watering can

[synaris]

a watering can that can be used to water your crops. watering your crops would softcap your crops towards the waters quality.

yes this would only be useful in early world, but im still throwing this out there.

[tigerlrg245]

Softcapping implies only lowering if the seed is higher, not the otherway around

and in regards to averaging / increasing seed q based on water, I'm not sure if you'll find better quality water than good quality wild weeds (50~ max?) to make it relevant
maybe it could be used instead later in the world to catch up seeds you haven't grown yet? though that would assume a good well and also not being able to trade for it in the first place

What I don't know however, is how this would work with spring water? though that might be too good

[synaris]

double the effective quality with spring water. is that too good? i was under the impression that the best spring water was q40 at best. so it'd be like q80 water.

[LadyV]

I don't relish the idea of adding more steps to farming. There are plenty of complaints and it is easier than it was in Legacy.

[synaris]

it's not a requirment, its a bonus if you happen to have a source of good water.

[Granger]

It could make sense to have an effect on trellis crops, possibly for certain field ones (lettuce) too - possibly raising yield. For normal stuff like wheat I see it as unrealistic.

[AntiBlitz]

instead of watering cans, could we just have irrigation fields? then you dont have to bother at all with active watering. Its just passive, leeches on to the field.

[jorb]

A watering can would, if nothing else, be cute. Not sure what purpose it could serve.