Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

I usually plant walking backwards. Seems to hold a line better. Turn around sidestep, get it parallel and start walking backwards again. Also using the mouse wheel attack with the atgeir is an efficient method of harvesting (barley and flax) , you probably already knew that though.

Haha, yeah. I haven't made the Blackmetal Atgeir yet (only one I'm interested in really) as Flax is taking priority for Padded Armor and the Axe first, but I'll be amused when giving that a go.

As far as planting goes, though.. I really wish the developers would improve it a bit. I like it as it is, but there's too much room for error when planting even on cultivated ground to simply lose your crops. Such a thing can be devastating for folks with unlucky biomes that only end up with, say, 9 Turnip or Onion Seeds out of an entire biome.

I know there's a mod for that, but I sincerely hope they can squeeze in a Farming improvement or two in the Mistlands update. A simple "grid" that only showed up on cultivated ground would be enough; or even a crafted item that only fit on top of cultivated ground that provided a visual of where to plant.

Really, though, so far it's only Barley that's super annoying. I know the "center" of it is likely the same size as other crops as far as the game is concerned, but the visual of the plant itself makes it sort of difficult.