More Crops - unforbidable/tfcplus-bids GitHub Wiki
Description
New crops with additional mechanics such as crop cultivation and improved hardiness.
Acquisition
Acquire new crop seeds by harvesting new wild crops.
Acquire cultivated crop seeds by harvesting planted crops of its ancestor crop under certain conditions.
Generation and planting
New wild crops generate in the world much like TFC crops. Also much like TFC crops there is a chance they will regenerate each spring.
Cultivated crops do not generate in the world.
New crops can be planted on TFC tilled farmland.
| Name | Hardy | Min. Water Dist. | Growth Time | Food Group | Generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea Beet | No | 4 | 16 | Vegetable | Europe, Asia, Africa (Coast) |
| Beetroot | Yes | 3 | 24 | Vegetable | Cultivated |
| Sugar Beet | Yes | 3 | 28 | Vegetable | Cultivated |
| Wild Beans | No | 4 | 18 | Protein | Asia, Africa (Inland) |
| Broad Beans | Yes | 4 | 24 | Protein | Cultivated |
See Beet found in the wild has reduced chance of dropping a seed and reduced chance of leveling the agriculture skill up. This due to the fact that Sea Beet is quite a bit more common than other crops.
Planting Broad Beans requires a pole.
Differences to classic TFC crops
New crop seeds have the following features:
- Variable growth time - crops planted at the same time do not all mature at the very same time
- Early harvest - harvesting mature crops is possible but the yield is reduced
- Cultivated crops - some crops will drop seeds of a cultivated version of itself allowing growing a new plant
- Winter crops - some crops will drop seeds of a hardy version of itself allowing autumn planting
- Autumn sowing - more hardy crops allow autumn sowing
New crops also fix the following outstanding crop related bugs:
- The temperature of the current day of year is correctly calculated.
Early harvest
Crops that are in the stage that comes right before the final stage can be harvested with yield with the following drawbacks:
- The yield is more or less half of the full harvest depending on how far the stage has progressed
- No bonus seeds drop due to high agriculture skill
- The chance of cultivated crop seed dropping is reduced
- The agriculture skill is not leveled up
A hoe can be used to determine whether or not a crop can be harvested early. Hover over the crop with a hoe with the harvest mode activated. Yellow highlight indicates that a crop can be harvested early.
Cultivated crops
There is a chance that harvesting new crops will yield a cultivated crop seed in addition to the regular seed. The chance depends on the player's agriculture skill:
- The higher the player's agriculture skill, the greater the chance.
| Cultivated crop | Ancestor crop | Minimal Skill |
|---|---|---|
| Beetroot | Sea Beet | Adept |
| Sugar Beet | Beetroot | Expert |
| Broad Beans | Wild Beans | Adept |
A minimal agriculture skill rank is required.
Winter crops
There is a chance that harvesting new crops will yield a winter crop seed in addition to the regular seed. The chance depends on the average bio temperature and the player's agriculture skill:
- The lower the average bio temperature, the greater the chance.
- The higher the player's agriculture skill, the greater the chance.
A minimum agriculture skill rank and a maximum average bio temperature is required.
| Cultivated winter crop | Regular crop | Minimal Skill | Maximum Temp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Barley | Spring Barley | Adept | 10C |
| Winter Oat | Spring Oat | Adept | 10C |
| Winter Rye | Spring Rye | Adept | 10C |
| Winter Wheat | Spring Wheat | Adept | 10C |
For the winter crop cultivation to take place, a Spring cereal crop seed needs to be planted. Planting a regular TFC seed will only grow a regular TFC crop. See below for information about Seed Conversion.
Spring cereal crop seeds are Spring Barley Seeds, Spring Oat Seeds, Spring Rye Seed and Spring Wheat Seed.
Autumn sowing
Hardy crops much more likely survive winter even with rather harsh daily temperature fluctuation which is well known to TFC+ players. This allows sowing hardy crops in autumn.
- Hardy crops are considered young based on growth percentage instead of stage when their survival in frost is determined.
- Hardy crops will stay dormant even during a streak of warm days in the middle of winter.
- Hardy crops planted in autumn get a slight growth boost after a long winter.
New hardy crops are Beetroot, Sugar Beet and Broad Beans. Original TFC hardy crops need to be converted before they benefit from this feature. See below for information about Seed Conversion.
It is still possible to plant hardy crops a bit too early in the autumn for them to die in winter. The autumn sowing window depends on the climate and also the weather of the current year, and finding it may take some experimenting.
Seed conversion
Regular seeds of Barley, Oat, Rye and Wheat can be automatically converted to a Spring seed when the player picks them up off the ground. This can happen after harvesting regular cereal crops either planted or found in the wild, or after the seeds are dropped on the ground from the inventory. Seeds can also be converted using the crafting grid. Recipes to reverse the conversion are also available.
Automatic conversion of regular seeds of cereal crops to new (spring) seeds can be enabled by setting enableCerealSeedAutoConversion to true in the config file.
Regular seeds of hardy TFC hardy crops (i.e. Onion, Cabbage, Garlic and Carrot) can be automatically converted to a new hardy crop seed when the player picks them up off the ground. This can happen after harvesting these regular crops either planted or found in the wild, or after the seeds are dropped on the ground from the inventory. Seeds can also be converted using the crafting grid. Recipes to reverse the conversion are also available.
Automatic conversion of regular seeds of hardy crops to new seeds can be enabled by setting enableHardySeedAutoConversion to true in the config file.
Notes
- The chance of crop regeneration in spring is properly seeded and cannot be save-scammed, unlike TFC crops.
- Wild Beans crop represents the currently unidentified wild ancestor of Broad Beans.
- Items of new seeds show additional help information which may help to distinguish new seeds from original TFC seeds.
Planned features
- It will be possible to water crops and allow them to grow even at insufficient distance from a fresh water block.