Harvesting like plowing.

[Pacho]

The main gripe for farmers is the mindnumbing clickfest that comes with harvesting crops. I propose this method be changed into something similar to plowing with a plow so as to decrease the amount of clicks needed to harvest the crops. Whether this requires an aditional tool or not, is not my concern; it may not be realistic, but it sure would make farming less boring and grindy.

Edit: This would be great for sowing seeds too, or just shift-click planting instead <.<

[Jackard]

a scythe maybe?

[sabinati]

scythe + seed bag + shift click planting please

[Dwarfu]

Have sewers make seeds bags with plant fibers.

Each bag stores 1 kind of seeds (or it can be a container I guess).

Click the bag, click plowed field, and the char goes down the row planting those seeds until it runs out of seeds or has no more plowed tiles in that row.

For harvesting, a scythe. Equip scythe, click scythe, click harvestable crop, char goes down the row harvesting until it hits a non-crop tile or immature crop.

[kimya]

we had the idea of a scythe a long time before and i think its time to implement it. pleeeaaassse
i think jorb has already drawn a scythe, right? go for it!

[jorb]

Scythe is in -- walk over tile = harvest while equipped (or possibly while using certain mode like with the plow). Shouldn't reasonably be usable for things like carrots or grapes, so we'll see what we'll do about those.

Seed bag in one form or another will also happen. (Insert joke about Jorb's penis art)

[theTrav]

Scythe is in

Don't tease me like that, I just spent 10 minutes combing all the menus for the tool option >_<

[jorb]

Oh, sorry, I meant will be.

[Voideka]

Scythe is in -- walk over tile = harvest while equipped (or possibly while using certain mode like with the plow). Shouldn't reasonably be usable for things like carrots or grapes, so we'll see what we'll do about those.

Realism is fine and all, but it should take a back seat to fun. Hell, make it a wind scythe that uses the magic power of the wind to just vacuum up crops if it really is a big deal.

[Potjeh]

Is there any reason you're holding back the scythe?