Farming

HunterAlpha1 · 2013-08-26T15:41:05.000Z

[quote=“Sheb, post:7, topic:2822”]You can ujsut find them. As for mound of dirts in the wild… Take care, they’re probably buried land mines.[/quote]or giant worms.

Sheb · 2013-08-26T16:29:39.000Z

Right. If they’re moving, beware even more.

Still need to find a giant worms to plow my garden.

UberZacht · 2013-08-26T20:47:28.000Z

[quote=“Sheb, post:9, topic:2822”]Right. If they’re moving, beware even more.

Still need to find a giant worms to plow my garden.[/quote]
Haha, that’s a very interesting idea. Taming tunnelers for large scale farms. Right now I only really have a little garden on the side of the shelter, when I could have a city size farm that grows everything from strawberries to marijuana.

ramesesniblet · 2013-08-28T21:10:57.000Z

youtoo:

when was farming added and how do you get seeds?

This, I’ve been playing for months and I’ve never seen a single seed. I’m on 0.7 still (I like to stick to “stable” versions).

kevin.granade · 2013-08-28T21:19:08.000Z

Seeds/Farming/Etc aren’t in 0.7, they were added only a week or so ago.

youtoo · 2013-08-30T16:09:18.000Z

oh. i dont update that much. i dont want to start over constantly…

jcannon98188 · 2013-08-31T03:57:14.000Z

Just download the latest version every time you die.

youtoo · 2013-08-31T16:20:39.000Z

we can go old school and pick up animal droppings for fertilizer. there is a roguelike survival game called don’t starve that has this.

detahramet · 2013-09-01T01:46:53.000Z

Why not use butchered meat for it. I mean we can make bone meal, using tainted meat isnt exactly hard to implement. And it will it base level usage

MarkB · 2013-09-01T11:04:22.000Z

detahramet:

Why not use butchered meat for it. I mean we can make bone meal, using tainted meat isnt exactly hard to implement. And it will it base level usage

Rotten meat sounds good for this - but if you used tainted meat, wouldn’t that stand a good chance of yielding a crop of triffids?

detahramet · 2013-09-01T11:28:24.000Z

Well, to my knowledge, triffids aren’t actually born from the goo, like zombies or fungaloids, they’re actually a creature from the same universe as it, that just happens to survive remarkably well here.

Sheb · 2013-09-01T11:35:19.000Z

I though triffids were goo-infested plants, like giant ants are goo-infested ants.

detahramet · 2013-09-01T12:18:14.000Z

Well, you can butcher them to get plant marrow, which is perfectly safe to eat, unlike tainted meat.

MarkB · 2013-09-01T13:06:40.000Z

detahramet:

Well, to my knowledge, triffids aren’t actually born from the goo, like zombies or fungaloids, they’re actually a creature from the same universe as it, that just happens to survive remarkably well here.

Actually, you may be right. I was having trouble remembering the lore, but I do recall something about them being prehistoric flora brought back through a portal.

So yeah, food grown from tainted meat would probably be safe enough to eat while you’re still alive, but will make you more likely to zombify once you’re dead.

detahramet · 2013-09-01T13:18:43.000Z

Well, suposedly everyone that dies eventually comes back in some way shape or form. The clusters of dead soldiers and drug mules would have to be recent, within the last few days. Its not going to make you come back any faster than you would otherwise.

Iosyn · 2013-09-01T16:27:43.000Z

MarkB:

[quote=“detahramet, post:18, topic:2822”]Well, to my knowledge, triffids aren’t actually born from the goo, like zombies or fungaloids, they’re actually a creature from the same universe as it, that just happens to survive remarkably well here.

Actually, you may be right. I was having trouble remembering the lore, but I do recall something about them being prehistoric flora brought back through a portal.

So yeah, food grown from tainted meat would probably be safe enough to eat while you’re still alive, but will make you more likely to zombify once you’re dead.[/quote]

In any case you might be able to purify the taint via cooking.

but everyone’s infected from the start.

detahramet · 2013-09-01T18:37:42.000Z

Besides, even if tainted meat + crop = triffid of some sort (remember, there a bunch of different speicies), its not exactly that big a problem. Its still easy food. Plus, Pot-Triffids. Who doesnt want that?

keldoclock · 2013-09-01T22:02:30.000Z

Ahahaha, instead of stingers they will have dreadlocks, and instead of trying to kill you they’ll just hang out and hum Bob Marley.

vultures · 2013-09-03T01:05:59.000Z

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Jack_Slinger · 2013-09-03T20:41:32.000Z

[quote=“trusty_patches, post:5, topic:2822”]Weird, but when I planted seeds they just… fell out? Seems like they’ve fell out, yet still got planted.
So, is it a bug or is my character just a buffoon with extra-curved arms?[/quote]

I get the same thing, not sure if I have to leave the seeds there for it to grow or if I can just plant infinite crops with one seed. more science is underway now.