Raise crop quality?

[Robben_DuMarsch]

Okay, I am now convinced this is not the wrath of RNGesus, but either some mechanic I am not understanding or something gone entirely baggy:

[CTheRain]

All my carrots have been above 10ish quality. But I did plant on a high Q soil node. .79% hunger, 1.84perc per carrot.

[Yasgur]

Okay, I am now convinced this is not the wrath of RNGesus, but either some mechanic I am not understanding or something gone entirely baggy

I'm going to bet its due to one of all those "1"s you have on your abilities screen. Survival or Exploration, perhaps?

[Robben_DuMarsch]

If I was soft-capping them, the essence would be lower.

[MagicManICT]

Okay, I am now convinced this is not the wrath of RNGesus, but either some mechanic I am not understanding or something gone entirely baggy

I'm going to bet its due to one of all those "1"s you have on your abilities screen. Survival or Exploration, perhaps?

But farming is 22. Unless something was changed, it should be the only stat that matters.

[saabo]

best Q I have gotten so far.


Got lucky with the beetroots I think because I didnt plant too many of those.
Planted a ton of carrots though most (like 90%) come out horrid for me.


Most of the carrots I plant at the same time, finish with the same Qs. So maybe its time based?

[val]

I have a character with 35 farming and I really like the automation added to make farming easier.

However, with the way seeds work now (as a substance like water) if the quality formula is the same or similar to what it was in w7, just harvesting a crop using the new automation, over time you crops will all be under 10 quality forever.

If you don't use automation and farm one tile at a time then deposit the seeds and sort them only planting the higher quality ones, then maybe, eventually, your crops will start to increase in quality. Well at least in one dimension of quality. But maybe they wont.

With beetroots (which avoids all the seed mixing concerns since you just harvest and plant the food) I've seen my quality dropping across the board just replanting and expanding the crop. After 3 or 4 replants so far I haven't seen any real gains in quality. One of the qualities might increase slightly while the others drop on one harvest, then switch around and drop on the next. There is no steady progression.

The soil is 10 45 10 and within the radius of a beehive.

Everyone's advice is:
a) Raise your farming more
b) Sort your seeds better
c) Oh that's just bad RNG
d) Your soil is crap, plant somewhere else

None of these help and doesn't touch on the fact that the unknown growth formula, combined with the lack of nature slider, combined with the complexities of the new quality dimensions might mean farming just doesn't work. At least not like it use to. It hasn't been fun so far.

[naosnule]

Does soil q affect farming at all?

[shubla]

It might affect.

[Anz]

I RNGed my carrots from 10 10 10 to as abyssmal as 4 4 1 during 3-4 replants with 15 farming char on 18 10 10 soil.

So, yeah, kinda fishy. None got higher than 12 8 9 or something like that.