Drying crops to seeds

[meus]

The way we initially obtain crop seeds is by drying WWWs to extract seeds.

It could be possible to also dry the "real" crop or vegetable (not the "generic" WWW) to obtain its seeds, much like when harvesting fallow plants after Winter.

This would make it more comfortable to store and/or transfer seeds instead of vegetables, as well as mix qualities - e.g., when dealing with Peas or Onions, especially Leeks.

[shubla]

You can pile vegetables so its quite easy.
Drying them to get seeds doesn't have much sense.

[MagicManICT]

Grains obviously don't need drying--we grind the seeds up to make flours and such. The proper action here would be "threshing." Beans are the seeds we boil or roast and eat, though they usually get dried to preserve them. Many vegetables are tubers or parts of the plant that don't produce seeds, typically meaning if you harvest them for food, you won't get seeds--carrots, onions of any kind, broccolli, etc. Lastly, there are those that are the fruit of the plant--cucumbers, squash, gourds, etc--where you actually can separate the seed out from the flesh or eat it all together, but you can generally just drop the whole fruit in the ground and plants will sprout from it.

Seems like a lot of work distinguishing a few plants from the rest. Sometimes an abstract process (of having no special process) is best. I'll just say I've been a part of this conversation previously, and I really don't need this aspect of the game to "feel realistic." I don't want to have to pick some odd ass time of the day to have to log in so that I can harvest carrots and onions before they go from edible plant to only seeds; have to harvest my fruiting plants before they rot on the vine; etc; etc.

[vatas]

Carrots and turnips can be planted to create a new crop. (In case there's any confusion, I had to be told by someone that you can plant carrots back in w7)

This may have not be obvious, especially since replanting a carrot or turnip in real life would most likely only result in a rotten vegetable. Although, onions don't have seeds either (except leek.)

[MagicManICT]

This may have not be obvious, especially since replanting a carrot or turnip in real life would most likely only result in a rotten vegetable. Although, onions don't have seeds either (except leek.)

Carrots, turnips, onions, etc. are biannual. You must harvest the first year if you want an edible vegetable. If you wait until the second year (or replant them), the carbs and moisture get leeched out for the production of flowers and seeds leaving only a fibrous husk of what would be an otherwise delicious vegetable.

@OP: FWIW, if farming and yearly cycles worked more this way, I'd say this might add something.