Originally posted by us271934:

Been a turnip farmer all day, Noticed a few things - although I started with just 3 seeds from the same plant the growth/maturation rate had a bit of rng in it. The fastest maturing vs. the longest was about 2/3 of a day. I tested this several times and turnips would mature at variable times. Carrots also do this but the the shortest vs. longest were just a few minutes at most.

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I've noticed this with my Turnip crops as well. Even planted as quickly as possible, some lagged behind while others finished growing much quicker. Nevertheless, I got my Turnips.

On-topic, though: I got quite lucky in my first Swamp biome. It had an ample amount of Crypts (I think it still has 2 or 3 I haven't even taken ore from yet), and also a great amount of Turnip seeds.

The next Swamp I explored, while admittedly much smaller, only had one batch of seeds I could find. (And also only one Crypt)

But, more seeds is always good.

Been a turnip farmer all day, Noticed a few things - although I started with just 3 seeds from the same plant the growth/maturation rate had a bit of rng in it. The fastest maturing vs. the longest was about 2/3 of a day. I tested this several times and turnips would mature at variable times. Carrots also do this but the the shortest vs. longest were just a few minutes at most.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638892572

I'm getting the feeling I've been very lucky. :)

When being on an exploration trip around the trader location, I ventured a bit too much to the north and ran into the swamp of which I knew it was there (playing at the "boss seed map")

Decided to hugging the border between the BF and swamp and didn't take long before I saw not one, but two yellow plants which turned out to be turnip. So basically I started out with 6 seeds and I think I'm growing 18 turnips right now.

As for the math: I'm always using 1 in 3 veggies for seeds and the other two as ingredients for food. That way I'm certain I've got the same harvest at all times; while also having enough items left for food. Although with Carrots that's still tricky to achieve.

Thorin :)

Originally posted by Oakshield:

I'm getting the feeling I've been very lucky. :)

When being on an exploration trip around the trader location, I ventured a bit too much to the north and ran into the swamp of which I knew it was there (playing at the "boss seed map")

Decided to hugging the border between the BF and swamp and didn't take long before I saw not one, but two yellow plants which turned out to be turnip. So basically I started out with 6 seeds and I think I'm growing 18 turnips right now.

As for the math: I'm always using 1 in 3 veggies for seeds and the other two as ingredients for food. That way I'm certain I've got the same harvest at all times; while also having enough items left for food. Although with Carrots that's still tricky to achieve.

Thorin :)

That's my formula also. I aim for 50 seed carrots and 100 eating carrots grown at the same time and immediately replanted after harvest. I recently discovered that carrots can be grown on a near vertical terrain wall if cultivated when standing on top. Gonna try some vertical gardening here in the near future if only to decorate the ugly terrain walls :-)

heh the math is maddening (not hard, just maddening).
the darn things grow in 3s (1 plant -> 3 seeds -> ... cycles) and stack in lots of 50. They are consumed in 3s, but the food stacks in 10s.
so 10 onion soup is 30 onions, but you would want to grow 25 or 27 maybe, or grow a stack of 50 to store. Or whatever. No matter what you want to do, it never seems to work out evenly!

Took me about a dozen different mountain biomes until I found my first onion seeds. I'm still struggling to grow my crop but its slowly getting there.

Originally posted by Trakehner:

Originally posted by MrFroglin:

It takes ~3.5 in-game days to grow an onion, and ~3.5 in-game days to grow a seed onion, so, unless you have mods, I can't see how you could have achieved that.

9 seeds after 7 days. 27 seeds after 14 days. 81 seeds after 21 days.

That roughly matches what jonnin said, and corresponds to my experience too.

Well I did. Take into account it depends on the size of the field you are planting in too. Mine isn't a very big field.

Well, yes, if you are only aiming for 3 plants (or possibly 9 if you are particularly lucky), then you can do it. However, jonnin was talking about 50 plants, which can't be done, from 3 seeds, in 5 days.

Originally posted by jonnin:

yes, you either need luck to get a fair number of wild seeds or patience. I think it takes about 20 (game) days to get a 50 plant farm up and running.

I'm still Bronze Age so when I saw a single turnip plant I grabbed it and ran back to my nearby Black Forest compound. The 3 seeds are now 9 plants and it's irl bedtime :-)

I found this narrow rectangular Swamp section with Meadows, Mountain, Black Forest and Ocean on each side. I put down a base a couple of weeks ago on the Meadows side but never found any turnips but picked up a decent amount of swamp drops. I moved to the opposite side (Black Forest) several real days ago and this was the 1st sign of turnips. I mark the passage of time in this base by counting the troll heads in storage lol

Can't wait to sink my teeth into some fresh sausages (gag)

Originally posted by redgreen999:

Good luck with the herd. I am having adventures with the cart. Fishing it out of rivers, and trying to ditch it with trolls after me. Turnip farming sounds relaxing right about now. I could use a nice vacation.

I've not spent much time with the cart. Just some local tree/stone hauling. When mining copper I'll set up a base at the node and dig, smelt, etc., right there. I build a tall terrain wall/moat to keep out the locals. After looting several burial chambers the portals let me slip in and out for groceries. Right now I have 12-13 portal pairs with a central hub. Thank god the map lets a player label location and portal ID's.

Originally posted by jonnin:

yes, you either need luck to get a fair number of wild seeds or patience. I think it takes about 20 (game) days to get a 50 plant farm up and running.

What?!?

I started with 3 seeds. I now have a full field of onions after just 5 in-game days.

Originally posted by Trakehner:

Originally posted by jonnin:

yes, you either need luck to get a fair number of wild seeds or patience. I think it takes about 20 (game) days to get a 50 plant farm up and running.

What?!?

I started with 3 seeds. I now have a full field of onions after just 5 in-game days.

It takes ~3.5 in-game days to grow an onion, and ~3.5 in-game days to grow a seed onion, so, unless you have mods, I can't see how you could have achieved that.

9 seeds after 7 days. 27 seeds after 14 days. 81 seeds after 21 days.

That roughly matches what jonnin said, and corresponds to my experience too.

Originally posted by redgreen999:

Good luck with the herd. I am having adventures with the cart. Fishing it out of rivers, and trying to ditch it with trolls after me. Turnip farming sounds relaxing right about now. I could use a nice vacation.

If you do a dodge roll while pulling the cart you roll out of it and ditch it.

In terms of planting time I have bees near by and harvest the honey when I plant. At three honey they start popping.

Turnips are a biggie now especially as they are tied to a food upgrade station. Finding turnip seeds has always been a key search item for me, and now post HandH onions. Onions seem easier to locate as they are in boxes in pretty much a barren biome while turnips are often hidden and difficult to see.

Originally posted by MrFroglin:

Originally posted by Trakehner:

What?!?

I started with 3 seeds. I now have a full field of onions after just 5 in-game days.

It takes ~3.5 in-game days to grow an onion, and ~3.5 in-game days to grow a seed onion, so, unless you have mods, I can't see how you could have achieved that.

9 seeds after 7 days. 27 seeds after 14 days. 81 seeds after 21 days.

That roughly matches what jonnin said, and corresponds to my experience too.

Well I did. Take into account it depends on the size of the field you are planting in too. Mine isn't a very big field.

yes, you either need luck to get a fair number of wild seeds or patience. I think it takes about 20 (game) days to get a 50 plant farm up and running.

Good luck with the herd. I am having adventures with the cart. Fishing it out of rivers, and trying to ditch it with trolls after me. Turnip farming sounds relaxing right about now. I could use a nice vacation.