Agriculture Idea: Lettuce Improvement

[LadyGoo]

Lettuce is one of the most annoying crops: generally useless, quality growth is slow, pain in the ass to harvest and store. While I was playing, we wouldn't plant the lettuce at all.

- The salads they are used for are too complex and less efficient than the other recepies in the game. Creating simpler recepies and buffing the lettuce's input for the stats would improve the situation. Make it lower the satiations, for instance;
- The lettuce should also be used as a medicine like in the ancient times and the medieval ages;
- There is some mild narcotic content in it. It could be used as an ingredient for a potion (viewtopic.php?f=48&t=58399);
- While harvesting the lettuce, a hearthling should get the seeds seperately from the lettuce head. Special hotkey should trigger "slicing" all the lettuce inside of your inventory (pressing each one manually is annoying).
- Grind the seeds to obtain oil (salad dressing, medicine and etc.).

[infectedking]

I agree that more can be done with the lettuce

But the Salad that you make with it is pretty okay, redshred salad supplemented with Lettuce leaf is an extremely Good dex food that's also easy to bulk make as well. So -1 to that part but +1 to the rest

[2d0x]

Food in general could be more unique. For example, the same salads ...
We take a clay or metal bowl and add there any available and desired ingredients (vegetables, meat, sausage, fruit; for example, as tableware on the table). Ingredients are added in certain proportions. And if this dish is put on fire, we will get stewed vegetables, meat, ragout and so on.

[LadyGoo]

I agree that more can be done with the lettuce

But the Salad that you make with it is pretty okay, redshred salad supplemented with Lettuce leaf is an extremely Good dex food that's also easy to bulk make as well. So -1 to that part but +1 to the rest

I am judging by taking into account several variables: It is good if you do not take into account the alternative dex. foods + the tedium of the lettuce harvesting. Selecting the annoying plant for the sake of dex. only? Hell no!

[Fierce_Deity]

Raised on a farm kid coming in to dump on lettuce in its current state. Lettuce in game somehow has seeds, and we consume the leaves, meaning we have allowed our lettuce to bolt and let it get to the point where it is so disgustingly bitter that no being would want to eat it. On top of this lettuce is a crop that certainly grows faster then..well most other crops in the game, in irl that is. I'm not saying farming needs to be hyper realistic in regards to seed collection, but making plants growth time correlate a little better to their real world counterparts would make a lot of sense to me. No way in hell a carrot grows faster then lettuce.

[2d0x]

...No way in hell a carrot grows faster then lettuce.

Some varieties of carrots grow 40-45 days (depends on the conditions, too). A head of lettuce grows 55-90 days.

[infectedking]

I agree that more can be done with the lettuce

But the Salad that you make with it is pretty okay, redshred salad supplemented with Lettuce leaf is an extremely Good dex food that's also easy to bulk make as well. So -1 to that part but +1 to the rest

I am judging by taking into account several variables: It is good if you do not take into account the alternative dex. foods + the tedium of the lettuce harvesting. Selecting the annoying plant for the sake of dex. only? Hell no!

Fairly certain Pumpkins are the most annoying to harvest in that sense I believe since you can only hold a maximum of around 5-6 per pickup, plus splitting for seeds each time, at least lettuce gives seeds when harvesting too so less of a hassle imo

[jorb]

I think there's a general point here that more complex foods are too unrewarding compared to the simpler ones.

Agree that lettuce could see more use.

[LadyGoo]

I think there's a general point here that more complex foods are too unrewarding compared to the simpler ones.

On the complex foods:
-From my past experience, the foods and curios that required boiling were not that attractive too: you would have to constantly pour water into the cauldron and interrupt the craft process.
-I imagine, being able to craft from barrels make it easier to use most of the complex recipes with liquids. I'd suggest continuing this notion and add more stuff that you could actually place into barrels. Like butter, leaves, veggies, meats and etc.

[ChildhoodObesity]

ya let us put meat in barrels pls, only 1 type of meat per barrel ofc, each meat being 0.01kg hehehehehe