How to get neater/straighter lines of crops?

Rn using the Farmgrid mod, it's the only thing close to what I need really. But eventually it shows how off my angle is on growing said crops given a long enough line. So the crops don't fully fit in my designated plot of land.
Maybe if they just snapped onto eachother with a given space between them, and could snap to 1m wood beams or something, I dunno
2:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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Weaver replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 1:31:06 pm PDT

change walking speed, default is C on the keyboard. Now walk in a straight line.
2:13 am, July 23, 2021
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Moonshine Fox replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 1:44:10 pm PDT

Originally posted by John:
Originally posted by Moonshine Fox:
I lay down a grid of 1 meter beams on the ground in an 11x6 box. This helps me line up my crops neatly in a block of 50. And it looks pretty cool besides :3

I thought i was the only one doing this, works wonders. Seems to be a bit tricky with barley, when they fully grow you can suddenly see empty patches pop as the space just wasn't enough for the fully grown product.

I also use farmgrid, so once I get the first two planted all the rest snap in at the proper distance. Saves a lot of time since barley is indeed tricky to space with the naked eye and now it just looks like I've got a neat box around my growing areas.
2:13 am, July 23, 2021
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Ryzilynt replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 1:52:16 pm PDT

i always just walk backwards
2:13 am, July 23, 2021
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Swag Jutsu replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 10:16:29 am PDT

Originally posted by DarkFaceGlow:
Try the mass farming mod? Let’s you lay down a 5x5 in one click
Ended up using this mod, the grid that the mod generates helps in eyeballing an even plant
8:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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hazelrah replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 10:23:20 am PDT

run/walk sideways while planting
8:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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Jitatha replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 10:23:46 am PDT

If it works for you great. I just do it by eye, plant and step back, plant and step back. TBH if you that OCD then mod is for you.
8:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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Cooperal replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 10:27:05 am PDT

I got it pretty damn clean with no mod help, but also I played without tessellation enabled in the graphics settings which removes all of the finer bumps in the terrain. Saves a few frames too.

I would be kind of careful when putting down the first two rows of crops, and after that I just kept a rhythm as I got the hang of working with the offset camera.

Another method would be to have two different alignments of rows going. So every row is offset by 50% from the last, but still aligned with the row before last. You can pack each line quite tightly together this way and also have an additional diagonal axis to use as a guide. Kind of like:

X-------X-------X---
----X-------X-------X
X-------X-------X---
----X-------X-------X
X-------X-------X---
----X-------X-------X
X-------X-------X---
----X-------X-------X
X-------X-------X---
----X-------X-------X

And so on. The diagram doesn't quite do it justice because the size of the characters makes it difficult to align but you probably get the idea.
8:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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John replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 10:41:29 am PDT

Originally posted by Moonshine Fox:
I lay down a grid of 1 meter beams on the ground in an 11x6 box. This helps me line up my crops neatly in a block of 50. And it looks pretty cool besides :3

I thought i was the only one doing this, works wonders. Seems to be a bit tricky with barley, when they fully grow you can suddenly see empty patches pop as the space just wasn't enough for the fully grown product.
8:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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DarkFaceGlow replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 7:21:05 am PDT

Try the mass farming mod? Let’s you lay down a 5x5 in one click
5:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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Moonshine Fox replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 8:36:31 am PDT

I lay down a grid of 1 meter beams on the ground in an 11x6 box. This helps me line up my crops neatly in a block of 50. And it looks pretty cool besides :3
5:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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jonnin replied to How to get neater/straighter lines of crops? July 22, 2021 @ 9:02:59 am PDT

I don't mod and I don't know if they changed it, but early on you had to have 1 floor tile between plants, so I put down a checkerboard floor tile and plant in the open ones in the center.
5:13 pm, July 22, 2021
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