I'm not aware of any major changes with planting. I use spiral casting, don't even try to be 'efficient' and if a plant is too crowded IDGAF, I'll pick the ones around it when they're ripe or more likely, leave an extra day and it'll ripen on its own (at least it seems so). I plan on losing a certain percentage of crops due to rocks popping up or other malfunctions.

As far as stam use goes, it just gives my boars more time to breed., or if I'm really in a hurry there's that one stam potion that works when you're not in combat. Probably not cost-effective to use often but sometimes I'm in a hurry.

As for fishing... I pretend it doesn't exist.. I'm happier with the game that way. Otherwise I'd have to say something to the devs like, ya wanna do fishing - go look at Runescape FFS. But I'm not saying that, guess maybe some people like the current implementation.

PS: yes I got up on the wrong side of bed this morning.