Farming help

[AceHarding]

I want to try farming because I'd rather grind LP that way than by clearcutting. However it seems that all the seeds you need to farm can only be acquired by taking them from already grown crops, which I do not have. Are there any other ingredients I can use to start farming?

[babyhero09]

get a perception*exploration of atleast 60 and look for an herb called "Wild Windsown Weed" and dry it on a frame.

[Deathscreton]

I have a Exploration*Perception skill value of 80 and I STILL cannot find any of those herbs. Am I doing something wrong?

[Mahkia]

Wild Windsown Weeds are fairly rare, even if your skill to find them is high. It took me a long time before I found any, and I still have many unsuccessful foraging trips when I go looking for them. As long as you're at least to 60, you will eventually find some.

[Deathscreton]

Will they show up in areas I've already checked? Say if I go north two maps, and don't find anything but go back and search again, will I possibly find any?

[Mahkia]

Yep! At least, in my experience you can. One time I went inside my house to drop something off, and when I came back outside, there was a wild windsown weed at the edge of my screen that wasn't there when I went in.

[TeckXKnight]

Wild Wind-sown Weeds are some of the rarer initial foragables. With 6 exploration and 10 perception, you'll find them maybe once per minimap. Just explore a lot and you'll find a few.

[LimaZulu]

And if you're incredibly lucky, you might stumble upon an abandoned farm. Dangerous to do that, though, but if it's truly abandoned, harvest to your content.

[Stormfeather]

Also, when you have perception * exploration of 60 you have enough to start finding the weeds, but you're not going to see all of them. Basically the higher you raise perception * exploration (up to a cap, I think I read around 180 or so?) the better chance you have of actually seeing them. Otherwise, you're only going to see a portion of them.

[Pantserator]

Yes, when I had 60 I would search for hours and find absolutely nothing. I raised it to 180 and I can't stop finding them. If I ever wander for more than a few hundred tiles I'll find one.