Farm Poppies?

Pandromidal · 2016-09-04T08:47:10.000Z

My character wants to make inordinate amounts of medical mutagen. It seems that my main option for gathering the necessary ingredients is poppies, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to plant and grow more poppies, only to consume the poppies found out in the wild.

A few other random questions:
Is there a way to plant trees?
Is there a craftable item similar to caffeine pills? vitamins?

Coolthulhu · 2016-09-04T09:23:00.000Z

There is no way to plant poppies and dahlias.
No technical reasons, just not implemented.

There is a technical reason for not being able to plant trees, though it could be done with hacks.

DG123 · 2016-09-04T10:56:09.000Z

So THAT’s what dahlias are for?

I was curious how to get medical mutagen…

BeerBeer · 2016-09-04T15:45:48.000Z

Could specific (fruit) tree species be copied and added as farmable plants? Would harvesting destroy the tree? Is that where the hack comes in?

Is it in real-life possible to rip out a tree with roots intact and everything and replant it at another location, using suitably heavy machinery? I mean, like, who has time to grow saplings. It probably takes AT LEAST a few years before any sapling would grow and yield fruit…

Tree relocation could be a multi-skill operation. Construction 3 & Mechanics 3 & Survival 3? First you’d have to dig around the roots and expose them, and try to minimize the damage…

On caffeine or other stimulants…
All I can think of is coffee, but that requires coffee beans. Not sure if tea is equally strong stuff in the game.
I think makeshift vitamin pills is called food. You could basically designate a container strictly for foods that contain each of the specific nutrients. A food rich in vit-C, a food rich in vit-A and so on.

deoxy · 2016-09-04T18:35:49.000Z

[quote=“BeerBeer, post:4, topic:12493”]Is it in real-life possible to rip out a tree with roots intact and everything and replant it at another location, using suitably heavy machinery? I mean, like, who has time to grow saplings. It probably takes AT LEAST a few years before any sapling would grow and yield fruit…

Tree relocation could be a multi-skill operation. Construction 3 & Mechanics 3 & Survival 3? First you’d have to dig around the roots and expose them, and try to minimize the damage…[/quote]

Yes, I’ve seen it done, but it is very hard on the tree, so they die afterwards sometimes.

Also, for anything more than a sapling, the machinery involved is VERY large. Try mechanics 8 or so.