen pronto in my crop fields. Do the Campfires need to be lit?
9:13 pm, January 22, 2023
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Dwarflord replied to Farming & Food Suggestions January 22, 2023 @ 12:04:34 pm PST
I did not realize that those blocked spawns. Thank you so much. I will make this happen pronto in my crop fields. Do the Campfires need to be lit?No. And if ground space is at a premium, standing torches also prevent spawns. They don't need to be lit either. However, if they are out in the open and not behind some sort of wall or other barrier, they can get knocked down.
9:13 pm, January 22, 2023
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Turd King replied to Farming & Food Suggestions January 22, 2023 @ 12:04:34 pm PST
Workbenches are the best. Not only for stopping the spawns but with a hammer equipped and in the build menu the workbench shows you the building radius of the workbench. And that radius is also the full range of the spawn blocker visually laid out for you to see.
example you could place two campfires that may not overlap and leave a large enough area to allow a mob spawn. Workbenchs allow you to see the radius.
Best plains farm is going to be a island you can throw down 5-10 workbenches to block the spawns on the whole island. Then throw a portal between your homebase and this.
example you could place two campfires that may not overlap and leave a large enough area to allow a mob spawn. Workbenchs allow you to see the radius.
Best plains farm is going to be a island you can throw down 5-10 workbenches to block the spawns on the whole island. Then throw a portal between your homebase and this.
9:13 pm, January 22, 2023
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FissionChips replied to Farming & Food Suggestions January 22, 2023 @ 12:43:57 pm PST
Mobs will attack workbenches and torches if they can see them. The advantage of campfires is that mobs don't attack them, however this is moot in an enclosed farm (and you should be using fencing). For an island however you may not need a fence.
Workbenches are necessary for getting the overlapping radius's correct, but once that's done you can replace them. The advantage of workbenches is they allow you to build and repair fences.
Deathsquitos can fly over fences. Double high fences can help (I tend to do this anyway to stop the blob raid from eating crops), if you use bonfires (also spawn blocking) you might get lucky and they fly into one - killing themselves.
My usual plains set up is a cleared out fuling village. Bench in the middle, benches around the perimeter behind fuling bone fences (mobs won't attack their own fence, useful while building/extra insurance if something breaks through my fence), and a double high stakewall around that. Hang roof pieces off the fence to protect benches from weather, and cover the central bench with half height walls and a roof. Short of a raid nothing even tries to get in.
Workbenches are necessary for getting the overlapping radius's correct, but once that's done you can replace them. The advantage of workbenches is they allow you to build and repair fences.
Deathsquitos can fly over fences. Double high fences can help (I tend to do this anyway to stop the blob raid from eating crops), if you use bonfires (also spawn blocking) you might get lucky and they fly into one - killing themselves.
My usual plains set up is a cleared out fuling village. Bench in the middle, benches around the perimeter behind fuling bone fences (mobs won't attack their own fence, useful while building/extra insurance if something breaks through my fence), and a double high stakewall around that. Hang roof pieces off the fence to protect benches from weather, and cover the central bench with half height walls and a roof. Short of a raid nothing even tries to get in.
9:13 pm, January 22, 2023
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