Originally posted by brown29knight:

Ill keep that in mind for the harvest. Thank you. The seed plants will die if you try that, so don't do it. (or so I have read)

the planting is more the pain. I keep planting too close to each other, or too close to a workbench, or where there is no sunlight, or too close to the edge of my cultivated area... and that makes my perfectionist side paranoid, so I spend a half hour planting, to make sure that each plant has what it needs, and that my furrows are straight, etc.

It would be a lot easier if we could build planter boxes, which you can interact with to plant... take away all the guesswork of proper spacing.

There's a very unintrusive farm grid mod out there. If you're against mods, you CAN build planter boxes... use your imagination. Not sure why you would be though, if everyone with a minor complaint like this used the existing mod to fix it, everyone would be happy.

At any rate, the short wooden sections are the perfect length for planters. Failing that, I find running in a straight line and clicking as fast as I can works. You can't click so fast that you'll plant too close. Food crafting seems fine to me, if you wanna pre-cook stacks and stacks of food then that's your choice.