Originally posted by JayRebirth:

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Some tips.

Cooked meat is low tier food. Make the cooking pot and at least grow some carrots.

Raft is for shoreline use.

Karve is for transporting exploring around an island, maybe hopping across a channel to get to another island in sight. Avoid sailing at night or in a storm.

Longboat is for ocean trips, transporting to further islands.

I tried growing food. Went back the next day to a empty field.

Well you need to figure out what went wrong or you won't get anywhere in this game without cheating.

Just to toss out some ideas for you...

They may have been attacked... to prevent this put a fence around them and leave a workbench/s to cover the area.

The server you play on may have done a reset just after you logged off and it didn't save your planting. To prevent this find out from the server admin what time the server is set to reset and avoid doing anything like that a half hour before the reset time..Probably best to log out before a server resets as well. You can actually lose stuff that way.

If you play a solo game you might have a mod conflict that broke your planting. I don't mod so I can only suggest you remove any mods and fix your game.
Hope that helps ... good luck and keep trying to figure out how to plant things.