Potatoes and Beans

[BarovSoap]

How can anyone survive off of the land without potatoes? They're not very nutritious but they provide enough to be the only food source and keep someone alive. Beans would also be a good addition. Not much to say about them.

[mobius187]

Well potatoes and beans are both just starchy vegetables. Other starch vegetables that could replace them include:

Beets

Carrots

Corn

Green Peas

Parsnips

Plantain

Pumpkin

Taro

Winter Squash, such as acorn or butternut squash

Yams

And as we already have corn, carrots, and pumpkins, we're good.

That being said... I wouldn't mind the game including both beans and potatoes... especially wild potatoes.

[BarovSoap]

I know you can find many things to eat I was just being dramatic.

[mobius187]

I know you can find many things to eat I was just being dramatic.

So... you don't really want to discuss potatoes and beans...?

[BarovSoap]

I think they would be a good addition to the game along with other things and noticed nobody has mentioned beans yet (well not since I've been here) so I figured I would get it out there. Homeless people like beans according to movies and tv and I saw one on the forum and I had the idea.

[mobius187]

I think they would be a good addition to the game along with other things and noticed nobody has mentioned beans yet (well not since I've been here) so I figured I would get it out there.

In other suggestion threads the idea of adding more foods to the game was always an interesting topic. These ideas could usually be quantified into the following groups:

1) New fruits/vegetables found growing naturally in the wilderness (i.e. wild carrots)

2) Adding fruit trees that can be harvested (i.e. like berry bushes)

3) Adding new crops grown in farm plots

4) Changing how crops are harvested (single vs multi-harvest crops)

For #1 I think maybe every biome should have its own finite wild food source, like the carrots. Of course the wild carrots exist primarily as an early stage "starter" food source for the player, but I think it could work if other wild vegetables were more limited in quantity and/or spread over a larger area (in a larger biome). Maybe some could also be harder to spot.

As for #2, I've supported adding in various climate-centric fruit trees, specifically for apples, peaches, pears, and even walnuts. Of course I oppose being able to replant or gather seeds from them (for replanting). Rather I would prefer if they were like reeds, untouchable except for harvesting. That way, players wandering through the island can stumble across them, harvest various fruits/nuts and then go on their way. Obviously I'm also suggesting the player can get multiple fruits/nuts at one time, but this would be balanced by a much longer "respawn" cycle for said fruits/nuts once depleted (i.e. when compared to the berry bush).

With #3, it's whatever players could imagine, so yes, potatoes and beans were among them. And why not?

And lastly, #4, a player suggested a while back that maybe some crops could be grown and harvest relatively quickly, like they are now, while other could take longer to grow... but in the end yield multiple harvests. For example, say you grew a tomato plant. You would harvest it and get a tomato, but the tomato plant would remain there in the farm plot. In a day or two another tomato would grow there and you could harvest it again... and so on, until it dies. Then you would plant something new in its place.

Homeless people like beans according to movies and tv and I saw one on the forum and I had the idea.

You saw a homeless person on the forum...?

It's interesting, but technically aren't Wilson and the others all "homeless".

[BarovSoap]

I like your take on all of those suggestions. I personally play in a more nomadic style, if I make a base it is merely a chest or two by some bee boxes with a farm plot or two as well and a crock pot when I get low on the good foods.

And yes! I found a post from That Homeless Guy and his name made me think of this.

[mobius187]

I like your take on all of those suggestions. I personally play in a more nomadic style, if I make a base it is merely a chest or two by some bee boxes with a farm plot or two as well and a crock pot when I get low on the good foods.

I admit I'm more of a base camp person myself, but I do that because it's what works best for me. If changes were made that supported a more nomadic lifestyle then I'd switch over. That's not to say I don't have other smaller camps across the map for those times I need to travel to collect a few resources beyond my base camp.

And yes! I found a post from That Homeless Guy and his name made me think of this.

I'm checking up on this... maybe he can give us further insight...?

[BarovSoap]

Of course he can, hobos are like a fountain of knowledge.