Mods / K's Realistic Farming

Tags: #Crafting #Food #Tweak
Author: Kaisentlaia
Side: Both
Created: Oct 27th 2024 at 5:41 PM
Last modified: Feb 15th at 6:47 PM
Downloads: 3553
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Latest release (for outdated Vintage Story v1.20.4):
KsRealisticFarming_v1.0.5.zip  1-click install


My cabbages!!!

Not being able to get enough seeds to expand my farms pushed me to make a simple content mod which allows to choose between getting food or seeds.

The mod is balanced to be as similar as possible as vanilla:

  • wild grain/legume crops yeld enough to convert at least some to seed
  • wild vegetable crops include flowering stages so vegetable seeds are harvestable in the wild
  • when converting half of the grain/legume harvest to seed, the food/seed yeld will be identical to vanilla for the same number of crops
  • when letting half of the vegetable crops flower, the food/seed yeld will be identical to vanilla for the same number of crops as long as it's an even number

Overview

This mod changes the crops' growth stages and the amounts of seeds and food dropped on harvest, and adds a way to replant grains and legumes.

Vegetables

  • All vegetables get an additional growth stage (and a slightly longer growth time to compensate)
  • Vegetables have only a small chance to drop a seed when they're in the mature growth stage (second to last stage)
  • At the last stage vegetables will be flowering and harvesting them will yeld double the seeds that the crop would yeld in vanilla, plus an amount of rot equal to the amount of vegetables they usually drop when mature
  • When mature vegetables drop double the food amount they drop in vanilla

Legumes and grains

  • All legumes and grains don't drop seeds
  • When harvested in the mature growth stage the crops will yeld a double amount of grains/legumes to compensate
  • When harvested in the second to last growth stage the crops will yeld the usual amount of grains/legumes
  • Additionally, there's a small chance for crops to drop a smaller amount of grains/legumes when harvested in the third to last growth stage
  • It will be possible to craft a seed packet using about half of the crop's harvest

Exceptions

  • Pumpkins work differently so I left them alone
  • I didn't even want to think about how to deal with pineapples

Examples

Cabbages

General information
  Vanilla Realistic farming
Total growth stages 12 13
Mature stage 12 12
Flowering stage - 13
Maturation time at ~100% growth speed 1.5 months 1.6 months
Seeds craftable with - -
Yelds on harvest
Growth stage Seed Other
Vanilla Realistic farming Vanilla Realistic farming
11 (almost mature) almost always 1 0 often 1 cabbage often 1 cabbage
12 (mature) at least 1 and rarely 2 rarely 1 2 cabbages 4 cabbages
13 (flowering) - at least 2 and rarely 3 - 2 rot

Rice

General information
Growth stages 10 10
Mature stage 10 10
Flowering stage - -
Maturation time at ~100% growth speed 2.25 months 2.25 months
Seeds craftable with - 11 rice
Yelds on harvest
Growth stage Seed Other
Vanilla Realistic farming Vanilla Realistic farming
11 (almost mature) 0 0 0 rice 11-15 rice
12 (mature) at least 1 and rarely 2 0 11-15 rice 22-30 rice

Features

  • new seed recipes for all the grains and legumes
  • cool new textures for the flowering vegetables (they change with the seasons!)
  • more rot for your composting needs!
  • let some of your vegetables flower or you might run out of seeds
  • expand your farms easily by starving yourself!
  • bees and butterflies will feed on the vegetables only when they're flowering
  • easily change the mod to your liking simply editing the json patches

Special thanks to Trini for the awesome title image and to TwoF for the russian translation!

Compatibility
Roadmap
  • possible rebalancing so that crops yeld also 2x the vanilla food amount added in v1.0.2
  • add wilted vegetables that can't be eaten but can be used to feed animals or to make rot (like dry fruit mash) and get dropped in place of rot when the flowering plant is harvested 
  • add a seeding stage after the flowering stage
  • make flowering cassava as big as the mature plant
  • make flowering cabbage as big as the mature plants
  • add the "break to harvest" tooltip on the second to last growth stage for vegetables added in v1.0.2
  • translations
  • add a chance to spawn flowering vegetables at worldgen added in v1.0.3
Known bugs
  1. cassava doesn't drop seeds when flowering fixed in 1.0.5
  2. vegetables flowering textures are floating a bit over the ground
Changelog

v.1.0.5

  • Fixed a bug that caused cassava to not drop seeds in the flowering stages
  • Fixed a bug that caused peanuts to drop more in the second-to-last growth stage, and less in the last growth stage
  • Added a very small chance for root vegetables to drop when harvested in their flowering stage (slightly higher for onions)
  • Tested and updated for game version 1.20.x

v.1.0.4

  • added russian translation (many thanks to TwoF)
  • fixed dead crops not dropping seeds

v.1.0.3

  • added spawning of flowering vegetables at worldgen
  • fixed a minor bug on carrots

v.1.0.2

  • added "sprouting" label for first growth stage
  • added "maturing" label for almost mature growth stage
  • improved amaranth and cassava labels
  • added interaction tooltips on maturing, mature and flowering stages
  • rebalanced drops for vegetable crops (now equivalent to vanilla)
  • minor fix for flowering cabbages in v1.20.0-pre*
v.1.0.1
  • increased wild crops drop rates for both grains and vegetables
  • added sprouting labels for first vegetables growth stages because I felt like it
  • fixed almost mature amaranth drop rate

Version For Game version Downloads Release date Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
v1.0.5 1090 Feb 15th at 6:47 PM Show KsRealisticFarming_v1.0.5.zip 1-click install
v1.0.4 1432 Nov 25th 2024 at 7:14 PM Show KsRealisticFarming_v1.0.4.zip 1-click install
v1.0.3 468 Nov 8th 2024 at 10:05 AM Show KsRealisticFarming_v1.0.3.zip 1-click install
v1.0.2 269 Oct 30th 2024 at 7:52 PM Show KsRealisticFarming_v1.0.2.zip 1-click install
v1.0.1 74 Oct 29th 2024 at 4:44 PM Show KsRealisticFarming_v1.0.1.zip 1-click install
v1.0.0 110 Oct 27th 2024 at 6:26 PM Show KsRealisticFarming_v1.0.0.zip 1-click install

12 Comments (oldest first | newest first)

💬 Nagefire, Mar 25th at 10:47 AM

Kaisentlaia a suggestion, could you change the behavior of grains to drop only seeds and add a sifting/winnowing crafting mechanic to create the grains?

💬 DecaByte, Mar 7th at 7:46 AM

Kaisentlaia I would like to increase the growth time. Could you add a config file so one could adjust the growth rate? Would be much appreciated. thank you.

💬 Kaisentlaia , Feb 15th at 6:49 PM

Westernby I just updated the mod for 1.20, enjoy!

💬 Westernby, Feb 11th at 2:57 PM

Hi Kaisentlaia, will this mod be update to 1.20?

💬 TanjBear, Dec 3rd 2024 at 5:31 PM

if you want to go for realism. root vegitables grow seeds above ground so their separate. mean you alway get both. havent done alot of farming. idk if potatoes are in th game. potatoes have seeds that looks like a smal green fruit and you have to let them ferment for like 3 mounths naturaly beforr you can use the seeds, or a proces to speed it up that i don't know. anyway breeding potatoes take forever. ah crop breeding, havent seen a mod like that yet.

💬 Kaisentlaia , Nov 14th 2024 at 5:56 PM

Cuddly_Khan oh well I checked the wrong mod 😅 from a quick look to Wild Farming I'd say the two mods should be compatible but you'd end up with multiple ways to get seeds from crops: two different recipes from grain and the flowering growth stage plus the Wild Farming recipe for vegetables. It doesn't look like using both would cause any crashes or errors but I'll try to test them together to confirm.

💬 Cuddly_Khan, Nov 12th 2024 at 10:43 AM

Kaisentlaia

Willdfarming is a mod that lets you turn all types of crops into seeds (including flowers and cattails). This mod is also a mod that lets you turn crops into seeds and to get seeds by letting crops grow for longer, hence why I asked about compatibility. I typed it correctly in the first half of my comment, but I see I misstyped Wildfarming as Wildcraft in the second part of my comment. Sorry.

💬 Kaisentlaia , Nov 9th 2024 at 12:07 PM

Cuddly_Khan looks like the mod is compatible with all the newest Wildcraft mods

💬 Kaisentlaia , Nov 1st 2024 at 8:48 AM

Cuddly_Khan I will look into it. Did you try it yet with wildcraft?

💬 Cuddly_Khan, Nov 1st 2024 at 7:58 AM

Was wondering if it was possible to make it compatible with Wildfarming. I like the idea of using this mod for getting my seeds from my crops because it's more immersive, but Wildcraft has some features that I also can't do without (being able to cultivate flowers and other plants).

💬 3Nyx3, Oct 28th 2024 at 8:44 AM

MY CABBAGES! 

💬 Trini, Oct 27th 2024 at 7:18 PM

Finally, I’ll be able to enlarge my garden without going crazy, but with the right effort!

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